Two weeks before his first heart attack in 1955, President Dwight Eisenhower summoned evangelist Billy Graham to the presidential retreat at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. After nearly four hours of conversation, the President suddenly looked Graham squarely in the eye, and said, "Billy, I want you to tell me why you believe in heaven, and why you believe in the afterlife."

Dr. Graham declares President Eisenhower talked with him many times on the subject after that, including his last conversation with him in Walter Reed Hospital shortly before his death. "It was quite evident that he not only believed in an afterlife," said Dr. Graham in the course of a radio interview, "but he was looking forward to it. He had a growing concept which he had developed that there was a literal existence after…