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The presumptive GOP nominee met privately Sunday with the prominent evangelists for 45 minutes at the family's mountaintop retreat in western North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains.

Shortly after, Franklin Graham releases a statement: "I was impressed by his personal faith and his moral clarity on important social issues facing America today..."

He says he isn't endorsing anyone for president. Franklin Graham met with Obama earlier this month.

McCain statement: "We had a very excellent conversation, and I appreciated the opportunity to visit with them." Read it here.

Read pool report here.

Billy Graham is in poor health and McCain had only expected to meet with his son, who heads the evangelistic association his father founded.

Conservatives have recently urged McCain to address their causes more publicly.

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