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When I shared with my graduate students that I thought Dwight D. Eisenhower was the most religious president in the twentieth century, they hooted back in unison , “Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter.” Soon thereafter, I read Philip Yancey’s accounts of Billy Graham’s ministry to Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s and of Yancey’s own religious conversations in the White House with Bill Clinton .
A version of this paper, “Dwight D. Eisenhower: Exegetical President in the Nuclear Age,” was given at a conference on “Freedom, Race and Bondage” in honor of David Brion Davis, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, May 9, 2002.
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Holl, J.M. (2018). Dwight D. Eisenhower: Civil Religion and the Cold War. In: Rozell, M., Whitney, G. (eds) Religion and the American Presidency. The Evolving American Presidency. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62175-3_7
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