NC Senate backs Billy Graham statue for US Capitol

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Mark Barrett
5:05 p.m. EDT September 18, 2015

... The bill the Senate approved 44-0 calls for replacing a statue of former Gov. Charles Brantley Aycock in the National Statuary Hall Collection with one of Graham. The state House has already approved the bill, meaning only Gov. Pat McCrory’s signature is needed for it to become law.

Each state has two statues in the collection in the Capitol. Aycock, who served early in the 20th century, was originally honored for his role improving education but has come into disfavor in recent years because of actions harming African Americans. As governor, he oversaw the creation of some of the state’s earliest Jim Crow laws ...

Graham, 96, is a Charlotte native who lives in Montreat. Guidelines from the office of the Architect of the Capitol say only the dead can be honored with a statute in the National Statuary Hall Collection but the guidelines can be modified by a congressional committee that approves or denies requests to replace a statue ...

http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2015/09/17/nc-senate-backs-billy-graham-statue-us-capitol/32554073/

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1. In Nixon tapes, Billy Graham refers to 'synagogue of Satan'

By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY
Updated 6/24/2009 8:07 PM

A 1973 conversation between President Nixon and evangelist Billy Graham about Jews, laden with critical references including a Biblical verse on the "synagogue of Satan," has put the aging, frail Graham back in unwelcome headlines.

The conversation is part of newly-released secretly recorded tapes from the Nixon presidency, from the U.S. National Archives in College Park, Md., and the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, Calif. A sampling of more than 150 hours of tape recordings and 30,000 pages of documents from two months in 1973 were made public Tuesday (download at Nixon.archives.gov/National Archives), culled from 4,000 hours of taped meetings and phone calls in a two-year period.

An earlier release of tapes in 2002 shocked fans of Graham, who is heard agreeing with Nixon as the president rails against liberal Jews' political activism and media clout. Graham tells Nixon how Jews befriend him but adds, "They don't know how I really feel about what they're doing to this country" ...

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-06-24-graham-tapes_N.htm

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2. it could be a statue of L.Ron Hubbard

or Jim Jones as long as it isn't a statue of a scientist or scholar .

[madinmaryland]

4. Are there any scientists or scholars of note from South Carolina?

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5. Charles Townes

Nobel prize winning physicist, born in Greenville, SC. I don't know about NC.

[Johonny]

3. Will it depict him picking the pocket of the poor man?

because that was pretty much his life's work.