Ruth Bell Graham (1920-2007)

From her NEWSWEEK obituary:

"From the beginning, the marriage was what Billy has called 'happily incompatible,' full of tenderness and friction. Ruth's role, as she saw it, was both to support and to challenge her ambitious, charismatic husband--and she did so unflinchingly. When their son Franklin was wearing his hair fashionably long in the 1970s, Ruth reminded the boy's aghast father that hair was not a moral issue. When, over lunch at the White House, Lyndon Johnson wanted Billy to help him choose a running mate, Ruth kicked her husband sharply under the table. 'You should limit yourself to moral and spiritual advice,' she said, 'not political advice.' Once asked by an interviewer whether, as a Christian woman, she had ever considered divorce, Ruth replied: 'Divorce? No. Murder? Yes.'"