McCain meets with Rev. Billy Graham

Published 11:31 pm Sunday, June 29, 2008

MONTREAT, N.C. — Sen. John McCain met Sunday with the Rev. Billy Graham and his son, Franklin, at the family’s mountaintop retreat.

“We had a very excellent conversation. I appreciated the opportunity to visit with them,” McCain said after the 45-minute meeting.

The Republican presidential candidate said he did not know if the Grahams would vote for him. “I didn’t ask for their votes,” he said, calling them “great leaders.”

Franklin Graham said his father told a story about meeting McCain’s father, a Navy admiral, on a trip to Vietnam during the war when John McCain was being held as a prisoner of war after his military plane was shot out of the sky. The two prayed for John McCain during his captivity.