1996
With Grady Wilson and President Lyndon Johnson, sharing a joke at the President’s Texas ranch.
Leading a prayer at the inauguration of President Richard M. Nixon, January 20, 1969.
With President Ronald Reagan at the Presidential Medal of Freedom Ceremony at the White House, 1983.
Golfing with President Gerald Ford, 1974.
Exchanging views with President Jimmy Carter during a trip to Atlanta.
With President and Mrs. Bush the night the Persian Gulf War began, January 16, 1991. The inscription reads, “Billy—Thank you for being with us at this critical moment in world history—Geo. Bush.”
With Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, following a chapel service at Sandringham, 1984.
George magazine editor-in-chief, John F. Kennedy, Jr., interviews me in New York, 1996.
Famed boxing champion Muhammad Ali visits us in our Montreat home, 1979.
With Pope John Paul II at the Vatican, 1993.
Russian President Boris Yeltsin welcomes me to the Kremlin following the close of the 1991 Moscow School of Evangelism.
In the Kremlin office of President Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union, 1991.
On our fiftieth wedding anniversary, August 13, 1993, with children (from left) Ned, Gigi, Franklin, Ruth (Bunny), and Anne. Ruth is wearing her original wedding gown.
Speaking in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol during the presentation of the Congressional Gold Medal to Ruth and me, May 2, 1996.
In the Oval Office with President Bill Clinton, 1996.
Relaxing at home, 1993.
Visiting with President Jiang Zemin of the People’s Republic of China, during his state visit to the United States, November 2, 1997.
Meeting in Boston with Christian and Muslim leaders from Iraq, September 25, 1999.
Speaking in Amsterdam via satellite to twelve thousand evangelists and church leaders from over two hundred and ten countries, 2000.
Overflow crowds watched the New York Crusade meetings via large screen projection in Flushing Meadows, New York, June, 2005. In the background is the famous sculpture representing the earth from the 1964 New York World’s Fair.
A Nation in Mourning: Speaking at the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance in the Washington National Cathedral, September 14, 2001.
President and Mrs. George W. Bush, along with former presidents and other national leaders, joined in the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, September 14, 2001.
President and Mrs. George W. Bush welcome us to the White House to celebrate my 83rd birthday. In back is our son, Franklin, with his wife, Jane, November, 2001.
Still a team after more than six decades: George Beverly Shea and I welcome each other to our final crusade, New York, June, 2005.
Ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer, acting on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen, confers on me the Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE), at the British Embassy in Washington, December 6, 2001.
Fifty-five years after our 1949 Los Angeles meetings, over three hundred thousand people gathered during four days of meetings in Pasadena’s Rose Bowl for the Greater Los Angeles Crusade, November, 2004.
Architect’s drawing of the new Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, designed to resemble a typical dairy barn from my childhood. In the foreground is my boyhood home, reassembled brick-by-brick from its original location on my father’s farm only a few miles away.