Nixon deliberately pursued evangelicals through Billy Graham as a political broker

Evidence

A lapsed Quaker, Nixon wasn’t a particularly religious man, but he understood that anticommunism abroad and “moral values” and “law and order” politics at home could woo this coalescing voting bloc. And he knew that one man—Billy Graham—could help him win over this crucial component of his “great silent majority.” — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 104

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the Graham-as-political-kingmaker thread from Chapter 1; also connects to the ‘great silent majority’ language Nixon deployed. — connects to: Political overreach, not theology, shifted Billy Graham away from domestic politics — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 238