It used to be you couldn’t go downtown in the evening without running into half a dozen evangelists ranting and raving and carrying on; some of them put on their shows in tents or at camp meetings, and some of them just stood around on street corners and worked up a crowd. They’d stir people up for a while, but they always got over it. But now we’ve got just this one evangelist, this Billy Graham, and he’s gone off the beam. He’s… well, I hadn’t ought to say this, but he’s one of those counterfeits I was telling you about. He claims he’s a friend of all the Presidents, but he was never a friend of mine when I was President. I just don’t go for people like that. All he’s interested in is getting his name in the paper.
– Former Pres. Harry S. Truman (1884–1972), speaking in 1962
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