MONTREAT, NC (ANS) — President Barack Obama made a brief visit on Sunday afternoon (April 25, 2010) to see Billy Graham, the 91-year-old evangelist, at his mountaintop log cabin in Montreat, North Carolina. Graham has been a spiritual adviser to U.S. presidents for seven decades.
The president met with Mr. Graham for 35 minutes as Obama ended a brief vacation in nearby Asheville, and then prepared to depart for a solemn memorial service in West Virginia on behalf of the 29 miners who died when an explosion rocked their Upper Big Branch mine on April 5, 2010.