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Billy Graham’s America — and Mike Huckabee’s

By W. James Antle III
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Billy Graham’s America — and Mike Huckabee’s

Billy Graham lay in state at the Capitol Rotunda almost as long as Mike Huckabee sat on the board of the Country Music Association’s charitable foundation.

Both ordained Southern Baptist ministers, the two men shared many theological and cultural views. Yet Graham, 99, died a national hero who received bipartisan acclaim, while Huckabee, the father of President Trump’s press secretary, is a more polarizing figure than when he was governor of Arkansas.

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