Graham was a registered member of the Democratic Party . In 1960 , he was opposed to the candidacy of John F. Kennedy , fearing that Kennedy , as a Catholic , would be bound to follow the Pope . Graham worked " behind the scenes " to encourage influential Protestant ministers to speak out against Kennedy . During the 1960 campaign , Graham met with a conference of Protestant ministers in Montreux , Switzerland , to discuss their mobilization of congregations to defeat Kennedy . According to the PBS '' Frontline '' program , '' God in America '' ( 2010 ) , Episode 5 , in September 1960 , Graham organized a meeting of hundreds of Protestant ministers in Washington , D.C. for this purpose ; the meeting was led by Norman Vincent Peale . This was shortly before Kennedy 's speech in Houston , Texas on the separation of church and state ; the speech was considered to be successful in meeting the concerns of many voters . After his election , however , Kennedy invited Graham to play golf in Palm Beach , Florida , after which Graham acknowledged Kennedy 's election as an opportunity for Catholics and Protestants to come closer together . After they had discussed Jesus Christ at that meeting , the two remained in touch , meeting for the last time at a National Day of Prayer meeting in February 1963 . In his autobiography , Graham claimed to have felt an " inner foreboding " in the week before Kennedy 's assassination , and to have tried to contact him to say , " Do n't go to Texas ! " Graham opposed the large majority of abortions , but supported it as a legal option in a very narrow range of circumstances : rape , incest , and the life of the mother . The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association states that " Life is sacred , and we must seek to protect all human life : the unborn , the child , the adult , and the aged . " Graham leaned toward the Republicans during 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
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