graham. [applause] >> thank you very much mister president.e] >> thank you. thank you very much. thank you very much, distinguished platform guests . mister bush, mrs. graham. we are thinking about you. billy, i am very honored to be here. grateful to have been asked. it today i wouldn't have missed for the world . i was listening to jimmy carter talk, thinking you know, they put the odd couple together. they used to say bush and i were the odd couple but here, we may be the odd couple. two southern baptist democrats. [laughter] who were both profoundly influenced by billy graham. billy graham has known me since 1985, but i have known him for nearly 50 years. i am here because of the public billy graham and the private billy graham. i'm here because beginning in 1989, i have seen firsthand his kindness. when he preached the crusade in little rock then, a pastor who had known was dying was cancer and only had a couple months to live, all he had to do, billy graham let me take him to home which then laid weighed less than 90 pounds. and i listen