July 5, 2008
The nation’s most respected evangelist has added his name to the list of those praising the accomplishments of former Republican Senator, Jesse Helms, who passed away yesterday at the age of 86. Calling him “my friend and long-time senator from my home state of North Carolina,” Billy Graham described Jesse Helms yesterday as “a man [...]
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I never shall forget the indulgence with which he treated Hodge, his cat: for whom he himself used to go out and buy oysters, lest the servants having that trouble should take a dislike to the poor creature. . . . I recollect [Hodge] one day scrambling up Dr. Johnson's breast, apparently with much satisfaction, while my friend smiling and half-whistling, rubbed down his back, and pulled him by the tail; and when I observed he was a fine cat, saying 'why yes, Sir, but I have had cats whom I liked better than this;' and then as if perceiving Hodge to be out of countenance, adding, 'but he is a very fine cat, a very fine cat indeed.'