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- I've never had more faith
in america than I do today.
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We have an america that
in Bob Dylan's phrase,
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is "busy being born,"
not busy dying.
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[Cheers and applause]
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[Bob Dylan's
"Mr. Tambourine man"]
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♪ ♪
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- ♪ hey Mr. Tambourine
man... ♪
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- All right.
- ♪ play a song for me... ♪
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- Sounds familiar.
- ♪ I'm not sleepy ♪
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♪ and there is no place
I'm going to ♪
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♪ hey Mr. Tambourine man
play a song for me ♪
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♪ in the jingle jangle morning
I'll come following you ♪
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♪ ♪
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♪ though I know that
evening's empire ♪
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♪ has returned into sand ♪
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♪ vanished from my hand ♪
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♪ left me blindly here
to stand ♪
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♪ but still not sleeping ♪
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♪ my weariness amazes me ♪
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♪ I'm branded on my feet ♪
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♪ I have no one to meet ♪
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♪ and the ancient
empty street's ♪
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♪ too dead for dreaming ♪
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- I used to know all the big
Bob Dylan's records
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before I was governor
in the ’80s,
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and, uh...And I...I know I think
everything that Bob did
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that, uh, Willie Nelson
ever wrote,
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and of course
the Allman brothers
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helped put me in
the white house
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by raising money when
I didn't have any money.
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[Rock music playing]
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- ♪ 'Cause there's
a man down there ♪
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♪ might be your man
I don't know ♪
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♪ ♪
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- Gregg and I,
we're good friends.
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The Allman brothers
have been here,
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and Bob Dylan
has not been here,
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but Willie Nelson
has been here,
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and...and Johnny cash
has been here.
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- ♪ We got married
in a fever ♪
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♪ hotter than a pepper sprout ♪
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- I was there when he
brought June cash
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down here to meet me.
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We always claimed
that she was my cousin.
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[Rock music]
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[All singing]
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♪ ♪
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When Willie Nelson wrote
his autobiography,
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he confessed that he smoked
pot, uh, in the white house
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one...one night when he
was spending the night with me,
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and he says that his companion
that shared the pot with him
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was one of the servants
at the white house.
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That is not exactly true.
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It actually was one of my sons,
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which he didn't want to, uh,
you know,
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categorize as a...As
a pot smoker like him.
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[All singing]
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There were some people who
didn't like my being deeply
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involved with Willie Nelson
and Bob Dylan
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and disreputable, you know,
rock and rollers,
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but I didn't care about that
because I was doing
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what I really believed
and the response I think
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from the followers
of those musicians
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was much more influential than
a few people who thought that
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being associated
with rock and roll
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and radical people was, uh,
inappropriate for a president.
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- ♪ Whether the wrath of ♪
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♪ the storm-tossed sea ♪
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♪ ♪
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♪ the master of ocean ♪
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♪ and earth and skies ♪
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♪ shall sweetly ♪
[Cheering]
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- One of the things that
has held america together
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when we've been together has
been the music that we share
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and...and love.
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Well, I'd say that
the common beat
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that people have within them,
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a desire for country music,
a desire for rock and roll,
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or a desire for jazz,
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or a desire
for classical music,
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is something that
binds people together.
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- [Humming]
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- When I was a child,
for instance,
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I used to go
to gospel performances
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just of local singers
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and sometimes we'd have
all night gospel sings,
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at various churches around
where I lived,
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and so I think that the origin
of...Of jazz and maybe later
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rock and roll came out of,
uh, gospel music.
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- Jimmy Carter
was from Georgia
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and he wasn't from Atlanta,
by the way.
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He was from this little town
down there in South Georgia
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so to appreciate gospel music
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and to understand what
Shirley Caesar was about
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was real and...
And you could tell it.
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- Jimmy Carter would go
to a black church
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and they'd start singing.
He'd start singing.
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He wouldn't pick up
the hymn book.
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He knew all the words
to the songs.
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- ♪ Gonna lay down my sword
and shield ♪
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♪ down by the riverside ♪
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♪ study you know war
no more ♪
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♪ I ain't gonna study war
no more ♪
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♪ study war no more ♪
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♪ ain't gonna study no war
no more ♪
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♪ hallelujah ♪
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- Yeah, we were raised, uh,
on mahalia Jackson.
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Uh, but what you always heard
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in mahalia's voice
was healing.
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I guess that's why they called
rock and roll
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"the devil's music" because
gospel was god's music,
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and that's where it all began,
through it,
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and the, uh...The black sheep
of the family
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was rock and roll, right?
Uh...
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- But in the south it
was so connected because
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I grew up singing
in the church choir
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which was...Which was fine.
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It was, you know,
traditional church,
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you know, songs,
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but I also grew up
a huge Elvis Presley fan
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and Elvis was so influenced
by gospel.
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- Gospel music is derived
from deep within
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the heart of human beings.
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We have been to Waycross,
Georgia,
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where they have
all-day singing.
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It's about out
at being 24 hours.
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We've been down
to Bonifay, Florida,
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where they have 24-hour sings
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and we apologize for cutting
this one short.
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[Upbeat music]
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- ♪ Can't nobody
do you like Jesus ♪
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♪ can't nobody ♪
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♪ do you like Jesus ♪
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- There was a wonderful
compatibility
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between the church songs
that were prevalent
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in white churches and...
And church songs
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that were prevalent, uh,
in African-American churches,
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and so I think music broke
down barriers between people
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not only geographically but,
um, with...Between
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the two races.
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- I grew up listening to that
because dad...
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That's part of what
dad played.
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We were liberals,
and we were not racist,
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and in plains,
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that meant that you had,
like, two other friends.
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- He grew up in a county
that was 80% black
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and he probably never
had white friends
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until he went to the Navy.
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H...he was just an anomaly that
I'd never seen before.
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[All singing upbeat music]
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- ♪ I'll fly away oh glory ♪
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♪ I'll fly away ♪
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♪ when I die
hallelujah by and by ♪
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♪ I'll fly away ♪
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♪ ♪
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Oh!
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[Cheers and applause]
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[Tambourine rattling]
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[Train wheels clacking]
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- Plains.
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Pioneering white men fought
to claim the land
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of the Indians
they sent west to die.
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Our families moved in then
to occupy the rolling plains
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that gave the town its name.
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There were only half
a thousand souls...
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White and black,
the master and the slave.
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Neither side ever forgot
each other's ways
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to reach their common goals.
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- But now as equals free
to rise and fall together,
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we've learned we must depend
on one another.
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Though the town is small,
we Cherish it as haven,
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home, and friend,
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and won't let strife
or missed chance
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bring to all our dreams...
Our modest,
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tempered dreams...An end.
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That's beautiful.
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[Country music]
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♪ ♪
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[Chickens clucking]
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♪ ♪
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- My folks,
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they've been farmers
in Georgia
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for more than 200 years
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and we've been living around
here for, oh, 150 years.
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Well, I grew up in a home
that didn't have running water
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or electricity until
I was a teenager.
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And although I've had a chance
to get an education
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as an engineer and a scientist,
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nobody in my family before
my generation
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ever had a chance
to finish high school.
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We've always worked
for a living.
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We know what it means to work.
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- I never did...I never
did spank him.
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No, he was...I don't...
Did I ever spank...
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Well, I might have given you
a little licking in passing,
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but as for real whipping,
I never gave him one.
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That was...I left that
with his father.
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- We had a battery radio,
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and in the times
where we used it,
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daddy was very stingy with how
many hours a day we used
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the battery radio so we
wouldn't run the battery down,
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but we could get Nashville and,
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uh, sometimes we could
get Chicago,
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and we could hear
country music then,
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and I would listen
to Glenn Miller for 15 minutes
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so that was my only contact
you might say
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with the outside world at all.
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[Jazz music]
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♪ ♪
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- I look at the great
composers
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that have come before me
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and I see how they
changed society.
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I see how...As Harry Belafonte
once said to me...
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That, um, artists are
the gatekeepers of truth.
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- Did your dad ever play
an instrument?
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- The stereo.
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[Laughs]
He played the stereo well.
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When...when we had
no money at all,
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dad spent $600 on the best
stereo in plains, Georgia
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with the huge speakers and...
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I mean, it would blow you out.
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It was fantastic, so...
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And he would let us
as children...
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Me and my brothers, uh,
play our music on it,
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and he would stay in there
and...And learn the songs
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and try to figure out what
we were doing that way.
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It's one of the ways that he
kind of stayed in touch
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with his children.
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- I'd like to welcome our
special guest this morning
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to the open line program,
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former state senator
and gubernatorial candidate
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Jimmy Carter.
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[Rock music]
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- Well, I replaced
Lester Maddox
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in the governor's mansion,
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and Lester Maddox's symbol
was a pick handle
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that he used to drive away
African-American customers
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who came to his
chicken restaurant.
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He bragged on that
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as being a stalwart defender
of racial segregation.
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[Tense music]
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♪ ♪
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- It was a really
hard time politically.
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When I was in high school,
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I got beat after school
every single day
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because I refused
to denounce African-Americans.
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I mean, I would...My shirt
would be torn off.
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I would go home and my mother
would take a new shirt for me
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to...to wear, um, the rest
of the last half
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of the classrooms.
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It was...It was
a bad time back then.
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- For years, the solid south
were very segregationist
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and very...Let's just call it...
Racist.
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They were anti-black.
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- Uh, when I came into
the governor's mansion,
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one of the first things I did
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in the governor's office
in the capitol building
259
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was to hang Martin Luther King
Jr.'s portrait there,
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because he had won
the nobel peace prize.
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He was the only Georgian
to become the recipient
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of the nobel peace award,
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and whereas
the reverend Dr. King was a man
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who placed the welfare
of his fellow men above his own
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and who assumed the burden
of demanding of a country,
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that it remedy the inequities
and discrepancies experienced
267
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by the black man
and poor man of whatever color.
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- ♪ Oh Georgia ♪
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[Piano music]
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♪ Oh Georgia ♪
271
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- Jimmy Carter was a, um...
A leader in civil rights.
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He was part of this
transitional generation
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of southern governors that were
just absolutely magnificent.
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- The greatest thing that ever
happened to the south
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was the passage
of the civil rights act
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and the granting to a minority
group for a chance to vote,
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to hold a job,
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to buy a home,
to be educated,
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to travel,
on an equal basis,
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in accordance
with their own choice.
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- There were southerners who,
a lot of them
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went to the Ivy leagues
and then came back home.
283
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They started bipartisan
think tanks.
284
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They were freedom riders.
285
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There was this Camelot decade
or two in the south
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that Carter was part of.
287
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- Jimmy Carter represented
the new south.
288
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He represented, um, hope for,
um, the south where...
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As the old slaves used
to sing...
290
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"There'd be plenty good room
for all god's children."
291
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And...and he did.
292
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He represented that
and embodied it.
293
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- ♪ Oh Georgia ♪
294
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[Chuckles]
295
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♪ My little Georgia ♪
296
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♪ mm-hmm ♪
297
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♪ oh no, no, no, no
peace I find ♪
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♪ ♪
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♪ this old sweet song ♪
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♪ ♪
301
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♪ keeps Georgia on my mind ♪
302
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♪ ♪
303
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- So Georgia is this very
interesting place.
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As a black musician,
305
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you can't help
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00:14:50,268 --> 00:14:52,926
but be influenced
by James brown lyrics,
307
00:14:53,064 --> 00:14:54,652
and when James brown goes,
308
00:14:54,790 --> 00:14:57,966
"the name of this place,
good god, is Augusta, ga,"
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Georgia, in our heads,
has a different kind of vibe.
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- Music has the capacity
to speak on multiple levels.
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I mean, there's the level
of...Of the words, the lyrics.
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That's there.
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But sometimes,
there's a deeper level
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on what the music
connects inside the brain
315
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and maybe better yet,
inside the soul.
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- ♪ What ♪
317
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♪ bring it out ♪
318
00:15:22,162 --> 00:15:24,716
♪ we all get together
in any type of weather ♪
319
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♪ do it, what ♪
320
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- We were coming into
a new era,
321
00:15:29,273 --> 00:15:32,069
and the Allman brothers
was an integrated band,
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with Jaimoe on drums,
323
00:15:34,105 --> 00:15:35,762
and I think Carter,
you know,
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he did that politically
325
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while we were doing it
perhaps musically.
326
00:15:39,559 --> 00:15:41,595
- In those days it was mostly
rock and roll,
327
00:15:41,733 --> 00:15:43,943
but I was...We
were all into folk a good bit
328
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because of the politics of it.
329
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[Folk music]
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♪ ♪
331
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- ♪ I ain't gonna work on
Maggie's farm no more ♪
332
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- When I was governor
and my sons
333
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were living in
the governor's mansion with me,
334
00:16:00,545 --> 00:16:04,446
Bob Dylan's music permeated
the, uh, governor's mansion.
335
00:16:04,584 --> 00:16:06,310
My sons and I were brought
closer together
336
00:16:06,448 --> 00:16:09,071
through Bob Dylan's songs.
337
00:16:09,209 --> 00:16:12,937
Chip knew every lyric
of every Bob Dylan song
338
00:16:13,075 --> 00:16:14,352
that had ever been written.
339
00:16:14,490 --> 00:16:17,252
- I remember he
and I had a spat,
340
00:16:17,390 --> 00:16:20,082
and I spent over a year
without speaking to him,
341
00:16:20,220 --> 00:16:23,775
and we would communicate
by the third song
342
00:16:23,913 --> 00:16:25,708
on the second Bob Dylan album
343
00:16:25,846 --> 00:16:27,503
and blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah for over a year
344
00:16:27,641 --> 00:16:29,678
without ever actually
talking to each other.
345
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- ♪ Well he hands you
a nickel ♪
346
00:16:32,888 --> 00:16:35,856
♪ he hands you a dime ♪
347
00:16:35,995 --> 00:16:38,135
♪ he asks you with a grin ♪
348
00:16:38,273 --> 00:16:40,792
♪ if you're having
a good time ♪
349
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♪ and he fines you every time
you slam the door ♪
350
00:16:46,108 --> 00:16:51,493
♪ I ain't gonna work for
Maggie's brother no more ♪
351
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- Bob Dylan and his band
performed in Atlanta,
352
00:16:54,737 --> 00:16:56,153
and I was governor,
so I invited
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Bob Dylan and the band
to the governor's mansion,
354
00:16:59,087 --> 00:17:02,780
and my sons were very eager
to be with the band,
355
00:17:02,918 --> 00:17:04,747
and...and I was honored
because Bob Dylan asked me
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00:17:04,885 --> 00:17:07,336
to go out in the garden,
as a matter of fact,
357
00:17:07,474 --> 00:17:09,476
and have a private
conversation with him,
358
00:17:09,614 --> 00:17:10,857
and the only questions
he asked me
359
00:17:10,995 --> 00:17:12,962
were questions about
my Christian faith
360
00:17:13,101 --> 00:17:14,309
and what it meant to me
361
00:17:14,447 --> 00:17:16,345
and the basic principles
of it.
362
00:17:16,483 --> 00:17:18,002
- When I first met Jimmy,
363
00:17:18,140 --> 00:17:21,592
the first thing he did
was quote my songs back to me.
364
00:17:21,730 --> 00:17:24,974
It was the first time
that I realized my songs
365
00:17:25,113 --> 00:17:29,324
had reached into...Basically,
into the establishment world,
366
00:17:29,462 --> 00:17:31,878
and I had no experience
in that realm.
367
00:17:32,016 --> 00:17:34,984
Never seen that side.
So it made me a little uneasy.
368
00:17:35,123 --> 00:17:40,404
He, uh, put my mind at ease
by not talking down to me
369
00:17:40,542 --> 00:17:44,063
and, uh, showing me that he had
a sincere appreciation
370
00:17:44,201 --> 00:17:46,341
of, uh, the songs
I had written.
371
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- ♪ Men have tried to stop me ♪
372
00:17:49,033 --> 00:17:52,105
♪ shake me up in my mind ♪
373
00:17:52,243 --> 00:17:54,866
♪ said prove to me
that he's lord ♪
374
00:17:55,004 --> 00:17:57,869
♪ show me a sign ♪
375
00:17:58,007 --> 00:18:00,182
♪ what kind of sign they need ♪
376
00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:02,667
♪ when it all come
from within ♪
377
00:18:02,805 --> 00:18:05,084
♪ when what's lost
has been found ♪
378
00:18:05,222 --> 00:18:07,569
♪ what's to come
has already been ♪
379
00:18:07,707 --> 00:18:11,193
♪ I just keep pressing on ♪
380
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- ♪ on and on and on and on ♪
381
00:18:14,507 --> 00:18:18,062
- He's a kindred spirit
to me of a rare kind.
382
00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:20,202
The kind of man
you don't meet every day
383
00:18:20,340 --> 00:18:22,584
and that you're lucky
to meet if you ever do.
384
00:18:22,722 --> 00:18:26,381
- Bob Dylan has been, you know,
one of my best friends,
385
00:18:26,519 --> 00:18:28,797
along with Willie Nelson
and others.
386
00:18:28,935 --> 00:18:31,006
- Probably, he and Bob had
a lot of good ideas
387
00:18:31,144 --> 00:18:34,423
to exchange because they come
from entirely different places.
388
00:18:34,561 --> 00:18:35,769
- Right.
389
00:18:35,907 --> 00:18:38,427
- Uh, but Jimmy and I, uh,
390
00:18:38,565 --> 00:18:40,291
basically come
from the same spot.
391
00:18:40,429 --> 00:18:43,674
[Upbeat music]
392
00:18:43,812 --> 00:18:45,745
- We had been invited
to this party
393
00:18:45,883 --> 00:18:49,783
that governor Carter
was throwing for Bob Dylan.
394
00:18:49,921 --> 00:18:54,443
So we got there just as
the last guest was leaving.
395
00:18:54,581 --> 00:18:56,790
- Bob Dylan and his band
had already gone home,
396
00:18:56,928 --> 00:18:59,517
and I'm sure I had
taken...I had taken off my,
397
00:18:59,655 --> 00:19:01,554
you know,
dress-up clothes, kind of.
398
00:19:01,692 --> 00:19:05,040
- There's this guy
standing on the porch,
399
00:19:05,178 --> 00:19:06,731
and he had on this old pair
of Levi's
400
00:19:06,869 --> 00:19:08,940
with holes all in them.
401
00:19:09,078 --> 00:19:12,461
No shirt,
no shoes,
402
00:19:12,599 --> 00:19:14,360
and I thought,
"who's this bum hanging out
403
00:19:14,498 --> 00:19:16,189
at the governor's mansion?"
404
00:19:16,327 --> 00:19:18,053
Well that was him.
[Laughing]
405
00:19:18,191 --> 00:19:21,746
There's a full bottle
of J&B scotch sitting there,
406
00:19:21,884 --> 00:19:26,130
which we proceeded to drink
just about all of.
407
00:19:26,268 --> 00:19:28,270
[Laughs]
And he says,
408
00:19:28,408 --> 00:19:30,307
"you know, I'm gonna be
our next president."
409
00:19:30,445 --> 00:19:32,930
- I went out on the porch
and had a drink with, uh...
410
00:19:33,068 --> 00:19:34,207
With gregg,
411
00:19:34,345 --> 00:19:36,278
but I don't remember
a bottle of scotch.
412
00:19:36,416 --> 00:19:38,763
I do not...I only...I generally
limited myself
413
00:19:38,901 --> 00:19:42,836
to the one drink of wine
or whiskey a day,
414
00:19:42,974 --> 00:19:44,804
so that may be a little bit
of an exaggeration.
415
00:19:44,942 --> 00:19:48,428
- He was cool,
he enjoyed our music,
416
00:19:48,566 --> 00:19:52,191
he was real,
and he became a friend.
417
00:19:52,329 --> 00:19:55,228
- ♪ I'm not gonna let them
catch me no ♪
418
00:19:55,366 --> 00:20:00,129
♪ I'm not gonna let them catch
the midnight rider ♪
419
00:20:00,268 --> 00:20:02,373
- The marquee at the civic
center tells the story:
420
00:20:02,511 --> 00:20:04,272
Tomorrow evening at 5:30,
421
00:20:04,410 --> 00:20:06,205
the Jimmy Carter
for president campaign
422
00:20:06,343 --> 00:20:07,999
officially gets underway.
423
00:20:08,137 --> 00:20:09,760
[Phone ringing]
424
00:20:09,898 --> 00:20:11,244
- Jimmy Carter
campaign headquarters,
425
00:20:11,382 --> 00:20:12,590
may I help you please?
426
00:20:12,728 --> 00:20:15,559
- ♪ Oh yeah hold on ♪
427
00:20:15,697 --> 00:20:17,940
♪ hold on I'm coming ♪
428
00:20:18,078 --> 00:20:20,322
♪ hold on ♪
429
00:20:20,460 --> 00:20:23,705
♪ oh I'm coming, oh ♪
430
00:20:23,843 --> 00:20:25,707
- Phil walden,
the band's manager,
431
00:20:25,845 --> 00:20:27,709
and the owner
of capricorn records,
432
00:20:27,847 --> 00:20:30,159
announced that governor Carter
was going to come down
433
00:20:30,298 --> 00:20:33,301
to what we used to call
the capricorn, um, picnic
434
00:20:33,439 --> 00:20:34,612
and summer games.
435
00:20:34,750 --> 00:20:37,995
- ♪ Something about you mama ♪
436
00:20:38,133 --> 00:20:42,068
♪ sure give me the blues ♪
437
00:20:42,206 --> 00:20:45,382
♪ it ain't your drop
stitch stockings ♪
438
00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:50,041
♪ it ain't your blue
buckle shoes ♪
439
00:20:50,179 --> 00:20:53,182
- So many interesting,
famous people came down
440
00:20:53,321 --> 00:20:55,806
to that thing...Bill Graham,
441
00:20:55,944 --> 00:20:57,566
you know,
in the music business,
442
00:20:57,704 --> 00:21:00,880
Andy warhol came at one point,
443
00:21:01,018 --> 00:21:02,778
and, lo and behold,
444
00:21:02,916 --> 00:21:05,367
he gets
governor Carter to come.
445
00:21:05,505 --> 00:21:07,852
- As one republican
to a democrat,
446
00:21:07,990 --> 00:21:09,302
I will help you
as president, sir.
447
00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:11,408
- Well that's a good deal,
and I thank you.
448
00:21:11,546 --> 00:21:13,030
- Phil came to the band
and said,
449
00:21:13,168 --> 00:21:18,000
"listen, Carter's gonna run.
Uh, he needs some money.
450
00:21:18,138 --> 00:21:21,832
"He needs support.
Uh, would you guys be willing,
451
00:21:21,970 --> 00:21:24,075
you know,
to do some benefits for him?"
452
00:21:24,213 --> 00:21:26,388
- I think he's just a real fan
of the arts.
453
00:21:26,526 --> 00:21:29,115
He came here one night
to a recording session.
454
00:21:29,253 --> 00:21:33,188
So he befriended these...
These performers and, um...
455
00:21:33,326 --> 00:21:38,055
And his interest was genuine,
and they could sense that.
456
00:21:38,193 --> 00:21:42,301
- I think the vibe was, wow,
here's this wonderful man
457
00:21:42,439 --> 00:21:45,269
who's been a great governor
for the state of Georgia,
458
00:21:45,407 --> 00:21:46,615
a southerner,
459
00:21:46,753 --> 00:21:49,100
and we had come
through the Nixon era,
460
00:21:49,238 --> 00:21:51,689
and we saw
what happened with that.
461
00:21:51,827 --> 00:21:55,175
Isn't it time for somebody, uh,
with great integrity
462
00:21:55,314 --> 00:21:57,454
and dignity to take
this office?
463
00:21:57,592 --> 00:21:58,731
Does he really have
a chance?
464
00:21:58,869 --> 00:22:00,974
You know, honestly,
we probably thought,
465
00:22:01,112 --> 00:22:04,357
"the odds are a little low,
but let's try.
466
00:22:04,495 --> 00:22:06,255
You never know
until you try, right?"
467
00:22:06,394 --> 00:22:07,567
- Governor Carter,
first of all,
468
00:22:07,705 --> 00:22:09,258
thank you very much
for sparing the time
469
00:22:09,397 --> 00:22:10,777
to speak with me today.
470
00:22:10,915 --> 00:22:13,711
I know that you are
very interested in rock music.
471
00:22:13,849 --> 00:22:14,678
- Yes, I am.
472
00:22:14,816 --> 00:22:17,163
I'm not only interested in it
473
00:22:17,301 --> 00:22:21,236
from what it signifies, uh,
in our society,
474
00:22:21,374 --> 00:22:22,617
but also,
I enjoy it.
475
00:22:22,755 --> 00:22:24,791
- Who do you most enjoy
listening to?
476
00:22:24,929 --> 00:22:26,793
- I've really gotten
to know the ones
477
00:22:26,931 --> 00:22:30,935
who record in Georgia better
on a personal basis:
478
00:22:31,073 --> 00:22:33,559
The, uh, Marshall Tucker band
and Charlie Daniels
479
00:22:33,697 --> 00:22:36,803
and, um...And,
uh Allman brothers.
480
00:22:36,941 --> 00:22:41,532
I wanna introduce to you
my friends and your friends,
481
00:22:41,670 --> 00:22:43,327
the ones that are gonna
help me get elected,
482
00:22:43,465 --> 00:22:46,330
along with you,
the great Allman brothers!
483
00:22:46,468 --> 00:22:49,506
[Cheers and applause]
484
00:22:52,129 --> 00:22:53,993
- When we did
that first concert
485
00:22:54,131 --> 00:22:57,445
for the president, uh,
in Providence, Rhode Island,
486
00:22:57,583 --> 00:22:59,964
I don't think we gave
a lot of thought to the fact
487
00:23:00,102 --> 00:23:01,345
that this was
a political fundraiser.
488
00:23:01,483 --> 00:23:02,795
Hey, it was a gig.
489
00:23:02,933 --> 00:23:04,210
You know, we got fans,
we're gonna play.
490
00:23:04,348 --> 00:23:08,559
- ♪ My friends tell me ♪
491
00:23:08,697 --> 00:23:12,114
♪ that I've been such
a fool yeah ♪
492
00:23:12,252 --> 00:23:15,773
♪ but I had to stand by
and take it baby ♪
493
00:23:15,911 --> 00:23:19,812
♪ all for loving you ♪
494
00:23:19,950 --> 00:23:22,815
♪ I drown myself in sorrow ♪
495
00:23:22,953 --> 00:23:25,852
♪ as I look at what
you've done ♪
496
00:23:25,990 --> 00:23:27,751
♪ but nothing seems to change ♪
497
00:23:27,889 --> 00:23:32,065
♪ the bad times have stayed
and I can't run ♪
498
00:23:32,203 --> 00:23:34,896
♪ sometimes I feel ♪
499
00:23:35,034 --> 00:23:37,243
♪ for sure ♪
500
00:23:37,381 --> 00:23:41,937
♪ sometimes I feel
like I've been tied ♪
501
00:23:42,075 --> 00:23:46,217
♪ ah oh ♪
502
00:23:46,355 --> 00:23:48,599
♪ till I'm down there ♪
503
00:23:48,737 --> 00:23:51,015
♪ oh I'm down ♪
504
00:23:51,153 --> 00:23:55,123
♪ good lord
feel like I'm dying ♪
505
00:23:55,261 --> 00:23:57,436
- Chip came to a concert
506
00:23:57,574 --> 00:23:59,541
and, uh, he was saying,
you know,
507
00:23:59,679 --> 00:24:01,198
"nobody knew us,
508
00:24:01,336 --> 00:24:04,857
but, you know, y'all brought us
into the light."
509
00:24:04,995 --> 00:24:06,479
- I was practically
a non-entity,
510
00:24:06,617 --> 00:24:08,308
but everybody knew
the Allman brothers,
511
00:24:08,447 --> 00:24:10,794
particularly the ones
that came to their concerts,
512
00:24:10,932 --> 00:24:12,899
and...and when the Allman
brothers endorsed me,
513
00:24:13,037 --> 00:24:14,349
all the young people
there said,
514
00:24:14,487 --> 00:24:16,627
"well, if the Allman brothers
like Jimmy Carter,
515
00:24:16,765 --> 00:24:18,767
we...we can vote for him."
516
00:24:18,905 --> 00:24:22,081
- ♪ Oh sometimes I feel ♪
517
00:24:22,219 --> 00:24:24,186
♪ like I said ♪
518
00:24:24,324 --> 00:24:27,535
♪ oh sometimes I feel ♪
519
00:24:27,673 --> 00:24:30,848
♪ I've been tied ♪
520
00:24:30,986 --> 00:24:33,472
♪ oh ♪
521
00:24:33,610 --> 00:24:37,027
♪ oh to the power of love ♪
522
00:24:37,165 --> 00:24:40,133
♪ oh lord child ♪
523
00:24:40,271 --> 00:24:42,895
- Anybody who would do
a concert for Jimmy Carter,
524
00:24:43,033 --> 00:24:45,104
you know, we...We would welcome
with open arms,
525
00:24:45,242 --> 00:24:47,934
and we had from Hank snow
to toots and the Maytals
526
00:24:48,072 --> 00:24:51,973
to the allmans
to John Denver,
527
00:24:52,111 --> 00:24:54,182
the whole gamut,
and we raised a lot of money.
528
00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:56,702
So with the first concert
at the fox,
529
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:57,944
Marshall Tucker band,
530
00:24:58,082 --> 00:25:01,845
then the allmans
in Providence,
531
00:25:01,983 --> 00:25:04,330
and then, um, Charlie Daniels
at the fox,
532
00:25:04,468 --> 00:25:05,814
it gave Carter a lot
of credibility
533
00:25:05,952 --> 00:25:07,195
and a lot of money.
534
00:25:07,333 --> 00:25:09,093
- Of course, at that time,
it was very new
535
00:25:09,231 --> 00:25:11,613
that you could get
the matching funds...
536
00:25:11,751 --> 00:25:14,789
Whatever money that could
be raised privately
537
00:25:14,927 --> 00:25:17,136
could be matched
with the federal funds.
538
00:25:17,274 --> 00:25:19,828
- We could get
that money converted.
539
00:25:19,966 --> 00:25:22,762
Say the concert
was on Saturday,
540
00:25:22,900 --> 00:25:25,558
then we could use it
to buy television ads
541
00:25:25,696 --> 00:25:27,560
with it
in Pennsylvania the next week.
542
00:25:27,698 --> 00:25:30,390
[Patriotic music]
543
00:25:30,529 --> 00:25:35,361
♪ ♪
544
00:25:35,499 --> 00:25:39,020
- I believe in human beings,
and equal opportunity,
545
00:25:39,158 --> 00:25:41,850
and freedom,
and equality of opportunity,
546
00:25:41,988 --> 00:25:43,887
and I'll fight for it.
547
00:25:44,025 --> 00:25:47,235
- Vote for Jimmy Carter.
A leader, for a change.
548
00:25:47,373 --> 00:25:50,272
[Applause]
549
00:25:50,410 --> 00:25:53,172
[Funky music]
550
00:25:53,310 --> 00:25:54,898
♪ ♪
551
00:25:55,036 --> 00:25:57,521
- Can you ask your kin folks
and neighbors to vote for me?
552
00:25:57,659 --> 00:25:58,798
Good deal.
Thank you.
553
00:25:58,936 --> 00:26:02,181
- ♪ We the people
hey now ♪
554
00:26:02,319 --> 00:26:04,493
♪ got to make
the world go round ♪
555
00:26:04,632 --> 00:26:07,220
♪ got to make the world now ♪
556
00:26:07,358 --> 00:26:10,741
- There was a...A plan
among my opponents.
557
00:26:10,879 --> 00:26:13,710
They named it abc...
Anybody but Carter.
558
00:26:13,848 --> 00:26:15,504
So they would send
their top person
559
00:26:15,643 --> 00:26:17,023
into a state to oppose me,
560
00:26:17,161 --> 00:26:18,542
and then all the other
candidates...There were about
561
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:22,581
ten of them...Would support
whoever came in against me.
562
00:26:22,719 --> 00:26:23,754
- There was the establishment
563
00:26:23,892 --> 00:26:25,825
Democratic party
in Washington,
564
00:26:25,963 --> 00:26:29,242
and Jimmy, who was an outsider,
you know?
565
00:26:29,380 --> 00:26:31,866
And more than just an outsider.
An outsider from the south.
566
00:26:32,004 --> 00:26:33,730
- He was from Georgia,
for Christ sakes.
567
00:26:33,868 --> 00:26:36,664
I mean, there was something
more...Start out there.
568
00:26:36,802 --> 00:26:39,356
I mean, that...
And that time in the south,
569
00:26:39,494 --> 00:26:42,531
coming out of the south
was...Was a death warrant
570
00:26:42,670 --> 00:26:44,913
to try to run
for national office.
571
00:26:45,051 --> 00:26:47,536
- We were coming out
of the Watergate era
572
00:26:47,675 --> 00:26:51,679
and looking for...To be
a country of integrity again,
573
00:26:51,817 --> 00:26:53,301
and certainly in
the black communities,
574
00:26:53,439 --> 00:26:54,889
out of which I came,
575
00:26:55,027 --> 00:26:57,788
he made an immediate
connection because of that.
576
00:26:57,926 --> 00:27:01,240
- While Jerry brown took his
entourage to woo rural votes
577
00:27:01,378 --> 00:27:02,482
in western Maryland,
578
00:27:02,621 --> 00:27:03,898
Jimmy Carter concentrated
579
00:27:04,036 --> 00:27:05,796
on collecting endorsements
from officials
580
00:27:05,934 --> 00:27:07,591
and black leaders
in Baltimore.
581
00:27:07,729 --> 00:27:10,456
- The main confrontation
I had with Jerry brown...
582
00:27:10,594 --> 00:27:13,562
They brought him in
to run against me in Maryland,
583
00:27:13,701 --> 00:27:16,738
because he was kind of looked
on as Mr. Moonbeam back then,
584
00:27:16,876 --> 00:27:18,188
and he...And they figured
585
00:27:18,326 --> 00:27:20,569
he'd get a lot of support
in that particular area.
586
00:27:20,708 --> 00:27:24,608
- I think we're ready
for a new spirit in Washington,
587
00:27:24,746 --> 00:27:26,714
and if Maryland sends
the right message
588
00:27:26,852 --> 00:27:28,025
to the rest of the country,
589
00:27:28,163 --> 00:27:29,993
that's exactly
what's going to happen.
590
00:27:30,131 --> 00:27:32,236
Will you help?
Thank you very much.
591
00:27:32,374 --> 00:27:34,100
Thank you.
592
00:27:34,238 --> 00:27:37,103
Thank you very much!
Now, let's listen to music.
593
00:27:37,241 --> 00:27:38,760
It's just like
a fundraising dinner.
594
00:27:38,898 --> 00:27:42,902
Some people, uh, go to eat
the chicken and the peas
595
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:44,732
and the mashed potatoes
and the gravy,
596
00:27:44,870 --> 00:27:46,216
and other people
would rather listen
597
00:27:46,354 --> 00:27:48,390
to the eagles and Chicago
and Linda ronstadt.
598
00:27:48,528 --> 00:27:50,565
[Country music]
599
00:27:50,703 --> 00:27:53,568
- I remember when Jerry brown
jumped into the race
600
00:27:53,706 --> 00:27:58,159
and dragged Linda ronstadt
and the eagles along with him.
601
00:27:58,297 --> 00:27:59,643
It was battle of the bands.
602
00:27:59,781 --> 00:28:00,748
- There was no battle.
603
00:28:00,886 --> 00:28:03,129
I think we had it
wrapped up then.
604
00:28:03,267 --> 00:28:05,097
It was maybe too little
too late for brown,
605
00:28:05,235 --> 00:28:06,788
but I don't remember
it having any effect.
606
00:28:06,926 --> 00:28:09,239
It would make me mad, you know,
to see the eagles
607
00:28:09,377 --> 00:28:11,551
were doing..."Damn,
how did we miss that?"
608
00:28:11,690 --> 00:28:12,932
But that's all.
609
00:28:13,070 --> 00:28:14,934
- I mean,
there was no real rivalry.
610
00:28:15,072 --> 00:28:17,074
You know, we didn't want
to get into a fist fight
611
00:28:17,212 --> 00:28:19,628
with the eagles or anything.
612
00:28:19,767 --> 00:28:22,252
Uh, and I guess there was some
admiration for Jerry brown.
613
00:28:22,390 --> 00:28:26,152
You know, he was a good guy,
but our guy was better.
614
00:28:26,290 --> 00:28:27,740
- I liked him.
615
00:28:27,878 --> 00:28:33,919
I loved ronstadt,
but I didn't buy into it.
616
00:28:34,057 --> 00:28:35,506
I just didn't...
617
00:28:35,644 --> 00:28:39,821
Honestly, I didn't think
he had the gravitas.
618
00:28:39,959 --> 00:28:42,410
Bringing the eagles along
didn't help that.
619
00:28:42,548 --> 00:28:43,894
[Laughs]
620
00:28:44,032 --> 00:28:45,137
[Rock music]
621
00:28:45,275 --> 00:28:48,968
- ♪ I've been put down ♪
622
00:28:49,106 --> 00:28:52,489
♪ I've been pushed 'round ♪
623
00:28:52,627 --> 00:28:57,632
♪ when will I be loved ♪
624
00:28:57,770 --> 00:29:00,255
- When I went to Oregon,
I had a couple of events,
625
00:29:00,393 --> 00:29:02,050
and very few people showed up,
626
00:29:02,188 --> 00:29:04,397
and, um, Jimmy Buffett
had promised to help me
627
00:29:04,535 --> 00:29:05,398
if I ever needed him,
628
00:29:05,536 --> 00:29:06,917
so I called Jimmy Buffett
629
00:29:07,055 --> 00:29:09,540
and asked him if he would come
to Oregon and perform,
630
00:29:09,678 --> 00:29:11,957
which I knew would...
Would gather a big crowd.
631
00:29:12,095 --> 00:29:14,304
[Cheers and applause]
632
00:29:14,442 --> 00:29:17,479
- I picked up the campaign
in Portland, Oregon.
633
00:29:17,617 --> 00:29:19,688
I remember the band was there,
and it was...
634
00:29:19,827 --> 00:29:21,794
They didn't have a sound
system big enough for the band,
635
00:29:21,932 --> 00:29:24,486
so a couple of us
got out acoustic guitars,
636
00:29:24,624 --> 00:29:26,695
and we were pretty popular
up in Oregon
637
00:29:26,834 --> 00:29:30,803
and Washington at that time,
and so we probably drew,
638
00:29:30,941 --> 00:29:32,978
I don't know,
15,000 people out there.
639
00:29:33,116 --> 00:29:34,565
Something like that,
but it was outside.
640
00:29:34,703 --> 00:29:37,499
[Guitar strumming]
641
00:29:37,637 --> 00:29:44,575
♪ ♪
642
00:29:46,301 --> 00:29:50,512
- ♪ he went to Paris
looking for answers ♪
643
00:29:50,650 --> 00:29:54,516
♪ to questions that
bothered him so ♪
644
00:29:54,654 --> 00:29:59,418
- Jerry brown was ahead of me
before Jimmy Buffett came,
645
00:29:59,556 --> 00:30:02,559
but with Jimmy Buffett's help,
I came out quite well.
646
00:30:02,697 --> 00:30:04,595
[Cheers and applause]
- Thank you very much.
647
00:30:04,733 --> 00:30:07,598
[Indistinct]
648
00:30:07,736 --> 00:30:08,565
- Thank you.
649
00:30:08,703 --> 00:30:10,705
[Indistinct]
650
00:30:10,843 --> 00:30:12,086
Thank you.
651
00:30:12,224 --> 00:30:15,434
[Cheers and applause]
652
00:30:15,572 --> 00:30:18,195
The rock and roll aspect
of the campaign...First of all,
653
00:30:18,333 --> 00:30:19,818
it was about raising money.
654
00:30:19,956 --> 00:30:21,578
Second, it was about
trying to reach,
655
00:30:21,716 --> 00:30:25,064
to me, a younger generation
with somebody
656
00:30:25,202 --> 00:30:26,583
who was hip enough to get it.
657
00:30:26,721 --> 00:30:29,551
[Folk music]
658
00:30:29,689 --> 00:30:36,627
♪ ♪
659
00:30:36,765 --> 00:30:38,526
[Cheers and applause]
660
00:30:38,664 --> 00:30:40,873
- "Rolling stone" had really
first made its Mark
661
00:30:41,011 --> 00:30:43,289
in national politics
in the '72 election,
662
00:30:43,427 --> 00:30:45,567
when mcgovern
ran against Nixon.
663
00:30:45,705 --> 00:30:47,121
Hunter Thompson, of course,
664
00:30:47,259 --> 00:30:48,570
got the presidential election
as kind of a beat,
665
00:30:48,708 --> 00:30:52,540
and in 1974, '75,
666
00:30:52,678 --> 00:30:56,095
he was in Georgia
and heard Jimmy Carter speak
667
00:30:56,233 --> 00:30:57,821
at something
called law day.
668
00:30:57,959 --> 00:31:00,065
- Hunter Thompson was sitting
in the back of the audience,
669
00:31:00,203 --> 00:31:02,515
because he had come
with Ted Kennedy,
670
00:31:02,653 --> 00:31:07,555
and he was going outside,
putting wild Turkey whiskey
671
00:31:07,693 --> 00:31:09,005
in his iced tea glass,
672
00:31:09,143 --> 00:31:10,592
but he listened to my speech
673
00:31:10,730 --> 00:31:14,320
and the speech made
a great impression on him.
674
00:31:14,458 --> 00:31:16,150
- Well, I saw him push Teddy
Kennedy around down
675
00:31:16,288 --> 00:31:18,635
in Athens and Atlanta.
676
00:31:18,773 --> 00:31:20,879
I had never seen Kennedy
pushed around anywhere,
677
00:31:21,017 --> 00:31:23,191
in any room,
and I was stunned.
678
00:31:23,329 --> 00:31:24,813
I'd never seen a politician
do that before,
679
00:31:24,952 --> 00:31:28,265
and he just pushed Teddy aside,
like "out of my way.
680
00:31:28,403 --> 00:31:31,337
You know, I've got work to do.
Move aside."
681
00:31:31,475 --> 00:31:33,684
And Kennedy was stunned.
I was stunned.
682
00:31:33,822 --> 00:31:36,687
[Blues music]
683
00:31:36,825 --> 00:31:38,758
♪ ♪
684
00:31:38,897 --> 00:31:40,381
- Hunter Thompson spent
three nights with me
685
00:31:40,519 --> 00:31:41,900
and rosalynn at our house,
686
00:31:42,038 --> 00:31:44,695
and he became a very close
personal friend of mine.
687
00:31:44,833 --> 00:31:47,112
I remember one time
during the campaign,
688
00:31:47,250 --> 00:31:49,217
since we'd had
a previous relationship,
689
00:31:49,355 --> 00:31:50,909
he thought he could
have first crack
690
00:31:51,047 --> 00:31:52,496
at getting an interview
with me,
691
00:31:52,634 --> 00:31:54,326
and Jody Powell,
my press secretary,
692
00:31:54,464 --> 00:31:55,983
kept putting hunter off
and said,
693
00:31:56,121 --> 00:31:57,846
"you have to get in line."
694
00:31:57,985 --> 00:32:02,265
And so hunter Thompson
got drunk one night in a hotel
695
00:32:02,403 --> 00:32:06,648
and he gathered up newspapers
and dumped some trash cans
696
00:32:06,786 --> 00:32:09,168
in front of Jody Powell's door
and set it on fire.
697
00:32:09,306 --> 00:32:09,997
[Laughs]
698
00:32:10,135 --> 00:32:13,517
[Funky music]
699
00:32:13,655 --> 00:32:16,279
- Jimmy Carter comes along,
hunter endorses him.
700
00:32:16,417 --> 00:32:18,384
So naturally,
he had young people
701
00:32:18,522 --> 00:32:20,041
start to gravitate to him,
702
00:32:20,179 --> 00:32:23,113
and he's being supported
by some of the most famous
703
00:32:23,251 --> 00:32:24,735
and important people
in the rock world,
704
00:32:24,873 --> 00:32:26,530
namely the Allman brothers,
705
00:32:26,668 --> 00:32:28,705
and they spoke in the words
and language
706
00:32:28,843 --> 00:32:30,879
of the rock and roll era.
707
00:32:31,018 --> 00:32:34,642
- One thing in Carter's
association with rock music,
708
00:32:34,780 --> 00:32:37,369
that was the music of change,
and, you know...
709
00:32:37,507 --> 00:32:40,820
And dissidents and hippies
and pot smokers.
710
00:32:40,959 --> 00:32:43,099
There was a risk,
politically, to that,
711
00:32:43,237 --> 00:32:44,548
and it didn't matter to him.
712
00:32:44,686 --> 00:32:47,551
[Rock music]
713
00:32:47,689 --> 00:32:50,692
♪ ♪
714
00:32:50,830 --> 00:32:53,799
- Well it was, uh,
you know...These were times
715
00:32:53,937 --> 00:32:56,940
when some of the guys were
experimenting pretty heavily
716
00:32:57,078 --> 00:32:58,804
with various drugs,
717
00:32:58,942 --> 00:33:01,427
and, uh, gregg had
a connection
718
00:33:01,565 --> 00:33:06,018
to get pharmaceutical cocaine
from a pharmacist,
719
00:33:06,156 --> 00:33:09,815
and there was a middleman,
and they were all caught,
720
00:33:09,953 --> 00:33:12,818
and then they turned to gregg
and said,
721
00:33:12,956 --> 00:33:14,578
"all right, we're going
to offer you immunity,
722
00:33:14,716 --> 00:33:15,890
"which means
you have to testify.
723
00:33:16,028 --> 00:33:17,098
"If you don't testify,
724
00:33:17,236 --> 00:33:18,893
"you have to go sit in jail
725
00:33:19,031 --> 00:33:23,208
until you're ready to testify."
And that was really tough.
726
00:33:23,346 --> 00:33:25,382
You can imagine the position
gregg was in.
727
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:27,143
He didn't want to rat
on his friend.
728
00:33:27,281 --> 00:33:29,145
You know, he had to testify,
729
00:33:29,283 --> 00:33:30,939
uh, or otherwise he would have
730
00:33:31,078 --> 00:33:34,184
just been sitting behind bars
for god knows how long.
731
00:33:34,322 --> 00:33:36,635
- ♪ She don't lie,
she don't lie ♪
732
00:33:36,773 --> 00:33:42,020
♪ she don't lie
cocaine ♪
733
00:33:42,158 --> 00:33:45,161
The trial begins.
Gregg testifies.
734
00:33:45,299 --> 00:33:48,302
Um, it's just
a tumultuous time,
735
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,546
and not only
the drug bust, okay?
736
00:33:51,684 --> 00:33:54,066
At that point,
the allmans had been together
737
00:33:54,204 --> 00:33:55,861
for quite some time.
738
00:33:55,999 --> 00:33:58,829
It...i think there was
just a toll taken,
739
00:33:58,967 --> 00:34:01,763
and it was time for a break.
740
00:34:01,901 --> 00:34:06,078
- As an example of...Of how
compassionate Jimmy Carter was,
741
00:34:06,216 --> 00:34:08,805
uh, while the rest
of the Allman brothers
742
00:34:08,943 --> 00:34:12,119
turned on gregg
for his testimony in court,
743
00:34:12,257 --> 00:34:13,637
uh, Jimmy never did.
744
00:34:13,775 --> 00:34:17,055
I mean, he thought
this was the moment
745
00:34:17,193 --> 00:34:18,642
to help somebody
when they're down.
746
00:34:18,780 --> 00:34:19,988
- Well, can you imagine?
747
00:34:20,127 --> 00:34:21,369
You know, he's running
for the office
748
00:34:21,507 --> 00:34:24,165
of the presidency
of the United States.
749
00:34:24,303 --> 00:34:28,169
He could have easily said,
"look, sorry, gregg.
750
00:34:28,307 --> 00:34:29,964
"Sorry, capricorn.
Sorry, Allman brothers band.
751
00:34:30,102 --> 00:34:32,000
"You know, this is too big
of a risk for me to take.
752
00:34:32,139 --> 00:34:33,243
"I can't do it.
753
00:34:33,381 --> 00:34:34,555
"I'm gonna...I'm gonna
go this way.
754
00:34:34,693 --> 00:34:36,936
You know, love you guys,
but good-bye."
755
00:34:37,075 --> 00:34:38,214
But he didn't do that.
756
00:34:38,352 --> 00:34:41,562
He didn't turn his back
on any of us.
757
00:34:41,700 --> 00:34:44,047
- I had some problems
with drugs when I was a kid.
758
00:34:44,185 --> 00:34:45,842
My father helped me.
759
00:34:45,980 --> 00:34:49,121
He made me his driver
in the campaign.
760
00:34:49,259 --> 00:34:50,709
I don't think
he judges people.
761
00:34:50,847 --> 00:34:53,677
I really don't believe
that he...That he is a judge
762
00:34:53,815 --> 00:34:56,404
of what you do personally,
and that he cares.
763
00:34:56,542 --> 00:35:00,132
He wants you to be who you are
when you're with him.
764
00:35:00,270 --> 00:35:01,823
Gregg was a good example
of that, I think.
765
00:35:01,961 --> 00:35:05,586
♪ ♪
766
00:35:05,724 --> 00:35:08,830
- I was pretty...Pretty radical
in my politics, you know.
767
00:35:08,968 --> 00:35:11,247
It was just a sort
of rite of passage.
768
00:35:11,385 --> 00:35:13,456
You start out
as a peacenik hippie
769
00:35:13,594 --> 00:35:15,078
and you get more radical
and more radical
770
00:35:15,216 --> 00:35:16,528
and more radical
and then finally
771
00:35:16,666 --> 00:35:18,426
I find myself
in the black panther party.
772
00:35:18,564 --> 00:35:21,153
By the time Jimmy Carter
ran for president,
773
00:35:21,291 --> 00:35:27,573
just his campaign made us feel
like we now had a president
774
00:35:27,711 --> 00:35:30,542
that started to see the world
the way we saw it.
775
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:34,339
- Now, I've always fit it
in somewhere,
776
00:35:34,477 --> 00:35:39,930
a statement for this man,
whom I love and believe in.
777
00:35:40,068 --> 00:35:42,140
[Cheers and applause]
778
00:35:42,278 --> 00:35:45,453
So governor,
I'm with you all the way!
779
00:35:45,591 --> 00:35:48,629
[Cheers and applause]
780
00:35:48,767 --> 00:35:51,597
[Rock music]
781
00:35:51,735 --> 00:35:57,085
♪ ♪
782
00:35:57,224 --> 00:35:58,742
- ♪ yeah ♪
783
00:35:58,880 --> 00:35:59,812
♪ hey ♪
784
00:35:59,950 --> 00:36:01,780
♪ ♪
785
00:36:01,918 --> 00:36:05,163
♪ hey when you wish upon
a star ♪
786
00:36:05,301 --> 00:36:07,510
♪ ♪
787
00:36:07,648 --> 00:36:10,616
♪ your dream will take you
very far yeah ♪
788
00:36:10,754 --> 00:36:12,377
♪ ♪
789
00:36:12,515 --> 00:36:16,484
- Our nation has seen a failure
of leadership.
790
00:36:16,622 --> 00:36:20,212
We've been hurt
and we've been disillusioned.
791
00:36:20,350 --> 00:36:25,113
We've seen a wall
go up that separates us
792
00:36:25,252 --> 00:36:26,943
from our own government.
793
00:36:27,081 --> 00:36:30,222
We've lost some precious things
that historically have bound
794
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:33,950
our people
and our government together.
795
00:36:34,088 --> 00:36:39,127
It's now time for healing.
We want to have faith again.
796
00:36:39,266 --> 00:36:43,339
We want to be proud again.
We just want the truth again.
797
00:36:43,477 --> 00:36:45,582
It's time for the people
to run the government,
798
00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:47,377
and not the other way around.
799
00:36:47,515 --> 00:36:53,176
[Cheers and applause]
800
00:36:53,314 --> 00:36:56,248
All:
801
00:36:59,527 --> 00:37:01,253
We want Carter!
802
00:37:01,391 --> 00:37:06,431
[Chanting continues]
803
00:37:06,569 --> 00:37:07,915
- The next first lady
804
00:37:08,053 --> 00:37:10,193
of the United States,
Mrs. Rosalynn Carter.
805
00:37:10,331 --> 00:37:13,196
[Cheers and applause]
806
00:37:13,334 --> 00:37:14,922
- Thank you very much.
807
00:37:15,060 --> 00:37:17,718
I have campaigned
since April of last year,
808
00:37:17,856 --> 00:37:22,205
all over the country.
We have learned the country.
809
00:37:22,343 --> 00:37:25,139
The country has learned
about us.
810
00:37:25,277 --> 00:37:28,970
The campaign has drawn
my family close together,
811
00:37:29,108 --> 00:37:30,489
and I believe
812
00:37:30,627 --> 00:37:34,113
that my family can draw
this country close together.
813
00:37:34,252 --> 00:37:37,013
[Cheers and applause]
814
00:37:37,151 --> 00:37:40,188
[Folk music]
815
00:37:40,327 --> 00:37:44,296
- '76 was the first time
I could vote,
816
00:37:44,434 --> 00:37:48,680
and I cast my vote proudly
for Jimmy Carter,
817
00:37:48,818 --> 00:37:51,165
and my stepmother,
June Carter,
818
00:37:51,303 --> 00:37:53,340
insisted that they
were cousins,
819
00:37:53,478 --> 00:37:55,721
although I couldn't
quite connect the tree,
820
00:37:55,859 --> 00:38:01,348
but I'm sure they were.
So, uh, we voted that day.
821
00:38:01,486 --> 00:38:07,354
And they didn't call the
election early in the evening.
822
00:38:07,492 --> 00:38:09,873
I went to bed
that night not knowing,
823
00:38:10,011 --> 00:38:16,328
and I heard my dad,
around 5:00 in the morning,
824
00:38:16,466 --> 00:38:19,987
whooping and yelling,
and June as well.
825
00:38:20,125 --> 00:38:22,472
They were screaming,
"he won, he won, he won."
826
00:38:22,610 --> 00:38:25,958
There was a lot of excitement.
[Laughing]
827
00:38:26,096 --> 00:38:27,235
- I was in the sixth grade
828
00:38:27,374 --> 00:38:31,205
and I remember
it was a big deal.
829
00:38:31,343 --> 00:38:33,725
You know, I mean,
I...I had these dreams
830
00:38:33,863 --> 00:38:35,830
as a kid of wanting to be
a recording artist,
831
00:38:35,968 --> 00:38:37,384
you know,
so growing up in Georgia,
832
00:38:37,522 --> 00:38:40,387
I was always looking to see
anybody in my state
833
00:38:40,525 --> 00:38:42,665
that was successful.
834
00:38:42,803 --> 00:38:44,874
So I was checking out,
you know, Otis Redding,
835
00:38:45,012 --> 00:38:46,703
I was checking out
the Allman brothers,
836
00:38:46,841 --> 00:38:48,326
who were making records
in Georgia.
837
00:38:48,464 --> 00:38:50,638
So to have an actual
president of the United States
838
00:38:50,776 --> 00:38:52,468
come from our state was,
I think,
839
00:38:52,606 --> 00:38:54,677
for the whole state...This
is kind of the stamp
840
00:38:54,815 --> 00:38:56,299
that says you can do anything.
841
00:38:56,437 --> 00:39:01,615
- Oh, the pride was almost
unbearable to southerners
842
00:39:01,753 --> 00:39:04,238
to have Jimmy Carter
from Georgia
843
00:39:04,376 --> 00:39:07,137
elected president
of the United States.
844
00:39:07,275 --> 00:39:10,071
You can't even fathom
how important that was
845
00:39:10,209 --> 00:39:13,316
and how much pride was in that.
846
00:39:13,454 --> 00:39:14,559
- Governor Carter,
are you prepared
847
00:39:14,697 --> 00:39:16,664
to take
the constitutional oath?
848
00:39:16,802 --> 00:39:18,356
- I am.
849
00:39:18,494 --> 00:39:20,392
- Will you place your left hand
on the Bible
850
00:39:20,530 --> 00:39:23,257
and raise your right hand
and repeat after me:
851
00:39:23,395 --> 00:39:25,949
"I, Jimmy Carter,
do solemnly swear..."
852
00:39:26,087 --> 00:39:28,227
- I, Jimmy Carter,
do solemnly swear...
853
00:39:28,366 --> 00:39:29,988
- "That I will
faithfully execute..."
854
00:39:30,126 --> 00:39:31,645
- That I will
faithfully execute...
855
00:39:31,783 --> 00:39:34,268
- "The office of president
of the United States."
856
00:39:34,406 --> 00:39:36,443
- The office of president
of the United States.
857
00:39:36,581 --> 00:39:38,790
- "And will,
to the best of my ability..."
858
00:39:38,928 --> 00:39:40,757
- And will, to the best
of my ability...
859
00:39:40,895 --> 00:39:43,311
- "Preserve,
protect, and defend..."
860
00:39:43,450 --> 00:39:45,417
- Preserve, protect,
and defend...
861
00:39:45,555 --> 00:39:47,592
- "The constitution
of the United States..."
862
00:39:47,730 --> 00:39:49,525
- The constitution
of the United States...
863
00:39:49,663 --> 00:39:50,871
- "So help me god."
864
00:39:51,009 --> 00:39:53,183
- So help me god.
- Congratulations.
865
00:39:53,321 --> 00:39:56,014
[Cheers and applause]
866
00:39:56,152 --> 00:39:59,120
[Patriotic music]
867
00:39:59,258 --> 00:40:06,162
♪ ♪
868
00:40:08,613 --> 00:40:10,649
Ladies and gentlemen,
869
00:40:10,787 --> 00:40:13,480
the president
of the United States.
870
00:40:13,618 --> 00:40:16,690
[Cheers and applause]
871
00:40:20,107 --> 00:40:25,250
- For myself,
and for our nation,
872
00:40:25,388 --> 00:40:29,461
I want to thank my predecessor
873
00:40:29,599 --> 00:40:34,190
for all he has done
to heal our land.
874
00:40:34,328 --> 00:40:37,193
[Cheers and applause]
875
00:40:44,476 --> 00:40:47,168
- "I wanted to share
my father's world."
876
00:40:48,929 --> 00:40:50,827
"This is a pain I mostly hide,
877
00:40:50,965 --> 00:40:54,624
"but ties of blood
or seed endure,
878
00:40:54,762 --> 00:40:55,694
"and even now
879
00:40:55,832 --> 00:40:57,593
"I feel inside the hunger
880
00:40:57,731 --> 00:41:00,803
"for his outstretched hand.
881
00:41:00,941 --> 00:41:03,633
"A man's embrace
to take me in.
882
00:41:03,771 --> 00:41:07,050
"The need
for just a word of praise.
883
00:41:07,188 --> 00:41:10,226
"From those rare times
when we did cross the bridge
884
00:41:10,364 --> 00:41:14,437
"between us,
the pure joy survives.
885
00:41:14,575 --> 00:41:18,959
"I never put aside the past
resentments of the boy until,
886
00:41:19,097 --> 00:41:24,205
"with my own sons,
I shared his final hours,
887
00:41:24,343 --> 00:41:27,692
"and came to see
what he'd become,
888
00:41:27,830 --> 00:41:29,728
"or always was:
889
00:41:29,866 --> 00:41:35,665
The father who will never cease
to be alive in me."
890
00:41:35,803 --> 00:41:38,875
[Cheers and applause]
891
00:41:43,086 --> 00:41:44,950
- When we did
the inaugural concert,
892
00:41:45,088 --> 00:41:47,056
the curtain opened.
There's John Wayne.
893
00:41:47,194 --> 00:41:48,609
I...i still have,
what's it called...A cue card.
894
00:41:48,747 --> 00:41:52,164
I...i had the cue card
signed by John Wayne,
895
00:41:52,302 --> 00:41:55,202
and it says,
"hello, I'm John Wayne."
896
00:41:55,340 --> 00:42:01,519
- Good evening.
My name is John Wayne.
897
00:42:01,657 --> 00:42:04,418
I've come here tonight
to pay my respects
898
00:42:04,556 --> 00:42:10,044
to our 39th president,
our new commander-in-chief,
899
00:42:10,182 --> 00:42:14,773
and to wish you godspeed, sir,
in the uncharted waters ahead.
900
00:42:14,911 --> 00:42:20,607
I am considered a member
of the opposition,
901
00:42:20,745 --> 00:42:23,092
the loyal opposition...
Accent on the loyal.
902
00:42:23,230 --> 00:42:24,576
I'd have it no other way.
903
00:42:24,714 --> 00:42:27,027
[Applause]
904
00:42:27,165 --> 00:42:28,684
- John Wayne was
a wonderful American.
905
00:42:28,822 --> 00:42:31,203
We would disagree
on a lot of politics
906
00:42:31,341 --> 00:42:32,757
but we probably would not
have gotten
907
00:42:32,895 --> 00:42:34,379
the Panama canal treaties
passed
908
00:42:34,517 --> 00:42:35,794
if it hadn't been
for John Wayne.
909
00:42:35,932 --> 00:42:38,728
He was good friends
with the president of Panama,
910
00:42:38,866 --> 00:42:40,419
and he talked to all
the Republicans.
911
00:42:40,558 --> 00:42:42,490
Oh, he called every republican
senator several times,
912
00:42:42,629 --> 00:42:45,942
trying to get them to vote
with us on those things.
913
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:48,151
So it was
a way...The commonality
914
00:42:48,289 --> 00:42:51,120
of what you believed in
and getting it done
915
00:42:51,258 --> 00:42:53,950
was something
that was happening back there.
916
00:42:54,088 --> 00:42:56,815
- In conclusion,
may I add my voice
917
00:42:56,953 --> 00:42:59,231
to the millions of others
around the world...
918
00:43:01,061 --> 00:43:04,651
That wish you good well,
Mr. President.
919
00:43:04,789 --> 00:43:06,929
We ask only one thing:
920
00:43:07,067 --> 00:43:10,208
That you preserve
this one nation,
921
00:43:10,346 --> 00:43:14,005
under god, with Liberty
and justice for all,
922
00:43:14,143 --> 00:43:16,732
and we know that you will, sir.
Thank you.
923
00:43:18,354 --> 00:43:19,700
- It was a really
pleasant night.
924
00:43:19,838 --> 00:43:23,290
Everybody was, you know,
happy for him
925
00:43:23,428 --> 00:43:27,121
and, uh, surprised
that John Wayne showed up.
926
00:43:27,259 --> 00:43:30,193
It was an honor
to be asked to perform.
927
00:43:30,331 --> 00:43:32,195
I'd like to dedicate this song
to Jimmy Carter
928
00:43:32,333 --> 00:43:36,752
in the hopes that perhaps
a time of righteousness
929
00:43:36,890 --> 00:43:39,547
and dignity may now be upon us.
930
00:43:39,686 --> 00:43:42,516
[Guitar strumming]
931
00:43:42,654 --> 00:43:48,177
♪ ♪
932
00:43:48,315 --> 00:43:53,769
♪ many times I've
been mistaken ♪
933
00:43:53,907 --> 00:43:59,326
♪ and many times confused ♪
934
00:43:59,464 --> 00:44:04,849
♪ yes and I've often
felt forsaken ♪
935
00:44:04,987 --> 00:44:10,337
♪ and certainly misused ♪
936
00:44:10,475 --> 00:44:16,101
♪ ah but I'm all right
I'm all right ♪
937
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:21,659
♪ just weary to my bones ♪
938
00:44:21,797 --> 00:44:23,384
♪ ♪
939
00:44:23,522 --> 00:44:28,804
♪ still, you don't expect
to be bright and bon vivant ♪
940
00:44:28,942 --> 00:44:34,223
♪ so far away from home ♪
941
00:44:34,361 --> 00:44:39,159
♪ so far away
from home ♪
942
00:44:39,297 --> 00:44:40,712
- Paul Simon
and aretha Franklin
943
00:44:40,850 --> 00:44:42,956
were two
of my favorite performers,
944
00:44:43,094 --> 00:44:46,684
and so when I got ready
for the inaugural performers
945
00:44:46,822 --> 00:44:48,202
to be chosen,
946
00:44:48,340 --> 00:44:50,377
uh, they were at the top
of my list.
947
00:44:50,515 --> 00:44:55,451
- ♪ God bless ♪
948
00:44:55,589 --> 00:45:00,767
♪ america ♪
949
00:45:00,905 --> 00:45:05,495
♪ land that ♪
950
00:45:05,633 --> 00:45:10,362
♪ I love ♪
951
00:45:10,500 --> 00:45:14,919
♪ stand beside her ♪
952
00:45:15,057 --> 00:45:19,993
♪ and guide her ♪
953
00:45:20,131 --> 00:45:23,168
♪ through the night ♪
954
00:45:23,306 --> 00:45:30,106
♪ from the light
from above ♪
955
00:45:30,244 --> 00:45:35,387
♪ from the mountains ♪
956
00:45:35,525 --> 00:45:40,392
♪ to the prairies ♪
957
00:45:40,530 --> 00:45:45,673
♪ to the oceans ♪
958
00:45:45,812 --> 00:45:52,335
♪ white with foam ♪
959
00:45:52,473 --> 00:45:55,683
♪ god bless ♪
960
00:45:55,822 --> 00:46:00,723
♪ america ♪
961
00:46:00,861 --> 00:46:04,727
♪ my home ♪
962
00:46:04,865 --> 00:46:07,799
♪ sweet ♪
963
00:46:07,937 --> 00:46:12,770
♪ home ♪
964
00:46:12,908 --> 00:46:16,877
♪ god bless ♪
965
00:46:17,015 --> 00:46:21,675
♪ bless america ♪
966
00:46:21,813 --> 00:46:25,713
♪ my home ♪
967
00:46:25,852 --> 00:46:28,544
♪ sweet ♪
968
00:46:28,682 --> 00:46:32,928
♪ home ♪
969
00:46:33,066 --> 00:46:36,103
[Cheers and applause]
970
00:46:44,905 --> 00:46:46,251
- I think we had eight
971
00:46:46,389 --> 00:46:49,358
or ten places that
we had to go
972
00:46:49,496 --> 00:46:51,394
on inaugural night
and rosalynn
973
00:46:51,532 --> 00:46:54,052
and I went to every
one of them and danced.
974
00:46:54,190 --> 00:46:56,675
Thank you very much
for helping me get here
975
00:46:56,814 --> 00:46:59,023
and being the president of
the greatest country on earth.
976
00:46:59,161 --> 00:47:03,406
Are you having a good time?
So are we.
977
00:47:03,544 --> 00:47:05,339
- I can definitely feel
in my heart
978
00:47:05,477 --> 00:47:07,583
that we helped him
become president.
979
00:47:07,721 --> 00:47:10,793
You know, I mean a lot of other
people did too, you know,
980
00:47:10,931 --> 00:47:12,968
but...but we had a hand in it.
981
00:47:13,106 --> 00:47:16,385
- This is great.
- You're looking good.
982
00:47:16,523 --> 00:47:18,628
- Gregg Allman was one
of the first persons
983
00:47:18,766 --> 00:47:21,528
I invited to the white house
when I got to be president.
984
00:47:21,666 --> 00:47:24,117
He came there with Cher
as a matter of fact.
985
00:47:24,255 --> 00:47:26,119
- I had dinner with him
the first night
986
00:47:26,257 --> 00:47:28,017
he had dinner
in the white house.
987
00:47:28,155 --> 00:47:29,294
They were showing them where
988
00:47:29,432 --> 00:47:30,813
to put the spoons
and the plates
989
00:47:30,951 --> 00:47:34,023
and all this, you know.
They had the finger bowls.
990
00:47:34,161 --> 00:47:38,510
- Being from plains,
we had never had finger bowls.
991
00:47:38,648 --> 00:47:39,822
We showed up
at the white house,
992
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:41,548
and at lunch and dinner
993
00:47:41,686 --> 00:47:45,379
they put a crystal bowl
with water in it
994
00:47:45,517 --> 00:47:49,073
and a lemon geranium
leaf in it,
995
00:47:49,211 --> 00:47:52,490
and what you're supposed
to do is use the leaf
996
00:47:52,628 --> 00:47:54,733
to rub your fingers
and rinse in the finger bowl,
997
00:47:54,872 --> 00:47:57,909
and then we often times
sat there with guests
998
00:47:58,047 --> 00:47:59,083
who had never had
a finger bowl,
999
00:47:59,221 --> 00:48:00,636
like gregg and Cher.
1000
00:48:00,774 --> 00:48:04,364
- And she picked up the glass
and started drinking it.
1001
00:48:04,502 --> 00:48:08,195
It had a little gardenia
floating in it and a lemon.
1002
00:48:08,333 --> 00:48:10,094
- And we all sat there talking,
1003
00:48:10,232 --> 00:48:11,509
and when they finished
1004
00:48:11,647 --> 00:48:13,442
all of us washed our hands
in the finger bowls
1005
00:48:13,580 --> 00:48:15,444
and then moved on
to the next course.
1006
00:48:15,582 --> 00:48:18,619
- ♪ I love to take
a photograph ♪
1007
00:48:18,757 --> 00:48:25,350
♪ so mama don't take my
kodachrome away ♪
1008
00:48:25,488 --> 00:48:27,318
- You know, the white house
was a great place to live,
1009
00:48:27,456 --> 00:48:28,871
and the music was fabulous.
1010
00:48:29,009 --> 00:48:31,598
- Various entertainers would
come to the white house,
1011
00:48:31,736 --> 00:48:32,840
and sometimes unannounced,
1012
00:48:32,979 --> 00:48:34,187
and the president's office
1013
00:48:34,325 --> 00:48:35,671
didn't know
what to do with them.
1014
00:48:35,809 --> 00:48:38,467
So many times
they would just call and say,
1015
00:48:38,605 --> 00:48:41,642
"Crosby, stills and Nash
are...Are at the front gate,
1016
00:48:41,780 --> 00:48:44,059
"and, uh, we don't have them
scheduled to see the president.
1017
00:48:44,197 --> 00:48:45,750
Can you take care of them?"
1018
00:48:45,888 --> 00:48:47,510
And my office was in the west
wing in the basement,
1019
00:48:47,648 --> 00:48:49,409
and they just sort
of hung out.
1020
00:48:49,547 --> 00:48:51,859
Everybody would come by
and meet them and...
1021
00:48:51,998 --> 00:48:54,172
And then finally took them in
to see the president.
1022
00:48:54,310 --> 00:49:00,938
- ♪ Will you come see me ♪
1023
00:49:01,076 --> 00:49:05,459
♪ Thursdays and Saturdays ♪
1024
00:49:05,597 --> 00:49:08,117
- This is the first-time young
people were kind of in charge.
1025
00:49:08,255 --> 00:49:10,326
This was really
groundbreaking,
1026
00:49:10,464 --> 00:49:12,950
when you'd come out
of the Nixon era, you know?
1027
00:49:13,088 --> 00:49:15,642
And so actually they liked
and listened to rock-and-roll,
1028
00:49:15,780 --> 00:49:18,058
and wasn't...We weren't
just window dressing,
1029
00:49:18,196 --> 00:49:20,509
and...and then when we went
to the white house,
1030
00:49:20,647 --> 00:49:21,579
we were welcomed in.
1031
00:49:21,717 --> 00:49:23,374
- It was kind of funny,
1032
00:49:23,512 --> 00:49:26,411
because I was on crutches
at the time.
1033
00:49:26,549 --> 00:49:29,897
I had just been to Jamaica,
I think it was,
1034
00:49:30,036 --> 00:49:32,659
and I got busted down there.
1035
00:49:32,797 --> 00:49:35,386
So one, I was so glad
to get out of jail
1036
00:49:35,524 --> 00:49:37,975
that I jumped off the porch
and sprung my ankle.
1037
00:49:38,113 --> 00:49:39,562
So when I went to...Then
the next day,
1038
00:49:39,700 --> 00:49:42,634
I had to go see the president
of the United States.
1039
00:49:42,772 --> 00:49:45,430
So it was really kind of funny,
and we laughed about it a lot.
1040
00:49:45,568 --> 00:49:46,466
- Yeah.
1041
00:49:46,604 --> 00:49:50,297
[Rock music]
1042
00:49:50,435 --> 00:49:51,954
- Oh!
1043
00:49:52,092 --> 00:49:58,926
♪ ♪
1044
00:49:59,065 --> 00:50:01,619
- President Carter has
an encyclopedic knowledge
1045
00:50:01,757 --> 00:50:05,243
of all music,
not just rock and roll.
1046
00:50:05,381 --> 00:50:07,970
You know, he has a deep
knowledge...Deep,
1047
00:50:08,108 --> 00:50:09,489
deep knowledge
of classical music,
1048
00:50:09,627 --> 00:50:11,180
but he also knows
a lot about blues
1049
00:50:11,318 --> 00:50:13,562
and a lot...An awful lot
about jazz.
1050
00:50:13,700 --> 00:50:16,979
- When I had this opportunity
to produce music
1051
00:50:17,117 --> 00:50:18,601
at the white house,
1052
00:50:18,739 --> 00:50:23,917
it was one of those moving
moments in...In my life in jazz.
1053
00:50:24,055 --> 00:50:25,746
- Many concerts were held
at the white house,
1054
00:50:25,884 --> 00:50:28,370
maybe more than
any other four years.
1055
00:50:28,508 --> 00:50:30,958
The jazz concert was the one
I remember the most.
1056
00:50:31,097 --> 00:50:32,926
It was just magical.
1057
00:50:33,064 --> 00:50:35,929
[Jazz music]
1058
00:50:36,067 --> 00:50:43,178
♪ ♪
1059
00:50:48,528 --> 00:50:49,701
- Blow!
1060
00:50:49,839 --> 00:50:56,777
♪ ♪
1061
00:51:04,578 --> 00:51:07,961
- I was deeply infatuated
with jazz musicians.
1062
00:51:08,099 --> 00:51:11,068
So it was a great honor
for me and a pleasure
1063
00:51:11,206 --> 00:51:12,655
to bring to the white house
1064
00:51:12,793 --> 00:51:14,657
these people that
in many cases
1065
00:51:14,795 --> 00:51:16,901
had not been
previously recognized
1066
00:51:17,039 --> 00:51:20,767
for their great contributions
to our society.
1067
00:51:20,905 --> 00:51:24,702
If there was
an indigenous art form,
1068
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:28,085
one that was special
1069
00:51:28,223 --> 00:51:29,707
and peculiar
to the United States
1070
00:51:29,845 --> 00:51:33,020
and represents what
we are as a country,
1071
00:51:33,159 --> 00:51:35,540
I would say that it's jazz.
1072
00:51:35,678 --> 00:51:39,026
At first, this jazz form
was not well accepted
1073
00:51:39,165 --> 00:51:41,305
in respectable circles.
1074
00:51:41,443 --> 00:51:44,135
I think there was
an element of racism
1075
00:51:44,273 --> 00:51:45,999
perhaps at the beginning,
1076
00:51:46,137 --> 00:51:51,177
because most of the famous
early performers were black,
1077
00:51:51,315 --> 00:51:52,488
and particularly in the south,
1078
00:51:52,626 --> 00:51:53,765
to have black
and white musicians
1079
00:51:53,903 --> 00:51:57,976
playing together
was not a normal thing.
1080
00:51:58,115 --> 00:52:02,360
And I believe that this
particular form of music...
1081
00:52:02,498 --> 00:52:03,913
Of art...
1082
00:52:04,051 --> 00:52:07,538
Has done as much as anything
to break down those barriers
1083
00:52:07,676 --> 00:52:10,092
and to let us live
and work and play
1084
00:52:10,230 --> 00:52:11,645
and to make beautiful
music together.
1085
00:52:11,783 --> 00:52:14,959
[Applause]
1086
00:52:15,097 --> 00:52:19,791
- Boy oh boy, there was, um,
Cecil Taylor and chick corea.
1087
00:52:19,929 --> 00:52:22,967
I remember, um, Charlie mingus
was there in a wheelchair,
1088
00:52:23,105 --> 00:52:24,969
you know,
but everyone applauded him,
1089
00:52:25,107 --> 00:52:28,317
and it was wonderful
that he was there.
1090
00:52:28,455 --> 00:52:31,113
- The president walked over
1091
00:52:31,251 --> 00:52:36,912
to...to mingus
and just held his hand.
1092
00:52:37,050 --> 00:52:39,535
- I remember Charles mingus,
I just said something about,
1093
00:52:39,673 --> 00:52:41,779
"I have confidence in you
and I appreciate
1094
00:52:41,917 --> 00:52:45,645
"what you've done in our
country and for our people
1095
00:52:45,783 --> 00:52:48,130
and for me personally
with your own music."
1096
00:52:48,268 --> 00:52:52,859
- The president,
his...His highness...
1097
00:52:52,997 --> 00:52:54,999
[Laughter]
1098
00:52:55,137 --> 00:52:57,657
Has asked us to play a tune
1099
00:52:57,795 --> 00:52:59,624
that we played
at the white house
1100
00:52:59,762 --> 00:53:02,213
when we were here before.
- All right.
1101
00:53:02,351 --> 00:53:03,939
- We're gonna play this tune,
1102
00:53:04,077 --> 00:53:07,391
in which the name of it
is "salt peanuts."
1103
00:53:07,529 --> 00:53:09,876
[Cheers and applause]
1104
00:53:10,014 --> 00:53:11,291
Now, wait a minute,
1105
00:53:11,429 --> 00:53:18,160
but there are some
diplomatic strings attached,
1106
00:53:18,298 --> 00:53:21,508
[laughter]
1107
00:53:21,646 --> 00:53:22,958
To wit,
1108
00:53:23,096 --> 00:53:30,068
that the president himself,
his majesty...
1109
00:53:30,207 --> 00:53:32,657
- Right on!
[All laughing]
1110
00:53:32,795 --> 00:53:35,936
- Sing the lyrics
to "salt peanuts."
1111
00:53:36,074 --> 00:53:38,145
- All right,
all right!
1112
00:53:38,284 --> 00:53:40,562
- Dizzy Gillespie asked me
to come up and join him
1113
00:53:40,700 --> 00:53:45,256
in singing "salt peanuts,"
which is a very peculiar song,
1114
00:53:45,394 --> 00:53:46,878
and that was the only time
I think
1115
00:53:47,016 --> 00:53:49,709
when I was in the white house
that the New York times
1116
00:53:49,847 --> 00:53:52,194
congratulated me
on my rhythm.
1117
00:53:52,332 --> 00:53:55,646
Not on my tone,
but on my rhythm.
1118
00:53:55,784 --> 00:53:57,786
[Jazz music]
1119
00:53:57,924 --> 00:53:59,788
♪ Salt peanuts
salt peanuts ♪
1120
00:53:59,926 --> 00:54:01,824
♪ ♪
1121
00:54:01,962 --> 00:54:03,654
♪ salt peanuts
salt peanuts ♪
1122
00:54:03,792 --> 00:54:05,794
♪ ♪
1123
00:54:05,932 --> 00:54:07,278
♪ salt peanuts
salt peanuts ♪
1124
00:54:07,416 --> 00:54:14,492
♪ ♪
1125
00:54:17,633 --> 00:54:19,152
♪ salt peanuts
salt peanuts ♪
1126
00:54:19,290 --> 00:54:21,396
♪ ♪
1127
00:54:21,534 --> 00:54:22,776
♪ salt pea... ♪
1128
00:54:22,914 --> 00:54:24,226
[All laughing]
1129
00:54:24,364 --> 00:54:29,162
[Cheers and applause]
1130
00:54:29,300 --> 00:54:31,026
- Wait, wait, wait, wait,
wait a minute, wait a minute.
1131
00:54:31,164 --> 00:54:34,892
I'm just want to...I just want
to ask one question:
1132
00:54:35,030 --> 00:54:36,963
Would you like to go
on the road with us?
1133
00:54:37,101 --> 00:54:42,071
[Laughter]
1134
00:54:42,209 --> 00:54:43,314
- I might have to
after tonight!
1135
00:54:43,452 --> 00:54:46,075
[Laughter]
1136
00:54:46,213 --> 00:54:47,801
- President Carter loved jazz.
1137
00:54:47,939 --> 00:54:51,184
He loved all kinds of music,
but he really did love jazz,
1138
00:54:51,322 --> 00:54:55,637
and I have always thought that
music was our best ambassador,
1139
00:54:55,775 --> 00:54:59,848
and especially jazz because it
is so identified with america
1140
00:54:59,986 --> 00:55:01,884
and being very special
to america,
1141
00:55:02,022 --> 00:55:05,163
and music is one of the,
I think, most vibrant,
1142
00:55:05,302 --> 00:55:07,856
obviously,
parts of soft power.
1143
00:55:07,994 --> 00:55:12,585
- Soft power is the use
of culture, uh, music.
1144
00:55:12,723 --> 00:55:14,103
Jimmy Carter was, I think,
1145
00:55:14,241 --> 00:55:17,141
the best ever
at his understanding of it,
1146
00:55:17,279 --> 00:55:19,246
mainly because he was a fan.
1147
00:55:19,385 --> 00:55:24,148
He used music in a way that
helped him in his politics.
1148
00:55:24,286 --> 00:55:29,222
He used music, uh, to entertain
members of congress a lot
1149
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:31,742
at different events he did
on the white house lawn
1150
00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:33,813
that had never been done
quite that way.
1151
00:55:33,951 --> 00:55:37,610
- We would go out through
the crowd with index cards,
1152
00:55:37,748 --> 00:55:41,199
knowing to go see
this particular congressman,
1153
00:55:41,338 --> 00:55:43,512
'cause you can talk to him
for twenty or thirty minutes
1154
00:55:43,650 --> 00:55:44,927
and you couldn't get
in their office.
1155
00:55:45,065 --> 00:55:46,791
- I think one of the great
events I remember
1156
00:55:46,929 --> 00:55:50,105
was, um, president Carter
had a Nascar event
1157
00:55:50,243 --> 00:55:54,178
and, uh, had none other than
Willie Nelson come and sing.
1158
00:55:54,316 --> 00:55:55,490
Again, it was outside on
1159
00:55:55,628 --> 00:55:57,146
the south lawn
of the white house.
1160
00:55:57,284 --> 00:55:58,493
Had race cars come in
1161
00:55:58,631 --> 00:55:59,770
and had some of the,
you know,
1162
00:55:59,908 --> 00:56:02,393
big-time drivers
of that era there
1163
00:56:02,531 --> 00:56:05,154
and had members of congress,
who were just eating this up.
1164
00:56:05,292 --> 00:56:09,745
- ♪ Irene good night ♪
1165
00:56:09,883 --> 00:56:12,438
♪ ♪
1166
00:56:12,576 --> 00:56:17,028
♪ Irene good night ♪
1167
00:56:17,166 --> 00:56:19,445
♪ ♪
1168
00:56:19,583 --> 00:56:23,207
♪ good night Irene ♪
1169
00:56:23,345 --> 00:56:26,762
♪ good night
Irene ♪
1170
00:56:26,900 --> 00:56:33,735
♪ I'll see you in my dreams ♪
1171
00:56:33,873 --> 00:56:37,566
♪ stop your rambling ♪
1172
00:56:37,704 --> 00:56:41,605
♪ and stop your gambling ♪
1173
00:56:41,743 --> 00:56:45,402
♪ stop staying out so late ♪
1174
00:56:45,540 --> 00:56:47,334
♪ late at night ♪
1175
00:56:47,473 --> 00:56:49,336
♪ ♪
1176
00:56:49,475 --> 00:56:52,685
♪ and go home to your wife ♪
1177
00:56:52,823 --> 00:56:56,413
♪ and your family ♪
1178
00:56:56,551 --> 00:57:02,039
♪ and stay by
the fireside bright ♪
1179
00:57:02,177 --> 00:57:04,351
♪ ♪
1180
00:57:04,490 --> 00:57:09,356
- My mother was in charge
of all the events
1181
00:57:09,495 --> 00:57:11,497
that happened
at the white house.
1182
00:57:11,635 --> 00:57:13,119
So when they wanted
to do a concert,
1183
00:57:13,257 --> 00:57:15,155
my mother would be the one
that would set it up
1184
00:57:15,293 --> 00:57:17,330
and say everything
that was going around it.
1185
00:57:17,468 --> 00:57:22,266
- I just want to say it's been
a wonderful evening for me,
1186
00:57:22,404 --> 00:57:23,716
and it could only
have been better
1187
00:57:23,854 --> 00:57:25,442
if Jimmy had been here
to hear you, Willie,
1188
00:57:25,580 --> 00:57:26,753
and your group.
1189
00:57:26,891 --> 00:57:28,065
- When Willie Nelson came
1190
00:57:28,203 --> 00:57:29,446
and performed
at the white house,
1191
00:57:29,584 --> 00:57:32,759
and president Carter
was at camp David
1192
00:57:32,897 --> 00:57:35,037
for 13 days with
begin and sadat,
1193
00:57:35,175 --> 00:57:37,419
but he was not there
for a good reason.
1194
00:57:37,557 --> 00:57:38,972
- I have to go back
to camp David.
1195
00:57:39,110 --> 00:57:40,249
I'm sorry,
1196
00:57:40,387 --> 00:57:42,217
but I want to leave you
with one thought.
1197
00:57:42,355 --> 00:57:45,841
You know how very important
the summit is
1198
00:57:45,979 --> 00:57:48,085
and how much is at stake
in these meetings.
1199
00:57:48,223 --> 00:57:52,020
I want to ask you tonight
to continue to pray for Jimmy,
1200
00:57:52,158 --> 00:57:55,195
for prime minister begin,
for president sadat.
1201
00:57:55,333 --> 00:57:57,888
Pray for them, pray for those
who are with them,
1202
00:57:58,026 --> 00:57:59,821
and that the summit
will be a success.
1203
00:57:59,959 --> 00:58:02,099
Good night.
I love every one of you.
1204
00:58:02,237 --> 00:58:04,998
[Cheers and applause]
1205
00:58:05,136 --> 00:58:09,140
[Western music]
1206
00:58:09,278 --> 00:58:10,935
- If you've ever read
the history of the talks
1207
00:58:11,073 --> 00:58:15,595
in camp David
between begin and, uh, sadat,
1208
00:58:15,733 --> 00:58:18,943
it's a riveting story
of how many times
1209
00:58:19,081 --> 00:58:21,394
each of the other sides
were willing to pull out,
1210
00:58:21,532 --> 00:58:25,087
and the fact that Carter
was there with his wife,
1211
00:58:25,225 --> 00:58:27,400
managing the whole thing,
going from side to side,
1212
00:58:27,538 --> 00:58:30,817
not just in policy things
but in personality things,
1213
00:58:30,955 --> 00:58:34,200
all things you really need
to do to reconcile people
1214
00:58:34,338 --> 00:58:36,305
who have hated each other
for their lifetimes.
1215
00:58:36,443 --> 00:58:40,862
[Guitar strumming]
1216
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:43,416
- I had been hired, um,
very specifically to work
1217
00:58:43,554 --> 00:58:46,764
on foreign policy issues
for the Carter administration,
1218
00:58:46,902 --> 00:58:48,248
and I have to tell you
1219
00:58:48,386 --> 00:58:50,975
as somebody that
was sitting in Washington,
1220
00:58:51,113 --> 00:58:53,219
uh, while they all were
at camp David,
1221
00:58:53,357 --> 00:58:55,393
it was fairly nerve-wracking
1222
00:58:55,532 --> 00:58:58,017
because people kept saying,
"when are they coming down?
1223
00:58:58,155 --> 00:58:59,846
When are they coming down
from the mountain?"
1224
00:58:59,984 --> 00:59:02,573
And they were there
for a couple of weeks.
1225
00:59:02,711 --> 00:59:04,230
- He brings both
of these guys,
1226
00:59:04,368 --> 00:59:06,094
takes them up on the top
of that mountain,
1227
00:59:06,232 --> 00:59:08,579
camp David,
and kind of locks them up,
1228
00:59:08,717 --> 00:59:11,755
and back and forth and back
and forth and back and forth,
1229
00:59:11,893 --> 00:59:13,480
and it almost fell apart,
1230
00:59:13,619 --> 00:59:17,139
and then it starts looking
like it's gonna happen,
1231
00:59:17,277 --> 00:59:21,730
and as Carter realizes that,
uh, he's gonna get a deal,
1232
00:59:21,868 --> 00:59:25,182
he's gonna get, uh,
a camp David accords
1233
00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:29,876
between the biggest army
in the middle east, Egypt,
1234
00:59:30,014 --> 00:59:31,740
and the Israelis.
1235
00:59:31,878 --> 00:59:35,502
- President Carter really used
his knowledge of the subject
1236
00:59:35,641 --> 00:59:40,715
and his willingness to talk
to people in a very direct way
1237
00:59:40,853 --> 00:59:43,062
to get a result.
He was very good, I think,
1238
00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:44,511
about being able
to put himself
1239
00:59:44,650 --> 00:59:46,134
into other people's shoes,
1240
00:59:46,272 --> 00:59:47,860
to understand what
they needed.
1241
00:59:47,998 --> 00:59:52,347
- The odds of pulling off
this peace treaty between
1242
00:59:52,485 --> 00:59:56,523
sadat and menachem begin
was, you know, slight,
1243
00:59:56,662 --> 00:59:58,387
and...and a lot of, uh,
1244
00:59:58,525 --> 01:00:01,736
his international advisors
were saying, "don't do this,"
1245
01:00:01,874 --> 01:00:03,910
and Carter had this
moment in time
1246
01:00:04,048 --> 01:00:05,774
that he knew he had
a shot at it,
1247
01:00:05,912 --> 01:00:07,465
so he did.
1248
01:00:07,604 --> 01:00:09,744
- Ladies and gentlemen,
1249
01:00:09,882 --> 01:00:13,092
the president
of the United States,
1250
01:00:13,230 --> 01:00:16,820
the president
of the arab republic of Egypt,
1251
01:00:16,958 --> 01:00:19,098
and the prime minister
of Israel.
1252
01:00:19,236 --> 01:00:23,067
[Applause]
1253
01:00:23,205 --> 01:00:25,794
- He put his life and soul
into that, you know?
1254
01:00:25,932 --> 01:00:29,418
And that...That's been
the most important
1255
01:00:29,556 --> 01:00:33,802
and only breakthrough really in
the dilemma of the middle east.
1256
01:00:33,940 --> 01:00:38,117
- We are privileged
to witness tonight
1257
01:00:38,255 --> 01:00:41,120
a significant achievement
in the cause of peace.
1258
01:00:41,258 --> 01:00:43,847
- President Carter
was interested in having
1259
01:00:43,985 --> 01:00:45,952
a moral foreign policy.
1260
01:00:46,090 --> 01:00:48,714
He thought that our dedication
to human rights,
1261
01:00:48,852 --> 01:00:51,095
america's value system,
1262
01:00:51,233 --> 01:00:53,201
was what he wanted
to represent,
1263
01:00:53,339 --> 01:00:56,998
and he did make, um,
the pursuit of human rights
1264
01:00:57,136 --> 01:01:00,242
all over the world
one of his basic tenets
1265
01:01:00,380 --> 01:01:03,314
about national security
policy...The best of america.
1266
01:01:03,452 --> 01:01:04,453
What are we about?
1267
01:01:04,591 --> 01:01:07,664
[Cheering]
1268
01:01:07,802 --> 01:01:10,563
[Rock music]
1269
01:01:10,701 --> 01:01:13,808
- Human rights.
The right to live like a human.
1270
01:01:13,946 --> 01:01:19,814
That's something that
president Jimmy Carter,
1271
01:01:19,952 --> 01:01:25,751
um, tried to make real, uh,
with his foreign policy,
1272
01:01:25,889 --> 01:01:29,651
and he had difficulty
implementing it
1273
01:01:29,789 --> 01:01:32,861
around the world,
but at least he was trying.
1274
01:01:32,999 --> 01:01:35,830
- He sent me to Africa
with a note
1275
01:01:35,968 --> 01:01:37,866
on a torn piece of paper:
1276
01:01:38,004 --> 01:01:40,869
"I want you to ask
African leaders
1277
01:01:41,007 --> 01:01:43,389
"what they expect
of this administration
1278
01:01:43,527 --> 01:01:47,531
and how we can help them."
That's revolutionary.
1279
01:01:47,669 --> 01:01:48,912
- With the coming
of the new year,
1280
01:01:49,050 --> 01:01:50,741
a new and controversial chapter
1281
01:01:50,879 --> 01:01:52,950
in america's relationship
with Asia.
1282
01:01:53,088 --> 01:01:54,400
Here in Washington
this morning,
1283
01:01:54,538 --> 01:01:56,643
the flag of
the people's republic of China
1284
01:01:56,782 --> 01:01:57,955
raised for the first time
1285
01:01:58,093 --> 01:02:00,164
at what's now
the Chinese embassy.
1286
01:02:00,302 --> 01:02:02,926
That ceremony one of several
marking the opening of formal
1287
01:02:03,064 --> 01:02:04,513
U.S. ties with Peking
1288
01:02:04,651 --> 01:02:07,102
and the end of formal
relations with Taiwan.
1289
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:09,518
- In terms of opening
up to China.
1290
01:02:09,656 --> 01:02:11,658
President Carter
followed through
1291
01:02:11,797 --> 01:02:16,284
on what had been an opening
by a republican president,
1292
01:02:16,422 --> 01:02:19,390
and I find that
the bipartisanship of that
1293
01:02:19,528 --> 01:02:21,599
is something
that is worth noting,
1294
01:02:21,738 --> 01:02:23,394
given what some
of the atmosphere
1295
01:02:23,532 --> 01:02:25,155
has been on that recently.
1296
01:02:25,293 --> 01:02:27,364
- How are you?
1297
01:02:27,502 --> 01:02:29,642
- The, um,
Chinese ambassador came
1298
01:02:29,780 --> 01:02:32,749
and, like president Carter
would always do, he'd say,
1299
01:02:32,887 --> 01:02:34,509
"and if there's anything
I can do for you?
1300
01:02:34,647 --> 01:02:36,614
Is there anything you want?"
1301
01:02:36,753 --> 01:02:39,652
And the ambassador said, "yes.
I'd like to go to Nashville."
1302
01:02:39,790 --> 01:02:46,072
[Country music]
1303
01:02:46,210 --> 01:02:49,179
- The president asked me
to put that trip together,
1304
01:02:49,317 --> 01:02:52,147
and it was just
a magnificent weekend,
1305
01:02:52,285 --> 01:02:54,563
'cause Nashville rolled out
the red carpet,
1306
01:02:54,701 --> 01:02:57,532
at Jimmy Carter's request,
for this, you know,
1307
01:02:57,670 --> 01:03:00,500
first people's republic
of China ambassador.
1308
01:03:00,638 --> 01:03:04,470
Started with a luncheon
of every business leader
1309
01:03:04,608 --> 01:03:05,816
in the music business
1310
01:03:05,954 --> 01:03:08,681
coming to the
bmi conference room,
1311
01:03:08,819 --> 01:03:11,304
and that lunch ended
with Barbara mandrell,
1312
01:03:11,442 --> 01:03:14,480
as the doors opened,
standing there with her combo
1313
01:03:14,618 --> 01:03:17,448
singing "sleeping single
in a double bed,"
1314
01:03:17,586 --> 01:03:19,623
as the interpreter was telling
the ambassador
1315
01:03:19,761 --> 01:03:22,488
what she was singing,
he just died laughing.
1316
01:03:22,626 --> 01:03:26,388
And then the weekend ended
with Sunday morning brunch.
1317
01:03:26,526 --> 01:03:29,909
Minnie Pearl came.
June and Johnny cash came.
1318
01:03:30,047 --> 01:03:31,911
The terrific remembrance
I have of this
1319
01:03:32,049 --> 01:03:33,844
is Dixie rings the bell,
1320
01:03:33,982 --> 01:03:35,397
you know,
and says "breakfast is served."
1321
01:03:35,535 --> 01:03:39,160
This is Sunday morning;
This is Nashville, in 1979.
1322
01:03:39,298 --> 01:03:41,818
Somebody would've usually
said a blessing,
1323
01:03:41,956 --> 01:03:44,234
but we had our guest
from Beijing there,
1324
01:03:44,372 --> 01:03:46,650
and it was
a hesitant moment there,
1325
01:03:46,788 --> 01:03:49,411
and all of a sudden Johnny cash
and June Carter
1326
01:03:49,549 --> 01:03:52,656
started singing
"shall the circle be unbroken."
1327
01:03:52,794 --> 01:03:59,111
- ♪ Will the circle
be unbroken ♪
1328
01:03:59,249 --> 01:04:06,049
♪ by and by lord
by and by ♪
1329
01:04:06,187 --> 01:04:12,572
♪ there's a better
way of living ♪
1330
01:04:12,710 --> 01:04:15,575
♪ in the sky lord ♪
1331
01:04:15,713 --> 01:04:19,821
♪ in the ♪
1332
01:04:19,959 --> 01:04:24,170
♪ sky ♪
1333
01:04:24,308 --> 01:04:25,585
- And then it was great
1334
01:04:25,723 --> 01:04:27,967
because deng xiaoping
came to the United States,
1335
01:04:28,105 --> 01:04:30,832
and there was a lot
of celebrating, justly so.
1336
01:04:30,970 --> 01:04:34,836
It was one of the really
important national security,
1337
01:04:34,974 --> 01:04:37,977
um, agendas that,
uh, president Carter did.
1338
01:04:38,115 --> 01:04:43,707
- Country music has become
a national treasure
1339
01:04:43,845 --> 01:04:48,815
and indeed a worldwide
source of entertainment
1340
01:04:48,954 --> 01:04:51,232
and enjoyment
that transcends language
1341
01:04:51,370 --> 01:04:53,751
and transcends
national borders.
1342
01:04:53,890 --> 01:04:58,480
It's always good to see
something come out of the south
1343
01:04:58,618 --> 01:05:02,001
have an unexpected,
uh, achievement.
1344
01:05:02,139 --> 01:05:03,416
[Chuckles]
1345
01:05:03,554 --> 01:05:06,178
[Applause]
1346
01:05:06,316 --> 01:05:08,283
- Well, I think what
they underestimated
1347
01:05:08,421 --> 01:05:10,699
about president Carter
was what a dedicated,
1348
01:05:10,837 --> 01:05:14,669
patriotic, smart,
political person he was.
1349
01:05:14,807 --> 01:05:17,292
People did think that he
was just this peanut farmer
1350
01:05:17,430 --> 01:05:19,087
that had come up
from Georgia,
1351
01:05:19,225 --> 01:05:20,606
forgetting that
he had been a governor,
1352
01:05:20,744 --> 01:05:24,230
that also he had been...
Had military service,
1353
01:05:24,368 --> 01:05:28,027
um, and he was, uh,
somebody who loved history,
1354
01:05:28,165 --> 01:05:29,339
uh, and was somebody that
1355
01:05:29,477 --> 01:05:31,824
was so proud
to be an American.
1356
01:05:31,962 --> 01:05:33,481
- Ladies and gentlemen,
Loretta Lynn!
1357
01:05:33,619 --> 01:05:35,966
[Applause]
1358
01:05:36,104 --> 01:05:38,969
[Country music]
1359
01:05:39,107 --> 01:05:42,214
♪ ♪
1360
01:05:42,352 --> 01:05:48,634
- ♪ well I was born
a coal miner's daughter ♪
1361
01:05:48,772 --> 01:05:55,537
♪ in a cabin on a hill
in butcher holler ♪
1362
01:05:55,675 --> 01:05:59,300
♪ we were poor but
we had love ♪
1363
01:05:59,438 --> 01:06:02,717
♪ that's the one thing
that daddy made sure of ♪
1364
01:06:02,855 --> 01:06:09,689
♪ he shoveled coal to make
a poor man's dollar ♪
1365
01:06:09,827 --> 01:06:11,760
- I believe one of the reasons
that musicians, you know,
1366
01:06:11,898 --> 01:06:13,935
were drawn to president Carter
and vice versa,
1367
01:06:14,073 --> 01:06:15,281
he was a man of the earth.
1368
01:06:15,419 --> 01:06:17,525
For god's sake,
he was a peanut farmer.
1369
01:06:17,663 --> 01:06:20,769
He was raised
around that music.
1370
01:06:20,907 --> 01:06:22,116
That was part of that culture.
1371
01:06:22,254 --> 01:06:23,462
You know, Shakespeare said
1372
01:06:23,600 --> 01:06:26,465
"if music be
the language of love, play on."
1373
01:06:26,603 --> 01:06:31,194
My favorite is lord Fletcher
of saltoun.
1374
01:06:31,332 --> 01:06:37,683
He said, "were I able to make
the ballads of a nation,
1375
01:06:37,821 --> 01:06:41,031
I need not write its laws."
1376
01:06:41,169 --> 01:06:45,622
The songs of any given 10-
or 20-year period
1377
01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:46,968
will more accurately
1378
01:06:47,106 --> 01:06:50,558
and honestly reflect
what happened.
1379
01:06:50,696 --> 01:06:55,632
- ♪ Well a lot of things have
changed since way back then ♪
1380
01:06:55,770 --> 01:06:58,497
♪ ♪
1381
01:06:58,635 --> 01:07:02,777
♪ and it's so good
to be back home again ♪
1382
01:07:02,915 --> 01:07:04,606
♪ ♪
1383
01:07:04,744 --> 01:07:08,403
♪ not much left
but the floors ♪
1384
01:07:08,541 --> 01:07:12,304
♪ nothing lives here anymore ♪
1385
01:07:12,442 --> 01:07:17,378
♪ just the memories
of a coal miner's daughter ♪
1386
01:07:17,516 --> 01:07:19,173
♪ ♪
1387
01:07:19,311 --> 01:07:22,210
[Applause]
1388
01:07:22,348 --> 01:07:23,556
- Carter did a lot
of entertaining
1389
01:07:23,694 --> 01:07:25,834
with these musical friends
he had:
1390
01:07:25,972 --> 01:07:28,182
Loretta Lynn, right?
1391
01:07:28,320 --> 01:07:31,806
Uh, Conway twitty,
Tom t. Hall.
1392
01:07:31,944 --> 01:07:33,325
All the greats of that era
1393
01:07:33,463 --> 01:07:35,327
performed, uh, there
in the east room
1394
01:07:35,465 --> 01:07:37,570
of the white house
to honor Jimmy Carter.
1395
01:07:37,708 --> 01:07:40,573
[Jazz music]
1396
01:07:40,711 --> 01:07:43,783
♪ ♪
1397
01:07:43,921 --> 01:07:46,096
I was lucky enough
to go to the state dinner
1398
01:07:46,234 --> 01:07:49,030
for the shah
and shahbanu of Iran,
1399
01:07:49,168 --> 01:07:50,549
a pretty grand affair.
1400
01:07:50,687 --> 01:07:53,103
The entertainment that night
was none other than
1401
01:07:53,241 --> 01:07:55,864
Sarah Vaughan
and dizzy Gillespie.
1402
01:07:56,002 --> 01:07:58,867
- [Vocalizing]
1403
01:07:59,005 --> 01:08:05,840
♪ ♪
1404
01:08:05,978 --> 01:08:09,188
- President Carter had worked
so hard on relationships
1405
01:08:09,326 --> 01:08:10,776
with Iran, frankly,
1406
01:08:10,914 --> 01:08:13,054
and he was somebody
who analyzed for...
1407
01:08:13,192 --> 01:08:17,576
From my perspective...National
security policy very carefully.
1408
01:08:17,714 --> 01:08:20,993
But, uh, it was
a very complex period.
1409
01:08:21,131 --> 01:08:23,444
[Rock music]
1410
01:08:23,582 --> 01:08:25,411
- This was not the first time
the shah of Iran
1411
01:08:25,549 --> 01:08:27,310
has been forced
to flee his country,
1412
01:08:27,448 --> 01:08:30,520
but this time his absence
will certainly be much longer.
1413
01:08:30,658 --> 01:08:33,488
- The shah becomes very sick
with cancer.
1414
01:08:33,626 --> 01:08:35,249
Um, he's...
1415
01:08:35,387 --> 01:08:40,116
He's trying to get to, uh,
america to get treatment,
1416
01:08:40,254 --> 01:08:41,703
and there was a lot of pushback
1417
01:08:41,841 --> 01:08:44,982
from a lot of corners
of foreign policy
1418
01:08:45,121 --> 01:08:48,193
not to do that,
afraid of what it would uncork.
1419
01:08:48,331 --> 01:08:50,126
The thing that's part
of that history
1420
01:08:50,264 --> 01:08:51,368
that I think is not known
1421
01:08:51,506 --> 01:08:54,199
is kind of the republican
foreign policy
1422
01:08:54,337 --> 01:08:57,167
establishment kind of led
the charge on Carter
1423
01:08:57,305 --> 01:08:59,411
to let the shah in
to get his treatment.
1424
01:08:59,549 --> 01:09:01,758
- I would say very firmly
that under no circumstances
1425
01:09:01,896 --> 01:09:05,796
can the United States
give in to the blackmail
1426
01:09:05,934 --> 01:09:07,177
that seems to be practiced
1427
01:09:07,315 --> 01:09:10,318
by the demonstrators
in Iran and decline
1428
01:09:10,456 --> 01:09:13,218
to provide the medical service
to the shah of Iran,
1429
01:09:13,356 --> 01:09:16,462
who is very,
very ill with cancer.
1430
01:09:16,600 --> 01:09:19,085
- I kind of don't disagree
that that was probably
1431
01:09:19,224 --> 01:09:23,159
the humanitarian thing to do,
but it was part of the problem
1432
01:09:23,297 --> 01:09:25,022
that led to
the hostage situation.
1433
01:09:25,161 --> 01:09:28,025
[Rock music]
1434
01:09:28,164 --> 01:09:30,925
♪ ♪
1435
01:09:31,063 --> 01:09:33,824
- Muslim students occupying
the American embassy in Iran
1436
01:09:33,962 --> 01:09:36,275
for the second day now have
called for their government
1437
01:09:36,413 --> 01:09:38,588
to break all relations
with the United States.
1438
01:09:38,726 --> 01:09:40,210
The crowd burned
the American flag
1439
01:09:40,348 --> 01:09:42,971
and demanded that the
United States return the shah,
1440
01:09:43,109 --> 01:09:45,940
who is in a New York City
hospital, to Iran for trial.
1441
01:09:46,078 --> 01:09:48,218
The students took more
than 50 hostages
1442
01:09:48,356 --> 01:09:49,633
and said they would
not be released
1443
01:09:49,771 --> 01:09:51,290
until the shah is in Iran.
1444
01:09:51,428 --> 01:09:53,465
- ♪ One way or another ♪
1445
01:09:53,603 --> 01:09:55,121
♪ I'm gonna find ya ♪
1446
01:09:55,260 --> 01:09:57,193
♪ I'm gonna get you,
get you, get you, get you ♪
1447
01:09:57,331 --> 01:09:59,471
♪ one way or another ♪
1448
01:09:59,609 --> 01:10:01,127
♪ I'm gonna win ya ♪
1449
01:10:01,266 --> 01:10:03,095
♪ I'm gonna get you,
get you, get you, get you ♪
1450
01:10:03,233 --> 01:10:08,100
- Well, the Iranian hostage
crisis was a genuine disaster
1451
01:10:08,238 --> 01:10:09,584
in so many different ways,
1452
01:10:09,722 --> 01:10:14,417
because what happened was that
a number of our diplomats
1453
01:10:14,555 --> 01:10:17,765
in Iran
had been seized and held.
1454
01:10:17,903 --> 01:10:21,009
And it in so many ways
completely paralyzed
1455
01:10:21,147 --> 01:10:22,459
the Carter administration,
1456
01:10:22,597 --> 01:10:24,910
because we had to deal
with it day by day.
1457
01:10:25,048 --> 01:10:27,706
People thought,
"why is this happening?
1458
01:10:27,844 --> 01:10:29,466
We're the most powerful
country in the world
1459
01:10:29,604 --> 01:10:32,711
and we can't rescue
these hostages."
1460
01:10:32,849 --> 01:10:35,955
- My thoughts and my prayers
for our hostages in Iran
1461
01:10:36,093 --> 01:10:40,270
are as though they were
my own sons and daughters.
1462
01:10:40,408 --> 01:10:41,720
I was under
a great deal of strain.
1463
01:10:41,858 --> 01:10:44,757
A lot of people
were advising me to bomb Iran,
1464
01:10:44,895 --> 01:10:46,518
but I knew that
if I bombed Iran,
1465
01:10:46,656 --> 01:10:48,692
they would kill
the hostages first thing.
1466
01:10:48,830 --> 01:10:53,007
- He was dedicated to getting
those hostages home alive,
1467
01:10:53,145 --> 01:10:55,527
at almost any political cost.
1468
01:10:55,665 --> 01:10:58,184
Being president
is a pretty lonely job.
1469
01:10:58,323 --> 01:11:00,221
You're all by yourself.
1470
01:11:00,359 --> 01:11:01,981
Carter would retreat
to his study
1471
01:11:02,119 --> 01:11:05,468
and listen to Willie Nelson.
If I remember correctly,
1472
01:11:05,606 --> 01:11:08,022
at that time
it was a gospel music album.
1473
01:11:08,160 --> 01:11:11,508
He made his decisions
in the solitude of that room.
1474
01:11:11,646 --> 01:11:12,958
- I went into the room
1475
01:11:13,096 --> 01:11:14,787
where Harry Truman
used to have his office,
1476
01:11:14,925 --> 01:11:16,824
which was next door
to the bedroom.
1477
01:11:16,962 --> 01:11:19,827
I would play Willie Nelson
music primarily,
1478
01:11:19,965 --> 01:11:21,932
so I could think
about my problems
1479
01:11:22,070 --> 01:11:24,176
and say a few prayers.
1480
01:11:24,314 --> 01:11:27,317
- ♪ Amazing grace ♪
1481
01:11:27,455 --> 01:11:32,495
♪ how sweet the sound ♪
1482
01:11:32,633 --> 01:11:39,433
♪ that saved a wretch
like me ♪
1483
01:11:39,571 --> 01:11:43,747
♪ I once was lost ♪
1484
01:11:43,885 --> 01:11:48,027
♪ but now I'm found ♪
1485
01:11:48,165 --> 01:11:50,409
♪ I was blind ♪
1486
01:11:50,547 --> 01:11:55,241
♪ but now I see ♪
1487
01:11:55,380 --> 01:11:58,659
- If Iran has brought home
one thing to Americans,
1488
01:11:58,797 --> 01:12:01,144
it is that foreign affairs
cannot be separated
1489
01:12:01,282 --> 01:12:03,008
from our domestic
concerns...Concern
1490
01:12:03,146 --> 01:12:06,701
about the hostages,
about oil prices and supply.
1491
01:12:06,839 --> 01:12:10,602
What concerns people, voters,
also concerns politicians.
1492
01:12:10,740 --> 01:12:12,569
This is a presidential
election year,
1493
01:12:12,707 --> 01:12:15,123
and Iran has upset
the best laid plans
1494
01:12:15,261 --> 01:12:16,504
of most of the candidates.
1495
01:12:16,642 --> 01:12:18,057
- You know,
on a political point,
1496
01:12:18,195 --> 01:12:22,752
he could've gone in there
anytime and attacked in Tehran,
1497
01:12:22,890 --> 01:12:25,168
multiple lives lost
on both sides,
1498
01:12:25,306 --> 01:12:27,826
and he would've been a hero
to the American people,
1499
01:12:27,964 --> 01:12:31,657
but his only interest was
getting the American hostages
1500
01:12:31,795 --> 01:12:33,832
back alive to their families.
1501
01:12:33,970 --> 01:12:37,180
- I think a lot of other
politically strategic military
1502
01:12:37,318 --> 01:12:40,252
thinking would've done
something a bit bolder.
1503
01:12:40,390 --> 01:12:44,567
But the hostage thing I think
amplified a lot of the fears
1504
01:12:44,705 --> 01:12:47,363
that people had had about him.
1505
01:12:47,501 --> 01:12:49,675
[Gentle music]
1506
01:12:49,813 --> 01:12:53,783
- His error was that,
when you'd raise something
1507
01:12:53,921 --> 01:12:57,062
that this is gonna be good
for you politically,
1508
01:12:57,200 --> 01:12:58,374
he didn't wanna hear it.
1509
01:12:58,512 --> 01:13:01,135
He said, "what is
the right thing to do?"
1510
01:13:01,273 --> 01:13:04,000
- Go Jimmy!
1511
01:13:04,138 --> 01:13:07,831
- The 1980
re-election campaign
1512
01:13:07,969 --> 01:13:12,318
opened up in kind of
the north part of Alabama.
1513
01:13:12,457 --> 01:13:15,701
- We've got Charlie Daniels
here.
1514
01:13:15,839 --> 01:13:17,082
- Well, Charlie Daniels.
Look at Charlie.
1515
01:13:17,220 --> 01:13:19,291
I mean, he's pretty...A
pretty good republican,
1516
01:13:19,429 --> 01:13:20,637
but he was a great friend,
1517
01:13:20,775 --> 01:13:22,984
and he and Carter
got along well,
1518
01:13:23,122 --> 01:13:26,194
and he did a concert
with the president.
1519
01:13:26,332 --> 01:13:27,955
- When the president arrived,
1520
01:13:28,093 --> 01:13:30,164
the secret service
was all uptight,
1521
01:13:30,302 --> 01:13:34,479
because a whole delegation
of ku klux klan folks
1522
01:13:34,617 --> 01:13:38,724
had shown up to heckle, jeer,
and wave signs at him.
1523
01:13:38,862 --> 01:13:40,381
I'll never forget that.
1524
01:13:40,519 --> 01:13:43,280
[Upbeat fiddle music]
1525
01:13:43,419 --> 01:13:47,008
♪ ♪
1526
01:13:47,146 --> 01:13:48,700
♪ the devil went down
to Georgia ♪
1527
01:13:48,838 --> 01:13:50,702
♪ he was lookin'
for a soul to steal ♪
1528
01:13:50,840 --> 01:13:52,462
♪ he was in a bind
'cause he was way behind ♪
1529
01:13:52,600 --> 01:13:54,153
♪ and he was willin'
to make a deal ♪
1530
01:13:54,291 --> 01:13:55,776
♪ when he came across
this young man ♪
1531
01:13:55,914 --> 01:13:57,605
♪ sawin' on a fiddle
and playin' it hot ♪
1532
01:13:57,743 --> 01:13:59,227
♪ and the devil jumped up
on a hickory stump ♪
1533
01:13:59,365 --> 01:14:00,815
♪ and said, "boy,
let me tell you what" ♪
1534
01:14:00,953 --> 01:14:02,368
♪ I guess you didn't know it ♪
1535
01:14:02,507 --> 01:14:04,474
♪ but I'm a fiddle player too ♪
1536
01:14:04,612 --> 01:14:06,234
♪ and if you'd care
to take a dare ♪
1537
01:14:06,372 --> 01:14:07,891
♪ I'll make a bet with you ♪
1538
01:14:08,029 --> 01:14:09,721
♪ now you play
a pretty good fiddle, boy ♪
1539
01:14:09,859 --> 01:14:11,239
♪ but give the devil his due ♪
1540
01:14:11,377 --> 01:14:13,138
♪ I'll bet a fiddle of gold
against your soul ♪
1541
01:14:13,276 --> 01:14:15,140
♪ 'cause I think
I'm better than you ♪
1542
01:14:15,278 --> 01:14:17,211
- I say that these people
in white sheets
1543
01:14:17,349 --> 01:14:20,214
do not understand our region
and what it's been through.
1544
01:14:20,352 --> 01:14:23,424
They do not understand
what our country stands for.
1545
01:14:23,562 --> 01:14:25,426
They do not understand
that the south
1546
01:14:25,564 --> 01:14:28,015
and all of america
must move forward.
1547
01:14:28,153 --> 01:14:31,846
Our past is a rich source
of inspiration.
1548
01:14:31,984 --> 01:14:34,815
We've had lessons
that we learned
1549
01:14:34,953 --> 01:14:36,851
with a great deal of pain,
1550
01:14:36,989 --> 01:14:40,165
but the past
is not a place to live.
1551
01:14:40,303 --> 01:14:43,720
We must go forward
in the south, and we will.
1552
01:14:43,858 --> 01:14:45,446
- ♪ Fire on the mountain,
run boys, run ♪
1553
01:14:45,584 --> 01:14:47,310
♪ ♪
1554
01:14:47,448 --> 01:14:49,139
♪ the devil's in the house
of the rising sun ♪
1555
01:14:49,277 --> 01:14:50,934
♪ ♪
1556
01:14:51,072 --> 01:14:52,557
♪ chicken in a bread pan
pickin' out dough ♪
1557
01:14:52,695 --> 01:14:54,282
♪ ♪
1558
01:14:54,420 --> 01:14:56,215
♪ granny, does your dog bite?
No, child, no ♪
1559
01:14:56,353 --> 01:14:59,840
- The ku klux klan
was down on me, obviously,
1560
01:14:59,978 --> 01:15:03,775
and they wanted
to disrupt the rally,
1561
01:15:03,913 --> 01:15:05,604
and so I thought
the only way to do it
1562
01:15:05,742 --> 01:15:07,779
was to confront them directly.
1563
01:15:07,917 --> 01:15:09,677
- We kinda had to walk through
this gauntlet
1564
01:15:09,815 --> 01:15:11,127
of all these guys,
and you know,
1565
01:15:11,265 --> 01:15:15,131
Carter being Jimmy Carter
would stop and jeer back
1566
01:15:15,269 --> 01:15:18,099
at them every once in a while
about what cowards they were.
1567
01:15:18,237 --> 01:15:19,687
- This good man,
1568
01:15:19,825 --> 01:15:23,657
who wanted to try to reverse
the tide of history,
1569
01:15:23,795 --> 01:15:25,106
not only in the south
and in america
1570
01:15:25,244 --> 01:15:27,315
but within his own
party...The guys
1571
01:15:27,453 --> 01:15:28,662
with the white hoods
1572
01:15:28,800 --> 01:15:32,907
and the burning crosses
did not like that.
1573
01:15:33,045 --> 01:15:34,875
- There was a lot
of discontent.
1574
01:15:35,013 --> 01:15:37,705
There'd been outrageous
inflation in this country
1575
01:15:37,843 --> 01:15:40,018
through about three
presidents.
1576
01:15:40,156 --> 01:15:44,022
You had 18% interest,
you had 18% inflation,
1577
01:15:44,160 --> 01:15:47,128
and you had the price of gas
through the ceiling,
1578
01:15:47,266 --> 01:15:50,649
and you had long lines,
back in '79 and '80,
1579
01:15:50,787 --> 01:15:52,168
people running out of gas.
1580
01:15:52,306 --> 01:15:56,621
It made Carter
appear like he was weak.
1581
01:15:56,759 --> 01:15:59,244
- Are you and your family
1582
01:15:59,382 --> 01:16:03,248
more secure
after 4 years of Jimmy Carter?
1583
01:16:03,386 --> 01:16:04,801
All: No!
1584
01:16:04,939 --> 01:16:06,734
- And is america
still a country
1585
01:16:06,872 --> 01:16:09,944
that enjoys respect
throughout the world?
1586
01:16:10,082 --> 01:16:13,154
All: "No!"
1587
01:16:13,292 --> 01:16:18,159
- I think there was a sense
of spiritual depression,
1588
01:16:18,297 --> 01:16:20,990
where there was a sense
in which we were stuck.
1589
01:16:21,128 --> 01:16:22,750
Then the cultural
climate changed
1590
01:16:22,888 --> 01:16:25,373
because of all of
the various factors,
1591
01:16:25,511 --> 01:16:28,342
economic and geopolitical.
1592
01:16:28,480 --> 01:16:32,449
The global climate and
the national climate changed,
1593
01:16:32,588 --> 01:16:34,382
and I think that
tilted the election
1594
01:16:34,520 --> 01:16:36,074
as much as anything else.
1595
01:16:36,212 --> 01:16:37,558
- It was the one-year
anniversary
1596
01:16:37,696 --> 01:16:40,319
of the Iran hostage crisis,
1597
01:16:40,457 --> 01:16:44,358
and all the networks
had special programs,
1598
01:16:44,496 --> 01:16:48,189
and president Carter's numbers
just took a nosedive.
1599
01:16:48,327 --> 01:16:51,365
- Our election map tells the
story of the presidential race.
1600
01:16:51,503 --> 01:16:57,371
Carter won 52 electoral votes,
Reagan in a landslide, 486,
1601
01:16:57,509 --> 01:16:59,338
Anderson none.
1602
01:16:59,476 --> 01:17:01,064
- I wasn't surprised when
he lost to Reagan,
1603
01:17:01,202 --> 01:17:06,898
but I was deeply disappointed,
profoundly disappointed.
1604
01:17:07,036 --> 01:17:09,383
- I've always felt, all along,
1605
01:17:09,521 --> 01:17:13,180
that he got the shortest end
of the stick of any president
1606
01:17:13,318 --> 01:17:15,561
that I could think of
in modern history.
1607
01:17:15,700 --> 01:17:17,080
- We all felt so bad for him,
1608
01:17:17,218 --> 01:17:19,151
because we felt like
he had done so much.
1609
01:17:19,289 --> 01:17:21,533
- The irony of
the Carter presidency,
1610
01:17:21,671 --> 01:17:22,914
of course, is that many
1611
01:17:23,052 --> 01:17:24,950
of his accomplishments,
accomplishments
1612
01:17:25,088 --> 01:17:29,023
about which he is proud,
are in the hands of the man
1613
01:17:29,161 --> 01:17:32,130
who is going to be sworn
in next Tuesday, Ronald Reagan.
1614
01:17:32,268 --> 01:17:34,201
Such accomplishments
as an energy policy
1615
01:17:34,339 --> 01:17:37,031
or a separate
education department,
1616
01:17:37,169 --> 01:17:40,448
the deregulation of business
or the reorganization
1617
01:17:40,586 --> 01:17:42,071
of the government...All those
1618
01:17:42,209 --> 01:17:45,074
could be undone
by Ronald Reagan.
1619
01:17:45,212 --> 01:17:47,732
- I was one of the last people
in the white house
1620
01:17:47,870 --> 01:17:49,354
when the administration
changed.
1621
01:17:49,492 --> 01:17:53,392
And I had gone out
to Andrews air force base
1622
01:17:53,530 --> 01:17:55,360
with a lot of other people
to go
1623
01:17:55,498 --> 01:17:57,776
and say goodbye
to president Carter,
1624
01:17:57,914 --> 01:17:59,295
and it was at that moment
1625
01:17:59,433 --> 01:18:02,125
that the hostages were released
to President Reagan.
1626
01:18:02,263 --> 01:18:04,921
- There were tears in the eyes
of Mr. Carter's aides
1627
01:18:05,059 --> 01:18:07,130
when the presidential jet
went out of its way
1628
01:18:07,268 --> 01:18:10,202
to fly over the white house
one last time.
1629
01:18:10,340 --> 01:18:13,792
In plains, Mr. Carter made
his first public statement
1630
01:18:13,930 --> 01:18:15,725
since the freeing
of the hostages.
1631
01:18:15,863 --> 01:18:18,210
- Just a few moments ago,
on air force one,
1632
01:18:18,348 --> 01:18:20,972
before we landed
at Warner Robins,
1633
01:18:21,110 --> 01:18:24,976
I had received word
officially for the first time
1634
01:18:25,114 --> 01:18:29,532
that the aircraft carrying
the 52 American hostages
1635
01:18:29,670 --> 01:18:33,018
had cleared Iranian airspace,
1636
01:18:33,156 --> 01:18:39,266
on the first leg
of a journey home,
1637
01:18:39,404 --> 01:18:43,511
and that every one
of the 52 hostages was alive,
1638
01:18:43,649 --> 01:18:45,997
was well, and free.
1639
01:18:48,033 --> 01:18:49,138
- He was praising that day,
you know.
1640
01:18:49,276 --> 01:18:51,036
It was like,
that's what he wanted.
1641
01:18:51,174 --> 01:18:54,039
He didn't care about how
and when it happened.
1642
01:18:54,177 --> 01:18:55,696
He...that's just what
he wanted to see happen.
1643
01:18:55,834 --> 01:18:57,387
That's the day that I just
fell more in love with him,
1644
01:18:57,525 --> 01:18:58,664
because he is
the true definition
1645
01:18:58,803 --> 01:19:00,149
of "love one another."
1646
01:19:00,287 --> 01:19:02,185
- He resolved the crisis
in a peaceful way,
1647
01:19:02,323 --> 01:19:03,359
with humility.
1648
01:19:03,497 --> 01:19:05,741
It took a lot of courage
to do that.
1649
01:19:07,259 --> 01:19:08,571
- I tried,
when I was president,
1650
01:19:08,709 --> 01:19:11,263
to preserve the peace,
and I'm grateful now
1651
01:19:11,401 --> 01:19:14,025
that I went through four years
in the white house,
1652
01:19:14,163 --> 01:19:18,374
and we never dropped a bomb,
we never fired a missile,
1653
01:19:18,512 --> 01:19:22,999
we never shot a bullet
to kill another person.
1654
01:19:23,137 --> 01:19:28,453
And I would say
that my religious commitment
1655
01:19:28,591 --> 01:19:32,077
to the prince of peace
was an important part
1656
01:19:32,215 --> 01:19:35,563
of one of the basic principles
that I tried to pursue.
1657
01:19:35,701 --> 01:19:40,534
[Pensive music]
1658
01:19:40,672 --> 01:19:43,986
- I think he took that loss
with incredible grace
1659
01:19:44,124 --> 01:19:45,677
and dignity.
1660
01:19:45,815 --> 01:19:48,473
I'm sure he had to think a lot
about what he was going to do.
1661
01:19:48,611 --> 01:19:51,579
I think he probably entertained
the idea of coming to Atlanta
1662
01:19:51,717 --> 01:19:52,995
and living
1663
01:19:53,133 --> 01:19:54,928
and maybe working
out of Atlanta,
1664
01:19:55,066 --> 01:19:58,000
but he made the decision...He
and rosalynn...To
1665
01:19:58,138 --> 01:20:00,036
go back to plains, Georgia,
1666
01:20:00,174 --> 01:20:01,486
and I thought
that was very cool.
1667
01:20:01,624 --> 01:20:04,075
Go back to the small town.
Be who you are.
1668
01:20:04,213 --> 01:20:05,835
- It worked out well.
You know,
1669
01:20:05,973 --> 01:20:08,251
we ended up coming home
and starting the Carter center
1670
01:20:08,389 --> 01:20:09,597
and starting off
our new lives,
1671
01:20:09,735 --> 01:20:12,255
so you know, we missed
the white house, sure,
1672
01:20:12,393 --> 01:20:15,258
but...and what we might be able
to accomplish there...But
1673
01:20:15,396 --> 01:20:19,504
it didn't slow down, you know,
dad's desire to help people.
1674
01:20:19,642 --> 01:20:22,093
- We heard president Carter
speak and he talked about
1675
01:20:22,231 --> 01:20:24,578
when he and rosalynn
left the white house
1676
01:20:24,716 --> 01:20:28,927
and he said, "we realized
that we had a lot of life left
1677
01:20:29,065 --> 01:20:30,101
"and we had to sit
and figure out
1678
01:20:30,239 --> 01:20:31,481
what we wanted to do
with our lives."
1679
01:20:31,619 --> 01:20:34,726
And I think that there
has not been a president,
1680
01:20:34,864 --> 01:20:37,211
with no disrespect to anyone
who's come before or after...
1681
01:20:37,349 --> 01:20:39,627
- Amen.
- Who has done more
1682
01:20:39,765 --> 01:20:41,146
since they left office
1683
01:20:41,284 --> 01:20:42,596
than even they did
when they were in office.
1684
01:20:42,734 --> 01:20:44,529
And I think it's a testament
to them as a couple,
1685
01:20:44,667 --> 01:20:47,912
just the humanitarians
that they have been to us
1686
01:20:48,050 --> 01:20:49,810
as a nation and to our world.
1687
01:20:49,948 --> 01:20:53,572
[Banjo music]
1688
01:20:53,710 --> 01:20:56,334
- The Carter center is a joint
between my parents,
1689
01:20:56,472 --> 01:20:59,509
and we only do projects
that nobody else is doing.
1690
01:20:59,647 --> 01:21:02,167
So we'll take the lead
on Guinea worm
1691
01:21:02,305 --> 01:21:05,619
and some of these things
that are not household names
1692
01:21:05,757 --> 01:21:09,036
and are not diseases that are
here in the United States
1693
01:21:09,174 --> 01:21:12,315
but certainly are worldwide.
1694
01:21:12,453 --> 01:21:15,560
- I associate president Carter
with the all
1695
01:21:15,698 --> 01:21:18,149
but eradication of Guinea worm
and, you know,
1696
01:21:18,287 --> 01:21:22,498
he used to carry a jar
of Guinea worm around with him
1697
01:21:22,636 --> 01:21:25,121
and frighten people
into action.
1698
01:21:25,259 --> 01:21:26,605
- If the worm comes out
of a joint,
1699
01:21:26,743 --> 01:21:31,058
say, in your knee, it swells up
and destroys the tissue.
1700
01:21:31,196 --> 01:21:33,233
So the aftermath
is very similar to polio.
1701
01:21:33,371 --> 01:21:34,959
It completely debilitates
that knee,
1702
01:21:35,097 --> 01:21:37,858
and sometimes the knee...The leg
is crippled
1703
01:21:37,996 --> 01:21:39,756
for the rest of one's life.
1704
01:21:39,895 --> 01:21:41,793
- When we were fighting
hiv/aids,
1705
01:21:41,931 --> 01:21:43,760
and I'd have
the antiretroviral drugs
1706
01:21:43,899 --> 01:21:46,729
and say, "look, if you just had
three of these, you stay alive.
1707
01:21:46,867 --> 01:21:48,213
Three of these a day,"
1708
01:21:48,351 --> 01:21:49,905
and I'd show people
what they looked like.
1709
01:21:50,043 --> 01:21:52,528
Eventually became one,
but it was three.
1710
01:21:52,666 --> 01:21:54,047
I got that from Jimmy.
1711
01:21:54,185 --> 01:21:55,393
- As far as the Carter center
is concerned,
1712
01:21:55,531 --> 01:21:56,842
I would like to see
Guinea worm
1713
01:21:56,981 --> 01:21:59,397
completely eradicated
before I die.
1714
01:21:59,535 --> 01:22:03,297
I'd like for the last Guinea
worm to die before I do.
1715
01:22:03,435 --> 01:22:05,023
[Laughter]
1716
01:22:05,161 --> 01:22:06,507
- President Carter
and the Carter center,
1717
01:22:06,645 --> 01:22:09,959
I know...And I know this
from travels in Africa
1718
01:22:10,097 --> 01:22:12,720
and around the world...
They're trusted.
1719
01:22:12,858 --> 01:22:16,483
And the truth is,
they have the level of trust
1720
01:22:16,621 --> 01:22:19,658
that you don't often see
around the world
1721
01:22:19,796 --> 01:22:23,110
from an institution
that's embedded in america.
1722
01:22:23,248 --> 01:22:24,663
- This morning,
former president Jimmy Carter
1723
01:22:24,801 --> 01:22:27,183
won the nobel peace prize.
Mr. Carter was honored
1724
01:22:27,321 --> 01:22:29,220
for what the nobel committee
called,
1725
01:22:29,358 --> 01:22:31,567
"his decades
of untiring effort
1726
01:22:31,705 --> 01:22:34,846
to find peaceful solutions
to international conflicts."
1727
01:22:34,984 --> 01:22:36,917
[Gentle guitar music]
1728
01:22:37,055 --> 01:22:40,956
- ♪ Georgia ♪
1729
01:22:41,094 --> 01:22:42,750
♪ Georgia ♪
1730
01:22:45,132 --> 01:22:49,378
♪ the whole day through ♪
1731
01:22:49,516 --> 01:22:51,932
♪ just an old sweet song ♪
1732
01:22:52,070 --> 01:22:57,317
♪ keeps Georgia on my mind ♪
1733
01:22:57,455 --> 01:22:59,698
- Well, when I went to Europe
to be there
1734
01:22:59,836 --> 01:23:03,185
when Jimmy Carter received
the nobel peace prize,
1735
01:23:03,323 --> 01:23:06,326
it was one of the greatest
moments of my life,
1736
01:23:06,464 --> 01:23:09,777
because I knew it was one of
the greatest moments in his,
1737
01:23:09,915 --> 01:23:12,815
and he definitely
deserved that prize.
1738
01:23:12,953 --> 01:23:16,784
♪ In peaceful dreams I see ♪
1739
01:23:16,922 --> 01:23:20,029
♪ the road leads back to you ♪
1740
01:23:20,167 --> 01:23:23,274
♪ ♪
1741
01:23:23,412 --> 01:23:30,039
♪ Georgia, Georgia ♪
1742
01:23:30,177 --> 01:23:32,835
♪ no peace I find ♪
1743
01:23:32,973 --> 01:23:34,457
♪ ♪
1744
01:23:34,595 --> 01:23:37,115
♪ and just an old sweet song ♪
1745
01:23:37,253 --> 01:23:43,570
♪ keeps Georgia on my mind ♪
1746
01:23:43,708 --> 01:23:46,918
- I'm very humbled,
as well as proud,
1747
01:23:47,056 --> 01:23:48,678
because I recognize
1748
01:23:48,816 --> 01:23:51,854
how many people have shared
with me the commitments
1749
01:23:51,992 --> 01:23:55,823
and how much work they have
done without recognition,
1750
01:23:55,961 --> 01:24:00,725
and my hope is that this award
1751
01:24:00,863 --> 01:24:03,693
will be adequately appreciated
by all of them,
1752
01:24:03,831 --> 01:24:07,214
who I feel are
a part of my own family.
1753
01:24:07,352 --> 01:24:09,596
And I'm especially
grateful to...
1754
01:24:14,842 --> 01:24:16,534
To rosalynn...
1755
01:24:19,606 --> 01:24:21,987
Who has been a partner
in everything I've ever done.
1756
01:24:22,126 --> 01:24:25,336
[Upbeat music]
1757
01:24:25,474 --> 01:24:29,340
- She's been a good,
calming influence on dad,
1758
01:24:29,478 --> 01:24:32,688
and she has changed his mind,
politically,
1759
01:24:32,826 --> 01:24:36,761
on some big issues
that I really appreciated,
1760
01:24:36,899 --> 01:24:38,349
like the death penalty,
for instance.
1761
01:24:38,487 --> 01:24:40,178
My mother was always
been against it.
1762
01:24:40,316 --> 01:24:41,869
Dad always had a few
exceptions
1763
01:24:42,007 --> 01:24:43,043
that he would accept,
1764
01:24:43,181 --> 01:24:44,907
and my mother for years
1765
01:24:45,045 --> 01:24:47,772
would not accept
a single exception that he did,
1766
01:24:47,910 --> 01:24:50,085
and now dad's against
the death penalty.
1767
01:24:50,223 --> 01:24:53,640
So she has changed him
over the years.
1768
01:24:53,778 --> 01:24:57,644
- What I've learned from her
is probably the greatest gift
1769
01:24:57,782 --> 01:25:00,957
in a marriage is to take
the supporting role.
1770
01:25:01,096 --> 01:25:05,376
It takes a lot more strength.
It takes a lot more Patience.
1771
01:25:06,687 --> 01:25:08,137
And then,
that's why I guess always
1772
01:25:08,275 --> 01:25:11,451
when the light shines on her,
she just blows you away.
1773
01:25:11,589 --> 01:25:13,280
- Rosa and I have been
involved
1774
01:25:13,418 --> 01:25:16,214
in habitat for humanity
for 40 years,
1775
01:25:16,352 --> 01:25:19,528
and 35 years in a row
1776
01:25:19,666 --> 01:25:22,841
we have devoted a full week
to building houses.
1777
01:25:22,979 --> 01:25:25,879
One year, we'd go overseas,
and the next year,
1778
01:25:26,017 --> 01:25:27,812
we'd build somewhere
in the United States.
1779
01:25:27,950 --> 01:25:30,815
And I would say the best
habitat volunteers
1780
01:25:30,953 --> 01:25:32,541
we have ever had with us
1781
01:25:32,679 --> 01:25:35,406
have been garth Brooks
and Trisha Yearwood.
1782
01:25:35,544 --> 01:25:37,546
They went with us
twice to Haiti
1783
01:25:37,684 --> 01:25:40,825
after the earthquake
devastated that country.
1784
01:25:40,963 --> 01:25:42,171
- You know, they say
1785
01:25:42,309 --> 01:25:44,277
everything comes
from the top down.
1786
01:25:44,415 --> 01:25:47,280
Well, the top at habitat
are the Carters.
1787
01:25:47,418 --> 01:25:49,213
The guy is 40 years
older than me
1788
01:25:49,351 --> 01:25:51,732
and he runs circles around me.
1789
01:25:51,870 --> 01:25:54,287
- People all over the world
are basically the same.
1790
01:25:54,425 --> 01:25:56,116
They want to have a good life;
1791
01:25:56,254 --> 01:25:58,843
they want to have
basic human rights.
1792
01:25:58,981 --> 01:26:00,948
And human rights
is not just freedom of speech
1793
01:26:01,086 --> 01:26:02,812
or freedom of religion,
1794
01:26:02,950 --> 01:26:06,299
but it's the right to have a
decent home and place to live.
1795
01:26:06,437 --> 01:26:08,232
- When I look and see
the homeowners
1796
01:26:08,370 --> 01:26:10,717
and then I see
all the wonderful volunteers
1797
01:26:10,855 --> 01:26:14,859
who are just working
to do something good
1798
01:26:14,997 --> 01:26:17,862
for somebody who needs help,
so I thank you.
1799
01:26:18,000 --> 01:26:20,520
- When the build is done,
okay,
1800
01:26:20,658 --> 01:26:23,523
when everybody can't walk
one more second further,
1801
01:26:23,661 --> 01:26:25,456
this is when the Carters
start.
1802
01:26:25,594 --> 01:26:26,974
They'll go around,
house-to-house,
1803
01:26:27,112 --> 01:26:28,976
they'll take pictures
with a group,
1804
01:26:29,114 --> 01:26:32,014
because what he tells you
when you first get there...
1805
01:26:32,152 --> 01:26:36,467
"If we're taking a picture,
1806
01:26:36,605 --> 01:26:38,469
"it's going to put
three of us out of work:
1807
01:26:38,607 --> 01:26:40,471
You, me, and whoever's
taking then picture."
1808
01:26:40,609 --> 01:26:42,162
Right?
So we don't take pictures.
1809
01:26:42,300 --> 01:26:43,784
We'll all take pictures
at the end.
1810
01:26:43,922 --> 01:26:46,994
That shows you how quick
he's ready to get to work.
1811
01:26:47,132 --> 01:26:48,617
It's not a competition.
1812
01:26:48,755 --> 01:26:50,791
This is his words:
"It's not a competition,
1813
01:26:50,929 --> 01:26:53,000
as long as our house
gets done first."
1814
01:26:53,138 --> 01:26:55,382
That's...that's how he does it.
1815
01:26:55,520 --> 01:26:59,593
[Cheers and applause]
1816
01:26:59,731 --> 01:27:04,149
- "Itinerant songsters
visit our village."
1817
01:27:04,288 --> 01:27:09,914
When some poets came to plains
one night, two with guitars,
1818
01:27:10,052 --> 01:27:11,605
their poems taught us
how to look
1819
01:27:11,743 --> 01:27:15,954
and maybe laugh at what we
were and felt and thought.
1820
01:27:16,092 --> 01:27:18,957
After that, I rushed to write
in fumbling lines
1821
01:27:19,095 --> 01:27:23,410
why we should care about
a distant starving child.
1822
01:27:23,548 --> 01:27:26,517
I found my words
would seldom flow,
1823
01:27:26,655 --> 01:27:29,830
and then I turned to closer,
simpler themes:
1824
01:27:29,968 --> 01:27:34,214
A pony, mama as a nurse,
the sight of geese,
1825
01:27:34,352 --> 01:27:37,528
the song of whales,
a pasture gate,
1826
01:27:37,666 --> 01:27:40,324
a racist curse,
a possum hunt,
1827
01:27:40,462 --> 01:27:42,981
a battle prayer.
I learned from poetry
1828
01:27:43,119 --> 01:27:47,400
that art is best derived
from artless things,
1829
01:27:47,538 --> 01:27:49,988
that mysteries might
be explored and understood
1830
01:27:50,126 --> 01:27:55,028
from that which Springs most
freely from mind and heart.
1831
01:27:55,166 --> 01:27:58,997
As a teenager I began to hear
a lot about this poetic figure
1832
01:27:59,135 --> 01:28:01,483
who was running for president
of the United States.
1833
01:28:01,621 --> 01:28:04,934
He quoted Bob Dylan,
who was at that time my actual
1834
01:28:05,072 --> 01:28:08,800
president of the United States,
my United States.
1835
01:28:08,938 --> 01:28:10,940
He campaigned
with the Allman brothers.
1836
01:28:11,078 --> 01:28:13,253
You got the feeling if his hair
was just a little longer
1837
01:28:13,391 --> 01:28:16,014
he'd be in the Allman brothers.
1838
01:28:16,152 --> 01:28:19,397
But this was the first world
leader I ever heard
1839
01:28:19,535 --> 01:28:22,158
who knew the words
to all the songs
1840
01:28:22,297 --> 01:28:24,471
that were
my generation's telegraph.
1841
01:28:24,609 --> 01:28:27,681
[Upbeat music]
1842
01:28:27,819 --> 01:28:30,063
♪ ♪
1843
01:28:30,201 --> 01:28:31,685
♪ oh, yeah ♪
1844
01:28:31,823 --> 01:28:33,238
♪ ♪
1845
01:28:33,377 --> 01:28:35,033
♪ oh, yeah ♪
1846
01:28:35,171 --> 01:28:42,075
♪ ♪
1847
01:28:43,870 --> 01:28:48,253
♪ one man comes
in the name of love ♪
1848
01:28:48,392 --> 01:28:53,155
♪ one man come and go ♪
1849
01:28:53,293 --> 01:28:57,297
♪ one man come he to justify ♪
1850
01:28:57,435 --> 01:29:01,336
♪ one man to overthrow ♪
1851
01:29:01,474 --> 01:29:05,650
♪ in the name of love ♪
1852
01:29:05,788 --> 01:29:10,241
♪ what more
in the name of love? ♪
1853
01:29:10,379 --> 01:29:14,728
♪ In the name of love ♪
1854
01:29:14,866 --> 01:29:18,353
♪ what more
in the name of love? ♪
1855
01:29:18,491 --> 01:29:20,872
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
1856
01:29:21,010 --> 01:29:27,948
♪ ♪
1857
01:29:29,087 --> 01:29:32,988
♪ oh, oh, oh, oh,
oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
1858
01:29:33,126 --> 01:29:35,266
♪ oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
1859
01:29:35,404 --> 01:29:41,065
♪ oh, oh, oh, oh,
in the name ♪
1860
01:29:41,203 --> 01:29:44,137
- Bono is a rock star,
nile's a rock star,
1861
01:29:44,275 --> 01:29:48,244
but president Carter was a rock
star to everyone that night.
1862
01:29:48,383 --> 01:29:49,591
- I have no way
of knowing this,
1863
01:29:49,729 --> 01:29:50,971
but I bet you,
1864
01:29:51,109 --> 01:29:53,042
after the history books
have been written,
1865
01:29:53,180 --> 01:29:56,874
people are going to see him in
a very, very different light.
1866
01:29:57,012 --> 01:29:59,566
- Often people say,
"don't meet your idols,
1867
01:29:59,704 --> 01:30:02,155
because they're never gonna
live up to what you expect."
1868
01:30:02,293 --> 01:30:06,539
That was not the case
for president Carter.
1869
01:30:06,677 --> 01:30:09,473
[Mellow guitar music]
1870
01:30:09,611 --> 01:30:15,617
♪ ♪
1871
01:30:15,755 --> 01:30:17,584
- We have any visitors here?
1872
01:30:17,722 --> 01:30:20,829
[Laughter]
Okay.
1873
01:30:20,967 --> 01:30:23,694
And where are you from?
I wanna start here,
1874
01:30:23,832 --> 01:30:25,523
on the front,
and where are you from?
1875
01:30:25,661 --> 01:30:27,283
- Maryland.
- Maryland.
1876
01:30:27,422 --> 01:30:28,595
- California.
- California.
1877
01:30:28,733 --> 01:30:30,148
- South Dakota.
- South Dakota.
1878
01:30:30,286 --> 01:30:32,150
- California.
- California, oh, same.
1879
01:30:32,288 --> 01:30:34,877
- Texas.
- Texas.
1880
01:30:35,015 --> 01:30:36,534
- North Carolina.
- North Carolina.
1881
01:30:36,672 --> 01:30:39,054
- Washington, D.C.
- Washington, D.C.
1882
01:30:39,192 --> 01:30:41,021
I used to live
in some of these places.
1883
01:30:41,159 --> 01:30:43,817
[Laughter]
1884
01:30:43,955 --> 01:30:45,888
- Oh, it's impossible
to define Jimmy.
1885
01:30:46,026 --> 01:30:47,959
I think of him
as a simple kind of man,
1886
01:30:48,097 --> 01:30:50,168
like
in the Lynyrd Skynyrd song.
1887
01:30:50,306 --> 01:30:53,413
"He takes his time,
doesn't live too fast.
1888
01:30:53,551 --> 01:30:55,829
"Troubles come,
but they will pass.
1889
01:30:55,967 --> 01:30:58,038
"Find a woman and find love.
1890
01:30:58,176 --> 01:31:01,248
And don't forget
there's always someone above."
1891
01:31:01,386 --> 01:31:03,181
There's many sides to him.
1892
01:31:03,319 --> 01:31:06,771
He's a nuclear engineer,
woodworking carpenter.
1893
01:31:06,909 --> 01:31:09,981
He's also a poet.
He's a dirt farmer.
1894
01:31:10,119 --> 01:31:12,259
If you told me
he was a race car driver,
1895
01:31:12,397 --> 01:31:14,123
I wouldn't even be surprised.
1896
01:31:14,261 --> 01:31:19,163
- It's up to every one of us
to make a basic decision:
1897
01:31:19,301 --> 01:31:23,926
"This is the kind of person
that I want to be."
1898
01:31:24,064 --> 01:31:25,583
♪ ♪
1899
01:31:25,721 --> 01:31:29,345
- ♪ oh, don't you worry ♪
1900
01:31:29,484 --> 01:31:31,244
♪ you'll find yourself ♪
1901
01:31:31,382 --> 01:31:33,384
- Exactly. Perfect.
1902
01:31:33,522 --> 01:31:39,183
- ♪ Follow your heart
and nothing else ♪
1903
01:31:39,321 --> 01:31:40,943
- I mean, I've watched him
over the years
1904
01:31:41,081 --> 01:31:44,119
and I've watched him
do what I think
1905
01:31:44,257 --> 01:31:48,606
was the right thing to do,
time after time after time.
1906
01:31:48,744 --> 01:31:50,056
With all the odds against him,
1907
01:31:50,194 --> 01:31:53,197
he still did
what he thought was right.
1908
01:31:53,335 --> 01:31:57,235
That's not a bad pattern
for all of us to follow.
1909
01:31:57,373 --> 01:32:00,584
- ♪ And be a simple ♪
1910
01:32:00,722 --> 01:32:04,657
♪ kind of man ♪
1911
01:32:04,795 --> 01:32:08,557
♪ oh, won't you do this
for me, son ♪
1912
01:32:08,695 --> 01:32:12,250
♪ if you can ♪
1913
01:32:12,388 --> 01:32:16,841
- His love for music makes
all kind of sense to me,
1914
01:32:16,979 --> 01:32:20,327
because music
is the voice of the heart.
1915
01:32:20,465 --> 01:32:22,537
Music is the voice of the soul.
1916
01:32:22,675 --> 01:32:24,297
When you talk
about heart and soul,
1917
01:32:24,435 --> 01:32:29,889
I think he's the president,
in my mind, of my living time,
1918
01:32:30,027 --> 01:32:33,893
that I can think of,
that brought it to the office.
1919
01:32:34,031 --> 01:32:36,412
- I think music
is the best proof
1920
01:32:36,551 --> 01:32:38,311
that people have
one thing in common,
1921
01:32:38,449 --> 01:32:39,415
no matter where they live,
1922
01:32:39,554 --> 01:32:41,314
no matter
what language they speak.
1923
01:32:41,452 --> 01:32:43,178
In the future,
1924
01:32:43,316 --> 01:32:46,802
I think we'll recognize that
some of our religious beliefs,
1925
01:32:46,940 --> 01:32:50,841
belief in the truth,
belief in helping others,
1926
01:32:50,979 --> 01:32:54,292
and our faith in democracy
and freedom,
1927
01:32:54,430 --> 01:32:58,227
those are the kind of things
that are similar to music
1928
01:32:58,365 --> 01:32:59,677
that we can share
1929
01:32:59,815 --> 01:33:01,748
and that eventually
will bring us together,
1930
01:33:01,886 --> 01:33:03,716
even after a divisive era
1931
01:33:03,854 --> 01:33:08,375
of our constantly
changing history.
1932
01:33:08,513 --> 01:33:11,758
- ♪ Be a simple ♪
1933
01:33:11,896 --> 01:33:16,176
♪ be a simple man ♪
1934
01:33:16,314 --> 01:33:18,627
- Governor, to what extent
do you feel you will succeed,
1935
01:33:18,765 --> 01:33:20,249
and I mean by that,
will you be satisfied
1936
01:33:20,387 --> 01:33:21,906
if you just get through it
or do you
1937
01:33:22,044 --> 01:33:25,082
really think that you have
a chance for greatness?
1938
01:33:25,220 --> 01:33:28,982
- Well, I hope I have a chance
to exemplify accurately
1939
01:33:29,120 --> 01:33:31,329
what the American people are
and what they would like to be.
1940
01:33:31,467 --> 01:33:33,366
If I can stay close
to the people of this country
1941
01:33:33,504 --> 01:33:36,058
and not disappoint them,
1942
01:33:36,196 --> 01:33:38,336
I think I have a chance
to be a great president.
1943
01:33:38,474 --> 01:33:39,372
- ♪ Ow! ♪
1944
01:33:39,510 --> 01:33:41,546
♪ We the people ♪
1945
01:33:41,685 --> 01:33:43,583
♪ remember y'all ♪
1946
01:33:43,721 --> 01:33:45,861
♪ got to make the world
go 'round ♪
1947
01:33:45,999 --> 01:33:48,553
♪ got to make the world now ♪
1948
01:33:48,692 --> 01:33:52,661
♪ we the people ♪
1949
01:33:52,799 --> 01:33:54,698
♪ got to make the world
go 'round ♪
1950
01:33:54,836 --> 01:33:57,045
♪ got to make the world now ♪
1951
01:33:57,183 --> 01:33:58,909
- ♪ Earnin' the knack ♪
1952
01:33:59,047 --> 01:34:01,394
♪ vast regret ♪
1953
01:34:01,532 --> 01:34:03,016
♪ everybody sweatin' ♪
1954
01:34:03,154 --> 01:34:05,674
♪ what you give
is what you get ♪
1955
01:34:05,812 --> 01:34:10,230
- ♪ hot pants in style,
don't let our world go wild ♪
1956
01:34:10,368 --> 01:34:15,028
♪ mama's youngest child
is learning fast ♪
1957
01:34:15,166 --> 01:34:19,170
♪ we the people,
remember y'all ♪
1958
01:34:19,308 --> 01:34:21,483
♪ got to make the world
go 'round ♪
1959
01:34:21,621 --> 01:34:23,554
♪ got to make the world now ♪
1960
01:34:23,692 --> 01:34:26,522
[Upbeat rock music]
1961
01:34:26,661 --> 01:34:33,737
♪ ♪
1962
01:34:50,512 --> 01:34:53,342
[Cheers and applause]
1963
01:34:53,480 --> 01:35:00,418
♪ ♪
1964
01:35:35,764 --> 01:35:38,836
I believe the future's gonna be
very bright for all of us.
1965
01:35:38,974 --> 01:35:40,424
You're partners of mine.
1966
01:35:40,562 --> 01:35:45,118
Together, I'm sure
we'll reach for greatness,
1967
01:35:45,256 --> 01:35:47,500
and we'll never disappoint
the people
1968
01:35:47,638 --> 01:35:49,640
who put that trust in us.
1969
01:35:49,778 --> 01:35:51,262
Thank you. Have a good time.
1970
01:35:51,400 --> 01:35:53,506
We'll be seeing you tomorrow,
a lot of you.
1971
01:35:53,644 --> 01:35:54,956
Goodnight, everybody.
1972
01:35:55,094 --> 01:35:58,166
[Cheers and applause]
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