"and died four days later at the age of 81. Richard Milhous Nixon was born on January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, California, in a house that was built by his father. His parents were Hannah (Milhous) Nixon and Francis A. Nixon. His mother was a Quaker, and his father converted from Methodism to the Quaker faith. Nixon was a descendant of the early American settler, Thomas Cornell, who was also an ancestor of Ezra Cornell, the founder of Cornell University, as well as of Jimmy Carter and Bill Gates. Nixon's upbringing was marked by evangelical Quaker observances of the"
"support the Republican Party whereas more liberal Christians, Catholics and secular voters tend to support the Democratic Party. Every President and Vice President, was raised in a family with affiliations with Christian religions. Only former President John F. Kennedy, and former Vice President Joe Biden were raised in Roman Catholic families. Two former presidents, Richard Nixon and Herbert Hoover, were raised as Quakers. All the rest were raised in families affiliated with Protestant Christianity. However, many presidents have themselves had only a nominal affiliation with churches, and some never joined any church. There has never been a Jewish President or"
"the presidency of Richard Nixon, whom he had met and befriended as Vice President under Dwight D. Eisenhower. He did not completely ally himself with the later religious right, saying that Jesus did not have a political party. He gave his support to various political candidates over the years. In 2007, Graham explained his refusal to join Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority in 1979, saying: ""I'm for morality, but morality goes beyond sex to human freedom and social justice. We as clergy know so very little to speak with authority on the Panama Canal or superiority of armaments. Evangelists cannot be"
"any religion. In 2006 Keith Ellison of Minnesota became the first Muslim elected to Congress; when re-enacting his swearing-in for photos, he used the copy of the Qur'an once owned by Thomas Jefferson. André Carson is the second Muslim to serve in Congress. A Gallup poll released in 2007 indicated that 53% of Americans would refuse to vote for an atheist as president, up from 48% in 1987 and 1999. But then the number started to drop again and reached record low 43% in 2012 and 40% in 2015. Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, is Mormon and"
"headquarters of Richard Nixon, and was the founder of the Philadelphia Third Order Franciscans, a worldwide lay religious community. In the 1970s the parish was host to the local chapter of IntegrityUSA, immediately after the chapter's founding, and before the chapter moved to Center City. Due to its proximity to the Philadelphia Divinity School (which has now merged with Episcopal Divinity School and closed its facilities in Philadelphia), many seminarians often attended services here in the days immediately preceding the ordination of the Philadelphia Eleven and the eventual admission of women to the priesthood in 1976. The parish hall houses"
"7, 1966. He founded the Theocratic Party and had been its candidate for U.S. President since 1952.[1] His Church of God was headquartered in Queen's Village, New York until his death when it relocated to Huntsville, Alabama. When the Church elected a new General Overseer in 1990 after the retirement of Milton Tomlinson, the stage was set for another division. A small body left in 1993 after a division in the Church led to another church being formed by a group that felt that its congregation was led by God to appoint Robert J. Pruitt as their general overseer. That"
"with 17% of Americans (including one third of conservative Republicans) believing him to be a Muslim in a 2012 poll. Barack Obama is a Protestant Christian. While in his twenties, Obama was involved with the Black churches. From 1992 until 2008, he was a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ—a Reformed denomination. Obama left it in the wake of the Jeremiah Wright controversy. Since 2008, he attends various Protestant churches, including Baptist, Methodist and Episcopalian churches. Obama was baptized into the United Church of Christ (UCC) denomination and formally joined it in 1988. He left the UCC in"
"Francis A. Nixon Francis Anthony Nixon (December 3, 1878 – September 4, 1956) was an American grocer, rancher, and the father of U.S. President Richard Nixon. Nixon was born in Elk Township, Vinton County, Ohio, the son of Sarah Ann (née Wadsworth), a native of Hocking Township, Fairfield County, Ohio, and Samuel Brady Nixon, who was from Smith Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Nixon's family ancestry included colonial Pennsylvania Quakers. He was raised Methodist, however, but converted to Quakerism when he married Hannah Milhous. Sarah Nixon died in January 1886, Francis being sent to live with an uncle during his father's"
"Richard Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974 and the only president to resign from the position. He had previously served as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961, and prior to that as both a U.S. Representative and Senator from California. Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California. After completing his undergraduate studies at Whittier College, he graduated from Duke University School of Law in 1937 and returned to California to practice law. He and his wife Pat"
"the United States to support President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal when Nixon was being pressured to resign his office. Church members prayed and fasted in support of Nixon for three days in front of the United States Capitol, under the motto: ""Forgive, Love and Unite."" On 1 February 1974 Nixon publicly thanked them for their support and officially received Moon. This brought the church into widespread public and media attention. In the 1970s, Moon, who had seldom before spoken to the general public, gave a series of public speeches to audiences in the United States, Japan, and South"
"and then-president Richard Nixon were captured on tape in the early 1970s discussing matters like how to address the Jews' control of the American media. This belief in Jewish conspiracies and domination of the media was similar to those of Graham's former mentors: William Bell Riley chose Graham to succeed him as the second president of Northwestern Bible and Missionary Training School and evangelist Mordecai Ham led the meetings where Graham first believed in Christ. Both held strongly antisemitic views. The 2001 survey by the Anti-Defamation League reported 1432 acts of antisemitism in the United States that year. The figure"
"for the Unity of Man, and the World Parliament of Religions. In 1999, he gave a presentation at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Cape Town, South Africa. As early as 1970, Khalsa was known to call on members of Congress in their Washington offices. He also befriended successive governors of the state of New Mexico. Harbhajan Singh was known as a Democrat. Since 1980, he was both friend and adviser to Bill Richardson. When U.S. President Nixon called drugs America's ""Number one domestic problem"", Harbhajan Singh Khalsa launched a pilot program with two longtime heroin addicts in Washington,"
"Krishna Prem transcended the dogmas and practices of his early Vaishnava sectarianism and affirmed a universal spiritual path shorn of ""orthodoxy"" and blind traditionalism.) Ronald Henry Nixon, more commonly called Ronald Nixon, was born in Cheltenham, England, in 1898, and educated in Taunton. His mother was a Christian Scientist and his father was reportedly in the glass and china business. At age 18, Nixon became a British fighter pilot in the First World War. On one occasion, he experienced an escape from death that he believed was miraculous, in which a ""power beyond our ken"" saved him from several enemy"
"for president or vice president in every election since 1960 except for 1988 (where a Greek Orthodox, Michael Dukakis, was the presidential nominee). Since the 1960s, the Catholic vote has come to reflect the nation as a whole instead of being predominantly Democratic. In the 60s and early 70s, a number of Catholics and Southern whites abandoned their traditional affiliation with the Democratic Party and began to support the Republican Party. This shift is evidenced by the fact that Nixon received 33% of the Catholic vote in the 1968 election compared to 52% in 1972. As a group, Catholics represented"
"and in Seattle the historic Rolland Denny mansion. Moon had long been an advocate for anti-communism. He was born in what is now North Korea and had been imprisoned by the North Korean communist government during the Korean War, and believed that the defeat of communism by democracy was a necessary step in the Divine Providence to establish the Kingdom of God on earth. In 1974 Moon asked church members to support President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal when Nixon was being pressured to resign his office. Church members prayed and fasted in support of Nixon for three days"
"stand it."" Two presidents were Quakers (Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon) and information about their religion is harder to come by. Quakerism is, by its nature, not circumscribed by doctrines, but even so it is hard to determine whether either Hoover or Nixon had much adherence even to Quaker practice. For instance, it is common among Quakers to refuse to swear oaths; however, recordings show that Nixon did swear the oath of office in the conventional manner in all cases, and while the matter is clouded for Hoover, there is newspaper and circumstantial evidence that he did likewise. While Abraham"
"be able to accomplish. Kennedy was a Catholic and his religion was a subtle but important issue, especially in the largely Protestant Southern states. The fact that Johnson was a Protestant helped the ticket’s appeal in the south. Kennedy was part of an upper class New England family, while Johnson came from more humble and rural beginnings. In 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was 61 at the time, chose Richard Nixon, age 39, to be his running mate. Nixon's relative youth and solid anti-communist credentials gave an additional boost to the campaign. When 72-year-old moderate Republican John McCain ran for"
"Presbyterian church, while RD Muldoon (Prime Minister 1975–84) was raised as a Baptist and continued as a church member until he married and became an Anglican like his wife Thea In , however, religion has not usually formed a major component of either Labour or National platforms. Former Labour Prime Minister, Helen Clark, openly stated that she was agnostic; the Prime Minister and leader of the National Party, Bill English, is a practicing Roman Catholic. The National Party, the ostensibly more socially conservative of the two ""major"" traditional parties, apparently received increasing proportional support from religiously identifiable voters between 2002"
"student substance abuse prevention."" Neil Albert Salonen Neil Albert Salonen (born 1946) is president of the University of Bridgeport, a private university in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He is a member of the Unification Church and became the president of the Unification Church of the United States in 1972. In 1974 he led the National Prayer and Fast Committee, a group founded by Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon to support United States president Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal. In 1976 Salonen met with Senator Bob Dole to defend the Unification Church against charges made by its critics, including parents of"
"try to bring the divided nation together. Nixon said: ""I have received a very gracious message from the Vice President, congratulating me for winning the election. I congratulated him for his gallant and courageous fight against great odds. I also told him that I know exactly how he felt. I know how it feels to lose a close one."" Nixon was inaugurated as president on January 20, 1969, sworn in by his onetime political rival, Chief Justice Earl Warren. Pat Nixon held the family Bibles open at Isaiah 2:4, which reads, ""They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their"
"which I speak is not a set of promises—it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them."" At the start of the fall general election campaign, Republican nominee and incumbent vice president Richard Nixon held a six-point lead in the polls. Major issues included how to get the economy moving again, Kennedy's Roman Catholicism, the Cuban Revolution, and whether the space and missile programs of the Soviet Union had surpassed those of the U.S. To address fears that his being Catholic would impact"
"consciously adopted by Martin Harrison for a survey of the British photojournalism (including Bailey and McCullin) of about the same period. Aitken has written several Christian religious books since his release from prison. Aitken has published two books of prayers, ""Prayers for People under Pressure"" (2006) and ""Psalms for People Under Pressure"" (2004), and wrote a biography of the English slaver and Anglican clergyman John Newton, ""John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace"" in 2007. Aitken has written several biographies of political figures, including the President of the United States Richard Nixon (""Nixon: A Life"", 1993), and Nixon's co-conspirator in"
"life from which it can be argued that he leaned towards Presbyterianism, Anglicanism, Thomism, or Deism; it has been deemed likely that he eventually favored some form of Christianity. Baptist denominations and other evangelical churches have been underrepresented on the Court, relative to the population of the United States. Conversely, mainline Protestant churches historically were overrepresented. Following the retirement of John Paul Stevens in June 2010, the Court had an entirely non-Protestant composition for the first time in its history. Neil Gorsuch is the first member of a mainline Protestant denomination to sit on the court since his retirement. Although"
"member. I am not ashamed to be a Christian, and I am glad to know that the President of the United States is a Christian, for without the help of the Almighty I do not think he could rightly judge in ruling so many people. I have advised all of my people who are not Christians, to study that religion, because it seems to me the best religion in enabling one to live right. He joined the Dutch Reformed Church in 1903, but four years later was expelled for gambling. To the end of his life, he seemed to harbor"
"many Quakers, Frank Nixon opened a grocery store and gas station. Richard's younger brother Arthur died in 1925 at the age of seven after a short illness. At the age of twelve, a spot was found on Richard's lung, and, with a family history of tuberculosis, he was forbidden to play sports. Eventually, the spot was found to be scar tissue from an early bout of pneumonia. Young Richard attended East Whittier Elementary School, where he was president of his eighth-grade class. His parents believed that attending Whittier High School had caused Richard's older brother Harold to live a dissolute"
"in that position. He was an outspoken champion of political conservatism, delivering a prayer at the 1973 second term inauguration of President Richard Nixon, but just as strong a champion of religious causes sometimes associated with liberalism, such as the ordination of female rabbis. In his obituary, New York Times religion writer, Ari L. Goldman, wrote that the writings of Seymour Siegel ""helped open the door for the ordination of female rabbis"" in the Conservative movement. Seymour Siegel was born in Chicago, Illinois, attending the University of Chicago (B.A., 1958) and the Hebrew Theological College for undergraduate studies, then earning"
"movement, Adventists, and Pentecostals, have the highest civil religiosity. Jews, Unitarians and those with no religious preference have the lowest civil religion. Even though there is variation in the scores, the ""great majority"" of Americans are found to share the types of civil religious beliefs which Bellah wrote about. Further research found that civil religion plays a role in people's preferences for political candidates and policy positions. In 1980 Ronald Wimberley found that civil religious beliefs were more important than loyalties to a political party in predicting support for Nixon over McGovern with a sample of Sunday morning church goers"
"Summit"". Korff died on July 26, 1995 due to pancreatic cancer. Baruch Korff Baruch Korff (July 4, 1914 – July 26, 1995) was an Orthodox rabbi and longtime American-Jewish community activist. He was politically close to Richard Nixon, and was known as ""Nixon's rabbi."" Korff was born July 4, 1914, in Novograd-Volynsk, Ukraine. He was the second child of Grand Rabbi Jacob Israel Korff and Gittel Goldman Korff. Korff's early life was marked with tragedy. In 1919, when Korff was only 5 years old, Jewish pogroms swept through Eastern Europe. Ukraine was not exempt, and the Korff family found themselves"
"nomination. His base was among urban Catholics and polls showed they rallied to his support while most Protestants favored his opponent Richard Nixon. The old fear was raised by some Protestants that President Kennedy would take orders from the pope. Kennedy famously told the Greater Houston Ministerial Association on September 12, 1960, ""I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President who also happens to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my Church on public matters – and the Church does not speak for me."" He promised to respect the separation"
"Fitness Compulsion"" (1988). His book ""Religion May Be Hazardous to Your Health"" was serealized by the New York Times Sunday Magazine. Currently he is a contributing author to ""Prairie Fire"" magazine, a monthly regional journal of public policy and the arts, based in Lincoln, Nebraska. Eli Chesen has been serialized in ""The New York Times Sunday Magazine"" and has been written up in ""Esquire"", ""Newsweek"" and ""Le Monde"". Chesen’s Nixon book was a cover story in ""Parade Magazine"" in 1975. He has been featured on ""Donahue"", ""The CBS Evening News"", ""Regis"", and ABC’s ""Good Morning America"". Quoting John Dean, III,"
"Missionary Baptist Church, which went on to become a hotspot of political and social activism in the city. Following the 1992 Los Angeles riots, President George H.W. Bush visited the church. Hill increasingly aligned himself with Republican politics following his move to Los Angeles. He gave the inaugural prayer at Richard Nixon's second inauguration and later led clergy committees during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. His conservative politics put him at odds with many of the attendants at his services. He did however support Jesse Jackson's 1984 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. He was also active in Los Angeles"
"18, 2008, White and Nixon were the first same-sex couple legally married at All Saints Episcopal Church (Pasadena, California) following the May 16, 2008 action of the Supreme Court of California overturning the state's ban on same-sex marriage. They currently reside in Long Beach, California. White ghostwrote several books for fellow evangelicals, including Billy Graham (""Approaching Hoofbeats""), Pat Robertson (""America's Date with Destiny""), and Jerry Falwell (""Strength for the Journey"" and ""If I Should Die Before I Wake""). Since 1993, he has devoted himself full-time to minister to lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people, working on their behalf in the"
"and with nontraditional societal values, social conservatives joined the Republican Party in increasing numbers. In 1976, U.S. President Jimmy Carter received the support of the Christian right largely because of his much-acclaimed religious conversion. However, Carter's spiritual transformation did not compensate for his liberal policies in the minds of Christian conservatives, as reflected in Jerry Falwell's criticism that ""Americans have literally stood by and watched as godless, spineless leaders have brought our nation floundering to the brink of death."" The Christian Right has engaged in battles over abortion, euthanasia, contraception, pornography, gambling, obscenity, state sanctioned prayer in public schools, textbook"