1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:21,952 --> 00:00:24,817 [projector clicking, whirring] 4 00:00:31,031 --> 00:00:36,450 - I've never had more faith in America than I do today. 5 00:00:36,588 --> 00:00:40,626 We have an America that in Bob Dylan's phrase, 6 00:00:40,764 --> 00:00:45,631 is "busy being born," not busy dying. 7 00:00:45,769 --> 00:00:48,703 [cheers and applause] 8 00:01:04,478 --> 00:01:07,239 [Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man"] 9 00:01:07,377 --> 00:01:10,104 ♪ ♪ 10 00:01:10,242 --> 00:01:12,417 - ♪ Hey Mr. Tambourine Man... ♪ 11 00:01:12,555 --> 00:01:14,488 - All right. - ♪ Play a song for me... ♪ 12 00:01:14,626 --> 00:01:16,559 - Sounds familiar. - ♪ I'm not sleepy ♪ 13 00:01:16,697 --> 00:01:20,977 ♪ And there is no place I'm going to ♪ 14 00:01:21,115 --> 00:01:26,155 ♪ Hey Mr. Tambourine Man play a song for me ♪ 15 00:01:26,293 --> 00:01:32,747 ♪ In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you ♪ 16 00:01:32,885 --> 00:01:35,025 ♪ ♪ 17 00:01:35,164 --> 00:01:38,063 ♪ Though I know that evening's empire ♪ 18 00:01:38,201 --> 00:01:41,342 ♪ Has returned into sand ♪ 19 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:43,689 ♪ Vanished from my hand ♪ 20 00:01:43,827 --> 00:01:46,036 ♪ Left me blindly here to stand ♪ 21 00:01:46,175 --> 00:01:49,212 ♪ But still not sleeping ♪ 22 00:01:49,350 --> 00:01:52,353 ♪ My weariness amazes me ♪ 23 00:01:52,491 --> 00:01:55,045 ♪ I'm branded on my feet ♪ 24 00:01:55,184 --> 00:01:57,496 ♪ I have no one to meet ♪ 25 00:01:57,634 --> 00:02:00,050 ♪ And the ancient empty street's ♪ 26 00:02:00,189 --> 00:02:03,571 ♪ Too dead for dreaming ♪ 27 00:02:03,709 --> 00:02:07,023 - I used to know all the big Bob Dylan's records 28 00:02:07,161 --> 00:02:08,507 before I was governor in the'80s, 29 00:02:08,645 --> 00:02:12,546 and, uh--and I--I know I think everything that Bob did 30 00:02:12,684 --> 00:02:14,168 that, uh, Willie Nelson ever wrote, 31 00:02:14,306 --> 00:02:16,101 and of course the Allman Brothers 32 00:02:16,239 --> 00:02:17,413 helped put me in the White House 33 00:02:17,551 --> 00:02:19,069 by raising money when I didn't have any money. 34 00:02:19,208 --> 00:02:23,004 [rock music playing] 35 00:02:23,143 --> 00:02:26,042 - ♪ 'Cause there's a man down there ♪ 36 00:02:26,180 --> 00:02:29,045 ♪ Might be your man I don't know ♪ 37 00:02:29,183 --> 00:02:30,391 ♪ ♪ 38 00:02:30,529 --> 00:02:32,428 - Gregg and I, we're good friends. 39 00:02:32,566 --> 00:02:33,739 The Allman Brothers have been here, 40 00:02:33,877 --> 00:02:36,086 and Bob Dylan has not been here, 41 00:02:36,225 --> 00:02:37,467 but Willie Nelson has been here, 42 00:02:37,605 --> 00:02:39,745 and--and Johnny Cash has been here. 43 00:02:39,883 --> 00:02:43,404 - ♪ We got married in a fever ♪ 44 00:02:43,542 --> 00:02:45,924 ♪ Hotter than a pepper sprout ♪ 45 00:02:46,062 --> 00:02:47,926 - I was there when he brought June Cash 46 00:02:48,064 --> 00:02:49,169 down here to meet me. 47 00:02:49,307 --> 00:02:50,791 We always claimed that she was my cousin. 48 00:02:50,929 --> 00:02:53,587 [rock music] 49 00:02:53,725 --> 00:02:56,590 [all singing] 50 00:02:56,728 --> 00:02:59,938 ♪ ♪ 51 00:03:00,076 --> 00:03:03,113 When Willie Nelson wrote his autobiography, 52 00:03:03,252 --> 00:03:08,188 he confessed that he smoked pot, uh, in the White House 53 00:03:08,326 --> 00:03:11,156 one--one night when he was spending the night with me, 54 00:03:11,294 --> 00:03:15,471 and he says that his companion that shared the pot with him 55 00:03:15,609 --> 00:03:17,300 was one of the servants at the White House. 56 00:03:17,438 --> 00:03:18,957 That is not exactly true. 57 00:03:19,095 --> 00:03:21,270 It actually was one of my sons, 58 00:03:21,408 --> 00:03:24,652 which he didn't want to, uh, you know, 59 00:03:24,790 --> 00:03:27,828 categorize as a--as a pot smoker like him. 60 00:03:27,966 --> 00:03:30,624 [all singing] 61 00:03:30,762 --> 00:03:33,937 There were some people who didn't like my being deeply 62 00:03:34,075 --> 00:03:36,077 involved with Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan 63 00:03:36,216 --> 00:03:39,598 and disreputable, you know, rock and rollers, 64 00:03:39,736 --> 00:03:41,704 but I didn't care about that because I was doing 65 00:03:41,842 --> 00:03:45,052 what I really believed and the response I think 66 00:03:45,190 --> 00:03:47,917 from the followers of those musicians 67 00:03:48,055 --> 00:03:52,508 was much more influential than a few people who thought that 68 00:03:52,646 --> 00:03:54,164 being associated with rock and roll 69 00:03:54,303 --> 00:03:59,377 and radical people was, uh, inappropriate for a president. 70 00:03:59,515 --> 00:04:04,727 - ♪ Whether the wrath of ♪ 71 00:04:04,865 --> 00:04:08,903 ♪ The storm-tossed sea ♪ 72 00:04:09,041 --> 00:04:10,974 ♪ ♪ 73 00:04:11,112 --> 00:04:17,291 ♪ The Master of ocean ♪ 74 00:04:17,429 --> 00:04:22,607 ♪ And earth and skies ♪ 75 00:04:22,745 --> 00:04:25,610 ♪ Shall sweetly ♪ [cheering] 76 00:04:25,748 --> 00:04:28,440 - One of the things that has held America together 77 00:04:28,578 --> 00:04:32,064 when we've been together has been the music that we share 78 00:04:32,202 --> 00:04:33,549 and--and love. 79 00:04:33,687 --> 00:04:35,413 Well, I'd say that the common beat 80 00:04:35,551 --> 00:04:37,069 that people have within them, 81 00:04:37,207 --> 00:04:39,934 a desire for country music, a desire for rock and roll, 82 00:04:40,072 --> 00:04:41,350 or a desire for jazz, 83 00:04:41,488 --> 00:04:42,799 or a desire for classical music, 84 00:04:42,937 --> 00:04:45,492 is something that binds people together. 85 00:04:45,630 --> 00:04:47,114 - [humming] 86 00:04:47,252 --> 00:04:48,667 - When I was a child, for instance, 87 00:04:48,805 --> 00:04:50,635 I used to go to gospel performances 88 00:04:50,773 --> 00:04:52,740 just of local singers 89 00:04:52,878 --> 00:04:55,847 and sometimes we'd have all night gospel sings, 90 00:04:55,985 --> 00:04:58,332 at various churches around where I lived, 91 00:04:58,470 --> 00:05:03,475 and so I think that the origin of--of jazz and maybe later 92 00:05:03,613 --> 00:05:07,686 rock and roll came out of, uh, gospel music. 93 00:05:07,824 --> 00:05:10,620 - Jimmy Carter was from Georgia 94 00:05:10,758 --> 00:05:12,622 and he wasn't from Atlanta, by the way. 95 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,763 He was from this little town down there in south Georgia 96 00:05:15,901 --> 00:05:18,214 so to appreciate gospel music 97 00:05:18,352 --> 00:05:21,907 and to understand what Shirley Caesar was about 98 00:05:22,045 --> 00:05:23,909 was real and-- and you could tell it. 99 00:05:24,047 --> 00:05:26,636 - Jimmy Carter would go to a black church 100 00:05:26,774 --> 00:05:28,776 and they'd start singing. He'd start singing. 101 00:05:28,914 --> 00:05:30,813 He wouldn't pick up the hymn book. 102 00:05:30,951 --> 00:05:33,643 He knew all the words to the songs. 103 00:05:33,781 --> 00:05:37,233 - ♪ Gonna lay down my sword and shield ♪ 104 00:05:37,371 --> 00:05:39,511 ♪ Down by the riverside ♪ 105 00:05:39,649 --> 00:05:44,551 ♪ Study you know war no more ♪ 106 00:05:44,689 --> 00:05:48,727 ♪ I ain't gonna study war no more ♪ 107 00:05:48,865 --> 00:05:50,764 ♪ Study war no more ♪ 108 00:05:50,902 --> 00:05:55,251 ♪ Ain't gonna study no war no more ♪ 109 00:05:55,389 --> 00:05:57,080 ♪ Hallelujah ♪ 110 00:05:57,218 --> 00:06:00,429 - Yeah, we were raised, uh, on Mahalia Jackson. 111 00:06:00,567 --> 00:06:01,947 Uh, but what you always heard 112 00:06:02,085 --> 00:06:03,880 in Mahalia's voice was healing. 113 00:06:04,018 --> 00:06:05,848 I guess that's why they called rock and roll 114 00:06:05,986 --> 00:06:08,057 "the devil's music" because gospel was God's music, 115 00:06:08,195 --> 00:06:09,921 and that's where it all began, through it, 116 00:06:10,059 --> 00:06:12,510 and the, uh--the black sheep of the family 117 00:06:12,648 --> 00:06:15,409 was rock and roll, right? Uh... 118 00:06:15,547 --> 00:06:18,654 - But in the south it was so connected because 119 00:06:18,792 --> 00:06:21,070 I grew up singing in the church choir 120 00:06:21,208 --> 00:06:23,624 which was--which was fine. 121 00:06:23,762 --> 00:06:25,246 It was, you know, traditional church, 122 00:06:25,385 --> 00:06:26,662 you know, songs, 123 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:29,561 but I also grew up a huge Elvis Presley fan 124 00:06:29,699 --> 00:06:32,357 and Elvis was so influenced by gospel. 125 00:06:32,495 --> 00:06:37,327 - Gospel music is derived from deep within 126 00:06:37,466 --> 00:06:40,710 the heart of human beings. 127 00:06:40,848 --> 00:06:43,230 We have been to Waycross, Georgia, 128 00:06:43,368 --> 00:06:44,611 where they have all-day singing. 129 00:06:44,749 --> 00:06:46,682 It's about out at being 24 hours. 130 00:06:46,820 --> 00:06:48,615 We've been down to Bonifay, Florida, 131 00:06:48,753 --> 00:06:50,996 where they have 24-hour sings 132 00:06:51,134 --> 00:06:53,067 and we apologize for cutting this one short. 133 00:06:53,205 --> 00:06:56,105 [upbeat music] 134 00:06:56,243 --> 00:07:00,040 - ♪ Can't nobody do you like Jesus ♪ 135 00:07:00,178 --> 00:07:02,111 ♪ Can't nobody ♪ 136 00:07:02,249 --> 00:07:04,458 ♪ Do you like Jesus ♪ 137 00:07:04,596 --> 00:07:07,737 - There was a wonderful compatibility 138 00:07:07,875 --> 00:07:12,086 between the church songs that were prevalent 139 00:07:12,224 --> 00:07:15,124 in white churches and-- and church songs 140 00:07:15,262 --> 00:07:18,438 that were prevalent, uh, in African-American churches, 141 00:07:18,576 --> 00:07:22,269 and so I think music broke down barriers between people 142 00:07:22,407 --> 00:07:25,652 not only geographically but, um, with--between 143 00:07:25,790 --> 00:07:27,136 the two races. 144 00:07:27,274 --> 00:07:29,483 - I grew up listening to that because Dad-- 145 00:07:29,621 --> 00:07:31,451 that's part of what Dad played. 146 00:07:31,589 --> 00:07:34,177 We were liberals, and we were not racist, 147 00:07:34,315 --> 00:07:35,489 and in Plains, 148 00:07:35,627 --> 00:07:37,767 that meant that you had, like, two other friends. 149 00:07:37,905 --> 00:07:42,462 - He grew up in a county that was 80% black 150 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:46,362 and he probably never had white friends 151 00:07:46,500 --> 00:07:48,329 until he went to the Navy. 152 00:07:48,468 --> 00:07:52,230 H--he was just an anomaly that I'd never seen before. 153 00:07:52,368 --> 00:07:54,232 [all singing upbeat music] 154 00:07:54,370 --> 00:07:58,374 - ♪ I'll fly away oh glory ♪ 155 00:07:58,512 --> 00:08:02,171 ♪ I'll fly away ♪ 156 00:08:02,309 --> 00:08:07,141 ♪ When I die hallelujah by and by ♪ 157 00:08:07,279 --> 00:08:14,114 ♪ I'll fly away ♪ 158 00:08:14,252 --> 00:08:16,219 ♪ ♪ 159 00:08:16,357 --> 00:08:18,083 Oh! 160 00:08:18,221 --> 00:08:19,671 [cheers and applause] 161 00:08:19,809 --> 00:08:21,673 [tambourine rattling] 162 00:08:21,811 --> 00:08:24,883 [train wheels clacking] 163 00:08:34,272 --> 00:08:35,860 - Plains. 164 00:08:35,998 --> 00:08:38,897 Pioneering white men fought to claim the land 165 00:08:39,035 --> 00:08:41,417 of the Indians they sent west to die. 166 00:08:41,555 --> 00:08:45,455 Our families moved in then to occupy the rolling plains 167 00:08:45,594 --> 00:08:47,216 that gave the town its name. 168 00:08:47,354 --> 00:08:50,046 There were only half a thousand souls-- 169 00:08:50,184 --> 00:08:53,878 white and black, the master and the slave. 170 00:08:54,016 --> 00:08:56,501 Neither side ever forgot each other's ways 171 00:08:56,639 --> 00:08:58,814 to reach their common goals. 172 00:08:58,952 --> 00:09:02,403 - But now as equals free to rise and fall together, 173 00:09:02,542 --> 00:09:05,683 we've learned we must depend on one another. 174 00:09:05,821 --> 00:09:09,410 Though the town is small, we cherish it as haven, 175 00:09:09,549 --> 00:09:11,792 home, and friend, 176 00:09:11,930 --> 00:09:14,657 and won't let strife or missed chance 177 00:09:14,795 --> 00:09:16,797 bring to all our dreams-- our modest, 178 00:09:16,935 --> 00:09:19,282 tempered dreams--an end. 179 00:09:19,420 --> 00:09:20,525 That's beautiful. 180 00:09:20,663 --> 00:09:23,493 [country music] 181 00:09:23,632 --> 00:09:26,427 ♪ ♪ 182 00:09:26,566 --> 00:09:29,430 [chickens clucking] 183 00:09:29,569 --> 00:09:35,920 ♪ ♪ 184 00:09:36,886 --> 00:09:38,163 - My folks, 185 00:09:38,301 --> 00:09:39,855 they've been farmers in Georgia 186 00:09:39,993 --> 00:09:41,891 for more than 200 years 187 00:09:42,029 --> 00:09:45,550 and we've been living around here for, oh, 150 years. 188 00:09:45,688 --> 00:09:48,933 Well, I grew up in a home that didn't have running water 189 00:09:49,071 --> 00:09:52,108 or electricity until I was a teenager. 190 00:09:52,246 --> 00:09:54,455 And although I've had a chance to get an education 191 00:09:54,594 --> 00:09:56,250 as an engineer and a scientist, 192 00:09:56,388 --> 00:09:58,563 nobody in my family before my generation 193 00:09:58,701 --> 00:10:00,185 ever had a chance to finish high school. 194 00:10:00,323 --> 00:10:01,531 We've always worked for a living. 195 00:10:01,670 --> 00:10:03,016 We know what it means to work. 196 00:10:03,154 --> 00:10:05,328 - I never did--I never did spank him. 197 00:10:05,466 --> 00:10:09,194 No, he was--I don't-- did I ever spank-- 198 00:10:09,332 --> 00:10:11,369 well, I might have given you a little licking in passing, 199 00:10:11,507 --> 00:10:13,613 but as for real whipping, I never gave him one. 200 00:10:13,751 --> 00:10:15,649 That was--I left that with his father. 201 00:10:15,787 --> 00:10:17,893 - We had a battery radio, 202 00:10:18,031 --> 00:10:20,481 and in the times where we used it, 203 00:10:20,620 --> 00:10:23,415 Daddy was very stingy with how many hours a day we used 204 00:10:23,553 --> 00:10:25,486 the battery radio so we wouldn't run the battery down, 205 00:10:25,625 --> 00:10:28,110 but we could get Nashville and, 206 00:10:28,248 --> 00:10:30,215 uh, sometimes we could get Chicago, 207 00:10:30,353 --> 00:10:33,080 and we could hear country music then, 208 00:10:33,218 --> 00:10:35,773 and I would listen to Glenn Miller for 15 minutes 209 00:10:35,911 --> 00:10:38,914 so that was my only contact you might say 210 00:10:39,052 --> 00:10:40,398 with the outside world at all. 211 00:10:40,536 --> 00:10:43,435 [jazz music] 212 00:10:43,573 --> 00:10:45,127 ♪ ♪ 213 00:10:45,265 --> 00:10:47,474 - I look at the great composers 214 00:10:47,612 --> 00:10:49,200 that have come before me 215 00:10:49,338 --> 00:10:52,306 and I see how they changed society. 216 00:10:52,444 --> 00:10:56,345 I see how--as Harry Belafonte once said to me-- 217 00:10:56,483 --> 00:11:00,556 that, um, artists are the gatekeepers of truth. 218 00:11:00,694 --> 00:11:02,592 - Did your dad ever play an instrument? 219 00:11:02,731 --> 00:11:04,525 - The stereo. 220 00:11:04,664 --> 00:11:06,458 [laughs] He played the stereo well. 221 00:11:06,596 --> 00:11:08,529 When--when we had no money at all, 222 00:11:08,668 --> 00:11:11,878 Dad spent $600 on the best stereo in Plains, Georgia 223 00:11:12,016 --> 00:11:13,776 with the huge speakers and-- 224 00:11:13,914 --> 00:11:14,984 I mean, it would blow you out. 225 00:11:15,122 --> 00:11:17,090 It was fantastic, so-- 226 00:11:17,228 --> 00:11:19,092 and he would let us as children-- 227 00:11:19,230 --> 00:11:21,301 me and my brothers, uh, play our music on it, 228 00:11:21,439 --> 00:11:23,993 and he would stay in there and--and learn the songs 229 00:11:24,131 --> 00:11:26,030 and try to figure out what we were doing that way. 230 00:11:26,168 --> 00:11:27,721 It's one of the ways that he kind of stayed in touch 231 00:11:27,859 --> 00:11:29,136 with his children. 232 00:11:29,274 --> 00:11:31,483 - I'd like to welcome our special guest this morning 233 00:11:31,621 --> 00:11:33,002 to the open line program, 234 00:11:33,140 --> 00:11:35,280 former state senator and gubernatorial candidate 235 00:11:35,418 --> 00:11:36,557 Jimmy Carter. 236 00:11:36,696 --> 00:11:40,423 [rock music] 237 00:11:40,561 --> 00:11:42,425 - Well, I replaced Lester Maddox 238 00:11:42,563 --> 00:11:43,703 in the Governor's Mansion, 239 00:11:43,841 --> 00:11:46,636 and Lester Maddox's symbol was a pick handle 240 00:11:46,775 --> 00:11:50,813 that he used to drive away African-American customers 241 00:11:50,951 --> 00:11:52,608 who came to his chicken restaurant. 242 00:11:52,746 --> 00:11:54,299 He bragged on that 243 00:11:54,437 --> 00:11:57,613 as being a stalwart defender of racial segregation. 244 00:11:57,751 --> 00:12:00,720 [tense music] 245 00:12:00,858 --> 00:12:07,002 ♪ ♪ 246 00:12:07,140 --> 00:12:08,693 - It was a really hard time politically. 247 00:12:08,831 --> 00:12:09,970 When I was in high school, 248 00:12:10,108 --> 00:12:11,661 I got beat after school every single day 249 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:14,941 because I refused to denounce African-Americans. 250 00:12:15,079 --> 00:12:16,632 I mean, I would--my shirt would be torn off. 251 00:12:16,770 --> 00:12:19,773 I would go home and my mother would take a new shirt for me 252 00:12:19,911 --> 00:12:22,672 to--to wear, um, the rest of the last half 253 00:12:22,811 --> 00:12:24,053 of the classrooms. 254 00:12:24,191 --> 00:12:25,745 It was--it was a bad time back then. 255 00:12:25,883 --> 00:12:29,852 - For years, the solid South were very segregationist 256 00:12:29,990 --> 00:12:32,648 and very--let's just call it-- racist. 257 00:12:32,786 --> 00:12:34,650 They were anti-black. 258 00:12:34,788 --> 00:12:36,514 - Uh, when I came into the Governor's Mansion, 259 00:12:36,652 --> 00:12:37,929 one of the first things I did 260 00:12:38,067 --> 00:12:39,551 in the Governor's Office in the Capitol Building 261 00:12:39,689 --> 00:12:43,072 was to hang Martin Luther King Jr.'s portrait there, 262 00:12:43,210 --> 00:12:46,041 because he had won the Nobel Peace Prize. 263 00:12:46,179 --> 00:12:47,905 He was the only Georgian to become the recipient 264 00:12:48,043 --> 00:12:49,872 of the Nobel Peace Award, 265 00:12:50,010 --> 00:12:52,288 and whereas the Reverend Dr. King was a man 266 00:12:52,426 --> 00:12:55,257 who placed the welfare of his fellow men above his own 267 00:12:55,395 --> 00:12:57,707 and who assumed the burden of demanding of a country, 268 00:12:57,846 --> 00:13:00,572 that it remedy the inequities and discrepancies experienced 269 00:13:00,710 --> 00:13:03,403 by the black man and poor man of whatever color. 270 00:13:03,541 --> 00:13:07,441 - ♪ Oh Georgia ♪ 271 00:13:07,579 --> 00:13:09,823 [piano music] 272 00:13:09,961 --> 00:13:13,137 ♪ Oh Georgia ♪ 273 00:13:13,275 --> 00:13:16,002 - Jimmy Carter was a, um-- a leader in civil rights. 274 00:13:16,140 --> 00:13:18,521 He was part of this transitional generation 275 00:13:18,659 --> 00:13:23,147 of Southern governors that were just absolutely magnificent. 276 00:13:23,285 --> 00:13:25,839 - The greatest thing that ever happened to the South 277 00:13:25,977 --> 00:13:27,841 was the passage of the Civil Rights Act 278 00:13:27,979 --> 00:13:31,741 and the granting to a minority group for a chance to vote, 279 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:32,915 to hold a job, 280 00:13:33,053 --> 00:13:35,228 to buy a home, to be educated, 281 00:13:35,366 --> 00:13:39,197 to travel, on an equal basis, 282 00:13:39,335 --> 00:13:41,096 in accordance with their own choice. 283 00:13:41,234 --> 00:13:43,374 - There were southerners who, a lot of them 284 00:13:43,512 --> 00:13:46,549 went to the Ivy Leagues and then came back home. 285 00:13:46,687 --> 00:13:49,829 They started bipartisan think tanks. 286 00:13:49,967 --> 00:13:51,761 They were Freedom Riders. 287 00:13:51,900 --> 00:13:56,732 There was this Camelot decade or two in the South 288 00:13:56,870 --> 00:13:58,734 that Carter was part of. 289 00:13:58,872 --> 00:14:01,633 - Jimmy Carter represented the New South. 290 00:14:01,771 --> 00:14:05,396 He represented, um, hope for, um, the South where-- 291 00:14:05,534 --> 00:14:07,260 as the old slaves used to sing-- 292 00:14:07,398 --> 00:14:09,572 "There'd be plenty good room for all God's children." 293 00:14:09,710 --> 00:14:10,780 And--and he did. 294 00:14:10,919 --> 00:14:12,748 He represented that and embodied it. 295 00:14:12,886 --> 00:14:15,751 - ♪ Oh Georgia ♪ 296 00:14:15,889 --> 00:14:18,547 [chuckles] 297 00:14:18,685 --> 00:14:21,343 ♪ My little Georgia ♪ 298 00:14:21,481 --> 00:14:25,140 ♪ Mm-hmm ♪ 299 00:14:25,278 --> 00:14:30,386 ♪ Oh no, no, no, no peace I find ♪ 300 00:14:30,524 --> 00:14:32,802 ♪ ♪ 301 00:14:32,941 --> 00:14:34,804 ♪ This old sweet song ♪ 302 00:14:34,943 --> 00:14:37,221 ♪ ♪ 303 00:14:37,359 --> 00:14:41,466 ♪ Keeps Georgia on my mind ♪ 304 00:14:41,604 --> 00:14:44,262 ♪ ♪ 305 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:47,438 - So Georgia is this very interesting place. 306 00:14:47,576 --> 00:14:48,646 As a black musician, 307 00:14:48,784 --> 00:14:50,130 you can't help 308 00:14:50,268 --> 00:14:52,926 but be influenced by James Brown lyrics, 309 00:14:53,064 --> 00:14:54,652 and when James Brown goes, 310 00:14:54,790 --> 00:14:57,966 "The name of this place, good God, is Augusta, GA," 311 00:14:58,104 --> 00:15:02,487 Georgia, in our heads, has a different kind of vibe. 312 00:15:02,625 --> 00:15:06,146 - Music has the capacity to speak on multiple levels. 313 00:15:06,284 --> 00:15:09,909 I mean, there's the level of--of the words, the lyrics. 314 00:15:10,047 --> 00:15:11,151 That's there. 315 00:15:11,289 --> 00:15:12,842 But sometimes, there's a deeper level 316 00:15:12,981 --> 00:15:16,053 on what the music connects inside the brain 317 00:15:16,191 --> 00:15:18,538 and maybe better yet, inside the soul. 318 00:15:18,676 --> 00:15:20,574 - ♪ What ♪ 319 00:15:20,712 --> 00:15:22,024 ♪ Bring it out ♪ 320 00:15:22,162 --> 00:15:24,716 ♪ We all get together in any type of weather ♪ 321 00:15:24,854 --> 00:15:26,442 ♪ Do it, what ♪ 322 00:15:26,580 --> 00:15:29,135 - We were coming into a new era, 323 00:15:29,273 --> 00:15:32,069 and the Allman Brothers was an integrated band, 324 00:15:32,207 --> 00:15:33,967 with Jaimoe on drums, 325 00:15:34,105 --> 00:15:35,762 and I think Carter, you know, 326 00:15:35,900 --> 00:15:37,384 he did that politically 327 00:15:37,522 --> 00:15:39,421 while we were doing it perhaps musically. 328 00:15:39,559 --> 00:15:41,595 - In those days it was mostly rock and roll, 329 00:15:41,733 --> 00:15:43,943 but I was--we were all into folk a good bit 330 00:15:44,081 --> 00:15:45,013 because of the politics of it. 331 00:15:45,151 --> 00:15:48,016 [folk music] 332 00:15:48,154 --> 00:15:50,570 ♪ ♪ 333 00:15:50,708 --> 00:15:56,093 - ♪ I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more ♪ 334 00:15:56,231 --> 00:15:58,267 - When I was governor and my sons 335 00:15:58,405 --> 00:16:00,407 were living in the Governor's Mansion with me, 336 00:16:00,545 --> 00:16:04,446 Bob Dylan's music permeated the, uh, Governor's Mansion. 337 00:16:04,584 --> 00:16:06,310 My sons and I were brought closer together 338 00:16:06,448 --> 00:16:09,071 through Bob Dylan's songs. 339 00:16:09,209 --> 00:16:12,937 Chip knew every lyric of every Bob Dylan song 340 00:16:13,075 --> 00:16:14,352 that had ever been written. 341 00:16:14,490 --> 00:16:17,252 - I remember he and I had a spat, 342 00:16:17,390 --> 00:16:20,082 and I spent over a year without speaking to him, 343 00:16:20,220 --> 00:16:23,775 and we would communicate by the third song 344 00:16:23,913 --> 00:16:25,708 on the second Bob Dylan album 345 00:16:25,846 --> 00:16:27,503 and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah for over a year 346 00:16:27,641 --> 00:16:29,678 without ever actually talking to each other. 347 00:16:29,816 --> 00:16:32,750 - ♪ Well he hands you a nickel ♪ 348 00:16:32,888 --> 00:16:35,856 ♪ He hands you a dime ♪ 349 00:16:35,995 --> 00:16:38,135 ♪ He asks you with a grin ♪ 350 00:16:38,273 --> 00:16:40,792 ♪ If you're having a good time ♪ 351 00:16:40,930 --> 00:16:45,970 ♪ And he fines you every time you slam the door ♪ 352 00:16:46,108 --> 00:16:51,493 ♪ I ain't gonna work for Maggie's brother no more ♪ 353 00:16:51,631 --> 00:16:54,599 - Bob Dylan and his band performed in Atlanta, 354 00:16:54,737 --> 00:16:56,153 and I was governor, so I invited 355 00:16:56,291 --> 00:16:58,948 Bob Dylan and The Band to the Governor's Mansion, 356 00:16:59,087 --> 00:17:02,780 and my sons were very eager to be with The Band, 357 00:17:02,918 --> 00:17:04,747 and--and I was honored because Bob Dylan asked me 358 00:17:04,885 --> 00:17:07,336 to go out in the garden, as a matter of fact, 359 00:17:07,474 --> 00:17:09,476 and have a private conversation with him, 360 00:17:09,614 --> 00:17:10,857 and the only questions he asked me 361 00:17:10,995 --> 00:17:12,962 were questions about my Christian faith 362 00:17:13,101 --> 00:17:14,309 and what it meant to me 363 00:17:14,447 --> 00:17:16,345 and the basic principles of it. 364 00:17:16,483 --> 00:17:18,002 - When I first met Jimmy, 365 00:17:18,140 --> 00:17:21,592 the first thing he did was quote my songs back to me. 366 00:17:21,730 --> 00:17:24,974 It was the first time that I realized my songs 367 00:17:25,113 --> 00:17:29,324 had reached into--basically, into the establishment world, 368 00:17:29,462 --> 00:17:31,878 and I had no experience in that realm. 369 00:17:32,016 --> 00:17:34,984 Never seen that side. So it made me a little uneasy. 370 00:17:35,123 --> 00:17:40,404 He, uh, put my mind at ease by not talking down to me 371 00:17:40,542 --> 00:17:44,063 and, uh, showing me that he had a sincere appreciation 372 00:17:44,201 --> 00:17:46,341 of, uh, the songs I had written. 373 00:17:46,479 --> 00:17:48,895 - ♪ Men have tried to stop me ♪ 374 00:17:49,033 --> 00:17:52,105 ♪ Shake me up in my mind ♪ 375 00:17:52,243 --> 00:17:54,866 ♪ Said prove to me that he's Lord ♪ 376 00:17:55,004 --> 00:17:57,869 ♪ Show me a sign ♪ 377 00:17:58,007 --> 00:18:00,182 ♪ What kind of sign they need ♪ 378 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:02,667 ♪ When it all come from within ♪ 379 00:18:02,805 --> 00:18:05,084 ♪ When what's lost has been found ♪ 380 00:18:05,222 --> 00:18:07,569 ♪ What's to come has already been ♪ 381 00:18:07,707 --> 00:18:11,193 ♪ I just keep pressing on ♪ 382 00:18:11,331 --> 00:18:14,369 - ♪ On and on and on and on ♪ 383 00:18:14,507 --> 00:18:18,062 - He's a kindred spirit to me of a rare kind. 384 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:20,202 The kind of man you don't meet every day 385 00:18:20,340 --> 00:18:22,584 and that you're lucky to meet if you ever do. 386 00:18:22,722 --> 00:18:26,381 - Bob Dylan has been, you know, one of my best friends, 387 00:18:26,519 --> 00:18:28,797 along with Willie Nelson and others. 388 00:18:28,935 --> 00:18:31,006 - Probably, he and Bob had a lot of good ideas 389 00:18:31,144 --> 00:18:34,423 to exchange because they come from entirely different places. 390 00:18:34,561 --> 00:18:35,769 - Right. 391 00:18:35,907 --> 00:18:38,427 - Uh, But Jimmy and I, uh, 392 00:18:38,565 --> 00:18:40,291 basically come from the same spot. 393 00:18:40,429 --> 00:18:43,674 [upbeat music] 394 00:18:43,812 --> 00:18:45,745 - We had been invited to this party 395 00:18:45,883 --> 00:18:49,783 that Governor Carter was throwing for Bob Dylan. 396 00:18:49,921 --> 00:18:54,443 So we got there just as the last guest was leaving. 397 00:18:54,581 --> 00:18:56,790 - Bob Dylan and his band had already gone home, 398 00:18:56,928 --> 00:18:59,517 and I'm sure I had taken--I had taken off my, 399 00:18:59,655 --> 00:19:01,554 you know, dress-up clothes, kind of. 400 00:19:01,692 --> 00:19:05,040 - There's this guy standing on the porch, 401 00:19:05,178 --> 00:19:06,731 and he had on this old pair of Levi's 402 00:19:06,869 --> 00:19:08,940 with holes all in them. 403 00:19:09,078 --> 00:19:12,461 No shirt, no shoes, 404 00:19:12,599 --> 00:19:14,360 and I thought, "Who's this bum hanging out 405 00:19:14,498 --> 00:19:16,189 at the Governor's Mansion?" 406 00:19:16,327 --> 00:19:18,053 Well that was him. [laughing] 407 00:19:18,191 --> 00:19:21,746 There's a full bottle of J&B Scotch sitting there, 408 00:19:21,884 --> 00:19:26,130 which we proceeded to drink just about all of. 409 00:19:26,268 --> 00:19:28,270 [laughs] And he says, 410 00:19:28,408 --> 00:19:30,307 "You know, I'm gonna be our next president." 411 00:19:30,445 --> 00:19:32,930 - I went out on the porch and had a drink with, uh-- 412 00:19:33,068 --> 00:19:34,207 with Gregg, 413 00:19:34,345 --> 00:19:36,278 but I don't remember a bottle of scotch. 414 00:19:36,416 --> 00:19:38,763 I do not--I only--I generally limited myself 415 00:19:38,901 --> 00:19:42,836 to the one drink of wine or whiskey a day, 416 00:19:42,974 --> 00:19:44,804 so that may be a little bit of an exaggeration. 417 00:19:44,942 --> 00:19:48,428 - He was cool, he enjoyed our music, 418 00:19:48,566 --> 00:19:52,191 he was real, and he became a friend. 419 00:19:52,329 --> 00:19:55,228 - ♪ I'm not gonna let them catch me no ♪ 420 00:19:55,366 --> 00:20:00,129 ♪ I'm not gonna let them catch the midnight rider ♪ 421 00:20:00,268 --> 00:20:02,373 - The Marquee at the Civic Center tells the story: 422 00:20:02,511 --> 00:20:04,272 tomorrow evening at 5:30, 423 00:20:04,410 --> 00:20:06,205 the Jimmy Carter for President campaign 424 00:20:06,343 --> 00:20:07,999 officially gets underway. 425 00:20:08,137 --> 00:20:09,760 [phone ringing] 426 00:20:09,898 --> 00:20:11,244 - Jimmy Carter Campaign Headquarters, 427 00:20:11,382 --> 00:20:12,590 may I help you please? 428 00:20:12,728 --> 00:20:15,559 - ♪ Oh yeah hold on ♪ 429 00:20:15,697 --> 00:20:17,940 ♪ Hold on I'm coming ♪ 430 00:20:18,078 --> 00:20:20,322 ♪ Hold on ♪ 431 00:20:20,460 --> 00:20:23,705 ♪ Oh I'm coming, oh ♪ 432 00:20:23,843 --> 00:20:25,707 - Phil Walden, the band's manager, 433 00:20:25,845 --> 00:20:27,709 and the owner of Capricorn Records, 434 00:20:27,847 --> 00:20:30,159 announced that Governor Carter was going to come down 435 00:20:30,298 --> 00:20:33,301 to what we used to call the Capricorn, um, Picnic 436 00:20:33,439 --> 00:20:34,612 and Summer Games. 437 00:20:34,750 --> 00:20:37,995 - ♪ Something about you mama ♪ 438 00:20:38,133 --> 00:20:42,068 ♪ Sure give me the blues ♪ 439 00:20:42,206 --> 00:20:45,382 ♪ It ain't your drop stitch stockings ♪ 440 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:50,041 ♪ It ain't your blue buckle shoes ♪ 441 00:20:50,179 --> 00:20:53,182 - So many interesting, famous people came down 442 00:20:53,321 --> 00:20:55,806 to that thing--Bill Graham, 443 00:20:55,944 --> 00:20:57,566 you know, in the music business, 444 00:20:57,704 --> 00:21:00,880 Andy Warhol came at one point, 445 00:21:01,018 --> 00:21:02,778 and, lo and behold, 446 00:21:02,916 --> 00:21:05,367 he gets Governor Carter to come. 447 00:21:05,505 --> 00:21:07,852 - As one Republican to a Democrat, 448 00:21:07,990 --> 00:21:09,302 I will help you as president, sir. 449 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:11,408 - Well that's a good deal, and I thank you. 450 00:21:11,546 --> 00:21:13,030 - Phil came to the band and said, 451 00:21:13,168 --> 00:21:18,000 "Listen, Carter's gonna run. Uh, he needs some money. 452 00:21:18,138 --> 00:21:21,832 "He needs support. Uh, would you guys be willing, 453 00:21:21,970 --> 00:21:24,075 you know, to do some benefits for him?" 454 00:21:24,213 --> 00:21:26,388 - I think he's just a real fan of the arts. 455 00:21:26,526 --> 00:21:29,115 He came here one night to a recording session. 456 00:21:29,253 --> 00:21:33,188 So he befriended these-- these performers and, um-- 457 00:21:33,326 --> 00:21:38,055 and his interest was genuine, and they could sense that. 458 00:21:38,193 --> 00:21:42,301 - I think the vibe was, wow, here's this wonderful man 459 00:21:42,439 --> 00:21:45,269 who's been a great governor for the state of Georgia, 460 00:21:45,407 --> 00:21:46,615 a southerner, 461 00:21:46,753 --> 00:21:49,100 and we had come through the Nixon era, 462 00:21:49,238 --> 00:21:51,689 and we saw what happened with that. 463 00:21:51,827 --> 00:21:55,175 Isn't it time for somebody, uh, with great integrity 464 00:21:55,314 --> 00:21:57,454 and dignity to take this office? 465 00:21:57,592 --> 00:21:58,731 Does he really have a chance? 466 00:21:58,869 --> 00:22:00,974 You know, honestly, we probably thought, 467 00:22:01,112 --> 00:22:04,357 "The odds are a little low, but let's try. 468 00:22:04,495 --> 00:22:06,255 You never know until you try, right?" 469 00:22:06,394 --> 00:22:07,567 - Governor Carter, first of all, 470 00:22:07,705 --> 00:22:09,258 thank you very much for sparing the time 471 00:22:09,397 --> 00:22:10,777 to speak with me today. 472 00:22:10,915 --> 00:22:13,711 I know that you are very interested in rock music. 473 00:22:13,849 --> 00:22:14,678 - Yes, I am. 474 00:22:14,816 --> 00:22:17,163 I'm not only interested in it 475 00:22:17,301 --> 00:22:21,236 from what it signifies, uh, in our society, 476 00:22:21,374 --> 00:22:22,617 but also, I enjoy it. 477 00:22:22,755 --> 00:22:24,791 - Who do you most enjoy listening to? 478 00:22:24,929 --> 00:22:26,793 - I've really gotten to know the ones 479 00:22:26,931 --> 00:22:30,935 who record in Georgia better on a personal basis: 480 00:22:31,073 --> 00:22:33,559 The, uh, Marshall Tucker band and Charlie Daniels 481 00:22:33,697 --> 00:22:36,803 and, um--and, uh Allman Brothers. 482 00:22:36,941 --> 00:22:41,532 I wanna introduce to you my friends and your friends, 483 00:22:41,670 --> 00:22:43,327 the ones that are gonna help me get elected, 484 00:22:43,465 --> 00:22:46,330 along with you, the great Allman Brothers! 485 00:22:46,468 --> 00:22:49,506 [cheers and applause] 486 00:22:52,129 --> 00:22:53,993 - When we did that first concert 487 00:22:54,131 --> 00:22:57,445 for the president, uh, in Providence, Rhode Island, 488 00:22:57,583 --> 00:22:59,964 I don't think we gave a lot of thought to the fact 489 00:23:00,102 --> 00:23:01,345 that this was a political fundraiser. 490 00:23:01,483 --> 00:23:02,795 Hey, it was a gig. 491 00:23:02,933 --> 00:23:04,210 You know, we got fans, we're gonna play. 492 00:23:04,348 --> 00:23:08,559 - ♪ My friends tell me ♪ 493 00:23:08,697 --> 00:23:12,114 ♪ That I've been such a fool yeah ♪ 494 00:23:12,252 --> 00:23:15,773 ♪ But I had to stand by and take it baby ♪ 495 00:23:15,911 --> 00:23:19,812 ♪ All for loving you ♪ 496 00:23:19,950 --> 00:23:22,815 ♪ I drown myself in sorrow ♪ 497 00:23:22,953 --> 00:23:25,852 ♪ As I look at what you've done ♪ 498 00:23:25,990 --> 00:23:27,751 ♪ But nothing seems to change ♪ 499 00:23:27,889 --> 00:23:32,065 ♪ The bad times have stayed and I can't run ♪ 500 00:23:32,203 --> 00:23:34,896 ♪ Sometimes I feel ♪ 501 00:23:35,034 --> 00:23:37,243 ♪ For sure ♪ 502 00:23:37,381 --> 00:23:41,937 ♪ Sometimes I feel like I've been tied ♪ 503 00:23:42,075 --> 00:23:46,217 ♪ Ah oh ♪ 504 00:23:46,355 --> 00:23:48,599 ♪ Till I'm down there ♪ 505 00:23:48,737 --> 00:23:51,015 ♪ Oh I'm down ♪ 506 00:23:51,153 --> 00:23:55,123 ♪ Good lord feel like I'm dying ♪ 507 00:23:55,261 --> 00:23:57,436 - Chip came to a concert 508 00:23:57,574 --> 00:23:59,541 and, uh, he was saying, you know, 509 00:23:59,679 --> 00:24:01,198 "Nobody knew us, 510 00:24:01,336 --> 00:24:04,857 but, you know, y'all brought us into the light." 511 00:24:04,995 --> 00:24:06,479 - I was practically a non-entity, 512 00:24:06,617 --> 00:24:08,308 but everybody knew the Allman Brothers, 513 00:24:08,447 --> 00:24:10,794 particularly the ones that came to their concerts, 514 00:24:10,932 --> 00:24:12,899 and--and when the Allman Brothers endorsed me, 515 00:24:13,037 --> 00:24:14,349 all the young people there said, 516 00:24:14,487 --> 00:24:16,627 "Well, if the Allman Brothers like Jimmy Carter, 517 00:24:16,765 --> 00:24:18,767 we--we can vote for him." 518 00:24:18,905 --> 00:24:22,081 - ♪ Oh sometimes I feel ♪ 519 00:24:22,219 --> 00:24:24,186 ♪ Like I said ♪ 520 00:24:24,324 --> 00:24:27,535 ♪ Oh sometimes I feel ♪ 521 00:24:27,673 --> 00:24:30,848 ♪ I've been tied ♪ 522 00:24:30,986 --> 00:24:33,472 ♪ Oh ♪ 523 00:24:33,610 --> 00:24:37,027 ♪ Oh to the power of love ♪ 524 00:24:37,165 --> 00:24:40,133 ♪ Oh Lord child ♪ 525 00:24:40,271 --> 00:24:42,895 - Anybody who would do a concert for Jimmy Carter, 526 00:24:43,033 --> 00:24:45,104 you know, we--we would welcome with open arms, 527 00:24:45,242 --> 00:24:47,934 and we had from Hank Snow to Toots and the Maytals 528 00:24:48,072 --> 00:24:51,973 to The Allmans to John Denver, 529 00:24:52,111 --> 00:24:54,182 the whole gamut, and we raised a lot of money. 530 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:56,702 So with the first concert at The Fox, 531 00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:57,944 Marshall Tucker Band, 532 00:24:58,082 --> 00:25:01,845 then the Allmans in Providence, 533 00:25:01,983 --> 00:25:04,330 and then, um, Charlie Daniels at The Fox, 534 00:25:04,468 --> 00:25:05,814 it gave Carter a lot of credibility 535 00:25:05,952 --> 00:25:07,195 and a lot of money. 536 00:25:07,333 --> 00:25:09,093 - Of course, at that time, it was very new 537 00:25:09,231 --> 00:25:11,613 that you could get the matching funds-- 538 00:25:11,751 --> 00:25:14,789 whatever money that could be raised privately 539 00:25:14,927 --> 00:25:17,136 could be matched with the federal funds. 540 00:25:17,274 --> 00:25:19,828 - We could get that money converted. 541 00:25:19,966 --> 00:25:22,762 Say the concert was on Saturday, 542 00:25:22,900 --> 00:25:25,558 then we could use it to buy television ads 543 00:25:25,696 --> 00:25:27,560 with it in Pennsylvania the next week. 544 00:25:27,698 --> 00:25:30,390 [patriotic music] 545 00:25:30,529 --> 00:25:35,361 ♪ ♪ 546 00:25:35,499 --> 00:25:39,020 - I believe in human beings, and equal opportunity, 547 00:25:39,158 --> 00:25:41,850 and freedom, and equality of opportunity, 548 00:25:41,988 --> 00:25:43,887 and I'll fight for it. 549 00:25:44,025 --> 00:25:47,235 - Vote for Jimmy Carter. A leader, for a change. 550 00:25:47,373 --> 00:25:50,272 [applause] 551 00:25:50,410 --> 00:25:53,172 [funky music] 552 00:25:53,310 --> 00:25:54,898 ♪ ♪ 553 00:25:55,036 --> 00:25:57,521 - Can you ask your kin folks and neighbors to vote for me? 554 00:25:57,659 --> 00:25:58,798 Good deal. Thank you. 555 00:25:58,936 --> 00:26:02,181 - ♪ We the people hey now ♪ 556 00:26:02,319 --> 00:26:04,493 ♪ Got to make the world go round ♪ 557 00:26:04,632 --> 00:26:07,220 ♪ Got to make the world now ♪ 558 00:26:07,358 --> 00:26:10,741 - There was a--a plan among my opponents. 559 00:26:10,879 --> 00:26:13,710 They named it ABC-- Anybody But Carter. 560 00:26:13,848 --> 00:26:15,504 So they would send their top person 561 00:26:15,643 --> 00:26:17,023 into a state to oppose me, 562 00:26:17,161 --> 00:26:18,542 and then all the other candidates--there were about 563 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:22,581 ten of them--would support whoever came in against me. 564 00:26:22,719 --> 00:26:23,754 - There was the establishment 565 00:26:23,892 --> 00:26:25,825 Democratic Party in Washington, 566 00:26:25,963 --> 00:26:29,242 and Jimmy, who was an outsider, you know? 567 00:26:29,380 --> 00:26:31,866 And more than just an outsider. An outsider from the south. 568 00:26:32,004 --> 00:26:33,730 - He was from Georgia, for Christ sakes. 569 00:26:33,868 --> 00:26:36,664 I mean, there was something more--start out there. 570 00:26:36,802 --> 00:26:39,356 I mean, that-- and that time in the South, 571 00:26:39,494 --> 00:26:42,531 coming out of the South was--was a death warrant 572 00:26:42,670 --> 00:26:44,913 to try to run for national office. 573 00:26:45,051 --> 00:26:47,536 - We were coming out of the Watergate era 574 00:26:47,675 --> 00:26:51,679 and looking for--to be a country of integrity again, 575 00:26:51,817 --> 00:26:53,301 and certainly in the black communities, 576 00:26:53,439 --> 00:26:54,889 out of which I came, 577 00:26:55,027 --> 00:26:57,788 he made an immediate connection because of that. 578 00:26:57,926 --> 00:27:01,240 - While Jerry Brown took his entourage to woo rural votes 579 00:27:01,378 --> 00:27:02,482 in western Maryland, 580 00:27:02,621 --> 00:27:03,898 Jimmy Carter concentrated 581 00:27:04,036 --> 00:27:05,796 on collecting endorsements from officials 582 00:27:05,934 --> 00:27:07,591 and black leaders in Baltimore. 583 00:27:07,729 --> 00:27:10,456 - The main confrontation I had with Jerry Brown-- 584 00:27:10,594 --> 00:27:13,562 they brought him in to run against me in Maryland, 585 00:27:13,701 --> 00:27:16,738 because he was kind of looked on as Mr. Moonbeam back then, 586 00:27:16,876 --> 00:27:18,188 and he--and they figured 587 00:27:18,326 --> 00:27:20,569 he'd get a lot of support in that particular area. 588 00:27:20,708 --> 00:27:24,608 - I think we're ready for a new spirit in Washington, 589 00:27:24,746 --> 00:27:26,714 and if Maryland sends the right message 590 00:27:26,852 --> 00:27:28,025 to the rest of the country, 591 00:27:28,163 --> 00:27:29,993 that's exactly what's going to happen. 592 00:27:30,131 --> 00:27:32,236 Will you help? Thank you very much. 593 00:27:32,374 --> 00:27:34,100 Thank you. 594 00:27:34,238 --> 00:27:37,103 Thank you very much! Now, let's listen to music. 595 00:27:37,241 --> 00:27:38,760 It's just like a fundraising dinner. 596 00:27:38,898 --> 00:27:42,902 Some people, uh, go to eat the chicken and the peas 597 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:44,732 and the mashed potatoes and the gravy, 598 00:27:44,870 --> 00:27:46,216 and other people would rather listen 599 00:27:46,354 --> 00:27:48,390 to The Eagles and Chicago and Linda Ronstadt. 600 00:27:48,528 --> 00:27:50,565 [country music] 601 00:27:50,703 --> 00:27:53,568 - I remember when Jerry Brown jumped into the race 602 00:27:53,706 --> 00:27:58,159 and dragged Linda Ronstadt and the Eagles along with him. 603 00:27:58,297 --> 00:27:59,643 It was battle of the bands. 604 00:27:59,781 --> 00:28:00,748 - There was no battle. 605 00:28:00,886 --> 00:28:03,129 I think we had it wrapped up then. 606 00:28:03,267 --> 00:28:05,097 It was maybe too little too late for Brown, 607 00:28:05,235 --> 00:28:06,788 but I don't remember it having any effect. 608 00:28:06,926 --> 00:28:09,239 It would make me mad, you know, to see The Eagles 609 00:28:09,377 --> 00:28:11,551 were doing--"Damn, how did we miss that?" 610 00:28:11,690 --> 00:28:12,932 But that's all. 611 00:28:13,070 --> 00:28:14,934 - I mean, there was no real rivalry. 612 00:28:15,072 --> 00:28:17,074 You know, we didn't want to get into a fist fight 613 00:28:17,212 --> 00:28:19,628 with The Eagles or anything. 614 00:28:19,767 --> 00:28:22,252 Uh, and I guess there was some admiration for Jerry Brown. 615 00:28:22,390 --> 00:28:26,152 You know, he was a good guy, but our guy was better. 616 00:28:26,290 --> 00:28:27,740 - I liked him. 617 00:28:27,878 --> 00:28:33,919 I loved Ronstadt, but I didn't buy into it. 618 00:28:34,057 --> 00:28:35,506 I just didn't-- 619 00:28:35,644 --> 00:28:39,821 honestly, I didn't think he had the gravitas. 620 00:28:39,959 --> 00:28:42,410 Bringing The Eagles along didn't help that. 621 00:28:42,548 --> 00:28:43,894 [laughs] 622 00:28:44,032 --> 00:28:45,137 [rock music] 623 00:28:45,275 --> 00:28:48,968 - ♪ I've been put down ♪ 624 00:28:49,106 --> 00:28:52,489 ♪ I've been pushed 'round ♪ 625 00:28:52,627 --> 00:28:57,632 ♪ When will I be loved ♪ 626 00:28:57,770 --> 00:29:00,255 - When I went to Oregon, I had a couple of events, 627 00:29:00,393 --> 00:29:02,050 and very few people showed up, 628 00:29:02,188 --> 00:29:04,397 and, um, Jimmy Buffett had promised to help me 629 00:29:04,535 --> 00:29:05,398 if I ever needed him, 630 00:29:05,536 --> 00:29:06,917 so I called Jimmy Buffett 631 00:29:07,055 --> 00:29:09,540 and asked him if he would come to Oregon and perform, 632 00:29:09,678 --> 00:29:11,957 which I knew would-- would gather a big crowd. 633 00:29:12,095 --> 00:29:14,304 [cheers and applause] 634 00:29:14,442 --> 00:29:17,479 - I picked up the campaign in Portland, Oregon. 635 00:29:17,617 --> 00:29:19,688 I remember the band was there, and it was-- 636 00:29:19,827 --> 00:29:21,794 they didn't have a sound system big enough for the band, 637 00:29:21,932 --> 00:29:24,486 so a couple of us got out acoustic guitars, 638 00:29:24,624 --> 00:29:26,695 and we were pretty popular up in Oregon 639 00:29:26,834 --> 00:29:30,803 and Washington at that time, and so we probably drew, 640 00:29:30,941 --> 00:29:32,978 I don't know, 15,000 people out there. 641 00:29:33,116 --> 00:29:34,565 something like that, but it was outside. 642 00:29:34,703 --> 00:29:37,499 [guitar strumming] 643 00:29:37,637 --> 00:29:44,575 ♪ ♪ 644 00:29:46,301 --> 00:29:50,512 - ♪ He went to Paris looking for answers ♪ 645 00:29:50,650 --> 00:29:54,516 ♪ To questions that bothered him so ♪ 646 00:29:54,654 --> 00:29:59,418 - Jerry Brown was ahead of me before Jimmy Buffett came, 647 00:29:59,556 --> 00:30:02,559 but with Jimmy Buffett's help, I came out quite well. 648 00:30:02,697 --> 00:30:04,595 [cheers and applause] - Thank you very much. 649 00:30:04,733 --> 00:30:07,598 [indistinct] 650 00:30:07,736 --> 00:30:08,565 - Thank you. 651 00:30:08,703 --> 00:30:10,705 [indistinct] 652 00:30:10,843 --> 00:30:12,086 Thank you. 653 00:30:12,224 --> 00:30:15,434 [cheers and applause] 654 00:30:15,572 --> 00:30:18,195 The rock and roll aspect of the campaign--first of all, 655 00:30:18,333 --> 00:30:19,818 it was about raising money. 656 00:30:19,956 --> 00:30:21,578 Second, it was about trying to reach, 657 00:30:21,716 --> 00:30:25,064 to me, a younger generation with somebody 658 00:30:25,202 --> 00:30:26,583 who was hip enough to get it. 659 00:30:26,721 --> 00:30:29,551 [folk music] 660 00:30:29,689 --> 00:30:36,627 ♪ ♪ 661 00:30:36,765 --> 00:30:38,526 [cheers and applause] 662 00:30:38,664 --> 00:30:40,873 - "Rolling Stone" had really first made its mark 663 00:30:41,011 --> 00:30:43,289 in national politics in the '72 election, 664 00:30:43,427 --> 00:30:45,567 when McGovern ran against Nixon. 665 00:30:45,705 --> 00:30:47,121 Hunter Thompson, of course, 666 00:30:47,259 --> 00:30:48,570 got the presidential election as kind of a beat, 667 00:30:48,708 --> 00:30:52,540 and in 1974, '75, 668 00:30:52,678 --> 00:30:56,095 he was in Georgia and heard Jimmy Carter speak 669 00:30:56,233 --> 00:30:57,821 at something called Law Day. 670 00:30:57,959 --> 00:31:00,065 - Hunter Thompson was sitting in the back of the audience, 671 00:31:00,203 --> 00:31:02,515 because he had come with Ted Kennedy, 672 00:31:02,653 --> 00:31:07,555 and he was going outside, putting Wild Turkey whiskey 673 00:31:07,693 --> 00:31:09,005 in his iced tea glass, 674 00:31:09,143 --> 00:31:10,592 but he listened to my speech 675 00:31:10,730 --> 00:31:14,320 and the speech made a great impression on him. 676 00:31:14,458 --> 00:31:16,150 - Well, I saw him push Teddy Kennedy around down 677 00:31:16,288 --> 00:31:18,635 in Athens and Atlanta. 678 00:31:18,773 --> 00:31:20,879 I had never seen Kennedy pushed around anywhere, 679 00:31:21,017 --> 00:31:23,191 in any room, and I was stunned. 680 00:31:23,329 --> 00:31:24,813 I'd never seen a politician do that before, 681 00:31:24,952 --> 00:31:28,265 and he just pushed Teddy aside, like "Out of my way. 682 00:31:28,403 --> 00:31:31,337 You know, I've got work to do. Move aside." 683 00:31:31,475 --> 00:31:33,684 And Kennedy was stunned. I was stunned. 684 00:31:33,822 --> 00:31:36,687 [blues music] 685 00:31:36,825 --> 00:31:38,758 ♪ ♪ 686 00:31:38,897 --> 00:31:40,381 - Hunter Thompson spent three nights with me 687 00:31:40,519 --> 00:31:41,900 and Rosalynn at our house, 688 00:31:42,038 --> 00:31:44,695 and he became a very close personal friend of mine. 689 00:31:44,833 --> 00:31:47,112 I remember one time during the campaign, 690 00:31:47,250 --> 00:31:49,217 since we'd had a previous relationship, 691 00:31:49,355 --> 00:31:50,909 he thought he could have first crack 692 00:31:51,047 --> 00:31:52,496 at getting an interview with me, 693 00:31:52,634 --> 00:31:54,326 and Jody Powell, my press secretary, 694 00:31:54,464 --> 00:31:55,983 kept putting Hunter off and said, 695 00:31:56,121 --> 00:31:57,846 "You have to get in line." 696 00:31:57,985 --> 00:32:02,265 And so Hunter Thompson got drunk one night in a hotel 697 00:32:02,403 --> 00:32:06,648 and he gathered up newspapers and dumped some trash cans 698 00:32:06,786 --> 00:32:09,168 in front of Jody Powell's door and set it on fire. 699 00:32:09,306 --> 00:32:09,997 [laughs] 700 00:32:10,135 --> 00:32:13,517 [funky music] 701 00:32:13,655 --> 00:32:16,279 - Jimmy Carter comes along, Hunter endorses him. 702 00:32:16,417 --> 00:32:18,384 So naturally, he had young people 703 00:32:18,522 --> 00:32:20,041 start to gravitate to him, 704 00:32:20,179 --> 00:32:23,113 and he's being supported by some of the most famous 705 00:32:23,251 --> 00:32:24,735 and important people in the rock world, 706 00:32:24,873 --> 00:32:26,530 namely the Allman Brothers, 707 00:32:26,668 --> 00:32:28,705 and they spoke in the words and language 708 00:32:28,843 --> 00:32:30,879 of the rock and roll era. 709 00:32:31,018 --> 00:32:34,642 - One thing in Carter's association with rock music, 710 00:32:34,780 --> 00:32:37,369 that was the music of change, and, you know-- 711 00:32:37,507 --> 00:32:40,820 and dissidents and hippies and pot smokers. 712 00:32:40,959 --> 00:32:43,099 There was a risk, politically, to that, 713 00:32:43,237 --> 00:32:44,548 and it didn't matter to him. 714 00:32:44,686 --> 00:32:47,551 [rock music] 715 00:32:47,689 --> 00:32:50,692 ♪ ♪ 716 00:32:50,830 --> 00:32:53,799 - Well it was, uh, you know--these were times 717 00:32:53,937 --> 00:32:56,940 when some of the guys were experimenting pretty heavily 718 00:32:57,078 --> 00:32:58,804 with various drugs, 719 00:32:58,942 --> 00:33:01,427 and, uh, Gregg had a connection 720 00:33:01,565 --> 00:33:06,018 to get pharmaceutical cocaine from a pharmacist, 721 00:33:06,156 --> 00:33:09,815 and there was a middleman, and they were all caught, 722 00:33:09,953 --> 00:33:12,818 and then they turned to Gregg and said, 723 00:33:12,956 --> 00:33:14,578 "All right, we're going to offer you immunity, 724 00:33:14,716 --> 00:33:15,890 "which means you have to testify. 725 00:33:16,028 --> 00:33:17,098 "If you don't testify, 726 00:33:17,236 --> 00:33:18,893 "you have to go sit in jail 727 00:33:19,031 --> 00:33:23,208 until you're ready to testify." And that was really tough. 728 00:33:23,346 --> 00:33:25,382 You can imagine the position Gregg was in. 729 00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:27,143 He didn't want to rat on his friend. 730 00:33:27,281 --> 00:33:29,145 You know, he had to testify, 731 00:33:29,283 --> 00:33:30,939 uh, or otherwise he would have 732 00:33:31,078 --> 00:33:34,184 just been sitting behind bars for God knows how long. 733 00:33:34,322 --> 00:33:36,635 - ♪ She don't lie, she don't lie ♪ 734 00:33:36,773 --> 00:33:42,020 ♪ She don't lie cocaine ♪ 735 00:33:42,158 --> 00:33:45,161 The trial begins. Gregg testifies. 736 00:33:45,299 --> 00:33:48,302 Um, it's just a tumultuous time, 737 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,546 and not only the drug bust, okay? 738 00:33:51,684 --> 00:33:54,066 At that point, the Allmans had been together 739 00:33:54,204 --> 00:33:55,861 for quite some time. 740 00:33:55,999 --> 00:33:58,829 It--I think there was just a toll taken, 741 00:33:58,967 --> 00:34:01,763 and it was time for a break. 742 00:34:01,901 --> 00:34:06,078 - As an example of--of how compassionate Jimmy Carter was, 743 00:34:06,216 --> 00:34:08,805 uh, while the rest of the Allman Brothers 744 00:34:08,943 --> 00:34:12,119 turned on Gregg for his testimony in court, 745 00:34:12,257 --> 00:34:13,637 uh, Jimmy never did. 746 00:34:13,775 --> 00:34:17,055 I mean, he thought this was the moment 747 00:34:17,193 --> 00:34:18,642 to help somebody when they're down. 748 00:34:18,780 --> 00:34:19,988 - Well, can you imagine? 749 00:34:20,127 --> 00:34:21,369 You know, he's running for the Office 750 00:34:21,507 --> 00:34:24,165 of the Presidency of the United States. 751 00:34:24,303 --> 00:34:28,169 He could have easily said, "Look, sorry, Gregg. 752 00:34:28,307 --> 00:34:29,964 "Sorry, Capricorn. Sorry, Allman Brothers Band. 753 00:34:30,102 --> 00:34:32,000 "You know, this is too big of a risk for me to take. 754 00:34:32,139 --> 00:34:33,243 "I can't do it. 755 00:34:33,381 --> 00:34:34,555 "I'm gonna--I'm gonna go this way. 756 00:34:34,693 --> 00:34:36,936 You know, love you guys, but good-bye." 757 00:34:37,075 --> 00:34:38,214 But he didn't do that. 758 00:34:38,352 --> 00:34:41,562 He didn't turn his back on any of us. 759 00:34:41,700 --> 00:34:44,047 - I had some problems with drugs when I was a kid. 760 00:34:44,185 --> 00:34:45,842 My father helped me. 761 00:34:45,980 --> 00:34:49,121 He made me his driver in the campaign. 762 00:34:49,259 --> 00:34:50,709 I don't think he judges people. 763 00:34:50,847 --> 00:34:53,677 I really don't believe that he--that he is a judge 764 00:34:53,815 --> 00:34:56,404 of what you do personally, and that he cares. 765 00:34:56,542 --> 00:35:00,132 He wants you to be who you are when you're with him. 766 00:35:00,270 --> 00:35:01,823 Gregg was a good example of that, I think. 767 00:35:01,961 --> 00:35:05,586 ♪ ♪ 768 00:35:05,724 --> 00:35:08,830 - I was pretty--pretty radical in my politics, you know. 769 00:35:08,968 --> 00:35:11,247 It was just a sort of rite of passage. 770 00:35:11,385 --> 00:35:13,456 You start out as a peacenik hippie 771 00:35:13,594 --> 00:35:15,078 and you get more radical and more radical 772 00:35:15,216 --> 00:35:16,528 and more radical and then finally 773 00:35:16,666 --> 00:35:18,426 I find myself in the Black Panther Party. 774 00:35:18,564 --> 00:35:21,153 By the time Jimmy Carter ran for president, 775 00:35:21,291 --> 00:35:27,573 just his campaign made us feel like we now had a president 776 00:35:27,711 --> 00:35:30,542 that started to see the world the way we saw it. 777 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:34,339 - Now, I've always fit it in somewhere, 778 00:35:34,477 --> 00:35:39,930 a statement for this man, whom I love and believe in. 779 00:35:40,068 --> 00:35:42,140 [cheers and applause] 780 00:35:42,278 --> 00:35:45,453 So Governor, I'm with you all the way! 781 00:35:45,591 --> 00:35:48,629 [cheers and applause] 782 00:35:48,767 --> 00:35:51,597 [rock music] 783 00:35:51,735 --> 00:35:57,085 ♪ ♪ 784 00:35:57,224 --> 00:35:58,742 - ♪ Yeah ♪ 785 00:35:58,880 --> 00:35:59,812 ♪ Hey ♪ 786 00:35:59,950 --> 00:36:01,780 ♪ ♪ 787 00:36:01,918 --> 00:36:05,163 ♪ Hey when you wish upon a star ♪ 788 00:36:05,301 --> 00:36:07,510 ♪ ♪ 789 00:36:07,648 --> 00:36:10,616 ♪ Your dream will take you very far yeah ♪ 790 00:36:10,754 --> 00:36:12,377 ♪ ♪ 791 00:36:12,515 --> 00:36:16,484 - Our nation has seen a failure of leadership. 792 00:36:16,622 --> 00:36:20,212 We've been hurt and we've been disillusioned. 793 00:36:20,350 --> 00:36:25,113 We've seen a wall go up that separates us 794 00:36:25,252 --> 00:36:26,943 from our own government. 795 00:36:27,081 --> 00:36:30,222 We've lost some precious things that historically have bound 796 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:33,950 our people and our government together. 797 00:36:34,088 --> 00:36:39,127 It's now time for healing. We want to have faith again. 798 00:36:39,266 --> 00:36:43,339 We want to be proud again. We just want the truth again. 799 00:36:43,477 --> 00:36:45,582 It's time for the people to run the government, 800 00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:47,377 and not the other way around. 801 00:36:47,515 --> 00:36:53,176 [cheers and applause] 802 00:36:53,314 --> 00:36:56,248 all: 803 00:36:59,527 --> 00:37:01,253 We want Carter! 804 00:37:01,391 --> 00:37:06,431 [chanting continues] 805 00:37:06,569 --> 00:37:07,915 - The next First Lady 806 00:37:08,053 --> 00:37:10,193 of the United States, Mrs. Rosalynn Carter. 807 00:37:10,331 --> 00:37:13,196 [cheers and applause] 808 00:37:13,334 --> 00:37:14,922 - Thank you very much. 809 00:37:15,060 --> 00:37:17,718 I have campaigned since April of last year, 810 00:37:17,856 --> 00:37:22,205 all over the country. We have learned the country. 811 00:37:22,343 --> 00:37:25,139 The country has learned about us. 812 00:37:25,277 --> 00:37:28,970 The campaign has drawn my family close together, 813 00:37:29,108 --> 00:37:30,489 and I believe 814 00:37:30,627 --> 00:37:34,113 that my family can draw this country close together. 815 00:37:34,252 --> 00:37:37,013 [cheers and applause] 816 00:37:37,151 --> 00:37:40,188 [folk music] 817 00:37:40,327 --> 00:37:44,296 - '76 was the first time I could vote, 818 00:37:44,434 --> 00:37:48,680 and I cast my vote proudly for Jimmy Carter, 819 00:37:48,818 --> 00:37:51,165 and my stepmother, June Carter, 820 00:37:51,303 --> 00:37:53,340 insisted that they were cousins, 821 00:37:53,478 --> 00:37:55,721 although I couldn't quite connect the tree, 822 00:37:55,859 --> 00:38:01,348 but I'm sure they were. So, uh, we voted that day. 823 00:38:01,486 --> 00:38:07,354 And they didn't call the election early in the evening. 824 00:38:07,492 --> 00:38:09,873 I went to bed that night not knowing, 825 00:38:10,011 --> 00:38:16,328 and I heard my dad, around 5:00 in the morning, 826 00:38:16,466 --> 00:38:19,987 whooping and yelling, and June as well. 827 00:38:20,125 --> 00:38:22,472 They were screaming, "He won, he won, he won." 828 00:38:22,610 --> 00:38:25,958 There was a lot of excitement. [laughing] 829 00:38:26,096 --> 00:38:27,235 - I was in the sixth grade 830 00:38:27,374 --> 00:38:31,205 and I remember it was a big deal. 831 00:38:31,343 --> 00:38:33,725 You know, I mean, I--I had these dreams 832 00:38:33,863 --> 00:38:35,830 as a kid of wanting to be a recording artist, 833 00:38:35,968 --> 00:38:37,384 you know, so growing up in Georgia, 834 00:38:37,522 --> 00:38:40,387 I was always looking to see anybody in my state 835 00:38:40,525 --> 00:38:42,665 that was successful. 836 00:38:42,803 --> 00:38:44,874 So I was checking out, you know, Otis Redding, 837 00:38:45,012 --> 00:38:46,703 I was checking out the Allman Brothers, 838 00:38:46,841 --> 00:38:48,326 who were making records in Georgia. 839 00:38:48,464 --> 00:38:50,638 So to have an actual President of the United States 840 00:38:50,776 --> 00:38:52,468 come from our state was, I think, 841 00:38:52,606 --> 00:38:54,677 for the whole state--this is kind of the stamp 842 00:38:54,815 --> 00:38:56,299 that says you can do anything. 843 00:38:56,437 --> 00:39:01,615 - Oh, the pride was almost unbearable to Southerners 844 00:39:01,753 --> 00:39:04,238 to have Jimmy Carter from Georgia 845 00:39:04,376 --> 00:39:07,137 elected President of the United States. 846 00:39:07,275 --> 00:39:10,071 You can't even fathom how important that was 847 00:39:10,209 --> 00:39:13,316 and how much pride was in that. 848 00:39:13,454 --> 00:39:14,559 - Governor Carter, are you prepared 849 00:39:14,697 --> 00:39:16,664 to take the Constitutional Oath? 850 00:39:16,802 --> 00:39:18,356 - I am. 851 00:39:18,494 --> 00:39:20,392 - Will you place your left hand on the Bible 852 00:39:20,530 --> 00:39:23,257 and raise your right hand and repeat after me: 853 00:39:23,395 --> 00:39:25,949 "I, Jimmy Carter, do solemnly swear..." 854 00:39:26,087 --> 00:39:28,227 - I, Jimmy Carter, do solemnly swear... 855 00:39:28,366 --> 00:39:29,988 - "That I will faithfully execute..." 856 00:39:30,126 --> 00:39:31,645 - That I will faithfully execute... 857 00:39:31,783 --> 00:39:34,268 - "The office of President of the United States." 858 00:39:34,406 --> 00:39:36,443 - The office of President of the United States. 859 00:39:36,581 --> 00:39:38,790 - "And will, to the best of my ability..." 860 00:39:38,928 --> 00:39:40,757 - And will, to the best of my ability... 861 00:39:40,895 --> 00:39:43,311 - "Preserve, protect, and defend..." 862 00:39:43,450 --> 00:39:45,417 - Preserve, protect, and defend... 863 00:39:45,555 --> 00:39:47,592 - "The constitution of the United States..." 864 00:39:47,730 --> 00:39:49,525 - The constitution of the United States... 865 00:39:49,663 --> 00:39:50,871 - "So help me God." 866 00:39:51,009 --> 00:39:53,183 - So help me God. - Congratulations. 867 00:39:53,321 --> 00:39:56,014 [cheers and applause] 868 00:39:56,152 --> 00:39:59,120 [patriotic music] 869 00:39:59,258 --> 00:40:06,162 ♪ ♪ 870 00:40:08,613 --> 00:40:10,649 Ladies and gentlemen, 871 00:40:10,787 --> 00:40:13,480 the President of the United States. 872 00:40:13,618 --> 00:40:16,690 [cheers and applause] 873 00:40:20,107 --> 00:40:25,250 - For myself, and for our nation, 874 00:40:25,388 --> 00:40:29,461 I want to thank my predecessor 875 00:40:29,599 --> 00:40:34,190 for all he has done to heal our land. 876 00:40:34,328 --> 00:40:37,193 [cheers and applause] 877 00:40:44,476 --> 00:40:47,168 - "I wanted to share my father's world." 878 00:40:48,929 --> 00:40:50,827 "This is a pain I mostly hide, 879 00:40:50,965 --> 00:40:54,624 "but ties of blood or seed endure, 880 00:40:54,762 --> 00:40:55,694 "and even now 881 00:40:55,832 --> 00:40:57,593 "I feel inside the hunger 882 00:40:57,731 --> 00:41:00,803 "for his outstretched hand. 883 00:41:00,941 --> 00:41:03,633 "A man's embrace to take me in. 884 00:41:03,771 --> 00:41:07,050 "The need for just a word of praise. 885 00:41:07,188 --> 00:41:10,226 "From those rare times when we did cross the bridge 886 00:41:10,364 --> 00:41:14,437 "between us, the pure joy survives. 887 00:41:14,575 --> 00:41:18,959 "I never put aside the past resentments of the boy until, 888 00:41:19,097 --> 00:41:24,205 "with my own sons, I shared his final hours, 889 00:41:24,343 --> 00:41:27,692 "and came to see what he'd become, 890 00:41:27,830 --> 00:41:29,728 "or always was: 891 00:41:29,866 --> 00:41:35,665 the father who will never cease to be alive in me." 892 00:41:35,803 --> 00:41:38,875 [cheers and applause] 893 00:41:43,086 --> 00:41:44,950 - When we did the Inaugural Concert, 894 00:41:45,088 --> 00:41:47,056 the curtain opened. There's John Wayne. 895 00:41:47,194 --> 00:41:48,609 I--I still have, what's it called--a cue card. 896 00:41:48,747 --> 00:41:52,164 I--I had the cue card signed by John Wayne, 897 00:41:52,302 --> 00:41:55,202 and it says, "Hello, I'm John Wayne." 898 00:41:55,340 --> 00:42:01,519 - Good evening. My name is John Wayne. 899 00:42:01,657 --> 00:42:04,418 I've come here tonight to pay my respects 900 00:42:04,556 --> 00:42:10,044 to our 39th President, our new Commander-in-Chief, 901 00:42:10,182 --> 00:42:14,773 and to wish you Godspeed, sir, in the uncharted waters ahead. 902 00:42:14,911 --> 00:42:20,607 I am considered a member of the opposition, 903 00:42:20,745 --> 00:42:23,092 the loyal opposition-- accent on the loyal. 904 00:42:23,230 --> 00:42:24,576 I'd have it no other way. 905 00:42:24,714 --> 00:42:27,027 [applause] 906 00:42:27,165 --> 00:42:28,684 - John Wayne was a wonderful American. 907 00:42:28,822 --> 00:42:31,203 We would disagree on a lot of politics 908 00:42:31,341 --> 00:42:32,757 but we probably would not have gotten 909 00:42:32,895 --> 00:42:34,379 the Panama Canal Treaties passed 910 00:42:34,517 --> 00:42:35,794 if it hadn't been for John Wayne. 911 00:42:35,932 --> 00:42:38,728 He was good friends with the President of Panama, 912 00:42:38,866 --> 00:42:40,419 and he talked to all the Republicans. 913 00:42:40,558 --> 00:42:42,490 Oh, he called every Republican senator several times, 914 00:42:42,629 --> 00:42:45,942 trying to get them to vote with us on those things. 915 00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:48,151 So it was a way--the commonality 916 00:42:48,289 --> 00:42:51,120 of what you believed in and getting it done 917 00:42:51,258 --> 00:42:53,950 was something that was happening back there. 918 00:42:54,088 --> 00:42:56,815 - In conclusion, may I add my voice 919 00:42:56,953 --> 00:42:59,231 to the millions of others around the world... 920 00:43:01,061 --> 00:43:04,651 that wish you good well, Mr. President. 921 00:43:04,789 --> 00:43:06,929 We ask only one thing: 922 00:43:07,067 --> 00:43:10,208 That you preserve this one nation, 923 00:43:10,346 --> 00:43:14,005 under God, with liberty and justice for all, 924 00:43:14,143 --> 00:43:16,732 and we know that you will, sir. Thank you. 925 00:43:18,354 --> 00:43:19,700 - It was a really pleasant night. 926 00:43:19,838 --> 00:43:23,290 Everybody was, you know, happy for him 927 00:43:23,428 --> 00:43:27,121 and, uh, surprised that John Wayne showed up. 928 00:43:27,259 --> 00:43:30,193 It was an honor to be asked to perform. 929 00:43:30,331 --> 00:43:32,195 I'd like to dedicate this song to Jimmy Carter 930 00:43:32,333 --> 00:43:36,752 in the hopes that perhaps a time of righteousness 931 00:43:36,890 --> 00:43:39,547 and dignity may now be upon us. 932 00:43:39,686 --> 00:43:42,516 [guitar strumming] 933 00:43:42,654 --> 00:43:48,177 ♪ ♪ 934 00:43:48,315 --> 00:43:53,769 ♪ Many times I've been mistaken ♪ 935 00:43:53,907 --> 00:43:59,326 ♪ And many times confused ♪ 936 00:43:59,464 --> 00:44:04,849 ♪ Yes and I've often felt forsaken ♪ 937 00:44:04,987 --> 00:44:10,337 ♪ And certainly misused ♪ 938 00:44:10,475 --> 00:44:16,101 ♪ Ah but I'm all right I'm all right ♪ 939 00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:21,659 ♪ Just weary to my bones ♪ 940 00:44:21,797 --> 00:44:23,384 ♪ ♪ 941 00:44:23,522 --> 00:44:28,804 ♪ Still, you don't expect to be bright and bon vivant ♪ 942 00:44:28,942 --> 00:44:34,223 ♪ So far away from home ♪ 943 00:44:34,361 --> 00:44:39,159 ♪ So far away from home ♪ 944 00:44:39,297 --> 00:44:40,712 - Paul Simon and Aretha Franklin 945 00:44:40,850 --> 00:44:42,956 were two of my favorite performers, 946 00:44:43,094 --> 00:44:46,684 and so when I got ready for the Inaugural performers 947 00:44:46,822 --> 00:44:48,202 to be chosen, 948 00:44:48,340 --> 00:44:50,377 uh, they were at the top of my list. 949 00:44:50,515 --> 00:44:55,451 - ♪ God bless ♪ 950 00:44:55,589 --> 00:45:00,767 ♪ America ♪ 951 00:45:00,905 --> 00:45:05,495 ♪ Land that ♪ 952 00:45:05,633 --> 00:45:10,362 ♪ I love ♪ 953 00:45:10,500 --> 00:45:14,919 ♪ Stand beside her ♪ 954 00:45:15,057 --> 00:45:19,993 ♪ And guide her ♪ 955 00:45:20,131 --> 00:45:23,168 ♪ Through the night ♪ 956 00:45:23,306 --> 00:45:30,106 ♪ From the light from above ♪ 957 00:45:30,244 --> 00:45:35,387 ♪ From the mountains ♪ 958 00:45:35,525 --> 00:45:40,392 ♪ To the prairies ♪ 959 00:45:40,530 --> 00:45:45,673 ♪ To the oceans ♪ 960 00:45:45,812 --> 00:45:52,335 ♪ White with foam ♪ 961 00:45:52,473 --> 00:45:55,683 ♪ God bless ♪ 962 00:45:55,822 --> 00:46:00,723 ♪ America ♪ 963 00:46:00,861 --> 00:46:04,727 ♪ My home ♪ 964 00:46:04,865 --> 00:46:07,799 ♪ Sweet ♪ 965 00:46:07,937 --> 00:46:12,770 ♪ Home ♪ 966 00:46:12,908 --> 00:46:16,877 ♪ God bless ♪ 967 00:46:17,015 --> 00:46:21,675 ♪ Bless America ♪ 968 00:46:21,813 --> 00:46:25,713 ♪ My home ♪ 969 00:46:25,852 --> 00:46:28,544 ♪ Sweet ♪ 970 00:46:28,682 --> 00:46:32,928 ♪ Home ♪ 971 00:46:33,066 --> 00:46:36,103 [cheers and applause] 972 00:46:44,905 --> 00:46:46,251 - I think we had eight 973 00:46:46,389 --> 00:46:49,358 or ten places that we had to go 974 00:46:49,496 --> 00:46:51,394 on Inaugural night and Rosalynn 975 00:46:51,532 --> 00:46:54,052 and I went to every one of them and danced. 976 00:46:54,190 --> 00:46:56,675 Thank you very much for helping me get here 977 00:46:56,814 --> 00:46:59,023 and being the President of the greatest country on Earth. 978 00:46:59,161 --> 00:47:03,406 Are you having a good time? So are we. 979 00:47:03,544 --> 00:47:05,339 - I can definitely feel in my heart 980 00:47:05,477 --> 00:47:07,583 that we helped him become president. 981 00:47:07,721 --> 00:47:10,793 You know, I mean a lot of other people did too, you know, 982 00:47:10,931 --> 00:47:12,968 but--but we had a hand in it. 983 00:47:13,106 --> 00:47:16,385 - This is great. - You're looking good. 984 00:47:16,523 --> 00:47:18,628 - Gregg Allman was one of the first persons 985 00:47:18,766 --> 00:47:21,528 I invited to the White House when I got to be president. 986 00:47:21,666 --> 00:47:24,117 He came there with Cher as a matter of fact. 987 00:47:24,255 --> 00:47:26,119 - I had dinner with him the first night 988 00:47:26,257 --> 00:47:28,017 he had dinner in the White House. 989 00:47:28,155 --> 00:47:29,294 They were showing them where 990 00:47:29,432 --> 00:47:30,813 to put the spoons and the plates 991 00:47:30,951 --> 00:47:34,023 and all this, you know. They had the finger bowls. 992 00:47:34,161 --> 00:47:38,510 - Being from Plains, we had never had finger bowls. 993 00:47:38,648 --> 00:47:39,822 We showed up at the White House, 994 00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:41,548 and at lunch and dinner 995 00:47:41,686 --> 00:47:45,379 they put a crystal bowl with water in it 996 00:47:45,517 --> 00:47:49,073 and a lemon geranium leaf in it, 997 00:47:49,211 --> 00:47:52,490 and what you're supposed to do is use the leaf 998 00:47:52,628 --> 00:47:54,733 to rub your fingers and rinse in the finger bowl, 999 00:47:54,872 --> 00:47:57,909 and then we often times sat there with guests 1000 00:47:58,047 --> 00:47:59,083 who had never had a finger bowl, 1001 00:47:59,221 --> 00:48:00,636 like Gregg and Cher. 1002 00:48:00,774 --> 00:48:04,364 - And she picked up the glass and started drinking it. 1003 00:48:04,502 --> 00:48:08,195 It had a little gardenia floating in it and a lemon. 1004 00:48:08,333 --> 00:48:10,094 - And we all sat there talking, 1005 00:48:10,232 --> 00:48:11,509 and when they finished 1006 00:48:11,647 --> 00:48:13,442 all of us washed our hands in the finger bowls 1007 00:48:13,580 --> 00:48:15,444 and then moved on to the next course. 1008 00:48:15,582 --> 00:48:18,619 - ♪ I love to take a photograph ♪ 1009 00:48:18,757 --> 00:48:25,350 ♪ So mama don't take my Kodachrome away ♪ 1010 00:48:25,488 --> 00:48:27,318 - You know, the White House was a great place to live, 1011 00:48:27,456 --> 00:48:28,871 and the music was fabulous. 1012 00:48:29,009 --> 00:48:31,598 - Various entertainers would come to the White House, 1013 00:48:31,736 --> 00:48:32,840 and sometimes unannounced, 1014 00:48:32,979 --> 00:48:34,187 and the President's Office 1015 00:48:34,325 --> 00:48:35,671 didn't know what to do with them. 1016 00:48:35,809 --> 00:48:38,467 So many times they would just call and say, 1017 00:48:38,605 --> 00:48:41,642 "Crosby, Stills and Nash are--are at the front gate, 1018 00:48:41,780 --> 00:48:44,059 "and, uh, we don't have them scheduled to see the President. 1019 00:48:44,197 --> 00:48:45,750 Can you take care of them?" 1020 00:48:45,888 --> 00:48:47,510 And my office was in the West Wing in the basement, 1021 00:48:47,648 --> 00:48:49,409 and they just sort of hung out. 1022 00:48:49,547 --> 00:48:51,859 Everybody would come by and meet them and-- 1023 00:48:51,998 --> 00:48:54,172 and then finally took them in to see the President. 1024 00:48:54,310 --> 00:49:00,938 - ♪ Will you come see me ♪ 1025 00:49:01,076 --> 00:49:05,459 ♪ Thursdays and Saturdays ♪ 1026 00:49:05,597 --> 00:49:08,117 - This is the first-time young people were kind of in charge. 1027 00:49:08,255 --> 00:49:10,326 This was really groundbreaking, 1028 00:49:10,464 --> 00:49:12,950 when you'd come out of the Nixon era, you know? 1029 00:49:13,088 --> 00:49:15,642 And so actually they liked and listened to rock-and-roll, 1030 00:49:15,780 --> 00:49:18,058 and wasn't--we weren't just window dressing, 1031 00:49:18,196 --> 00:49:20,509 and--and then when we went to the White House, 1032 00:49:20,647 --> 00:49:21,579 we were welcomed in. 1033 00:49:21,717 --> 00:49:23,374 - It was kind of funny, 1034 00:49:23,512 --> 00:49:26,411 because I was on crutches at the time. 1035 00:49:26,549 --> 00:49:29,897 I had just been to Jamaica, I think it was, 1036 00:49:30,036 --> 00:49:32,659 and I got busted down there. 1037 00:49:32,797 --> 00:49:35,386 So one, I was so glad to get out of jail 1038 00:49:35,524 --> 00:49:37,975 that I jumped off the porch and sprung my ankle. 1039 00:49:38,113 --> 00:49:39,562 So when I went to--then the next day, 1040 00:49:39,700 --> 00:49:42,634 I had to go see the President of the United States. 1041 00:49:42,772 --> 00:49:45,430 So it was really kind of funny, and we laughed about it a lot. 1042 00:49:45,568 --> 00:49:46,466 - Yeah. 1043 00:49:46,604 --> 00:49:50,297 [rock music] 1044 00:49:50,435 --> 00:49:51,954 - Oh! 1045 00:49:52,092 --> 00:49:58,926 ♪ ♪ 1046 00:49:59,065 --> 00:50:01,619 - President Carter has an encyclopedic knowledge 1047 00:50:01,757 --> 00:50:05,243 of all music, not just rock and roll. 1048 00:50:05,381 --> 00:50:07,970 You know, he has a deep knowledge--deep, 1049 00:50:08,108 --> 00:50:09,489 deep knowledge of classical music, 1050 00:50:09,627 --> 00:50:11,180 but he also knows a lot about blues 1051 00:50:11,318 --> 00:50:13,562 and a lot--an awful lot about jazz. 1052 00:50:13,700 --> 00:50:16,979 - When I had this opportunity to produce music 1053 00:50:17,117 --> 00:50:18,601 at the White House, 1054 00:50:18,739 --> 00:50:23,917 it was one of those moving moments in--in my life in jazz. 1055 00:50:24,055 --> 00:50:25,746 - Many concerts were held at the White House, 1056 00:50:25,884 --> 00:50:28,370 maybe more than any other four years. 1057 00:50:28,508 --> 00:50:30,958 The jazz concert was the one I remember the most. 1058 00:50:31,097 --> 00:50:32,926 It was just magical. 1059 00:50:33,064 --> 00:50:35,929 [jazz music] 1060 00:50:36,067 --> 00:50:43,178 ♪ ♪ 1061 00:50:48,528 --> 00:50:49,701 - Blow! 1062 00:50:49,839 --> 00:50:56,777 ♪ ♪ 1063 00:51:04,578 --> 00:51:07,961 - I was deeply infatuated with jazz musicians. 1064 00:51:08,099 --> 00:51:11,068 So it was a great honor for me and a pleasure 1065 00:51:11,206 --> 00:51:12,655 to bring to the White House 1066 00:51:12,793 --> 00:51:14,657 these people that in many cases 1067 00:51:14,795 --> 00:51:16,901 had not been previously recognized 1068 00:51:17,039 --> 00:51:20,767 for their great contributions to our society. 1069 00:51:20,905 --> 00:51:24,702 If there was an indigenous art form, 1070 00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:28,085 one that was special 1071 00:51:28,223 --> 00:51:29,707 and peculiar to the United States 1072 00:51:29,845 --> 00:51:33,020 and represents what we are as a country, 1073 00:51:33,159 --> 00:51:35,540 I would say that it's jazz. 1074 00:51:35,678 --> 00:51:39,026 At first, this jazz form was not well accepted 1075 00:51:39,165 --> 00:51:41,305 in respectable circles. 1076 00:51:41,443 --> 00:51:44,135 I think there was an element of racism 1077 00:51:44,273 --> 00:51:45,999 perhaps at the beginning, 1078 00:51:46,137 --> 00:51:51,177 because most of the famous early performers were black, 1079 00:51:51,315 --> 00:51:52,488 and particularly in the South, 1080 00:51:52,626 --> 00:51:53,765 to have black and white musicians 1081 00:51:53,903 --> 00:51:57,976 playing together was not a normal thing. 1082 00:51:58,115 --> 00:52:02,360 And I believe that this particular form of music-- 1083 00:52:02,498 --> 00:52:03,913 of art-- 1084 00:52:04,051 --> 00:52:07,538 has done as much as anything to break down those barriers 1085 00:52:07,676 --> 00:52:10,092 and to let us live and work and play 1086 00:52:10,230 --> 00:52:11,645 and to make beautiful music together. 1087 00:52:11,783 --> 00:52:14,959 [applause] 1088 00:52:15,097 --> 00:52:19,791 - Boy oh boy, there was, um, Cecil Taylor and Chick Corea. 1089 00:52:19,929 --> 00:52:22,967 I remember, um, Charlie Mingus was there in a wheelchair, 1090 00:52:23,105 --> 00:52:24,969 you know, but everyone applauded him, 1091 00:52:25,107 --> 00:52:28,317 and it was wonderful that he was there. 1092 00:52:28,455 --> 00:52:31,113 - The President walked over 1093 00:52:31,251 --> 00:52:36,912 to--to Mingus and just held his hand. 1094 00:52:37,050 --> 00:52:39,535 - I remember Charles Mingus, I just said something about, 1095 00:52:39,673 --> 00:52:41,779 "I have confidence in you and I appreciate 1096 00:52:41,917 --> 00:52:45,645 "what you've done in our country and for our people 1097 00:52:45,783 --> 00:52:48,130 and for me personally with your own music." 1098 00:52:48,268 --> 00:52:52,859 - The President, His--His Highness... 1099 00:52:52,997 --> 00:52:54,999 [laughter] 1100 00:52:55,137 --> 00:52:57,657 has asked us to play a tune 1101 00:52:57,795 --> 00:52:59,624 that we played at the White House 1102 00:52:59,762 --> 00:53:02,213 when we were here before. - All right. 1103 00:53:02,351 --> 00:53:03,939 - We're gonna play this tune, 1104 00:53:04,077 --> 00:53:07,391 in which the name of it is "Salt Peanuts." 1105 00:53:07,529 --> 00:53:09,876 [cheers and applause] 1106 00:53:10,014 --> 00:53:11,291 Now, wait a minute, 1107 00:53:11,429 --> 00:53:18,160 but there are some diplomatic strings attached, 1108 00:53:18,298 --> 00:53:21,508 [laughter] 1109 00:53:21,646 --> 00:53:22,958 To wit, 1110 00:53:23,096 --> 00:53:30,068 that the President himself, His Majesty... 1111 00:53:30,207 --> 00:53:32,657 - Right on! [all laughing] 1112 00:53:32,795 --> 00:53:35,936 - Sing the lyrics to "Salt Peanuts." 1113 00:53:36,074 --> 00:53:38,145 - All right, all right! 1114 00:53:38,284 --> 00:53:40,562 - Dizzy Gillespie asked me to come up and join him 1115 00:53:40,700 --> 00:53:45,256 in singing "Salt Peanuts," which is a very peculiar song, 1116 00:53:45,394 --> 00:53:46,878 and that was the only time I think 1117 00:53:47,016 --> 00:53:49,709 when I was in the White House that the New York Times 1118 00:53:49,847 --> 00:53:52,194 congratulated me on my rhythm. 1119 00:53:52,332 --> 00:53:55,646 Not on my tone, but on my rhythm. 1120 00:53:55,784 --> 00:53:57,786 [jazz music] 1121 00:53:57,924 --> 00:53:59,788 ♪ Salt peanuts salt peanuts ♪ 1122 00:53:59,926 --> 00:54:01,824 ♪ ♪ 1123 00:54:01,962 --> 00:54:03,654 ♪ Salt peanuts salt peanuts ♪ 1124 00:54:03,792 --> 00:54:05,794 ♪ ♪ 1125 00:54:05,932 --> 00:54:07,278 ♪ Salt peanuts salt peanuts ♪ 1126 00:54:07,416 --> 00:54:14,492 ♪ ♪ 1127 00:54:17,633 --> 00:54:19,152 ♪ Salt peanuts salt peanuts ♪ 1128 00:54:19,290 --> 00:54:21,396 ♪ ♪ 1129 00:54:21,534 --> 00:54:22,776 ♪ Salt pea-- ♪ 1130 00:54:22,914 --> 00:54:24,226 [all laughing] 1131 00:54:24,364 --> 00:54:29,162 [cheers and applause] 1132 00:54:29,300 --> 00:54:31,026 - Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute, wait a minute. 1133 00:54:31,164 --> 00:54:34,892 I'm just want to--I just want to ask one question: 1134 00:54:35,030 --> 00:54:36,963 would you like to go on the road with us? 1135 00:54:37,101 --> 00:54:42,071 [laughter] 1136 00:54:42,209 --> 00:54:43,314 - I might have to after tonight! 1137 00:54:43,452 --> 00:54:46,075 [laughter] 1138 00:54:46,213 --> 00:54:47,801 - President Carter loved jazz. 1139 00:54:47,939 --> 00:54:51,184 He loved all kinds of music, but he really did love jazz, 1140 00:54:51,322 --> 00:54:55,637 and I have always thought that music was our best ambassador, 1141 00:54:55,775 --> 00:54:59,848 and especially jazz because it is so identified with America 1142 00:54:59,986 --> 00:55:01,884 and being very special to America, 1143 00:55:02,022 --> 00:55:05,163 and music is one of the, I think, most vibrant, 1144 00:55:05,302 --> 00:55:07,856 obviously, parts of soft power. 1145 00:55:07,994 --> 00:55:12,585 - Soft power is the use of culture, uh, music. 1146 00:55:12,723 --> 00:55:14,103 Jimmy Carter was, I think, 1147 00:55:14,241 --> 00:55:17,141 the best ever at his understanding of it, 1148 00:55:17,279 --> 00:55:19,246 mainly because he was a fan. 1149 00:55:19,385 --> 00:55:24,148 He used music in a way that helped him in his politics. 1150 00:55:24,286 --> 00:55:29,222 He used music, uh, to entertain members of Congress a lot 1151 00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:31,742 at different events he did on the White House lawn 1152 00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:33,813 that had never been done quite that way. 1153 00:55:33,951 --> 00:55:37,610 - We would go out through the crowd with index cards, 1154 00:55:37,748 --> 00:55:41,199 knowing to go see this particular congressman, 1155 00:55:41,338 --> 00:55:43,512 'cause you can talk to him for twenty or thirty minutes 1156 00:55:43,650 --> 00:55:44,927 and you couldn't get in their office. 1157 00:55:45,065 --> 00:55:46,791 - I think one of the great events I remember 1158 00:55:46,929 --> 00:55:50,105 was, um, President Carter had a NASCAR event 1159 00:55:50,243 --> 00:55:54,178 and, uh, had none other than Willie Nelson come and sing. 1160 00:55:54,316 --> 00:55:55,490 Again, it was outside on 1161 00:55:55,628 --> 00:55:57,146 the South Lawn of the White House. 1162 00:55:57,284 --> 00:55:58,493 Had race cars come in 1163 00:55:58,631 --> 00:55:59,770 and had some of the, you know, 1164 00:55:59,908 --> 00:56:02,393 big-time drivers of that era there 1165 00:56:02,531 --> 00:56:05,154 and had members of Congress, who were just eating this up. 1166 00:56:05,292 --> 00:56:09,745 - ♪ Irene good night ♪ 1167 00:56:09,883 --> 00:56:12,438 ♪ ♪ 1168 00:56:12,576 --> 00:56:17,028 ♪ Irene good night ♪ 1169 00:56:17,166 --> 00:56:19,445 ♪ ♪ 1170 00:56:19,583 --> 00:56:23,207 ♪ Good night Irene ♪ 1171 00:56:23,345 --> 00:56:26,762 ♪ Good night Irene ♪ 1172 00:56:26,900 --> 00:56:33,735 ♪ I'll see you in my dreams ♪ 1173 00:56:33,873 --> 00:56:37,566 ♪ Stop your rambling ♪ 1174 00:56:37,704 --> 00:56:41,605 ♪ And stop your gambling ♪ 1175 00:56:41,743 --> 00:56:45,402 ♪ Stop staying out so late ♪ 1176 00:56:45,540 --> 00:56:47,334 ♪ Late at night ♪ 1177 00:56:47,473 --> 00:56:49,336 ♪ ♪ 1178 00:56:49,475 --> 00:56:52,685 ♪ And go home to your wife ♪ 1179 00:56:52,823 --> 00:56:56,413 ♪ And your family ♪ 1180 00:56:56,551 --> 00:57:02,039 ♪ And stay by the fireside bright ♪ 1181 00:57:02,177 --> 00:57:04,351 ♪ ♪ 1182 00:57:04,490 --> 00:57:09,356 - My mother was in charge of all the events 1183 00:57:09,495 --> 00:57:11,497 that happened at the White House. 1184 00:57:11,635 --> 00:57:13,119 So when they wanted to do a concert, 1185 00:57:13,257 --> 00:57:15,155 my mother would be the one that would set it up 1186 00:57:15,293 --> 00:57:17,330 and say everything that was going around it. 1187 00:57:17,468 --> 00:57:22,266 - I just want to say it's been a wonderful evening for me, 1188 00:57:22,404 --> 00:57:23,716 and it could only have been better 1189 00:57:23,854 --> 00:57:25,442 if Jimmy had been here to hear you, Willie, 1190 00:57:25,580 --> 00:57:26,753 and your group. 1191 00:57:26,891 --> 00:57:28,065 - When Willie Nelson came 1192 00:57:28,203 --> 00:57:29,446 and performed at the White House, 1193 00:57:29,584 --> 00:57:32,759 and President Carter was at Camp David 1194 00:57:32,897 --> 00:57:35,037 for 13 days with Begin and Sadat, 1195 00:57:35,175 --> 00:57:37,419 but he was not there for a good reason. 1196 00:57:37,557 --> 00:57:38,972 - I have to go back to Camp David. 1197 00:57:39,110 --> 00:57:40,249 I'm sorry, 1198 00:57:40,387 --> 00:57:42,217 but I want to leave you with one thought. 1199 00:57:42,355 --> 00:57:45,841 You know how very important the summit is 1200 00:57:45,979 --> 00:57:48,085 and how much is at stake in these meetings. 1201 00:57:48,223 --> 00:57:52,020 I want to ask you tonight to continue to pray for Jimmy, 1202 00:57:52,158 --> 00:57:55,195 for Prime Minister Begin, for President Sadat. 1203 00:57:55,333 --> 00:57:57,888 Pray for them, pray for those who are with them, 1204 00:57:58,026 --> 00:57:59,821 and that the summit will be a success. 1205 00:57:59,959 --> 00:58:02,099 Good night. I love every one of you. 1206 00:58:02,237 --> 00:58:04,998 [cheers and applause] 1207 00:58:05,136 --> 00:58:09,140 [western music] 1208 00:58:09,278 --> 00:58:10,935 - If you've ever read the history of the talks 1209 00:58:11,073 --> 00:58:15,595 in Camp David between Begin and, uh, Sadat, 1210 00:58:15,733 --> 00:58:18,943 it's a riveting story of how many times 1211 00:58:19,081 --> 00:58:21,394 each of the other sides were willing to pull out, 1212 00:58:21,532 --> 00:58:25,087 and the fact that Carter was there with his wife, 1213 00:58:25,225 --> 00:58:27,400 managing the whole thing, going from side to side, 1214 00:58:27,538 --> 00:58:30,817 not just in policy things but in personality things, 1215 00:58:30,955 --> 00:58:34,200 all things you really need to do to reconcile people 1216 00:58:34,338 --> 00:58:36,305 who have hated each other for their lifetimes. 1217 00:58:36,443 --> 00:58:40,862 [guitar strumming] 1218 00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:43,416 - I had been hired, um, very specifically to work 1219 00:58:43,554 --> 00:58:46,764 on foreign policy issues for the Carter Administration, 1220 00:58:46,902 --> 00:58:48,248 and I have to tell you 1221 00:58:48,386 --> 00:58:50,975 as somebody that was sitting in Washington, 1222 00:58:51,113 --> 00:58:53,219 uh, while they all were at Camp David, 1223 00:58:53,357 --> 00:58:55,393 it was fairly nerve-wracking 1224 00:58:55,532 --> 00:58:58,017 because people kept saying, "When are they coming down? 1225 00:58:58,155 --> 00:58:59,846 When are they coming down from the mountain?" 1226 00:58:59,984 --> 00:59:02,573 And they were there for a couple of weeks. 1227 00:59:02,711 --> 00:59:04,230 - He brings both of these guys, 1228 00:59:04,368 --> 00:59:06,094 takes them up on the top of that mountain, 1229 00:59:06,232 --> 00:59:08,579 Camp David, and kind of locks them up, 1230 00:59:08,717 --> 00:59:11,755 and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth, 1231 00:59:11,893 --> 00:59:13,480 and it almost fell apart, 1232 00:59:13,619 --> 00:59:17,139 and then it starts looking like it's gonna happen, 1233 00:59:17,277 --> 00:59:21,730 and as Carter realizes that, uh, he's gonna get a deal, 1234 00:59:21,868 --> 00:59:25,182 he's gonna get, uh, a Camp David Accords 1235 00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:29,876 between the biggest army in the Middle East, Egypt, 1236 00:59:30,014 --> 00:59:31,740 and the Israelis. 1237 00:59:31,878 --> 00:59:35,502 - President Carter really used his knowledge of the subject 1238 00:59:35,641 --> 00:59:40,715 and his willingness to talk to people in a very direct way 1239 00:59:40,853 --> 00:59:43,062 to get a result. He was very good, I think, 1240 00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:44,511 about being able to put himself 1241 00:59:44,650 --> 00:59:46,134 into other people's shoes, 1242 00:59:46,272 --> 00:59:47,860 to understand what they needed. 1243 00:59:47,998 --> 00:59:52,347 - The odds of pulling off this peace treaty between 1244 00:59:52,485 --> 00:59:56,523 Sadat and Menachem Begin was, you know, slight, 1245 00:59:56,662 --> 00:59:58,387 and--and a lot of, uh, 1246 00:59:58,525 --> 01:00:01,736 his international advisors were saying, "Don't do this," 1247 01:00:01,874 --> 01:00:03,910 and Carter had this moment in time 1248 01:00:04,048 --> 01:00:05,774 that he knew he had a shot at it, 1249 01:00:05,912 --> 01:00:07,465 so he did. 1250 01:00:07,604 --> 01:00:09,744 - Ladies and gentlemen, 1251 01:00:09,882 --> 01:00:13,092 the President of the United States, 1252 01:00:13,230 --> 01:00:16,820 the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, 1253 01:00:16,958 --> 01:00:19,098 and the Prime Minister of Israel. 1254 01:00:19,236 --> 01:00:23,067 [applause] 1255 01:00:23,205 --> 01:00:25,794 - He put his life and soul into that, you know? 1256 01:00:25,932 --> 01:00:29,418 And that--that's been the most important 1257 01:00:29,556 --> 01:00:33,802 and only breakthrough really in the dilemma of the Middle East. 1258 01:00:33,940 --> 01:00:38,117 - We are privileged to witness tonight 1259 01:00:38,255 --> 01:00:41,120 a significant achievement in the cause of peace. 1260 01:00:41,258 --> 01:00:43,847 - President Carter was interested in having 1261 01:00:43,985 --> 01:00:45,952 a moral foreign policy. 1262 01:00:46,090 --> 01:00:48,714 He thought that our dedication to human rights, 1263 01:00:48,852 --> 01:00:51,095 America's value system, 1264 01:00:51,233 --> 01:00:53,201 was what he wanted to represent, 1265 01:00:53,339 --> 01:00:56,998 and he did make, um, the pursuit of human rights 1266 01:00:57,136 --> 01:01:00,242 all over the world one of his basic tenets 1267 01:01:00,380 --> 01:01:03,314 about national security policy--the best of America. 1268 01:01:03,452 --> 01:01:04,453 What are we about? 1269 01:01:04,591 --> 01:01:07,664 [cheering] 1270 01:01:07,802 --> 01:01:10,563 [rock music] 1271 01:01:10,701 --> 01:01:13,808 - Human rights. The right to live like a human. 1272 01:01:13,946 --> 01:01:19,814 That's something that President Jimmy Carter, 1273 01:01:19,952 --> 01:01:25,751 um, tried to make real, uh, with his foreign policy, 1274 01:01:25,889 --> 01:01:29,651 and he had difficulty implementing it 1275 01:01:29,789 --> 01:01:32,861 around the world, but at least he was trying. 1276 01:01:32,999 --> 01:01:35,830 - He sent me to Africa with a note 1277 01:01:35,968 --> 01:01:37,866 on a torn piece of paper: 1278 01:01:38,004 --> 01:01:40,869 "I want you to ask African leaders 1279 01:01:41,007 --> 01:01:43,389 "what they expect of this administration 1280 01:01:43,527 --> 01:01:47,531 and how we can help them." That's revolutionary. 1281 01:01:47,669 --> 01:01:48,912 - With the coming of the New Year, 1282 01:01:49,050 --> 01:01:50,741 a new and controversial chapter 1283 01:01:50,879 --> 01:01:52,950 in America's relationship with Asia. 1284 01:01:53,088 --> 01:01:54,400 Here in Washington this morning, 1285 01:01:54,538 --> 01:01:56,643 the flag of the People's Republic of China 1286 01:01:56,782 --> 01:01:57,955 raised for the first time 1287 01:01:58,093 --> 01:02:00,164 at what's now the Chinese Embassy. 1288 01:02:00,302 --> 01:02:02,926 That ceremony one of several marking the opening of formal 1289 01:02:03,064 --> 01:02:04,513 U.S. ties with Peking 1290 01:02:04,651 --> 01:02:07,102 and the end of formal relations with Taiwan. 1291 01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:09,518 - In terms of opening up to China. 1292 01:02:09,656 --> 01:02:11,658 President Carter followed through 1293 01:02:11,797 --> 01:02:16,284 on what had been an opening by a Republican president, 1294 01:02:16,422 --> 01:02:19,390 and I find that the bipartisanship of that 1295 01:02:19,528 --> 01:02:21,599 is something that is worth noting, 1296 01:02:21,738 --> 01:02:23,394 given what some of the atmosphere 1297 01:02:23,532 --> 01:02:25,155 has been on that recently. 1298 01:02:25,293 --> 01:02:27,364 - How are you? 1299 01:02:27,502 --> 01:02:29,642 - The, um, Chinese ambassador came 1300 01:02:29,780 --> 01:02:32,749 and, like President Carter would always do, he'd say, 1301 01:02:32,887 --> 01:02:34,509 "And if there's anything I can do for you? 1302 01:02:34,647 --> 01:02:36,614 Is there anything you want?" 1303 01:02:36,753 --> 01:02:39,652 And the ambassador said, "Yes. I'd like to go to Nashville." 1304 01:02:39,790 --> 01:02:46,072 [country music] 1305 01:02:46,210 --> 01:02:49,179 - The President asked me to put that trip together, 1306 01:02:49,317 --> 01:02:52,147 and it was just a magnificent weekend, 1307 01:02:52,285 --> 01:02:54,563 'cause Nashville rolled out the red carpet, 1308 01:02:54,701 --> 01:02:57,532 at Jimmy Carter's request, for this, you know, 1309 01:02:57,670 --> 01:03:00,500 first People's Republic of China ambassador. 1310 01:03:00,638 --> 01:03:04,470 Started with a luncheon of every business leader 1311 01:03:04,608 --> 01:03:05,816 in the music business 1312 01:03:05,954 --> 01:03:08,681 coming to the BMI Conference Room, 1313 01:03:08,819 --> 01:03:11,304 and that lunch ended with Barbara Mandrell, 1314 01:03:11,442 --> 01:03:14,480 as the doors opened, standing there with her combo 1315 01:03:14,618 --> 01:03:17,448 singing "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed," 1316 01:03:17,586 --> 01:03:19,623 as the interpreter was telling the ambassador 1317 01:03:19,761 --> 01:03:22,488 what she was singing, he just died laughing. 1318 01:03:22,626 --> 01:03:26,388 And then the weekend ended with Sunday morning brunch. 1319 01:03:26,526 --> 01:03:29,909 Minnie Pearl came. June and Johnny Cash came. 1320 01:03:30,047 --> 01:03:31,911 The terrific remembrance I have of this 1321 01:03:32,049 --> 01:03:33,844 is Dixie rings the bell, 1322 01:03:33,982 --> 01:03:35,397 you know, and says "Breakfast is served." 1323 01:03:35,535 --> 01:03:39,160 This is Sunday morning; this is Nashville, in 1979. 1324 01:03:39,298 --> 01:03:41,818 Somebody would've usually said a blessing, 1325 01:03:41,956 --> 01:03:44,234 but we had our guest from Beijing there, 1326 01:03:44,372 --> 01:03:46,650 and it was a hesitant moment there, 1327 01:03:46,788 --> 01:03:49,411 and all of a sudden Johnny Cash and June Carter 1328 01:03:49,549 --> 01:03:52,656 started singing "Shall the Circle Be Unbroken." 1329 01:03:52,794 --> 01:03:59,111 - ♪ Will the circle be unbroken ♪ 1330 01:03:59,249 --> 01:04:06,049 ♪ By and by Lord by and by ♪ 1331 01:04:06,187 --> 01:04:12,572 ♪ There's a better way of living ♪ 1332 01:04:12,710 --> 01:04:15,575 ♪ In the sky Lord ♪ 1333 01:04:15,713 --> 01:04:19,821 ♪ In the ♪ 1334 01:04:19,959 --> 01:04:24,170 ♪ Sky ♪ 1335 01:04:24,308 --> 01:04:25,585 - And then it was great 1336 01:04:25,723 --> 01:04:27,967 because Deng Xiaoping came to the United States, 1337 01:04:28,105 --> 01:04:30,832 and there was a lot of celebrating, justly so. 1338 01:04:30,970 --> 01:04:34,836 It was one of the really important national security, 1339 01:04:34,974 --> 01:04:37,977 um, agendas that, uh, President Carter did. 1340 01:04:38,115 --> 01:04:43,707 - Country music has become a national treasure 1341 01:04:43,845 --> 01:04:48,815 and indeed a worldwide source of entertainment 1342 01:04:48,954 --> 01:04:51,232 and enjoyment that transcends language 1343 01:04:51,370 --> 01:04:53,751 and transcends national borders. 1344 01:04:53,890 --> 01:04:58,480 It's always good to see something come out of the South 1345 01:04:58,618 --> 01:05:02,001 have an unexpected, uh, achievement. 1346 01:05:02,139 --> 01:05:03,416 [chuckles] 1347 01:05:03,554 --> 01:05:06,178 [applause] 1348 01:05:06,316 --> 01:05:08,283 - Well, I think what they underestimated 1349 01:05:08,421 --> 01:05:10,699 about President Carter was what a dedicated, 1350 01:05:10,837 --> 01:05:14,669 patriotic, smart, political person he was. 1351 01:05:14,807 --> 01:05:17,292 People did think that he was just this peanut farmer 1352 01:05:17,430 --> 01:05:19,087 that had come up from Georgia, 1353 01:05:19,225 --> 01:05:20,606 forgetting that he had been a governor, 1354 01:05:20,744 --> 01:05:24,230 that also he had been-- had military service, 1355 01:05:24,368 --> 01:05:28,027 um, and he was, uh, somebody who loved history, 1356 01:05:28,165 --> 01:05:29,339 uh, and was somebody that 1357 01:05:29,477 --> 01:05:31,824 was so proud to be an American. 1358 01:05:31,962 --> 01:05:33,481 - Ladies and Gentlemen, Loretta Lynn! 1359 01:05:33,619 --> 01:05:35,966 [applause] 1360 01:05:36,104 --> 01:05:38,969 [country music] 1361 01:05:39,107 --> 01:05:42,214 ♪ ♪ 1362 01:05:42,352 --> 01:05:48,634 - ♪ Well I was born a coal miner's daughter ♪ 1363 01:05:48,772 --> 01:05:55,537 ♪ In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler ♪ 1364 01:05:55,675 --> 01:05:59,300 ♪ We were poor but we had love ♪ 1365 01:05:59,438 --> 01:06:02,717 ♪ That's the one thing that daddy made sure of ♪ 1366 01:06:02,855 --> 01:06:09,689 ♪ He shoveled coal to make a poor man's dollar ♪ 1367 01:06:09,827 --> 01:06:11,760 - I believe one of the reasons that musicians, you know, 1368 01:06:11,898 --> 01:06:13,935 were drawn to President Carter and vice versa, 1369 01:06:14,073 --> 01:06:15,281 he was a man of the earth. 1370 01:06:15,419 --> 01:06:17,525 For God's sake, he was a peanut farmer. 1371 01:06:17,663 --> 01:06:20,769 He was raised around that music. 1372 01:06:20,907 --> 01:06:22,116 That was part of that culture. 1373 01:06:22,254 --> 01:06:23,462 You know, Shakespeare said 1374 01:06:23,600 --> 01:06:26,465 "If music be the language of love, play on." 1375 01:06:26,603 --> 01:06:31,194 My favorite is Lord Fletcher of Saltoun. 1376 01:06:31,332 --> 01:06:37,683 He said, "Were I able to make the ballads of a nation, 1377 01:06:37,821 --> 01:06:41,031 I need not write its laws." 1378 01:06:41,169 --> 01:06:45,622 The songs of any given 10- or 20-year period 1379 01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:46,968 will more accurately 1380 01:06:47,106 --> 01:06:50,558 and honestly reflect what happened. 1381 01:06:50,696 --> 01:06:55,632 - ♪ Well a lot of things have changed since way back then ♪ 1382 01:06:55,770 --> 01:06:58,497 ♪ ♪ 1383 01:06:58,635 --> 01:07:02,777 ♪ And it's so good to be back home again ♪ 1384 01:07:02,915 --> 01:07:04,606 ♪ ♪ 1385 01:07:04,744 --> 01:07:08,403 ♪ Not much left but the floors ♪ 1386 01:07:08,541 --> 01:07:12,304 ♪ Nothing lives here anymore ♪ 1387 01:07:12,442 --> 01:07:17,378 ♪ Just the memories of a coal miner's daughter ♪ 1388 01:07:17,516 --> 01:07:19,173 ♪ ♪ 1389 01:07:19,311 --> 01:07:22,210 [applause] 1390 01:07:22,348 --> 01:07:23,556 - Carter did a lot of entertaining 1391 01:07:23,694 --> 01:07:25,834 with these musical friends he had: 1392 01:07:25,972 --> 01:07:28,182 Loretta Lynn, right? 1393 01:07:28,320 --> 01:07:31,806 Uh, Conway Twitty, Tom T. Hall. 1394 01:07:31,944 --> 01:07:33,325 All the greats of that era 1395 01:07:33,463 --> 01:07:35,327 performed, uh, there in the East Room 1396 01:07:35,465 --> 01:07:37,570 of the White House to honor Jimmy Carter. 1397 01:07:37,708 --> 01:07:40,573 [jazz music] 1398 01:07:40,711 --> 01:07:43,783 ♪ ♪ 1399 01:07:43,921 --> 01:07:46,096 I was lucky enough to go to the state dinner 1400 01:07:46,234 --> 01:07:49,030 for the Shah and Shahbanu of Iran, 1401 01:07:49,168 --> 01:07:50,549 a pretty grand affair. 1402 01:07:50,687 --> 01:07:53,103 The entertainment that night was none other than 1403 01:07:53,241 --> 01:07:55,864 Sarah Vaughan and Dizzy Gillespie. 1404 01:07:56,002 --> 01:07:58,867 - [vocalizing] 1405 01:07:59,005 --> 01:08:05,840 ♪ ♪ 1406 01:08:05,978 --> 01:08:09,188 - President Carter had worked so hard on relationships 1407 01:08:09,326 --> 01:08:10,776 with Iran, frankly, 1408 01:08:10,914 --> 01:08:13,054 and he was somebody who analyzed for-- 1409 01:08:13,192 --> 01:08:17,576 from my perspective--national security policy very carefully. 1410 01:08:17,714 --> 01:08:20,993 But, uh, it was a very complex period. 1411 01:08:21,131 --> 01:08:23,444 [rock music] 1412 01:08:23,582 --> 01:08:25,411 - This was not the first time the Shah of Iran 1413 01:08:25,549 --> 01:08:27,310 has been forced to flee his country, 1414 01:08:27,448 --> 01:08:30,520 but this time his absence will certainly be much longer. 1415 01:08:30,658 --> 01:08:33,488 - The Shah becomes very sick with cancer. 1416 01:08:33,626 --> 01:08:35,249 Um, he's-- 1417 01:08:35,387 --> 01:08:40,116 he's trying to get to, uh, America to get treatment, 1418 01:08:40,254 --> 01:08:41,703 and there was a lot of pushback 1419 01:08:41,841 --> 01:08:44,982 from a lot of corners of foreign policy 1420 01:08:45,121 --> 01:08:48,193 not to do that, afraid of what it would uncork. 1421 01:08:48,331 --> 01:08:50,126 The thing that's part of that history 1422 01:08:50,264 --> 01:08:51,368 that I think is not known 1423 01:08:51,506 --> 01:08:54,199 is kind of the Republican foreign policy 1424 01:08:54,337 --> 01:08:57,167 establishment kind of led the charge on Carter 1425 01:08:57,305 --> 01:08:59,411 to let the Shah in to get his treatment. 1426 01:08:59,549 --> 01:09:01,758 - I would say very firmly that under no circumstances 1427 01:09:01,896 --> 01:09:05,796 can the United States give in to the blackmail 1428 01:09:05,934 --> 01:09:07,177 that seems to be practiced 1429 01:09:07,315 --> 01:09:10,318 by the demonstrators in Iran and decline 1430 01:09:10,456 --> 01:09:13,218 to provide the medical service to the Shah of Iran, 1431 01:09:13,356 --> 01:09:16,462 who is very, very ill with cancer. 1432 01:09:16,600 --> 01:09:19,085 - I kind of don't disagree that that was probably 1433 01:09:19,224 --> 01:09:23,159 the humanitarian thing to do, but it was part of the problem 1434 01:09:23,297 --> 01:09:25,022 that led to the hostage situation. 1435 01:09:25,161 --> 01:09:28,025 [rock music] 1436 01:09:28,164 --> 01:09:30,925 ♪ ♪ 1437 01:09:31,063 --> 01:09:33,824 - Muslim students occupying the American Embassy in Iran 1438 01:09:33,962 --> 01:09:36,275 for the second day now have called for their government 1439 01:09:36,413 --> 01:09:38,588 to break all relations with the United States. 1440 01:09:38,726 --> 01:09:40,210 The crowd burned the American flag 1441 01:09:40,348 --> 01:09:42,971 and demanded that the United States return the Shah, 1442 01:09:43,109 --> 01:09:45,940 who is in a New York City hospital, to Iran for trial. 1443 01:09:46,078 --> 01:09:48,218 The students took more than 50 hostages 1444 01:09:48,356 --> 01:09:49,633 and said they would not be released 1445 01:09:49,771 --> 01:09:51,290 until the Shah is in Iran. 1446 01:09:51,428 --> 01:09:53,465 - ♪ One way or another ♪ 1447 01:09:53,603 --> 01:09:55,121 ♪ I'm gonna find ya ♪ 1448 01:09:55,260 --> 01:09:57,193 ♪ I'm gonna get you, get you, get you, get you ♪ 1449 01:09:57,331 --> 01:09:59,471 ♪ One way or another ♪ 1450 01:09:59,609 --> 01:10:01,127 ♪ I'm gonna win ya ♪ 1451 01:10:01,266 --> 01:10:03,095 ♪ I'm gonna get you, get you, get you, get you ♪ 1452 01:10:03,233 --> 01:10:08,100 - Well, the Iranian hostage crisis was a genuine disaster 1453 01:10:08,238 --> 01:10:09,584 in so many different ways, 1454 01:10:09,722 --> 01:10:14,417 because what happened was that a number of our diplomats 1455 01:10:14,555 --> 01:10:17,765 in Iran had been seized and held. 1456 01:10:17,903 --> 01:10:21,009 And it in so many ways completely paralyzed 1457 01:10:21,147 --> 01:10:22,459 the Carter Administration, 1458 01:10:22,597 --> 01:10:24,910 because we had to deal with it day by day. 1459 01:10:25,048 --> 01:10:27,706 People thought, "Why is this happening? 1460 01:10:27,844 --> 01:10:29,466 We're the most powerful country in the world 1461 01:10:29,604 --> 01:10:32,711 and we can't rescue these hostages." 1462 01:10:32,849 --> 01:10:35,955 - My thoughts and my prayers for our hostages in Iran 1463 01:10:36,093 --> 01:10:40,270 are as though they were my own sons and daughters. 1464 01:10:40,408 --> 01:10:41,720 I was under a great deal of strain. 1465 01:10:41,858 --> 01:10:44,757 A lot of people were advising me to bomb Iran, 1466 01:10:44,895 --> 01:10:46,518 but I knew that if I bombed Iran, 1467 01:10:46,656 --> 01:10:48,692 they would kill the hostages first thing. 1468 01:10:48,830 --> 01:10:53,007 - He was dedicated to getting those hostages home alive, 1469 01:10:53,145 --> 01:10:55,527 at almost any political cost. 1470 01:10:55,665 --> 01:10:58,184 Being president is a pretty lonely job. 1471 01:10:58,323 --> 01:11:00,221 You're all by yourself. 1472 01:11:00,359 --> 01:11:01,981 Carter would retreat to his study 1473 01:11:02,119 --> 01:11:05,468 and listen to Willie Nelson. If I remember correctly, 1474 01:11:05,606 --> 01:11:08,022 at that time it was a gospel music album. 1475 01:11:08,160 --> 01:11:11,508 He made his decisions in the solitude of that room. 1476 01:11:11,646 --> 01:11:12,958 - I went into the room 1477 01:11:13,096 --> 01:11:14,787 where Harry Truman used to have his office, 1478 01:11:14,925 --> 01:11:16,824 which was next door to the bedroom. 1479 01:11:16,962 --> 01:11:19,827 I would play Willie Nelson music primarily, 1480 01:11:19,965 --> 01:11:21,932 so I could think about my problems 1481 01:11:22,070 --> 01:11:24,176 and say a few prayers. 1482 01:11:24,314 --> 01:11:27,317 - ♪ Amazing grace ♪ 1483 01:11:27,455 --> 01:11:32,495 ♪ How sweet the sound ♪ 1484 01:11:32,633 --> 01:11:39,433 ♪ That saved a wretch like me ♪ 1485 01:11:39,571 --> 01:11:43,747 ♪ I once was lost ♪ 1486 01:11:43,885 --> 01:11:48,027 ♪ But now I'm found ♪ 1487 01:11:48,165 --> 01:11:50,409 ♪ I was blind ♪ 1488 01:11:50,547 --> 01:11:55,241 ♪ But now I see ♪ 1489 01:11:55,380 --> 01:11:58,659 - If Iran has brought home one thing to Americans, 1490 01:11:58,797 --> 01:12:01,144 it is that foreign affairs cannot be separated 1491 01:12:01,282 --> 01:12:03,008 from our domestic concerns--concern 1492 01:12:03,146 --> 01:12:06,701 about the hostages, about oil prices and supply. 1493 01:12:06,839 --> 01:12:10,602 What concerns people, voters, also concerns politicians. 1494 01:12:10,740 --> 01:12:12,569 This is a presidential election year, 1495 01:12:12,707 --> 01:12:15,123 and Iran has upset the best laid plans 1496 01:12:15,261 --> 01:12:16,504 of most of the candidates. 1497 01:12:16,642 --> 01:12:18,057 - You know, on a political point, 1498 01:12:18,195 --> 01:12:22,752 he could've gone in there anytime and attacked in Tehran, 1499 01:12:22,890 --> 01:12:25,168 multiple lives lost on both sides, 1500 01:12:25,306 --> 01:12:27,826 and he would've been a hero to the American people, 1501 01:12:27,964 --> 01:12:31,657 but his only interest was getting the American hostages 1502 01:12:31,795 --> 01:12:33,832 back alive to their families. 1503 01:12:33,970 --> 01:12:37,180 - I think a lot of other politically strategic military 1504 01:12:37,318 --> 01:12:40,252 thinking would've done something a bit bolder. 1505 01:12:40,390 --> 01:12:44,567 But the hostage thing I think amplified a lot of the fears 1506 01:12:44,705 --> 01:12:47,363 that people had had about him. 1507 01:12:47,501 --> 01:12:49,675 [gentle music] 1508 01:12:49,813 --> 01:12:53,783 - His error was that, when you'd raise something 1509 01:12:53,921 --> 01:12:57,062 that this is gonna be good for you politically, 1510 01:12:57,200 --> 01:12:58,374 he didn't wanna hear it. 1511 01:12:58,512 --> 01:13:01,135 He said, "What is the right thing to do?" 1512 01:13:01,273 --> 01:13:04,000 - Go Jimmy! 1513 01:13:04,138 --> 01:13:07,831 - The 1980 re-election campaign 1514 01:13:07,969 --> 01:13:12,318 opened up in kind of the north part of Alabama. 1515 01:13:12,457 --> 01:13:15,701 - We've got Charlie Daniels here. 1516 01:13:15,839 --> 01:13:17,082 - Well, Charlie Daniels. Look at Charlie. 1517 01:13:17,220 --> 01:13:19,291 I mean, he's pretty--a pretty good Republican, 1518 01:13:19,429 --> 01:13:20,637 but he was a great friend, 1519 01:13:20,775 --> 01:13:22,984 and he and Carter got along well, 1520 01:13:23,122 --> 01:13:26,194 and he did a concert with the president. 1521 01:13:26,332 --> 01:13:27,955 - When the president arrived, 1522 01:13:28,093 --> 01:13:30,164 the Secret Service was all uptight, 1523 01:13:30,302 --> 01:13:34,479 because a whole delegation of Ku Klux Klan folks 1524 01:13:34,617 --> 01:13:38,724 had shown up to heckle, jeer, and wave signs at him. 1525 01:13:38,862 --> 01:13:40,381 I'll never forget that. 1526 01:13:40,519 --> 01:13:43,280 [upbeat fiddle music] 1527 01:13:43,419 --> 01:13:47,008 ♪ ♪ 1528 01:13:47,146 --> 01:13:48,700 ♪ The devil went down to Georgia ♪ 1529 01:13:48,838 --> 01:13:50,702 ♪ He was lookin' for a soul to steal ♪ 1530 01:13:50,840 --> 01:13:52,462 ♪ He was in a bind 'cause he was way behind ♪ 1531 01:13:52,600 --> 01:13:54,153 ♪ And he was willin' to make a deal ♪ 1532 01:13:54,291 --> 01:13:55,776 ♪ When he came across this young man ♪ 1533 01:13:55,914 --> 01:13:57,605 ♪ Sawin' on a fiddle and playin' it hot ♪ 1534 01:13:57,743 --> 01:13:59,227 ♪ And the devil jumped up on a hickory stump ♪ 1535 01:13:59,365 --> 01:14:00,815 ♪ And said, "Boy, let me tell you what" ♪ 1536 01:14:00,953 --> 01:14:02,368 ♪ I guess you didn't know it ♪ 1537 01:14:02,507 --> 01:14:04,474 ♪ But I'm a fiddle player too ♪ 1538 01:14:04,612 --> 01:14:06,234 ♪ And if you'd care to take a dare ♪ 1539 01:14:06,372 --> 01:14:07,891 ♪ I'll make a bet with you ♪ 1540 01:14:08,029 --> 01:14:09,721 ♪ Now you play a pretty good fiddle, boy ♪ 1541 01:14:09,859 --> 01:14:11,239 ♪ But give the devil his due ♪ 1542 01:14:11,377 --> 01:14:13,138 ♪ I'll bet a fiddle of gold against your soul ♪ 1543 01:14:13,276 --> 01:14:15,140 ♪ 'Cause I think I'm better than you ♪ 1544 01:14:15,278 --> 01:14:17,211 - I say that these people in white sheets 1545 01:14:17,349 --> 01:14:20,214 do not understand our region and what it's been through. 1546 01:14:20,352 --> 01:14:23,424 They do not understand what our country stands for. 1547 01:14:23,562 --> 01:14:25,426 They do not understand that the South 1548 01:14:25,564 --> 01:14:28,015 and all of America must move forward. 1549 01:14:28,153 --> 01:14:31,846 Our past is a rich source of inspiration. 1550 01:14:31,984 --> 01:14:34,815 We've had lessons that we learned 1551 01:14:34,953 --> 01:14:36,851 with a great deal of pain, 1552 01:14:36,989 --> 01:14:40,165 but the past is not a place to live. 1553 01:14:40,303 --> 01:14:43,720 We must go forward in the South, and we will. 1554 01:14:43,858 --> 01:14:45,446 - ♪ Fire on the mountain, run boys, run ♪ 1555 01:14:45,584 --> 01:14:47,310 ♪ ♪ 1556 01:14:47,448 --> 01:14:49,139 ♪ The devil's in the House of the Rising Sun ♪ 1557 01:14:49,277 --> 01:14:50,934 ♪ ♪ 1558 01:14:51,072 --> 01:14:52,557 ♪ Chicken in a bread pan pickin' out dough ♪ 1559 01:14:52,695 --> 01:14:54,282 ♪ ♪ 1560 01:14:54,420 --> 01:14:56,215 ♪ Granny, does your dog bite? No, child, no ♪ 1561 01:14:56,353 --> 01:14:59,840 - The Ku Klux Klan was down on me, obviously, 1562 01:14:59,978 --> 01:15:03,775 and they wanted to disrupt the rally, 1563 01:15:03,913 --> 01:15:05,604 and so I thought the only way to do it 1564 01:15:05,742 --> 01:15:07,779 was to confront them directly. 1565 01:15:07,917 --> 01:15:09,677 - We kinda had to walk through this gauntlet 1566 01:15:09,815 --> 01:15:11,127 of all these guys, and you know, 1567 01:15:11,265 --> 01:15:15,131 Carter being Jimmy Carter would stop and jeer back 1568 01:15:15,269 --> 01:15:18,099 at them every once in a while about what cowards they were. 1569 01:15:18,237 --> 01:15:19,687 - This good man, 1570 01:15:19,825 --> 01:15:23,657 who wanted to try to reverse the tide of history, 1571 01:15:23,795 --> 01:15:25,106 not only in the South and in America 1572 01:15:25,244 --> 01:15:27,315 but within his own party--the guys 1573 01:15:27,453 --> 01:15:28,662 with the white hoods 1574 01:15:28,800 --> 01:15:32,907 and the burning crosses did not like that. 1575 01:15:33,045 --> 01:15:34,875 - There was a lot of discontent. 1576 01:15:35,013 --> 01:15:37,705 There'd been outrageous inflation in this country 1577 01:15:37,843 --> 01:15:40,018 through about three presidents. 1578 01:15:40,156 --> 01:15:44,022 You had 18% interest, you had 18% inflation, 1579 01:15:44,160 --> 01:15:47,128 and you had the price of gas through the ceiling, 1580 01:15:47,266 --> 01:15:50,649 and you had long lines, back in '79 and '80, 1581 01:15:50,787 --> 01:15:52,168 people running out of gas. 1582 01:15:52,306 --> 01:15:56,621 It made Carter appear like he was weak. 1583 01:15:56,759 --> 01:15:59,244 - Are you and your family 1584 01:15:59,382 --> 01:16:03,248 more secure after 4 years of Jimmy Carter? 1585 01:16:03,386 --> 01:16:04,801 all: No! 1586 01:16:04,939 --> 01:16:06,734 - And is America still a country 1587 01:16:06,872 --> 01:16:09,944 that enjoys respect throughout the world? 1588 01:16:10,082 --> 01:16:13,154 all: "No!" 1589 01:16:13,292 --> 01:16:18,159 - I think there was a sense of spiritual depression, 1590 01:16:18,297 --> 01:16:20,990 where there was a sense in which we were stuck. 1591 01:16:21,128 --> 01:16:22,750 Then the cultural climate changed 1592 01:16:22,888 --> 01:16:25,373 because of all of the various factors, 1593 01:16:25,511 --> 01:16:28,342 economic and geopolitical. 1594 01:16:28,480 --> 01:16:32,449 The global climate and the national climate changed, 1595 01:16:32,588 --> 01:16:34,382 and I think that tilted the election 1596 01:16:34,520 --> 01:16:36,074 as much as anything else. 1597 01:16:36,212 --> 01:16:37,558 - It was the one-year anniversary 1598 01:16:37,696 --> 01:16:40,319 of the Iran hostage crisis, 1599 01:16:40,457 --> 01:16:44,358 and all the networks had special programs, 1600 01:16:44,496 --> 01:16:48,189 and President Carter's numbers just took a nosedive. 1601 01:16:48,327 --> 01:16:51,365 - Our election map tells the story of the Presidential race. 1602 01:16:51,503 --> 01:16:57,371 Carter won 52 Electoral votes, Reagan in a landslide, 486, 1603 01:16:57,509 --> 01:16:59,338 Anderson none. 1604 01:16:59,476 --> 01:17:01,064 - I wasn't surprised when he lost to Reagan, 1605 01:17:01,202 --> 01:17:06,898 but I was deeply disappointed, profoundly disappointed. 1606 01:17:07,036 --> 01:17:09,383 - I've always felt, all along, 1607 01:17:09,521 --> 01:17:13,180 that he got the shortest end of the stick of any president 1608 01:17:13,318 --> 01:17:15,561 that I could think of in modern history. 1609 01:17:15,700 --> 01:17:17,080 - We all felt so bad for him, 1610 01:17:17,218 --> 01:17:19,151 because we felt like he had done so much. 1611 01:17:19,289 --> 01:17:21,533 - The irony of the Carter Presidency, 1612 01:17:21,671 --> 01:17:22,914 of course, is that many 1613 01:17:23,052 --> 01:17:24,950 of his accomplishments, accomplishments 1614 01:17:25,088 --> 01:17:29,023 about which he is proud, are in the hands of the man 1615 01:17:29,161 --> 01:17:32,130 who is going to be sworn in next Tuesday, Ronald Reagan. 1616 01:17:32,268 --> 01:17:34,201 Such accomplishments as an energy policy 1617 01:17:34,339 --> 01:17:37,031 or a separate Education Department, 1618 01:17:37,169 --> 01:17:40,448 the deregulation of business or the reorganization 1619 01:17:40,586 --> 01:17:42,071 of the government--all those 1620 01:17:42,209 --> 01:17:45,074 could be undone by Ronald Reagan. 1621 01:17:45,212 --> 01:17:47,732 - I was one of the last people in the White House 1622 01:17:47,870 --> 01:17:49,354 when the administration changed. 1623 01:17:49,492 --> 01:17:53,392 And I had gone out to Andrews Air Force base 1624 01:17:53,530 --> 01:17:55,360 with a lot of other people to go 1625 01:17:55,498 --> 01:17:57,776 and say goodbye to President Carter, 1626 01:17:57,914 --> 01:17:59,295 and it was at that moment 1627 01:17:59,433 --> 01:18:02,125 that the hostages were released to President Reagan. 1628 01:18:02,263 --> 01:18:04,921 - There were tears in the eyes of Mr. Carter's aides 1629 01:18:05,059 --> 01:18:07,130 when the Presidential Jet went out of its way 1630 01:18:07,268 --> 01:18:10,202 to fly over the White House one last time. 1631 01:18:10,340 --> 01:18:13,792 In Plains, Mr. Carter made his first public statement 1632 01:18:13,930 --> 01:18:15,725 since the freeing of the hostages. 1633 01:18:15,863 --> 01:18:18,210 - Just a few moments ago, on Air Force One, 1634 01:18:18,348 --> 01:18:20,972 before we landed at Warner Robins, 1635 01:18:21,110 --> 01:18:24,976 I had received word officially for the first time 1636 01:18:25,114 --> 01:18:29,532 that the aircraft carrying the 52 American hostages 1637 01:18:29,670 --> 01:18:33,018 had cleared Iranian airspace, 1638 01:18:33,156 --> 01:18:39,266 on the first leg of a journey home, 1639 01:18:39,404 --> 01:18:43,511 and that every one of the 52 hostages was alive, 1640 01:18:43,649 --> 01:18:45,997 was well, and free. 1641 01:18:48,033 --> 01:18:49,138 - He was praising that day, you know. 1642 01:18:49,276 --> 01:18:51,036 It was like, that's what he wanted. 1643 01:18:51,174 --> 01:18:54,039 He didn't care about how and when it happened. 1644 01:18:54,177 --> 01:18:55,696 He--that's just what he wanted to see happen. 1645 01:18:55,834 --> 01:18:57,387 That's the day that I just fell more in love with him, 1646 01:18:57,525 --> 01:18:58,664 because he is the true definition 1647 01:18:58,803 --> 01:19:00,149 of "Love one another." 1648 01:19:00,287 --> 01:19:02,185 - He resolved the crisis in a peaceful way, 1649 01:19:02,323 --> 01:19:03,359 with humility. 1650 01:19:03,497 --> 01:19:05,741 It took a lot of courage to do that. 1651 01:19:07,259 --> 01:19:08,571 - I tried, when I was president, 1652 01:19:08,709 --> 01:19:11,263 to preserve the peace, and I'm grateful now 1653 01:19:11,401 --> 01:19:14,025 that I went through four years in the White House, 1654 01:19:14,163 --> 01:19:18,374 and we never dropped a bomb, we never fired a missile, 1655 01:19:18,512 --> 01:19:22,999 we never shot a bullet to kill another person. 1656 01:19:23,137 --> 01:19:28,453 And I would say that my religious commitment 1657 01:19:28,591 --> 01:19:32,077 to the Prince of Peace was an important part 1658 01:19:32,215 --> 01:19:35,563 of one of the basic principles that I tried to pursue. 1659 01:19:35,701 --> 01:19:40,534 [pensive music] 1660 01:19:40,672 --> 01:19:43,986 - I think he took that loss with incredible grace 1661 01:19:44,124 --> 01:19:45,677 and dignity. 1662 01:19:45,815 --> 01:19:48,473 I'm sure he had to think a lot about what he was going to do. 1663 01:19:48,611 --> 01:19:51,579 I think he probably entertained the idea of coming to Atlanta 1664 01:19:51,717 --> 01:19:52,995 and living 1665 01:19:53,133 --> 01:19:54,928 and maybe working out of Atlanta, 1666 01:19:55,066 --> 01:19:58,000 but he made the decision--he and Rosalynn--to 1667 01:19:58,138 --> 01:20:00,036 go back to Plains, Georgia, 1668 01:20:00,174 --> 01:20:01,486 and I thought that was very cool. 1669 01:20:01,624 --> 01:20:04,075 Go back to the small town. Be who you are. 1670 01:20:04,213 --> 01:20:05,835 - It worked out well. You know, 1671 01:20:05,973 --> 01:20:08,251 we ended up coming home and starting the Carter Center 1672 01:20:08,389 --> 01:20:09,597 and starting off our new lives, 1673 01:20:09,735 --> 01:20:12,255 so you know, we missed the White House, sure, 1674 01:20:12,393 --> 01:20:15,258 but--and what we might be able to accomplish there--but 1675 01:20:15,396 --> 01:20:19,504 it didn't slow down, you know, Dad's desire to help people. 1676 01:20:19,642 --> 01:20:22,093 - We heard President Carter speak and he talked about 1677 01:20:22,231 --> 01:20:24,578 when he and Rosalynn left the White House 1678 01:20:24,716 --> 01:20:28,927 and he said, "We realized that we had a lot of life left 1679 01:20:29,065 --> 01:20:30,101 "and we had to sit and figure out 1680 01:20:30,239 --> 01:20:31,481 what we wanted to do with our lives." 1681 01:20:31,619 --> 01:20:34,726 And I think that there has not been a president, 1682 01:20:34,864 --> 01:20:37,211 with no disrespect to anyone who's come before or after... 1683 01:20:37,349 --> 01:20:39,627 - Amen. - Who has done more 1684 01:20:39,765 --> 01:20:41,146 since they left office 1685 01:20:41,284 --> 01:20:42,596 than even they did when they were in office. 1686 01:20:42,734 --> 01:20:44,529 And I think it's a testament to them as a couple, 1687 01:20:44,667 --> 01:20:47,912 just the humanitarians that they have been to us 1688 01:20:48,050 --> 01:20:49,810 as a nation and to our world. 1689 01:20:49,948 --> 01:20:53,572 [banjo music] 1690 01:20:53,710 --> 01:20:56,334 - The Carter Center is a joint between my parents, 1691 01:20:56,472 --> 01:20:59,509 and we only do projects that nobody else is doing. 1692 01:20:59,647 --> 01:21:02,167 So we'll take the lead on Guinea worm 1693 01:21:02,305 --> 01:21:05,619 and some of these things that are not household names 1694 01:21:05,757 --> 01:21:09,036 and are not diseases that are here in the United States 1695 01:21:09,174 --> 01:21:12,315 but certainly are worldwide. 1696 01:21:12,453 --> 01:21:15,560 - I associate President Carter with the all 1697 01:21:15,698 --> 01:21:18,149 but eradication of Guinea worm and, you know, 1698 01:21:18,287 --> 01:21:22,498 he used to carry a jar of Guinea worm around with him 1699 01:21:22,636 --> 01:21:25,121 and frighten people into action. 1700 01:21:25,259 --> 01:21:26,605 - If the worm comes out of a joint, 1701 01:21:26,743 --> 01:21:31,058 say, in your knee, it swells up and destroys the tissue. 1702 01:21:31,196 --> 01:21:33,233 So the aftermath is very similar to polio. 1703 01:21:33,371 --> 01:21:34,959 It completely debilitates that knee, 1704 01:21:35,097 --> 01:21:37,858 and sometimes the knee--the leg is crippled 1705 01:21:37,996 --> 01:21:39,756 for the rest of one's life. 1706 01:21:39,895 --> 01:21:41,793 - When we were fighting HIV/AIDS, 1707 01:21:41,931 --> 01:21:43,760 and I'd have the antiretroviral drugs 1708 01:21:43,899 --> 01:21:46,729 and say, "Look, if you just had three of these, you stay alive. 1709 01:21:46,867 --> 01:21:48,213 Three of these a day," 1710 01:21:48,351 --> 01:21:49,905 and I'd show people what they looked like. 1711 01:21:50,043 --> 01:21:52,528 Eventually became one, but it was three. 1712 01:21:52,666 --> 01:21:54,047 I got that from Jimmy. 1713 01:21:54,185 --> 01:21:55,393 - As far as the Carter Center is concerned, 1714 01:21:55,531 --> 01:21:56,842 I would like to see Guinea worm 1715 01:21:56,981 --> 01:21:59,397 completely eradicated before I die. 1716 01:21:59,535 --> 01:22:03,297 I'd like for the last Guinea worm to die before I do. 1717 01:22:03,435 --> 01:22:05,023 [laughter] 1718 01:22:05,161 --> 01:22:06,507 - President Carter and the Carter Center, 1719 01:22:06,645 --> 01:22:09,959 I know--and I know this from travels in Africa 1720 01:22:10,097 --> 01:22:12,720 and around the world-- they're trusted. 1721 01:22:12,858 --> 01:22:16,483 And the truth is, they have the level of trust 1722 01:22:16,621 --> 01:22:19,658 that you don't often see around the world 1723 01:22:19,796 --> 01:22:23,110 from an institution that's embedded in America. 1724 01:22:23,248 --> 01:22:24,663 - This morning, former President Jimmy Carter 1725 01:22:24,801 --> 01:22:27,183 won the Nobel Peace Prize. Mr. Carter was honored 1726 01:22:27,321 --> 01:22:29,220 for what the Nobel Committee called, 1727 01:22:29,358 --> 01:22:31,567 "his decades of untiring effort 1728 01:22:31,705 --> 01:22:34,846 to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts." 1729 01:22:34,984 --> 01:22:36,917 [gentle guitar music] 1730 01:22:37,055 --> 01:22:40,956 - ♪ Georgia ♪ 1731 01:22:41,094 --> 01:22:42,750 ♪ Georgia ♪ 1732 01:22:45,132 --> 01:22:49,378 ♪ The whole day through ♪ 1733 01:22:49,516 --> 01:22:51,932 ♪ Just an old sweet song ♪ 1734 01:22:52,070 --> 01:22:57,317 ♪ Keeps Georgia on my mind ♪ 1735 01:22:57,455 --> 01:22:59,698 - Well, when I went to Europe to be there 1736 01:22:59,836 --> 01:23:03,185 when Jimmy Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize, 1737 01:23:03,323 --> 01:23:06,326 it was one of the greatest moments of my life, 1738 01:23:06,464 --> 01:23:09,777 because I knew it was one of the greatest moments in his, 1739 01:23:09,915 --> 01:23:12,815 and he definitely deserved that prize. 1740 01:23:12,953 --> 01:23:16,784 ♪ In peaceful dreams I see ♪ 1741 01:23:16,922 --> 01:23:20,029 ♪ The road leads back to you ♪ 1742 01:23:20,167 --> 01:23:23,274 ♪ ♪ 1743 01:23:23,412 --> 01:23:30,039 ♪ Georgia, Georgia ♪ 1744 01:23:30,177 --> 01:23:32,835 ♪ No peace I find ♪ 1745 01:23:32,973 --> 01:23:34,457 ♪ ♪ 1746 01:23:34,595 --> 01:23:37,115 ♪ And just an old sweet song ♪ 1747 01:23:37,253 --> 01:23:43,570 ♪ Keeps Georgia on my mind ♪ 1748 01:23:43,708 --> 01:23:46,918 - I'm very humbled, as well as proud, 1749 01:23:47,056 --> 01:23:48,678 because I recognize 1750 01:23:48,816 --> 01:23:51,854 how many people have shared with me the commitments 1751 01:23:51,992 --> 01:23:55,823 and how much work they have done without recognition, 1752 01:23:55,961 --> 01:24:00,725 and my hope is that this award 1753 01:24:00,863 --> 01:24:03,693 will be adequately appreciated by all of them, 1754 01:24:03,831 --> 01:24:07,214 who I feel are a part of my own family. 1755 01:24:07,352 --> 01:24:09,596 And I'm especially grateful to... 1756 01:24:14,842 --> 01:24:16,534 To Rosalynn... 1757 01:24:19,606 --> 01:24:21,987 who has been a partner in everything I've ever done. 1758 01:24:22,126 --> 01:24:25,336 [upbeat music] 1759 01:24:25,474 --> 01:24:29,340 - She's been a good, calming influence on Dad, 1760 01:24:29,478 --> 01:24:32,688 and she has changed his mind, politically, 1761 01:24:32,826 --> 01:24:36,761 on some big issues that I really appreciated, 1762 01:24:36,899 --> 01:24:38,349 like the death penalty, for instance. 1763 01:24:38,487 --> 01:24:40,178 My mother was always been against it. 1764 01:24:40,316 --> 01:24:41,869 Dad always had a few exceptions 1765 01:24:42,007 --> 01:24:43,043 that he would accept, 1766 01:24:43,181 --> 01:24:44,907 and my mother for years 1767 01:24:45,045 --> 01:24:47,772 would not accept a single exception that he did, 1768 01:24:47,910 --> 01:24:50,085 and now Dad's against the death penalty. 1769 01:24:50,223 --> 01:24:53,640 So she has changed him over the years. 1770 01:24:53,778 --> 01:24:57,644 - What I've learned from her is probably the greatest gift 1771 01:24:57,782 --> 01:25:00,957 in a marriage is to take the supporting role. 1772 01:25:01,096 --> 01:25:05,376 It takes a lot more strength. It takes a lot more patience. 1773 01:25:06,687 --> 01:25:08,137 And then, that's why I guess always 1774 01:25:08,275 --> 01:25:11,451 when the light shines on her, she just blows you away. 1775 01:25:11,589 --> 01:25:13,280 - Rosa and I have been involved 1776 01:25:13,418 --> 01:25:16,214 in Habitat for Humanity for 40 years, 1777 01:25:16,352 --> 01:25:19,528 and 35 years in a row 1778 01:25:19,666 --> 01:25:22,841 we have devoted a full week to building houses. 1779 01:25:22,979 --> 01:25:25,879 One year, we'd go overseas, and the next year, 1780 01:25:26,017 --> 01:25:27,812 we'd build somewhere in the United States. 1781 01:25:27,950 --> 01:25:30,815 And I would say the best Habitat volunteers 1782 01:25:30,953 --> 01:25:32,541 we have ever had with us 1783 01:25:32,679 --> 01:25:35,406 have been Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood. 1784 01:25:35,544 --> 01:25:37,546 They went with us twice to Haiti 1785 01:25:37,684 --> 01:25:40,825 after the earthquake devastated that country. 1786 01:25:40,963 --> 01:25:42,171 - You know, they say 1787 01:25:42,309 --> 01:25:44,277 everything comes from the top down. 1788 01:25:44,415 --> 01:25:47,280 Well, the top at Habitat are the Carters. 1789 01:25:47,418 --> 01:25:49,213 The guy is 40 years older than me 1790 01:25:49,351 --> 01:25:51,732 and he runs circles around me. 1791 01:25:51,870 --> 01:25:54,287 - People all over the world are basically the same. 1792 01:25:54,425 --> 01:25:56,116 They want to have a good life; 1793 01:25:56,254 --> 01:25:58,843 they want to have basic human rights. 1794 01:25:58,981 --> 01:26:00,948 And human rights is not just freedom of speech 1795 01:26:01,086 --> 01:26:02,812 or freedom of religion, 1796 01:26:02,950 --> 01:26:06,299 but it's the right to have a decent home and place to live. 1797 01:26:06,437 --> 01:26:08,232 - When I look and see the homeowners 1798 01:26:08,370 --> 01:26:10,717 and then I see all the wonderful volunteers 1799 01:26:10,855 --> 01:26:14,859 who are just working to do something good 1800 01:26:14,997 --> 01:26:17,862 for somebody who needs help, so I thank you. 1801 01:26:18,000 --> 01:26:20,520 - When the build is done, okay, 1802 01:26:20,658 --> 01:26:23,523 when everybody can't walk one more second further, 1803 01:26:23,661 --> 01:26:25,456 this is when the Carters start. 1804 01:26:25,594 --> 01:26:26,974 They'll go around, house-to-house, 1805 01:26:27,112 --> 01:26:28,976 they'll take pictures with a group, 1806 01:26:29,114 --> 01:26:32,014 because what he tells you when you first get there-- 1807 01:26:32,152 --> 01:26:36,467 "If we're taking a picture, 1808 01:26:36,605 --> 01:26:38,469 "it's going to put three of us out of work: 1809 01:26:38,607 --> 01:26:40,471 you, me, and whoever's taking then picture." 1810 01:26:40,609 --> 01:26:42,162 Right? So we don't take pictures. 1811 01:26:42,300 --> 01:26:43,784 We'll all take pictures at the end. 1812 01:26:43,922 --> 01:26:46,994 That shows you how quick he's ready to get to work. 1813 01:26:47,132 --> 01:26:48,617 It's not a competition. 1814 01:26:48,755 --> 01:26:50,791 This is his words: "It's not a competition, 1815 01:26:50,929 --> 01:26:53,000 as long as our house gets done first." 1816 01:26:53,138 --> 01:26:55,382 That's--that's how he does it. 1817 01:26:55,520 --> 01:26:59,593 [cheers and applause] 1818 01:26:59,731 --> 01:27:04,149 - "Itinerant Songsters Visit Our Village." 1819 01:27:04,288 --> 01:27:09,914 When some poets came to Plains one night, two with guitars, 1820 01:27:10,052 --> 01:27:11,605 their poems taught us how to look 1821 01:27:11,743 --> 01:27:15,954 and maybe laugh at what we were and felt and thought. 1822 01:27:16,092 --> 01:27:18,957 After that, I rushed to write in fumbling lines 1823 01:27:19,095 --> 01:27:23,410 why we should care about a distant starving child. 1824 01:27:23,548 --> 01:27:26,517 I found my words would seldom flow, 1825 01:27:26,655 --> 01:27:29,830 and then I turned to closer, simpler themes: 1826 01:27:29,968 --> 01:27:34,214 a pony, Mama as a nurse, the sight of geese, 1827 01:27:34,352 --> 01:27:37,528 the song of whales, a pasture gate, 1828 01:27:37,666 --> 01:27:40,324 a racist curse, a possum hunt, 1829 01:27:40,462 --> 01:27:42,981 a battle prayer. I learned from poetry 1830 01:27:43,119 --> 01:27:47,400 that art is best derived from artless things, 1831 01:27:47,538 --> 01:27:49,988 that mysteries might be explored and understood 1832 01:27:50,126 --> 01:27:55,028 from that which springs most freely from mind and heart. 1833 01:27:55,166 --> 01:27:58,997 As a teenager I began to hear a lot about this poetic figure 1834 01:27:59,135 --> 01:28:01,483 who was running for President of the United States. 1835 01:28:01,621 --> 01:28:04,934 He quoted Bob Dylan, who was at that time my actual 1836 01:28:05,072 --> 01:28:08,800 President of the United States, my United States. 1837 01:28:08,938 --> 01:28:10,940 He campaigned with the Allman Brothers. 1838 01:28:11,078 --> 01:28:13,253 You got the feeling if his hair was just a little longer 1839 01:28:13,391 --> 01:28:16,014 he'd be in the Allman brothers. 1840 01:28:16,152 --> 01:28:19,397 But this was the first world leader I ever heard 1841 01:28:19,535 --> 01:28:22,158 who knew the words to all the songs 1842 01:28:22,297 --> 01:28:24,471 that were my generation's telegraph. 1843 01:28:24,609 --> 01:28:27,681 [upbeat music] 1844 01:28:27,819 --> 01:28:30,063 ♪ ♪ 1845 01:28:30,201 --> 01:28:31,685 ♪ Oh, yeah ♪ 1846 01:28:31,823 --> 01:28:33,238 ♪ ♪ 1847 01:28:33,377 --> 01:28:35,033 ♪ Oh, yeah ♪ 1848 01:28:35,171 --> 01:28:42,075 ♪ ♪ 1849 01:28:43,870 --> 01:28:48,253 ♪ One man comes in the name of love ♪ 1850 01:28:48,392 --> 01:28:53,155 ♪ One man come and go ♪ 1851 01:28:53,293 --> 01:28:57,297 ♪ One man come he to justify ♪ 1852 01:28:57,435 --> 01:29:01,336 ♪ One man to overthrow ♪ 1853 01:29:01,474 --> 01:29:05,650 ♪ In the name of love ♪ 1854 01:29:05,788 --> 01:29:10,241 ♪ What more in the name of love? ♪ 1855 01:29:10,379 --> 01:29:14,728 ♪ In the name of love ♪ 1856 01:29:14,866 --> 01:29:18,353 ♪ What more in the name of love? ♪ 1857 01:29:18,491 --> 01:29:20,872 ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ 1858 01:29:21,010 --> 01:29:27,948 ♪ ♪ 1859 01:29:29,087 --> 01:29:32,988 ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ 1860 01:29:33,126 --> 01:29:35,266 ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ 1861 01:29:35,404 --> 01:29:41,065 ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, in the name ♪ 1862 01:29:41,203 --> 01:29:44,137 - Bono is a rock star, Nile's a rock star, 1863 01:29:44,275 --> 01:29:48,244 but President Carter was a rock star to everyone that night. 1864 01:29:48,383 --> 01:29:49,591 - I have no way of knowing this, 1865 01:29:49,729 --> 01:29:50,971 but I bet you, 1866 01:29:51,109 --> 01:29:53,042 after the history books have been written, 1867 01:29:53,180 --> 01:29:56,874 people are going to see him in a very, very different light. 1868 01:29:57,012 --> 01:29:59,566 - Often people say, "Don't meet your idols, 1869 01:29:59,704 --> 01:30:02,155 because they're never gonna live up to what you expect." 1870 01:30:02,293 --> 01:30:06,539 That was not the case for President Carter. 1871 01:30:06,677 --> 01:30:09,473 [mellow guitar music] 1872 01:30:09,611 --> 01:30:15,617 ♪ ♪ 1873 01:30:15,755 --> 01:30:17,584 - We have any visitors here? 1874 01:30:17,722 --> 01:30:20,829 [laughter] Okay. 1875 01:30:20,967 --> 01:30:23,694 And where are you from? I wanna start here, 1876 01:30:23,832 --> 01:30:25,523 on the front, and where are you from? 1877 01:30:25,661 --> 01:30:27,283 - Maryland. - Maryland. 1878 01:30:27,422 --> 01:30:28,595 - California. - California. 1879 01:30:28,733 --> 01:30:30,148 - South Dakota. - South Dakota. 1880 01:30:30,286 --> 01:30:32,150 - California. - California, oh, same. 1881 01:30:32,288 --> 01:30:34,877 - Texas. - Texas. 1882 01:30:35,015 --> 01:30:36,534 - North Carolina. - North Carolina. 1883 01:30:36,672 --> 01:30:39,054 - Washington, D.C. - Washington, D.C. 1884 01:30:39,192 --> 01:30:41,021 I used to live in some of these places. 1885 01:30:41,159 --> 01:30:43,817 [laughter] 1886 01:30:43,955 --> 01:30:45,888 - Oh, it's impossible to define Jimmy. 1887 01:30:46,026 --> 01:30:47,959 I think of him as a simple kind of man, 1888 01:30:48,097 --> 01:30:50,168 like in the Lynyrd Skynyrd song. 1889 01:30:50,306 --> 01:30:53,413 "He takes his time, doesn't live too fast. 1890 01:30:53,551 --> 01:30:55,829 "Troubles come, but they will pass. 1891 01:30:55,967 --> 01:30:58,038 "Find a woman and find love. 1892 01:30:58,176 --> 01:31:01,248 And don't forget there's always someone above." 1893 01:31:01,386 --> 01:31:03,181 There's many sides to him. 1894 01:31:03,319 --> 01:31:06,771 He's a nuclear engineer, woodworking carpenter. 1895 01:31:06,909 --> 01:31:09,981 He's also a poet. He's a dirt farmer. 1896 01:31:10,119 --> 01:31:12,259 If you told me he was a race car driver, 1897 01:31:12,397 --> 01:31:14,123 I wouldn't even be surprised. 1898 01:31:14,261 --> 01:31:19,163 - It's up to every one of us to make a basic decision: 1899 01:31:19,301 --> 01:31:23,926 "This is the kind of person that I want to be." 1900 01:31:24,064 --> 01:31:25,583 ♪ ♪ 1901 01:31:25,721 --> 01:31:29,345 - ♪ Oh, don't you worry ♪ 1902 01:31:29,484 --> 01:31:31,244 ♪ You'll find yourself ♪ 1903 01:31:31,382 --> 01:31:33,384 - Exactly. Perfect. 1904 01:31:33,522 --> 01:31:39,183 - ♪ Follow your heart and nothing else ♪ 1905 01:31:39,321 --> 01:31:40,943 - I mean, I've watched him over the years 1906 01:31:41,081 --> 01:31:44,119 and I've watched him do what I think 1907 01:31:44,257 --> 01:31:48,606 was the right thing to do, time after time after time. 1908 01:31:48,744 --> 01:31:50,056 With all the odds against him, 1909 01:31:50,194 --> 01:31:53,197 he still did what he thought was right. 1910 01:31:53,335 --> 01:31:57,235 That's not a bad pattern for all of us to follow. 1911 01:31:57,373 --> 01:32:00,584 - ♪ And be a simple ♪ 1912 01:32:00,722 --> 01:32:04,657 ♪ Kind of man ♪ 1913 01:32:04,795 --> 01:32:08,557 ♪ Oh, won't you do this for me, son ♪ 1914 01:32:08,695 --> 01:32:12,250 ♪ If you can ♪ 1915 01:32:12,388 --> 01:32:16,841 - His love for music makes all kind of sense to me, 1916 01:32:16,979 --> 01:32:20,327 because music is the voice of the heart. 1917 01:32:20,465 --> 01:32:22,537 Music is the voice of the soul. 1918 01:32:22,675 --> 01:32:24,297 When you talk about heart and soul, 1919 01:32:24,435 --> 01:32:29,889 I think he's the president, in my mind, of my living time, 1920 01:32:30,027 --> 01:32:33,893 that I can think of, that brought it to the office. 1921 01:32:34,031 --> 01:32:36,412 - I think music is the best proof 1922 01:32:36,551 --> 01:32:38,311 that people have one thing in common, 1923 01:32:38,449 --> 01:32:39,415 no matter where they live, 1924 01:32:39,554 --> 01:32:41,314 no matter what language they speak. 1925 01:32:41,452 --> 01:32:43,178 In the future, 1926 01:32:43,316 --> 01:32:46,802 I think we'll recognize that some of our religious beliefs, 1927 01:32:46,940 --> 01:32:50,841 belief in the truth, belief in helping others, 1928 01:32:50,979 --> 01:32:54,292 and our faith in democracy and freedom, 1929 01:32:54,430 --> 01:32:58,227 those are the kind of things that are similar to music 1930 01:32:58,365 --> 01:32:59,677 that we can share 1931 01:32:59,815 --> 01:33:01,748 and that eventually will bring us together, 1932 01:33:01,886 --> 01:33:03,716 even after a divisive era 1933 01:33:03,854 --> 01:33:08,375 of our constantly changing history. 1934 01:33:08,513 --> 01:33:11,758 - ♪ Be a simple ♪ 1935 01:33:11,896 --> 01:33:16,176 ♪ Be a simple man ♪ 1936 01:33:16,314 --> 01:33:18,627 - Governor, to what extent do you feel you will succeed, 1937 01:33:18,765 --> 01:33:20,249 and I mean by that, will you be satisfied 1938 01:33:20,387 --> 01:33:21,906 if you just get through it or do you 1939 01:33:22,044 --> 01:33:25,082 really think that you have a chance for greatness? 1940 01:33:25,220 --> 01:33:28,982 - Well, I hope I have a chance to exemplify accurately 1941 01:33:29,120 --> 01:33:31,329 what the American people are and what they would like to be. 1942 01:33:31,467 --> 01:33:33,366 If I can stay close to the people of this country 1943 01:33:33,504 --> 01:33:36,058 and not disappoint them, 1944 01:33:36,196 --> 01:33:38,336 I think I have a chance to be a great president. 1945 01:33:38,474 --> 01:33:39,372 - ♪ Ow! ♪ 1946 01:33:39,510 --> 01:33:41,546 ♪ We the people ♪ 1947 01:33:41,685 --> 01:33:43,583 ♪ Remember y'all ♪ 1948 01:33:43,721 --> 01:33:45,861 ♪ Got to make the world go 'round ♪ 1949 01:33:45,999 --> 01:33:48,553 ♪ Got to make the world now ♪ 1950 01:33:48,692 --> 01:33:52,661 ♪ We the people ♪ 1951 01:33:52,799 --> 01:33:54,698 ♪ Got to make the world go 'round ♪ 1952 01:33:54,836 --> 01:33:57,045 ♪ Got to make the world now ♪ 1953 01:33:57,183 --> 01:33:58,909 - ♪ Earnin' the knack ♪ 1954 01:33:59,047 --> 01:34:01,394 ♪ Vast regret ♪ 1955 01:34:01,532 --> 01:34:03,016 ♪ Everybody sweatin' ♪ 1956 01:34:03,154 --> 01:34:05,674 ♪ What you give is what you get ♪ 1957 01:34:05,812 --> 01:34:10,230 - ♪ Hot pants in style, don't let our world go wild ♪ 1958 01:34:10,368 --> 01:34:15,028 ♪ Mama's youngest child is learning fast ♪ 1959 01:34:15,166 --> 01:34:19,170 ♪ We the people, remember y'all ♪ 1960 01:34:19,308 --> 01:34:21,483 ♪ Got to make the world go 'round ♪ 1961 01:34:21,621 --> 01:34:23,554 ♪ Got to make the world now ♪ 1962 01:34:23,692 --> 01:34:26,522 [upbeat rock music] 1963 01:34:26,661 --> 01:34:33,737 ♪ ♪ 1964 01:34:50,512 --> 01:34:53,342 [cheers and applause] 1965 01:34:53,480 --> 01:35:00,418 ♪ ♪ 1966 01:35:35,764 --> 01:35:38,836 I believe the future's gonna be very bright for all of us. 1967 01:35:38,974 --> 01:35:40,424 You're partners of mine. 1968 01:35:40,562 --> 01:35:45,118 Together, I'm sure we'll reach for greatness, 1969 01:35:45,256 --> 01:35:47,500 and we'll never disappoint the people 1970 01:35:47,638 --> 01:35:49,640 who put that trust in us. 1971 01:35:49,778 --> 01:35:51,262 Thank you. Have a good time. 1972 01:35:51,400 --> 01:35:53,506 We'll be seeing you tomorrow, a lot of you. 1973 01:35:53,644 --> 01:35:54,956 Goodnight, everybody. 1974 01:35:55,094 --> 01:35:58,166 [cheers and applause]