“I felt like slashing their throats. But anyway, God be with you.”
— Evangelist Billy Graham, in a recently released 1973 phone call with President Nixon, about CBS News’ coverage of Nixon’s speech on the Watergate scandal. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association issued a statement that said Graham at the time “wholeheartedly believed in the innocence of the president and used a euphemism to express righteous anger on his behalf.”