Billy Zeoli

Billy Zeoli
Billy Zeoli speaking from the podium at the National Religious Broadcasters Annual Congressional Breakfast, January 28, 1975. Courtesy of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
Citizenship	United States}
Education	BA, History (1955)
Alma mater	Wheaton College Philadelphia School of the Bible L'Abri (circa 1972)
Occupation(s)	film executive producer professional sports chaplin internet content producer writer
Employer(s)	Gospel Communications International; Gospel Films, Inc.; Indianapolis Youth for Christ Billy Graham Indianapolis Crusade (1959).
Known for	White House Chaplain to U.S. President Gerald R. Ford (1974-1977)
Notable work	How Should We Then Live: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture (1977, film executive producer)
Television	How Should We Then Live: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture (2005; television series)
Title	God's Got a Better Idea (book author)
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Marilyn
Children	3
Parent(s)	Anthony Zeoli

Billy Zeoli is an American evangelical media executive producer from Michigan who once served as a White house chaplain to U.S. President Gerald R. Ford during the mid-1970s and who offered advice as a spiritual counselor President Ford on the question of issuing a pardon to former U.S. President Richard Nixon, who had resigned following the Watergate scandal as a result of the June 17, 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement.

Zeloi was also instrumental in bringing together the American missionary theologian Francis Schaeffer of the L'Abri in Huémoz-sur-Ollon, Switzerland and his son, Frank Schaeffer with wealthy American evangelicals for the financial backing of the How Should We Then Live: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture 1997 film and 2005 television series.