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In 1953, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, or so the story goes, he attended a prayer meeting with Methodist minister Abraham Vereide, the Rev. Billy Graham, and members of Congress. From these humble, modest beginnings the Presidential Prayer Breakfast was born. Later, Vereide’s successor, Douglas Coe, and long-serving chaplain of the US Senate, Richard C. Halverson, came on the scene. By 1970, the Presidential Prayer Breakfast became the National Prayer Breakfast. Since that time, every US president has attended the event.

August 5 at the Paramount Theatre in Cedar Rapids

wonderful mail and letters to the editor from tolerant, pluralistic, open-minded, pro-academic, freedom liberals who say such things as, "volunteer yourself for brain trauma experiments, you sadistic creep." >> why do you think they wanted to say "america's most controversial columnist"? >> oh, it's part of the hype. i'm in 350 papers in all 50 states, and most editors gratefully respond that they get more mail on my column, pro and con, than all of their other columnists. so, as you know, one of the premiere things in the information or communications business is to get people to re...