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 00:00:21,230 --> 00:00:24,050 [projector clicking, whirring] 4 00:00:31,089 --> 00:00:36,170 - I've never had more faith in America than I do today. 5 00:00:36,189 --> 00:00:40,000 We have an America that in Bob Dylan's phrase, 6 00:00:40,020 --> 00:00:45,200 is "busy being born," not busy dying. 7 00:00:45,219 --> 00:00:48,030 [cheers and applause] 8 00:01:04,159 --> 00:01:06,180 [Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man"] 9 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:10,030 ♪ ♪ 10 00:01:10,049 --> 00:01:12,129 - ♪ Hey Mr. Tambourine Man... ♪ 11 00:01:12,150 --> 00:01:14,159 - All right. - ♪ Play a song for me... ♪ 12 00:01:14,180 --> 00:01:16,189 - Sounds familiar. - ♪ I'm not sleepy ♪ 13 00:01:16,210 --> 00:01:20,090 ♪ And there is no place I'm going to ♪ 14 00:01:20,109 --> 00:01:26,129 ♪ Hey Mr. Tambourine Man play a song for me ♪ 15 00:01:26,150 --> 00:01:33,000 ♪ In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you ♪ 16 00:01:33,020 --> 00:01:34,109 ♪ ♪ 17 00:01:34,129 --> 00:01:38,060 ♪ Though I know that evening's empire ♪ 18 00:01:38,079 --> 00:01:41,159 ♪ Has returned into sand ♪ 19 00:01:41,180 --> 00:01:44,000 ♪ Vanished from my hand ♪ 20 00:01:44,020 --> 00:01:46,039 ♪ Left me blindly here to stand ♪ 21 00:01:46,060 --> 00:01:49,099 ♪ But still not sleeping ♪ 22 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:52,170 ♪ My weariness amazes me ♪ 23 00:01:52,189 --> 00:01:55,069 ♪ I'm branded on my feet ♪ 24 00:01:55,090 --> 00:01:57,170 ♪ I have no one to meet ♪ 25 00:01:57,189 --> 00:02:00,060 ♪ And the ancient empty street's ♪ 26 00:02:00,079 --> 00:02:03,200 ♪ Too dead for dreaming ♪ 27 00:02:03,219 --> 00:02:07,019 - I used to know all the big Bob Dylan's records 28 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:08,129 before I was governor in the'80s, 29 00:02:08,150 --> 00:02:12,219 and, uh--and I--I know I think everything that Bob did 30 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:14,080 that, uh, Willie Nelson ever wrote, 31 00:02:14,099 --> 00:02:16,069 and of course the Allman Brothers 32 00:02:16,090 --> 00:02:17,120 helped put me in the White House 33 00:02:17,139 --> 00:02:19,099 by raising money when I didn't have any money. 34 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,110 [rock music playing] 35 00:02:22,129 --> 00:02:25,129 - ♪ 'Cause there's a man down there ♪ 36 00:02:25,150 --> 00:02:29,099 ♪ Might be your man I don't know ♪ 37 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:30,139 ♪ ♪ 38 00:02:30,159 --> 00:02:32,150 - Gregg and I, we're good friends. 39 00:02:32,170 --> 00:02:33,150 The Allman Brothers have been here, 40 00:02:33,170 --> 00:02:36,069 and Bob Dylan has not been here, 41 00:02:36,090 --> 00:02:37,170 but Willie Nelson has been here, 42 00:02:37,189 --> 00:02:39,030 and--and Johnny Cash has been here. 43 00:02:39,050 --> 00:02:43,159 - ♪ We got married in a fever ♪ 44 00:02:43,180 --> 00:02:45,069 ♪ Hotter than a pepper sprout ♪ 45 00:02:45,090 --> 00:02:48,020 - I was there when he brought June Cash 46 00:02:48,039 --> 00:02:49,039 down here to meet me. 47 00:02:49,060 --> 00:02:51,009 We always claimed that she was my cousin. 48 00:02:51,030 --> 00:02:53,159 [rock music] 49 00:02:53,180 --> 00:02:56,159 [all singing] 50 00:02:56,180 --> 00:02:59,090 ♪ ♪ 51 00:02:59,110 --> 00:03:02,129 When Willie Nelson wrote his autobiography, 52 00:03:02,150 --> 00:03:07,150 he confessed that he smoked pot, uh, in the White House 53 00:03:07,169 --> 00:03:11,120 one--one night when he was spending the night with me, 54 00:03:11,139 --> 00:03:15,159 and he says that his companion that shared the pot with him 55 00:03:15,180 --> 00:03:17,159 was one of the servants at the White House. 56 00:03:17,180 --> 00:03:19,009 That is not exactly true. 57 00:03:19,030 --> 00:03:21,099 It actually was one of my sons, 58 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:24,219 which he didn't want to, uh, you know, 59 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,219 categorize as a--as a pot smoker like him. 60 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,170 [all singing] 61 00:03:30,189 --> 00:03:34,079 There were some people who didn't like my being deeply 62 00:03:34,099 --> 00:03:35,170 involved with Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan 63 00:03:35,189 --> 00:03:39,180 and disreputable, you know, rock and rollers, 64 00:03:39,199 --> 00:03:41,210 but I didn't care about that because I was doing 65 00:03:41,229 --> 00:03:44,120 what I really believed and the response I think 66 00:03:44,139 --> 00:03:48,030 from the followers of those musicians 67 00:03:48,050 --> 00:03:52,199 was much more influential than a few people who thought that 68 00:03:52,219 --> 00:03:54,060 being associated with rock and roll 69 00:03:54,079 --> 00:03:59,159 and radical people was, uh, inappropriate for a president. 70 00:03:59,180 --> 00:04:04,039 - ♪ Whether the wrath of ♪ 71 00:04:04,060 --> 00:04:09,030 ♪ The storm-tossed sea ♪ 72 00:04:09,050 --> 00:04:11,020 ♪ ♪ 73 00:04:11,039 --> 00:04:17,139 ♪ The Master of ocean ♪ 74 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:22,199 ♪ And earth and skies ♪ 75 00:04:22,220 --> 00:04:25,180 ♪ Shall sweetly ♪ [cheering] 76 00:04:25,199 --> 00:04:27,220 - One of the things that has held America together 77 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,060 when we've been together has been the music that we share 78 00:04:32,079 --> 00:04:33,209 and--and love. 79 00:04:33,230 --> 00:04:35,180 Well, I'd say that the common beat 80 00:04:35,199 --> 00:04:37,100 that people have within them, 81 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,019 a desire for country music, a desire for rock and roll, 82 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:41,139 or a desire for jazz, 83 00:04:41,159 --> 00:04:43,040 or a desire for classical music, 84 00:04:43,060 --> 00:04:45,000 is something that binds people together. 85 00:04:45,019 --> 00:04:46,139 - [humming] 86 00:04:46,159 --> 00:04:48,220 - When I was a child, for instance, 87 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,019 I used to go to gospel performances 88 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:53,019 just of local singers 89 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,060 and sometimes we'd have all night gospel sings, 90 00:04:56,079 --> 00:04:57,189 at various churches around where I lived, 91 00:04:57,209 --> 00:05:03,149 and so I think that the origin of--of jazz and maybe later 92 00:05:03,170 --> 00:05:08,009 rock and roll came out of, uh, gospel music. 93 00:05:08,029 --> 00:05:10,199 - Jimmy Carter was from Georgia 94 00:05:10,220 --> 00:05:12,170 and he wasn't from Atlanta, by the way. 95 00:05:12,189 --> 00:05:15,069 He was from this little town down there in south Georgia 96 00:05:15,089 --> 00:05:17,160 so to appreciate gospel music 97 00:05:17,180 --> 00:05:21,079 and to understand what Shirley Caesar was about 98 00:05:21,100 --> 00:05:23,069 was real and-- and you could tell it. 99 00:05:23,089 --> 00:05:26,189 - Jimmy Carter would go to a black church 100 00:05:26,209 --> 00:05:29,029 and they'd start singing. He'd start singing. 101 00:05:29,050 --> 00:05:31,009 He wouldn't pick up the hymn book. 102 00:05:31,029 --> 00:05:33,189 He knew all the words to the songs. 103 00:05:33,209 --> 00:05:37,110 - ♪ Gonna lay down my sword and shield ♪ 104 00:05:37,129 --> 00:05:39,189 ♪ Down by the riverside ♪ 105 00:05:39,209 --> 00:05:44,199 ♪ Study you know war no more ♪ 106 00:05:44,220 --> 00:05:48,040 ♪ I ain't gonna study war no more ♪ 107 00:05:48,060 --> 00:05:51,029 ♪ Study war no more ♪ 108 00:05:51,050 --> 00:05:55,129 ♪ Ain't gonna study no war no more ♪ 109 00:05:55,149 --> 00:05:57,079 ♪ Hallelujah ♪ 110 00:05:57,100 --> 00:06:00,170 - Yeah, we were raised, uh, on Mahalia Jackson. 111 00:06:00,189 --> 00:06:01,199 Uh, but what you always heard 112 00:06:01,220 --> 00:06:04,040 in Mahalia's voice was healing. 113 00:06:04,060 --> 00:06:06,009 I guess that's why they called rock and roll 114 00:06:06,029 --> 00:06:07,120 "the devil's music" because gospel was God's music, 115 00:06:07,139 --> 00:06:10,060 and that's where it all began, through it, 116 00:06:10,079 --> 00:06:12,180 and the, uh--the black sheep of the family 117 00:06:12,199 --> 00:06:15,120 was rock and roll, right? Uh... 118 00:06:15,139 --> 00:06:19,009 - But in the south it was so connected because 119 00:06:19,029 --> 00:06:21,060 I grew up singing in the church choir 120 00:06:21,079 --> 00:06:23,220 which was--which was fine. 121 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:25,149 It was, you know, traditional church, 122 00:06:25,170 --> 00:06:27,000 you know, songs, 123 00:06:27,019 --> 00:06:29,170 but I also grew up a huge Elvis Presley fan 124 00:06:29,189 --> 00:06:32,100 and Elvis was so influenced by gospel. 125 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:37,149 - Gospel music is derived from deep within 126 00:06:37,170 --> 00:06:41,000 the heart of human beings. 127 00:06:41,019 --> 00:06:43,069 We have been to Waycross, Georgia, 128 00:06:43,090 --> 00:06:44,209 where they have all-day singing. 129 00:06:44,230 --> 00:06:47,000 It's about out at being 24 hours. 130 00:06:47,019 --> 00:06:49,000 We've been down to Bonifay, Florida, 131 00:06:49,019 --> 00:06:51,090 where they have 24-hour sings 132 00:06:51,110 --> 00:06:53,069 and we apologize for cutting this one short. 133 00:06:53,090 --> 00:06:55,129 [upbeat music] 134 00:06:55,149 --> 00:07:00,029 - ♪ Can't nobody do you like Jesus ♪ 135 00:07:00,050 --> 00:07:02,050 ♪ Can't nobody ♪ 136 00:07:02,069 --> 00:07:04,129 ♪ Do you like Jesus ♪ 137 00:07:04,149 --> 00:07:08,000 - There was a wonderful compatibility 138 00:07:08,019 --> 00:07:11,120 between the church songs that were prevalent 139 00:07:11,139 --> 00:07:15,110 in white churches and-- and church songs 140 00:07:15,129 --> 00:07:18,180 that were prevalent, uh, in African-American churches, 141 00:07:18,199 --> 00:07:22,139 and so I think music broke down barriers between people 142 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,019 not only geographically but, um, with--between 143 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:27,110 the two races. 144 00:07:27,129 --> 00:07:29,129 - I grew up listening to that because Dad-- 145 00:07:29,149 --> 00:07:31,129 that's part of what Dad played. 146 00:07:31,149 --> 00:07:34,110 We were liberals, and we were not racist, 147 00:07:34,129 --> 00:07:35,139 and in Plains, 148 00:07:35,159 --> 00:07:38,000 that meant that you had, like, two other friends. 149 00:07:38,019 --> 00:07:42,149 - He grew up in a county that was 80% black 150 00:07:42,170 --> 00:07:46,149 and he probably never had white friends 151 00:07:46,170 --> 00:07:48,159 until he went to the Navy. 152 00:07:48,180 --> 00:07:52,100 H--he was just an anomaly that I'd never seen before. 153 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:54,069 [all singing upbeat music] 154 00:07:54,090 --> 00:07:58,159 - ♪ I'll fly away oh glory ♪ 155 00:07:58,180 --> 00:08:01,149 ♪ I'll fly away ♪ 156 00:08:01,170 --> 00:08:07,069 ♪ When I die hallelujah by and by ♪ 157 00:08:07,089 --> 00:08:14,079 ♪ I'll fly away ♪ 158 00:08:14,100 --> 00:08:16,139 ♪ ♪ 159 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:18,029 Oh! 160 00:08:18,050 --> 00:08:19,019 [cheers and applause] 161 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,029 [tambourine rattling] 162 00:08:22,050 --> 00:08:25,040 [train wheels clacking] 163 00:08:34,100 --> 00:08:36,000 - Plains. 164 00:08:36,019 --> 00:08:39,029 Pioneering white men fought to claim the land 165 00:08:39,049 --> 00:08:41,190 of the Indians they sent west to die. 166 00:08:41,210 --> 00:08:45,169 Our families moved in then to occupy the rolling plains 167 00:08:45,190 --> 00:08:46,200 that gave the town its name. 168 00:08:46,220 --> 00:08:49,110 There were only half a thousand souls-- 169 00:08:49,129 --> 00:08:54,019 white and black, the master and the slave. 170 00:08:54,039 --> 00:08:56,169 Neither side ever forgot each other's ways 171 00:08:56,190 --> 00:08:58,230 to reach their common goals. 172 00:08:59,009 --> 00:09:01,210 - But now as equals free to rise and fall together, 173 00:09:01,230 --> 00:09:05,200 we've learned we must depend on one another. 174 00:09:05,220 --> 00:09:09,190 Though the town is small, we cherish it as haven, 175 00:09:09,210 --> 00:09:12,019 home, and friend, 176 00:09:12,039 --> 00:09:14,220 and won't let strife or missed chance 177 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:16,059 bring to all our dreams-- our modest, 178 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:19,129 tempered dreams--an end. 179 00:09:19,149 --> 00:09:20,210 That's beautiful. 180 00:09:20,230 --> 00:09:23,210 [country music] 181 00:09:23,230 --> 00:09:26,169 ♪ ♪ 182 00:09:26,190 --> 00:09:29,179 [chickens clucking] 183 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:36,029 ♪ ♪ 184 00:09:36,169 --> 00:09:37,169 - My folks, 185 00:09:37,190 --> 00:09:39,070 they've been farmers in Georgia 186 00:09:39,090 --> 00:09:42,009 for more than 200 years 187 00:09:42,029 --> 00:09:45,230 and we've been living around here for, oh, 150 years. 188 00:09:46,009 --> 00:09:49,039 Well, I grew up in a home that didn't have running water 189 00:09:49,059 --> 00:09:52,080 or electricity until I was a teenager. 190 00:09:52,100 --> 00:09:54,149 And although I've had a chance to get an education 191 00:09:54,169 --> 00:09:55,179 as an engineer and a scientist, 192 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:58,169 nobody in my family before my generation 193 00:09:58,190 --> 00:10:00,139 ever had a chance to finish high school. 194 00:10:00,159 --> 00:10:01,159 We've always worked for a living. 195 00:10:01,179 --> 00:10:03,090 We know what it means to work. 196 00:10:03,110 --> 00:10:04,179 - I never did--I never did spank him. 197 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:09,100 No, he was--I don't-- did I ever spank-- 198 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:10,190 well, I might have given you a little licking in passing, 199 00:10:10,210 --> 00:10:13,179 but as for real whipping, I never gave him one. 200 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:15,220 That was--I left that with his father. 201 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,019 - We had a battery radio, 202 00:10:18,039 --> 00:10:20,200 and in the times where we used it, 203 00:10:20,220 --> 00:10:23,179 Daddy was very stingy with how many hours a day we used 204 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:25,149 the battery radio so we wouldn't run the battery down, 205 00:10:25,169 --> 00:10:28,110 but we could get Nashville and, 206 00:10:28,129 --> 00:10:29,159 uh, sometimes we could get Chicago, 207 00:10:29,179 --> 00:10:33,059 and we could hear country music then, 208 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:35,230 and I would listen to Glenn Miller for 15 minutes 209 00:10:36,009 --> 00:10:39,070 so that was my only contact you might say 210 00:10:39,090 --> 00:10:40,179 with the outside world at all. 211 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:43,179 [jazz music] 212 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:45,100 ♪ ♪ 213 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:47,169 - I look at the great composers 214 00:10:47,190 --> 00:10:48,159 that have come before me 215 00:10:48,179 --> 00:10:52,159 and I see how they changed society. 216 00:10:52,179 --> 00:10:55,179 I see how--as Harry Belafonte once said to me-- 217 00:10:55,200 --> 00:11:00,149 that, um, artists are the gatekeepers of truth. 218 00:11:00,169 --> 00:11:02,230 - Did your dad ever play an instrument? 219 00:11:03,009 --> 00:11:04,149 - The stereo. 220 00:11:04,169 --> 00:11:06,129 [laughs] He played the stereo well. 221 00:11:06,149 --> 00:11:08,000 When--when we had no money at all, 222 00:11:08,019 --> 00:11:12,070 Dad spent $600 on the best stereo in Plains, Georgia 223 00:11:12,090 --> 00:11:14,039 with the huge speakers and-- 224 00:11:14,059 --> 00:11:14,200 I mean, it would blow you out. 225 00:11:14,220 --> 00:11:17,090 It was fantastic, so-- 226 00:11:17,110 --> 00:11:19,080 and he would let us as children-- 227 00:11:19,100 --> 00:11:21,139 me and my brothers, uh, play our music on it, 228 00:11:21,159 --> 00:11:24,019 and he would stay in there and--and learn the songs 229 00:11:24,039 --> 00:11:26,039 and try to figure out what we were doing that way. 230 00:11:26,059 --> 00:11:28,029 It's one of the ways that he kind of stayed in touch 231 00:11:28,049 --> 00:11:29,090 with his children. 232 00:11:29,110 --> 00:11:31,159 - I'd like to welcome our special guest this morning 233 00:11:31,179 --> 00:11:33,029 to the open line program, 234 00:11:33,049 --> 00:11:35,120 former state senator and gubernatorial candidate 235 00:11:35,139 --> 00:11:36,200 Jimmy Carter. 236 00:11:36,220 --> 00:11:39,200 [rock music] 237 00:11:39,220 --> 00:11:42,120 - Well, I replaced Lester Maddox 238 00:11:42,139 --> 00:11:43,149 in the Governor's Mansion, 239 00:11:43,169 --> 00:11:46,009 and Lester Maddox's symbol was a pick handle 240 00:11:46,029 --> 00:11:51,009 that he used to drive away African-American customers 241 00:11:51,029 --> 00:11:52,220 who came to his chicken restaurant. 242 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:54,139 He bragged on that 243 00:11:54,159 --> 00:11:57,220 as being a stalwart defender of racial segregation. 244 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,019 [tense music] 245 00:12:01,039 --> 00:12:07,029 ♪ ♪ 246 00:12:07,049 --> 00:12:08,210 - It was a really hard time politically. 247 00:12:08,230 --> 00:12:10,009 When I was in high school, 248 00:12:10,029 --> 00:12:11,110 I got beat after school every single day 249 00:12:11,129 --> 00:12:14,230 because I refused to denounce African-Americans. 250 00:12:15,009 --> 00:12:17,000 I mean, I would--my shirt would be torn off. 251 00:12:17,019 --> 00:12:19,220 I would go home and my mother would take a new shirt for me 252 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,230 to--to wear, um, the rest of the last half 253 00:12:23,009 --> 00:12:24,049 of the classrooms. 254 00:12:24,070 --> 00:12:25,149 It was--it was a bad time back then. 255 00:12:25,169 --> 00:12:30,009 - For years, the solid South were very segregationist 256 00:12:30,029 --> 00:12:32,230 and very--let's just call it-- racist. 257 00:12:33,009 --> 00:12:34,059 They were anti-black. 258 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,139 - Uh, when I came into the Governor's Mansion, 259 00:12:36,159 --> 00:12:37,200 one of the first things I did 260 00:12:37,220 --> 00:12:39,220 in the Governor's Office in the Capitol Building 261 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,059 was to hang Martin Luther King Jr.'s portrait there, 262 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:46,039 because he had won the Nobel Peace Prize. 263 00:12:46,059 --> 00:12:48,059 He was the only Georgian to become the recipient 264 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:49,220 of the Nobel Peace Award, 265 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,120 and whereas the Reverend Dr. King was a man 266 00:12:52,139 --> 00:12:55,110 who placed the welfare of his fellow men above his own 267 00:12:55,129 --> 00:12:58,019 and who assumed the burden of demanding of a country, 268 00:12:58,039 --> 00:13:00,019 that it remedy the inequities and discrepancies experienced 269 00:13:00,039 --> 00:13:03,129 by the black man and poor man of whatever color. 270 00:13:03,149 --> 00:13:07,139 - ♪ Oh Georgia ♪ 271 00:13:07,159 --> 00:13:10,019 [piano music] 272 00:13:10,039 --> 00:13:13,039 ♪ Oh Georgia ♪ 273 00:13:13,059 --> 00:13:16,029 - Jimmy Carter was a, um-- a leader in civil rights. 274 00:13:16,049 --> 00:13:18,190 He was part of this transitional generation 275 00:13:18,210 --> 00:13:23,070 of Southern governors that were just absolutely magnificent. 276 00:13:23,090 --> 00:13:25,220 - The greatest thing that ever happened to the South 277 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:27,080 was the passage of the Civil Rights Act 278 00:13:27,100 --> 00:13:32,029 and the granting to a minority group for a chance to vote, 279 00:13:32,049 --> 00:13:33,029 to hold a job, 280 00:13:33,049 --> 00:13:34,149 to buy a home, to be educated, 281 00:13:34,169 --> 00:13:39,129 to travel, on an equal basis, 282 00:13:39,149 --> 00:13:41,080 in accordance with their own choice. 283 00:13:41,100 --> 00:13:43,169 - There were southerners who, a lot of them 284 00:13:43,190 --> 00:13:45,230 went to the Ivy Leagues and then came back home. 285 00:13:46,009 --> 00:13:50,009 They started bipartisan think tanks. 286 00:13:50,029 --> 00:13:51,110 They were Freedom Riders. 287 00:13:51,129 --> 00:13:56,230 There was this Camelot decade or two in the South 288 00:13:57,009 --> 00:13:58,059 that Carter was part of. 289 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:02,009 - Jimmy Carter represented the New South. 290 00:14:02,029 --> 00:14:04,220 He represented, um, hope for, um, the South where-- 291 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,110 as the old slaves used to sing-- 292 00:14:07,129 --> 00:14:09,210 "There'd be plenty good room for all God's children." 293 00:14:09,230 --> 00:14:11,000 And--and he did. 294 00:14:11,019 --> 00:14:13,009 He represented that and embodied it. 295 00:14:13,029 --> 00:14:16,039 - ♪ Oh Georgia ♪ 296 00:14:16,059 --> 00:14:18,149 [chuckles] 297 00:14:18,169 --> 00:14:21,120 ♪ My little Georgia ♪ 298 00:14:21,139 --> 00:14:25,080 ♪ Mm-hmm ♪ 299 00:14:25,100 --> 00:14:30,129 ♪ Oh no, no, no, no peace I find ♪ 300 00:14:30,149 --> 00:14:33,000 ♪ ♪ 301 00:14:33,019 --> 00:14:34,059 ♪ This old sweet song ♪ 302 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:37,149 ♪ ♪ 303 00:14:37,169 --> 00:14:41,179 ♪ Keeps Georgia on my mind ♪ 304 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:44,129 ♪ ♪ 305 00:14:44,149 --> 00:14:47,129 - So Georgia is this very interesting place. 306 00:14:47,149 --> 00:14:49,000 As a black musician, 307 00:14:49,019 --> 00:14:50,100 you can't help 308 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:53,049 but be influenced by James Brown lyrics, 309 00:14:53,070 --> 00:14:55,000 and when James Brown goes, 310 00:14:55,019 --> 00:14:57,090 "The name of this place, good God, is Augusta, GA," 311 00:14:57,110 --> 00:15:02,179 Georgia, in our heads, has a different kind of vibe. 312 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:06,049 - Music has the capacity to speak on multiple levels. 313 00:15:06,070 --> 00:15:10,080 I mean, there's the level of--of the words, the lyrics. 314 00:15:10,100 --> 00:15:11,100 That's there. 315 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:12,210 But sometimes, there's a deeper level 316 00:15:12,230 --> 00:15:16,059 on what the music connects inside the brain 317 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:18,169 and maybe better yet, inside the soul. 318 00:15:18,190 --> 00:15:20,179 - ♪ What ♪ 319 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,009 ♪ Bring it out ♪ 320 00:15:22,029 --> 00:15:24,230 ♪ We all get together in any type of weather ♪ 321 00:15:25,009 --> 00:15:26,190 ♪ Do it, what ♪ 322 00:15:26,210 --> 00:15:29,059 - We were coming into a new era, 323 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:32,100 and the Allman Brothers was an integrated band, 324 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:34,019 with Jaimoe on drums, 325 00:15:34,039 --> 00:15:36,000 and I think Carter, you know, 326 00:15:36,019 --> 00:15:37,139 he did that politically 327 00:15:37,159 --> 00:15:39,149 while we were doing it perhaps musically. 328 00:15:39,169 --> 00:15:41,220 - In those days it was mostly rock and roll, 329 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,039 but I was--we were all into folk a good bit 330 00:15:44,059 --> 00:15:44,179 because of the politics of it. 331 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:47,110 [folk music] 332 00:15:47,129 --> 00:15:50,210 ♪ ♪ 333 00:15:50,230 --> 00:15:56,029 - ♪ I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more ♪ 334 00:15:56,049 --> 00:15:58,100 - When I was governor and my sons 335 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:00,110 were living in the Governor's Mansion with me, 336 00:16:00,129 --> 00:16:04,179 Bob Dylan's music permeated the, uh, Governor's Mansion. 337 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:05,190 My sons and I were brought closer together 338 00:16:05,210 --> 00:16:09,029 through Bob Dylan's songs. 339 00:16:09,049 --> 00:16:13,059 Chip knew every lyric of every Bob Dylan song 340 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:14,149 that had ever been written. 341 00:16:14,169 --> 00:16:17,110 - I remember he and I had a spat, 342 00:16:17,129 --> 00:16:20,029 and I spent over a year without speaking to him, 343 00:16:20,049 --> 00:16:23,210 and we would communicate by the third song 344 00:16:23,230 --> 00:16:26,029 on the second Bob Dylan album 345 00:16:26,049 --> 00:16:27,200 and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah for over a year 346 00:16:27,220 --> 00:16:30,009 without ever actually talking to each other. 347 00:16:30,029 --> 00:16:32,210 - ♪ Well he hands you a nickel ♪ 348 00:16:32,230 --> 00:16:35,220 ♪ He hands you a dime ♪ 349 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,049 ♪ He asks you with a grin ♪ 350 00:16:38,070 --> 00:16:41,009 ♪ If you're having a good time ♪ 351 00:16:41,029 --> 00:16:46,080 ♪ And he fines you every time you slam the door ♪ 352 00:16:46,100 --> 00:16:51,190 ♪ I ain't gonna work for Maggie's brother no more ♪ 353 00:16:51,210 --> 00:16:55,000 - Bob Dylan and his band performed in Atlanta, 354 00:16:55,019 --> 00:16:56,090 and I was governor, so I invited 355 00:16:56,110 --> 00:16:58,090 Bob Dylan and The Band to the Governor's Mansion, 356 00:16:58,110 --> 00:17:03,029 and my sons were very eager to be with The Band, 357 00:17:03,049 --> 00:17:05,029 and--and I was honored because Bob Dylan asked me 358 00:17:05,049 --> 00:17:07,099 to go out in the garden, as a matter of fact, 359 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:09,200 and have a private conversation with him, 360 00:17:09,220 --> 00:17:11,009 and the only questions he asked me 361 00:17:11,029 --> 00:17:13,069 were questions about my Christian faith 362 00:17:13,089 --> 00:17:14,160 and what it meant to me 363 00:17:14,180 --> 00:17:16,170 and the basic principles of it. 364 00:17:16,190 --> 00:17:18,069 - When I first met Jimmy, 365 00:17:18,089 --> 00:17:21,200 the first thing he did was quote my songs back to me. 366 00:17:21,220 --> 00:17:24,089 It was the first time that I realized my songs 367 00:17:24,109 --> 00:17:29,130 had reached into--basically, into the establishment world, 368 00:17:29,150 --> 00:17:32,049 and I had no experience in that realm. 369 00:17:32,069 --> 00:17:35,089 Never seen that side. So it made me a little uneasy. 370 00:17:35,109 --> 00:17:40,130 He, uh, put my mind at ease by not talking down to me 371 00:17:40,150 --> 00:17:44,069 and, uh, showing me that he had a sincere appreciation 372 00:17:44,089 --> 00:17:46,160 of, uh, the songs I had written. 373 00:17:46,180 --> 00:17:49,009 - ♪ Men have tried to stop me ♪ 374 00:17:49,029 --> 00:17:52,049 ♪ Shake me up in my mind ♪ 375 00:17:52,069 --> 00:17:55,009 ♪ Said prove to me that he's Lord ♪ 376 00:17:55,029 --> 00:17:57,039 ♪ Show me a sign ♪ 377 00:17:57,059 --> 00:18:00,089 ♪ What kind of sign they need ♪ 378 00:18:00,109 --> 00:18:02,009 ♪ When it all come from within ♪ 379 00:18:02,029 --> 00:18:05,049 ♪ When what's lost has been found ♪ 380 00:18:05,069 --> 00:18:07,000 ♪ What's to come has already been ♪ 381 00:18:07,019 --> 00:18:11,119 ♪ I just keep pressing on ♪ 382 00:18:11,140 --> 00:18:14,140 - ♪ On and on and on and on ♪ 383 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:18,029 - He's a kindred spirit to me of a rare kind. 384 00:18:18,049 --> 00:18:20,059 The kind of man you don't meet every day 385 00:18:20,079 --> 00:18:22,180 and that you're lucky to meet if you ever do. 386 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:26,180 - Bob Dylan has been, you know, one of my best friends, 387 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:29,049 along with Willie Nelson and others. 388 00:18:29,069 --> 00:18:31,089 - Probably, he and Bob had a lot of good ideas 389 00:18:31,109 --> 00:18:34,140 to exchange because they come from entirely different places. 390 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:35,210 - Right. 391 00:18:35,230 --> 00:18:38,160 - Uh, But Jimmy and I, uh, 392 00:18:38,180 --> 00:18:39,180 basically come from the same spot. 393 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:44,000 [upbeat music] 394 00:18:44,019 --> 00:18:46,000 - We had been invited to this party 395 00:18:46,019 --> 00:18:50,029 that Governor Carter was throwing for Bob Dylan. 396 00:18:50,049 --> 00:18:54,150 So we got there just as the last guest was leaving. 397 00:18:54,170 --> 00:18:57,029 - Bob Dylan and his band had already gone home, 398 00:18:57,049 --> 00:18:59,210 and I'm sure I had taken--I had taken off my, 399 00:18:59,230 --> 00:19:01,200 you know, dress-up clothes, kind of. 400 00:19:01,220 --> 00:19:05,019 - There's this guy standing on the porch, 401 00:19:05,039 --> 00:19:06,190 and he had on this old pair of Levi's 402 00:19:06,210 --> 00:19:09,039 with holes all in them. 403 00:19:09,059 --> 00:19:12,150 No shirt, no shoes, 404 00:19:12,170 --> 00:19:14,170 and I thought, "Who's this bum hanging out 405 00:19:14,190 --> 00:19:16,079 at the Governor's Mansion?" 406 00:19:16,099 --> 00:19:17,150 Well that was him. [laughing] 407 00:19:17,170 --> 00:19:22,019 There's a full bottle of J&B Scotch sitting there, 408 00:19:22,039 --> 00:19:26,089 which we proceeded to drink just about all of. 409 00:19:26,109 --> 00:19:28,079 [laughs] And he says, 410 00:19:28,099 --> 00:19:30,099 "You know, I'm gonna be our next president." 411 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:33,059 - I went out on the porch and had a drink with, uh-- 412 00:19:33,079 --> 00:19:34,089 with Gregg, 413 00:19:34,109 --> 00:19:36,099 but I don't remember a bottle of scotch. 414 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:38,049 I do not--I only--I generally limited myself 415 00:19:38,069 --> 00:19:43,039 to the one drink of wine or whiskey a day, 416 00:19:43,059 --> 00:19:44,079 so that may be a little bit of an exaggeration. 417 00:19:44,099 --> 00:19:48,170 - He was cool, he enjoyed our music, 418 00:19:48,190 --> 00:19:51,150 he was real, and he became a friend. 419 00:19:51,170 --> 00:19:55,150 - ♪ I'm not gonna let them catch me no ♪ 420 00:19:55,170 --> 00:19:59,130 ♪ I'm not gonna let them catch the midnight rider ♪ 421 00:19:59,150 --> 00:20:02,160 - The Marquee at the Civic Center tells the story: 422 00:20:02,180 --> 00:20:04,079 tomorrow evening at 5:30, 423 00:20:04,099 --> 00:20:06,099 the Jimmy Carter for President campaign 424 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:08,069 officially gets underway. 425 00:20:08,089 --> 00:20:09,079 [phone ringing] 426 00:20:09,099 --> 00:20:11,150 - Jimmy Carter Campaign Headquarters, 427 00:20:11,170 --> 00:20:12,119 may I help you please? 428 00:20:12,140 --> 00:20:15,009 - ♪ Oh yeah hold on ♪ 429 00:20:15,029 --> 00:20:18,039 ♪ Hold on I'm coming ♪ 430 00:20:18,059 --> 00:20:20,170 ♪ Hold on ♪ 431 00:20:20,190 --> 00:20:23,230 ♪ Oh I'm coming, oh ♪ 432 00:20:24,009 --> 00:20:26,000 - Phil Walden, the band's manager, 433 00:20:26,019 --> 00:20:27,210 and the owner of Capricorn Records, 434 00:20:27,230 --> 00:20:29,140 announced that Governor Carter was going to come down 435 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:33,160 to what we used to call the Capricorn, um, Picnic 436 00:20:33,180 --> 00:20:35,000 and Summer Games. 437 00:20:35,019 --> 00:20:38,029 - ♪ Something about you mama ♪ 438 00:20:38,049 --> 00:20:41,119 ♪ Sure give me the blues ♪ 439 00:20:41,140 --> 00:20:45,130 ♪ It ain't your drop stitch stockings ♪ 440 00:20:45,150 --> 00:20:49,130 ♪ It ain't your blue buckle shoes ♪ 441 00:20:49,150 --> 00:20:53,130 - So many interesting, famous people came down 442 00:20:53,150 --> 00:20:55,079 to that thing--Bill Graham, 443 00:20:55,099 --> 00:20:57,220 you know, in the music business, 444 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,230 Andy Warhol came at one point, 445 00:21:01,009 --> 00:21:02,059 and, lo and behold, 446 00:21:02,079 --> 00:21:05,150 he gets Governor Carter to come. 447 00:21:05,170 --> 00:21:07,069 - As one Republican to a Democrat, 448 00:21:07,089 --> 00:21:09,109 I will help you as president, sir. 449 00:21:09,130 --> 00:21:11,140 - Well that's a good deal, and I thank you. 450 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,089 - Phil came to the band and said, 451 00:21:13,109 --> 00:21:18,059 "Listen, Carter's gonna run. Uh, he needs some money. 452 00:21:18,079 --> 00:21:22,019 "He needs support. Uh, would you guys be willing, 453 00:21:22,039 --> 00:21:23,119 you know, to do some benefits for him?" 454 00:21:23,140 --> 00:21:26,099 - I think he's just a real fan of the arts. 455 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:28,140 He came here one night to a recording session. 456 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:32,140 So he befriended these-- these performers and, um-- 457 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:38,079 and his interest was genuine, and they could sense that. 458 00:21:38,099 --> 00:21:42,150 - I think the vibe was, wow, here's this wonderful man 459 00:21:42,170 --> 00:21:45,140 who's been a great governor for the state of Georgia, 460 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:46,200 a southerner, 461 00:21:46,220 --> 00:21:49,039 and we had come through the Nixon era, 462 00:21:49,059 --> 00:21:51,200 and we saw what happened with that. 463 00:21:51,220 --> 00:21:55,049 Isn't it time for somebody, uh, with great integrity 464 00:21:55,069 --> 00:21:57,170 and dignity to take this office? 465 00:21:57,190 --> 00:21:58,220 Does he really have a chance? 466 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,069 You know, honestly, we probably thought, 467 00:22:01,089 --> 00:22:04,119 "The odds are a little low, but let's try. 468 00:22:04,140 --> 00:22:06,119 You never know until you try, right?" 469 00:22:06,140 --> 00:22:07,200 - Governor Carter, first of all, 470 00:22:07,220 --> 00:22:09,150 thank you very much for sparing the time 471 00:22:09,170 --> 00:22:11,029 to speak with me today. 472 00:22:11,049 --> 00:22:13,190 I know that you are very interested in rock music. 473 00:22:13,210 --> 00:22:15,000 - Yes, I am. 474 00:22:15,019 --> 00:22:16,160 I'm not only interested in it 475 00:22:16,180 --> 00:22:21,099 from what it signifies, uh, in our society, 476 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:22,230 but also, I enjoy it. 477 00:22:23,009 --> 00:22:24,059 - Who do you most enjoy listening to? 478 00:22:24,079 --> 00:22:27,000 - I've really gotten to know the ones 479 00:22:27,019 --> 00:22:31,049 who record in Georgia better on a personal basis: 480 00:22:31,069 --> 00:22:33,200 The, uh, Marshall Tucker band and Charlie Daniels 481 00:22:33,220 --> 00:22:37,029 and, um--and, uh Allman Brothers. 482 00:22:37,049 --> 00:22:41,180 I wanna introduce to you my friends and your friends, 483 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:43,099 the ones that are gonna help me get elected, 484 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,140 along with you, the great Allman Brothers! 485 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:49,150 [cheers and applause] 486 00:22:51,130 --> 00:22:54,049 - When we did that first concert 487 00:22:54,069 --> 00:22:56,220 for the president, uh, in Providence, Rhode Island, 488 00:22:57,009 --> 00:23:00,089 I don't think we gave a lot of thought to the fact 489 00:23:00,109 --> 00:23:01,160 that this was a political fundraiser. 490 00:23:01,180 --> 00:23:02,230 Hey, it was a gig. 491 00:23:03,009 --> 00:23:04,109 You know, we got fans, we're gonna play. 492 00:23:04,130 --> 00:23:08,170 - ♪ My friends tell me ♪ 493 00:23:08,190 --> 00:23:12,119 ♪ That I've been such a fool yeah ♪ 494 00:23:12,140 --> 00:23:15,069 ♪ But I had to stand by and take it baby ♪ 495 00:23:15,089 --> 00:23:19,059 ♪ All for loving you ♪ 496 00:23:19,079 --> 00:23:23,029 ♪ I drown myself in sorrow ♪ 497 00:23:23,049 --> 00:23:25,059 ♪ As I look at what you've done ♪ 498 00:23:25,079 --> 00:23:27,230 ♪ But nothing seems to change ♪ 499 00:23:28,009 --> 00:23:32,039 ♪ The bad times have stayed and I can't run ♪ 500 00:23:32,059 --> 00:23:34,230 ♪ Sometimes I feel ♪ 501 00:23:35,009 --> 00:23:36,170 ♪ For sure ♪ 502 00:23:36,190 --> 00:23:42,029 ♪ Sometimes I feel like I've been tied ♪ 503 00:23:42,049 --> 00:23:46,099 ♪ Ah oh ♪ 504 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,009 ♪ Till I'm down there ♪ 505 00:23:48,029 --> 00:23:50,109 ♪ Oh I'm down ♪ 506 00:23:50,130 --> 00:23:55,069 ♪ Good lord feel like I'm dying ♪ 507 00:23:55,089 --> 00:23:57,140 - Chip came to a concert 508 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,019 and, uh, he was saying, you know, 509 00:23:59,039 --> 00:24:00,150 "Nobody knew us, 510 00:24:00,170 --> 00:24:05,049 but, you know, y'all brought us into the light." 511 00:24:05,069 --> 00:24:06,150 - I was practically a non-entity, 512 00:24:06,170 --> 00:24:07,220 but everybody knew the Allman Brothers, 513 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,230 particularly the ones that came to their concerts, 514 00:24:11,009 --> 00:24:13,049 and--and when the Allman Brothers endorsed me, 515 00:24:13,069 --> 00:24:14,109 all the young people there said, 516 00:24:14,130 --> 00:24:16,009 "Well, if the Allman Brothers like Jimmy Carter, 517 00:24:16,029 --> 00:24:18,039 we--we can vote for him." 518 00:24:18,059 --> 00:24:22,039 - ♪ Oh sometimes I feel ♪ 519 00:24:22,059 --> 00:24:24,069 ♪ Like I said ♪ 520 00:24:24,089 --> 00:24:27,220 ♪ Oh sometimes I feel ♪ 521 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,230 ♪ I've been tied ♪ 522 00:24:31,009 --> 00:24:33,170 ♪ Oh ♪ 523 00:24:33,190 --> 00:24:37,029 ♪ Oh to the power of love ♪ 524 00:24:37,049 --> 00:24:40,089 ♪ Oh Lord child ♪ 525 00:24:40,109 --> 00:24:43,029 - Anybody who would do a concert for Jimmy Carter, 526 00:24:43,049 --> 00:24:44,130 you know, we--we would welcome with open arms, 527 00:24:44,150 --> 00:24:47,099 and we had from Hank Snow to Toots and the Maytals 528 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:52,029 to The Allmans to John Denver, 529 00:24:52,049 --> 00:24:54,130 the whole gamut, and we raised a lot of money. 530 00:24:54,150 --> 00:24:57,019 So with the first concert at The Fox, 531 00:24:57,039 --> 00:24:58,089 Marshall Tucker Band, 532 00:24:58,109 --> 00:25:02,000 then the Allmans in Providence, 533 00:25:02,019 --> 00:25:03,200 and then, um, Charlie Daniels at The Fox, 534 00:25:03,220 --> 00:25:05,079 it gave Carter a lot of credibility 535 00:25:05,099 --> 00:25:07,150 and a lot of money. 536 00:25:07,170 --> 00:25:08,170 - Of course, at that time, it was very new 537 00:25:08,190 --> 00:25:11,170 that you could get the matching funds-- 538 00:25:11,190 --> 00:25:15,029 whatever money that could be raised privately 539 00:25:15,049 --> 00:25:16,140 could be matched with the federal funds. 540 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:20,039 - We could get that money converted. 541 00:25:20,059 --> 00:25:22,220 Say the concert was on Saturday, 542 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,160 then we could use it to buy television ads 543 00:25:25,180 --> 00:25:27,220 with it in Pennsylvania the next week. 544 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,160 [patriotic music] 545 00:25:30,180 --> 00:25:34,170 ♪ ♪ 546 00:25:34,190 --> 00:25:39,079 - I believe in human beings, and equal opportunity, 547 00:25:39,099 --> 00:25:41,079 and freedom, and equality of opportunity, 548 00:25:41,099 --> 00:25:44,029 and I'll fight for it. 549 00:25:44,049 --> 00:25:47,130 - Vote for Jimmy Carter. A leader, for a change. 550 00:25:47,150 --> 00:25:50,130 [applause] 551 00:25:50,150 --> 00:25:53,099 [funky music] 552 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:54,230 ♪ ♪ 553 00:25:55,009 --> 00:25:57,200 - Can you ask your kin folks and neighbors to vote for me? 554 00:25:57,220 --> 00:25:59,009 Good deal. Thank you. 555 00:25:59,029 --> 00:26:02,130 - ♪ We the people hey now ♪ 556 00:26:02,150 --> 00:26:04,170 ♪ Got to make the world go round ♪ 557 00:26:04,190 --> 00:26:07,130 ♪ Got to make the world now ♪ 558 00:26:07,150 --> 00:26:10,220 - There was a--a plan among my opponents. 559 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,210 They named it ABC-- Anybody But Carter. 560 00:26:13,230 --> 00:26:15,200 So they would send their top person 561 00:26:15,220 --> 00:26:17,049 into a state to oppose me, 562 00:26:17,069 --> 00:26:18,140 and then all the other candidates--there were about 563 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:22,190 ten of them--would support whoever came in against me. 564 00:26:22,210 --> 00:26:23,220 - There was the establishment 565 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,009 Democratic Party in Washington, 566 00:26:26,029 --> 00:26:29,099 and Jimmy, who was an outsider, you know? 567 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:32,000 And more than just an outsider. An outsider from the south. 568 00:26:32,019 --> 00:26:33,069 - He was from Georgia, for Christ sakes. 569 00:26:33,089 --> 00:26:36,180 I mean, there was something more--start out there. 570 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,190 I mean, that-- and that time in the South, 571 00:26:38,210 --> 00:26:42,140 coming out of the South was--was a death warrant 572 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,049 to try to run for national office. 573 00:26:45,069 --> 00:26:46,230 - We were coming out of the Watergate era 574 00:26:47,009 --> 00:26:51,180 and looking for--to be a country of integrity again, 575 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,109 and certainly in the black communities, 576 00:26:53,130 --> 00:26:54,220 out of which I came, 577 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,049 he made an immediate connection because of that. 578 00:26:57,069 --> 00:27:01,079 - While Jerry Brown took his entourage to woo rural votes 579 00:27:01,099 --> 00:27:02,150 in western Maryland, 580 00:27:02,170 --> 00:27:04,009 Jimmy Carter concentrated 581 00:27:04,029 --> 00:27:06,000 on collecting endorsements from officials 582 00:27:06,019 --> 00:27:07,160 and black leaders in Baltimore. 583 00:27:07,180 --> 00:27:09,220 - The main confrontation I had with Jerry Brown-- 584 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,230 they brought him in to run against me in Maryland, 585 00:27:14,009 --> 00:27:17,039 because he was kind of looked on as Mr. Moonbeam back then, 586 00:27:17,059 --> 00:27:18,130 and he--and they figured 587 00:27:18,150 --> 00:27:20,000 he'd get a lot of support in that particular area. 588 00:27:20,019 --> 00:27:24,180 - I think we're ready for a new spirit in Washington, 589 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,009 and if Maryland sends the right message 590 00:27:27,029 --> 00:27:28,069 to the rest of the country, 591 00:27:28,089 --> 00:27:30,069 that's exactly what's going to happen. 592 00:27:30,089 --> 00:27:32,119 Will you help? Thank you very much. 593 00:27:32,140 --> 00:27:34,069 Thank you. 594 00:27:34,089 --> 00:27:37,109 Thank you very much! Now, let's listen to music. 595 00:27:37,130 --> 00:27:38,190 It's just like a fundraising dinner. 596 00:27:38,210 --> 00:27:43,019 Some people, uh, go to eat the chicken and the peas 597 00:27:43,039 --> 00:27:44,230 and the mashed potatoes and the gravy, 598 00:27:45,009 --> 00:27:46,130 and other people would rather listen 599 00:27:46,150 --> 00:27:48,150 to The Eagles and Chicago and Linda Ronstadt. 600 00:27:48,170 --> 00:27:50,009 [country music] 601 00:27:50,029 --> 00:27:53,220 - I remember when Jerry Brown jumped into the race 602 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,160 and dragged Linda Ronstadt and the Eagles along with him. 603 00:27:57,180 --> 00:27:59,230 It was battle of the bands. 604 00:28:00,009 --> 00:28:01,009 - There was no battle. 605 00:28:01,029 --> 00:28:03,079 I think we had it wrapped up then. 606 00:28:03,099 --> 00:28:05,089 It was maybe too little too late for Brown, 607 00:28:05,109 --> 00:28:06,200 but I don't remember it having any effect. 608 00:28:06,220 --> 00:28:09,150 It would make me mad, you know, to see The Eagles 609 00:28:09,170 --> 00:28:11,210 were doing--"Damn, how did we miss that?" 610 00:28:11,230 --> 00:28:13,049 But that's all. 611 00:28:13,069 --> 00:28:15,029 - I mean, there was no real rivalry. 612 00:28:15,049 --> 00:28:16,140 You know, we didn't want to get into a fist fight 613 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,000 with The Eagles or anything. 614 00:28:19,019 --> 00:28:22,119 Uh, and I guess there was some admiration for Jerry Brown. 615 00:28:22,140 --> 00:28:26,069 You know, he was a good guy, but our guy was better. 616 00:28:26,089 --> 00:28:27,210 - I liked him. 617 00:28:27,230 --> 00:28:33,109 I loved Ronstadt, but I didn't buy into it. 618 00:28:33,130 --> 00:28:34,230 I just didn't-- 619 00:28:35,009 --> 00:28:40,019 honestly, I didn't think he had the gravitas. 620 00:28:40,039 --> 00:28:42,190 Bringing The Eagles along didn't help that. 621 00:28:42,210 --> 00:28:43,089 [laughs] 622 00:28:43,109 --> 00:28:44,140 [rock music] 623 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:49,059 - ♪ I've been put down ♪ 624 00:28:49,079 --> 00:28:52,170 ♪ I've been pushed 'round ♪ 625 00:28:52,190 --> 00:28:57,009 ♪ When will I be loved ♪ 626 00:28:57,029 --> 00:28:59,180 - When I went to Oregon, I had a couple of events, 627 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,039 and very few people showed up, 628 00:29:02,059 --> 00:29:04,130 and, um, Jimmy Buffett had promised to help me 629 00:29:04,150 --> 00:29:05,130 if I ever needed him, 630 00:29:05,150 --> 00:29:06,210 so I called Jimmy Buffett 631 00:29:06,230 --> 00:29:09,009 and asked him if he would come to Oregon and perform, 632 00:29:09,029 --> 00:29:11,089 which I knew would-- would gather a big crowd. 633 00:29:11,109 --> 00:29:14,140 [cheers and applause] 634 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,220 - I picked up the campaign in Portland, Oregon. 635 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,029 I remember the band was there, and it was-- 636 00:29:19,049 --> 00:29:21,230 they didn't have a sound system big enough for the band, 637 00:29:22,009 --> 00:29:23,220 so a couple of us got out acoustic guitars, 638 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,029 and we were pretty popular up in Oregon 639 00:29:26,049 --> 00:29:30,200 and Washington at that time, and so we probably drew, 640 00:29:30,220 --> 00:29:33,019 I don't know, 15,000 people out there. 641 00:29:33,039 --> 00:29:34,180 something like that, but it was outside. 642 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,190 [guitar strumming] 643 00:29:37,210 --> 00:29:44,009 ♪ ♪ 644 00:29:46,089 --> 00:29:50,210 - ♪ He went to Paris looking for answers ♪ 645 00:29:50,230 --> 00:29:54,210 ♪ To questions that bothered him so ♪ 646 00:29:54,230 --> 00:29:59,170 - Jerry Brown was ahead of me before Jimmy Buffett came, 647 00:29:59,190 --> 00:30:02,000 but with Jimmy Buffett's help, I came out quite well. 648 00:30:02,019 --> 00:30:04,210 [cheers and applause] - Thank you very much. 649 00:30:04,230 --> 00:30:07,220 [indistinct] 650 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:08,230 - Thank you. 651 00:30:09,009 --> 00:30:11,029 [indistinct] 652 00:30:11,049 --> 00:30:11,190 Thank you. 653 00:30:11,210 --> 00:30:15,180 [cheers and applause] 654 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,150 The rock and roll aspect of the campaign--first of all, 655 00:30:17,170 --> 00:30:19,230 it was about raising money. 656 00:30:20,009 --> 00:30:21,029 Second, it was about trying to reach, 657 00:30:21,049 --> 00:30:25,109 to me, a younger generation with somebody 658 00:30:25,130 --> 00:30:26,190 who was hip enough to get it. 659 00:30:26,210 --> 00:30:29,200 [folk music] 660 00:30:29,220 --> 00:30:36,200 ♪ ♪ 661 00:30:36,220 --> 00:30:38,200 [cheers and applause] 662 00:30:38,220 --> 00:30:41,000 - "Rolling Stone" had really first made its mark 663 00:30:41,019 --> 00:30:43,160 in national politics in the '72 election, 664 00:30:43,180 --> 00:30:45,150 when McGovern ran against Nixon. 665 00:30:45,170 --> 00:30:47,039 Hunter Thompson, of course, 666 00:30:47,059 --> 00:30:48,210 got the presidential election as kind of a beat, 667 00:30:48,230 --> 00:30:52,000 and in 1974, '75, 668 00:30:52,019 --> 00:30:56,089 he was in Georgia and heard Jimmy Carter speak 669 00:30:56,109 --> 00:30:58,019 at something called Law Day. 670 00:30:58,039 --> 00:31:00,049 - Hunter Thompson was sitting in the back of the audience, 671 00:31:00,069 --> 00:31:02,200 because he had come with Ted Kennedy, 672 00:31:02,220 --> 00:31:07,170 and he was going outside, putting Wild Turkey whiskey 673 00:31:07,190 --> 00:31:09,069 in his iced tea glass, 674 00:31:09,089 --> 00:31:10,119 but he listened to my speech 675 00:31:10,140 --> 00:31:14,150 and the speech made a great impression on him. 676 00:31:14,170 --> 00:31:15,160 - Well, I saw him push Teddy Kennedy around down 677 00:31:15,180 --> 00:31:18,019 in Athens and Atlanta. 678 00:31:18,039 --> 00:31:21,019 I had never seen Kennedy pushed around anywhere, 679 00:31:21,039 --> 00:31:23,089 in any room, and I was stunned. 680 00:31:23,109 --> 00:31:24,170 I'd never seen a politician do that before, 681 00:31:24,190 --> 00:31:28,130 and he just pushed Teddy aside, like "Out of my way. 682 00:31:28,150 --> 00:31:31,170 You know, I've got work to do. Move aside." 683 00:31:31,190 --> 00:31:34,000 And Kennedy was stunned. I was stunned. 684 00:31:34,019 --> 00:31:37,000 [blues music] 685 00:31:37,019 --> 00:31:38,059 ♪ ♪ 686 00:31:38,079 --> 00:31:39,190 - Hunter Thompson spent three nights with me 687 00:31:39,210 --> 00:31:41,059 and Rosalynn at our house, 688 00:31:41,079 --> 00:31:44,029 and he became a very close personal friend of mine. 689 00:31:44,049 --> 00:31:47,059 I remember one time during the campaign, 690 00:31:47,079 --> 00:31:49,130 since we'd had a previous relationship, 691 00:31:49,150 --> 00:31:51,029 he thought he could have first crack 692 00:31:51,049 --> 00:31:52,029 at getting an interview with me, 693 00:31:52,049 --> 00:31:54,170 and Jody Powell, my press secretary, 694 00:31:54,190 --> 00:31:56,069 kept putting Hunter off and said, 695 00:31:56,089 --> 00:31:57,150 "You have to get in line." 696 00:31:57,170 --> 00:32:02,099 And so Hunter Thompson got drunk one night in a hotel 697 00:32:02,119 --> 00:32:07,009 and he gathered up newspapers and dumped some trash cans 698 00:32:07,029 --> 00:32:09,059 in front of Jody Powell's door and set it on fire. 699 00:32:09,079 --> 00:32:09,200 [laughs] 700 00:32:09,220 --> 00:32:13,180 [funky music] 701 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,119 - Jimmy Carter comes along, Hunter endorses him. 702 00:32:16,140 --> 00:32:17,220 So naturally, he had young people 703 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,019 start to gravitate to him, 704 00:32:20,039 --> 00:32:23,079 and he's being supported by some of the most famous 705 00:32:23,099 --> 00:32:24,190 and important people in the rock world, 706 00:32:24,210 --> 00:32:26,200 namely the Allman Brothers, 707 00:32:26,220 --> 00:32:28,190 and they spoke in the words and language 708 00:32:28,210 --> 00:32:30,069 of the rock and roll era. 709 00:32:30,089 --> 00:32:34,230 - One thing in Carter's association with rock music, 710 00:32:35,009 --> 00:32:37,160 that was the music of change, and, you know-- 711 00:32:37,180 --> 00:32:40,059 and dissidents and hippies and pot smokers. 712 00:32:40,079 --> 00:32:43,099 There was a risk, politically, to that, 713 00:32:43,119 --> 00:32:44,200 and it didn't matter to him. 714 00:32:44,220 --> 00:32:47,200 [rock music] 715 00:32:47,220 --> 00:32:51,009 ♪ ♪ 716 00:32:51,029 --> 00:32:54,029 - Well it was, uh, you know--these were times 717 00:32:54,049 --> 00:32:57,059 when some of the guys were experimenting pretty heavily 718 00:32:57,079 --> 00:32:58,210 with various drugs, 719 00:32:58,230 --> 00:33:01,180 and, uh, Gregg had a connection 720 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:05,109 to get pharmaceutical cocaine from a pharmacist, 721 00:33:05,130 --> 00:33:09,059 and there was a middleman, and they were all caught, 722 00:33:09,079 --> 00:33:12,059 and then they turned to Gregg and said, 723 00:33:12,079 --> 00:33:14,230 "All right, we're going to offer you immunity, 724 00:33:15,009 --> 00:33:16,039 "which means you have to testify. 725 00:33:16,059 --> 00:33:17,109 "If you don't testify, 726 00:33:17,130 --> 00:33:19,069 "you have to go sit in jail 727 00:33:19,089 --> 00:33:23,079 until you're ready to testify." And that was really tough. 728 00:33:23,099 --> 00:33:25,160 You can imagine the position Gregg was in. 729 00:33:25,180 --> 00:33:27,099 He didn't want to rat on his friend. 730 00:33:27,119 --> 00:33:29,099 You know, he had to testify, 731 00:33:29,119 --> 00:33:30,190 uh, or otherwise he would have 732 00:33:30,210 --> 00:33:34,079 just been sitting behind bars for God knows how long. 733 00:33:34,099 --> 00:33:36,039 - ♪ She don't lie, she don't lie ♪ 734 00:33:36,059 --> 00:33:42,059 ♪ She don't lie cocaine ♪ 735 00:33:42,079 --> 00:33:45,089 The trial begins. Gregg testifies. 736 00:33:45,109 --> 00:33:48,160 Um, it's just a tumultuous time, 737 00:33:48,180 --> 00:33:51,200 and not only the drug bust, okay? 738 00:33:51,220 --> 00:33:54,099 At that point, the Allmans had been together 739 00:33:54,119 --> 00:33:55,160 for quite some time. 740 00:33:55,180 --> 00:33:58,220 It--I think there was just a toll taken, 741 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,000 and it was time for a break. 742 00:34:02,019 --> 00:34:06,039 - As an example of--of how compassionate Jimmy Carter was, 743 00:34:06,059 --> 00:34:08,059 uh, while the rest of the Allman Brothers 744 00:34:08,079 --> 00:34:12,119 turned on Gregg for his testimony in court, 745 00:34:12,139 --> 00:34:13,139 uh, Jimmy never did. 746 00:34:13,159 --> 00:34:17,059 I mean, he thought this was the moment 747 00:34:17,079 --> 00:34:18,170 to help somebody when they're down. 748 00:34:18,190 --> 00:34:19,210 - Well, can you imagine? 749 00:34:19,230 --> 00:34:21,130 You know, he's running for the Office 750 00:34:21,150 --> 00:34:24,050 of the Presidency of the United States. 751 00:34:24,070 --> 00:34:28,050 He could have easily said, "Look, sorry, Gregg. 752 00:34:28,070 --> 00:34:29,110 "Sorry, Capricorn. Sorry, Allman Brothers Band. 753 00:34:29,130 --> 00:34:32,090 "You know, this is too big of a risk for me to take. 754 00:34:32,110 --> 00:34:33,110 "I can't do it. 755 00:34:33,130 --> 00:34:34,210 "I'm gonna--I'm gonna go this way. 756 00:34:34,230 --> 00:34:37,039 You know, love you guys, but good-bye." 757 00:34:37,059 --> 00:34:38,070 But he didn't do that. 758 00:34:38,090 --> 00:34:41,170 He didn't turn his back on any of us. 759 00:34:41,190 --> 00:34:44,090 - I had some problems with drugs when I was a kid. 760 00:34:44,110 --> 00:34:45,130 My father helped me. 761 00:34:45,150 --> 00:34:49,050 He made me his driver in the campaign. 762 00:34:49,070 --> 00:34:51,010 I don't think he judges people. 763 00:34:51,030 --> 00:34:53,230 I really don't believe that he--that he is a judge 764 00:34:54,010 --> 00:34:55,170 of what you do personally, and that he cares. 765 00:34:55,190 --> 00:35:00,070 He wants you to be who you are when you're with him. 766 00:35:00,090 --> 00:35:02,019 Gregg was a good example of that, I think. 767 00:35:02,039 --> 00:35:05,170 ♪ ♪ 768 00:35:05,190 --> 00:35:08,079 - I was pretty--pretty radical in my politics, you know. 769 00:35:08,099 --> 00:35:11,099 It was just a sort of rite of passage. 770 00:35:11,119 --> 00:35:13,190 You start out as a peacenik hippie 771 00:35:13,210 --> 00:35:15,059 and you get more radical and more radical 772 00:35:15,079 --> 00:35:16,139 and more radical and then finally 773 00:35:16,159 --> 00:35:18,150 I find myself in the Black Panther Party. 774 00:35:18,170 --> 00:35:20,139 By the time Jimmy Carter ran for president, 775 00:35:20,159 --> 00:35:27,199 just his campaign made us feel like we now had a president 776 00:35:27,219 --> 00:35:30,230 that started to see the world the way we saw it. 777 00:35:31,010 --> 00:35:34,110 - Now, I've always fit it in somewhere, 778 00:35:34,130 --> 00:35:40,039 a statement for this man, whom I love and believe in. 779 00:35:40,059 --> 00:35:42,070 [cheers and applause] 780 00:35:42,090 --> 00:35:44,210 So Governor, I'm with you all the way! 781 00:35:44,230 --> 00:35:48,179 [cheers and applause] 782 00:35:48,199 --> 00:35:51,179 [rock music] 783 00:35:51,199 --> 00:35:57,110 ♪ ♪ 784 00:35:57,130 --> 00:35:58,210 - ♪ Yeah ♪ 785 00:35:58,230 --> 00:36:00,010 ♪ Hey ♪ 786 00:36:00,030 --> 00:36:01,039 ♪ ♪ 787 00:36:01,059 --> 00:36:05,130 ♪ Hey when you wish upon a star ♪ 788 00:36:05,150 --> 00:36:07,150 ♪ ♪ 789 00:36:07,170 --> 00:36:10,190 ♪ Your dream will take you very far yeah ♪ 790 00:36:10,210 --> 00:36:12,130 ♪ ♪ 791 00:36:12,150 --> 00:36:16,170 - Our nation has seen a failure of leadership. 792 00:36:16,190 --> 00:36:20,079 We've been hurt and we've been disillusioned. 793 00:36:20,099 --> 00:36:25,119 We've seen a wall go up that separates us 794 00:36:25,139 --> 00:36:27,050 from our own government. 795 00:36:27,070 --> 00:36:30,079 We've lost some precious things that historically have bound 796 00:36:30,099 --> 00:36:34,070 our people and our government together. 797 00:36:34,090 --> 00:36:38,130 It's now time for healing. We want to have faith again. 798 00:36:38,150 --> 00:36:43,119 We want to be proud again. We just want the truth again. 799 00:36:43,139 --> 00:36:45,000 It's time for the people to run the government, 800 00:36:45,019 --> 00:36:46,190 and not the other way around. 801 00:36:46,210 --> 00:36:53,059 [cheers and applause] 802 00:36:53,079 --> 00:36:56,099 all: We want Carter! We want Carter! 803 00:36:56,119 --> 00:36:58,210 We want Carter! We want Carter! 804 00:36:58,230 --> 00:37:01,150 We want Carter! 805 00:37:01,170 --> 00:37:06,199 [chanting continues] 806 00:37:06,219 --> 00:37:08,010 - The next First Lady 807 00:37:08,030 --> 00:37:10,119 of the United States, Mrs. Rosalynn Carter. 808 00:37:10,139 --> 00:37:13,130 [cheers and applause] 809 00:37:13,150 --> 00:37:14,170 - Thank you very much. 810 00:37:14,190 --> 00:37:18,000 I have campaigned since April of last year, 811 00:37:18,019 --> 00:37:22,090 all over the country. We have learned the country. 812 00:37:22,110 --> 00:37:24,150 The country has learned about us. 813 00:37:24,170 --> 00:37:29,059 The campaign has drawn my family close together, 814 00:37:29,079 --> 00:37:30,130 and I believe 815 00:37:30,150 --> 00:37:34,099 that my family can draw this country close together. 816 00:37:34,119 --> 00:37:37,059 [cheers and applause] 817 00:37:37,079 --> 00:37:40,059 [folk music] 818 00:37:40,079 --> 00:37:44,090 - '76 was the first time I could vote, 819 00:37:44,110 --> 00:37:49,019 and I cast my vote proudly for Jimmy Carter, 820 00:37:49,039 --> 00:37:51,059 and my stepmother, June Carter, 821 00:37:51,079 --> 00:37:53,090 insisted that they were cousins, 822 00:37:53,110 --> 00:37:56,010 although I couldn't quite connect the tree, 823 00:37:56,030 --> 00:38:00,199 but I'm sure they were. So, uh, we voted that day. 824 00:38:00,219 --> 00:38:07,099 And they didn't call the election early in the evening. 825 00:38:07,119 --> 00:38:10,050 I went to bed that night not knowing, 826 00:38:10,070 --> 00:38:16,119 and I heard my dad, around 5:00 in the morning, 827 00:38:16,139 --> 00:38:19,110 whooping and yelling, and June as well. 828 00:38:19,130 --> 00:38:22,159 They were screaming, "He won, he won, he won." 829 00:38:22,179 --> 00:38:26,019 There was a lot of excitement. [laughing] 830 00:38:26,039 --> 00:38:27,119 - I was in the sixth grade 831 00:38:27,139 --> 00:38:31,070 and I remember it was a big deal. 832 00:38:31,090 --> 00:38:34,010 You know, I mean, I--I had these dreams 833 00:38:34,030 --> 00:38:35,070 as a kid of wanting to be a recording artist, 834 00:38:35,090 --> 00:38:37,110 you know, so growing up in Georgia, 835 00:38:37,130 --> 00:38:40,179 I was always looking to see anybody in my state 836 00:38:40,199 --> 00:38:42,190 that was successful. 837 00:38:42,210 --> 00:38:45,030 So I was checking out, you know, Otis Redding, 838 00:38:45,050 --> 00:38:46,230 I was checking out the Allman Brothers, 839 00:38:47,010 --> 00:38:48,090 who were making records in Georgia. 840 00:38:48,110 --> 00:38:50,230 So to have an actual President of the United States 841 00:38:51,010 --> 00:38:52,150 come from our state was, I think, 842 00:38:52,170 --> 00:38:54,030 for the whole state--this is kind of the stamp 843 00:38:54,050 --> 00:38:56,159 that says you can do anything. 844 00:38:56,179 --> 00:39:01,230 - Oh, the pride was almost unbearable to Southerners 845 00:39:02,010 --> 00:39:03,179 to have Jimmy Carter from Georgia 846 00:39:03,199 --> 00:39:06,139 elected President of the United States. 847 00:39:06,159 --> 00:39:10,030 You can't even fathom how important that was 848 00:39:10,050 --> 00:39:13,119 and how much pride was in that. 849 00:39:13,139 --> 00:39:14,219 - Governor Carter, are you prepared 850 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:16,170 to take the Constitutional Oath? 851 00:39:16,190 --> 00:39:18,099 - I am. 852 00:39:18,119 --> 00:39:20,110 - Will you place your left hand on the Bible 853 00:39:20,130 --> 00:39:23,079 and raise your right hand and repeat after me: 854 00:39:23,099 --> 00:39:25,090 "I, Jimmy Carter, do solemnly swear..." 855 00:39:25,110 --> 00:39:28,070 - I, Jimmy Carter, do solemnly swear... 856 00:39:28,090 --> 00:39:29,110 - "That I will faithfully execute..." 857 00:39:29,130 --> 00:39:31,199 - That I will faithfully execute... 858 00:39:31,219 --> 00:39:33,179 - "The office of President of the United States." 859 00:39:33,199 --> 00:39:36,130 - The office of President of the United States. 860 00:39:36,150 --> 00:39:39,039 - "And will, to the best of my ability..." 861 00:39:39,059 --> 00:39:41,039 - And will, to the best of my ability... 862 00:39:41,059 --> 00:39:43,110 - "Preserve, protect, and defend..." 863 00:39:43,130 --> 00:39:45,130 - Preserve, protect, and defend... 864 00:39:45,150 --> 00:39:47,199 - "The constitution of the United States..." 865 00:39:47,219 --> 00:39:49,210 - The constitution of the United States... 866 00:39:49,230 --> 00:39:51,050 - "So help me God." 867 00:39:51,070 --> 00:39:53,090 - So help me God. - Congratulations. 868 00:39:53,110 --> 00:39:56,030 [cheers and applause] 869 00:39:56,050 --> 00:39:59,099 [patriotic music] 870 00:39:59,119 --> 00:40:05,159 ♪ ♪ 871 00:40:08,230 --> 00:40:11,000 Ladies and gentlemen, 872 00:40:11,019 --> 00:40:13,210 the President of the United States. 873 00:40:13,230 --> 00:40:16,210 [cheers and applause] 874 00:40:19,110 --> 00:40:25,099 - For myself, and for our nation, 875 00:40:25,119 --> 00:40:29,150 I want to thank my predecessor 876 00:40:29,170 --> 00:40:34,099 for all he has done to heal our land. 877 00:40:34,119 --> 00:40:36,170 [cheers and applause] 878 00:40:43,219 --> 00:40:46,139 - "I wanted to share my father's world." 879 00:40:48,079 --> 00:40:51,039 "This is a pain I mostly hide, 880 00:40:51,059 --> 00:40:54,030 "but ties of blood or seed endure, 881 00:40:54,050 --> 00:40:55,030 "and even now 882 00:40:55,050 --> 00:40:57,219 "I feel inside the hunger 883 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,030 "for his outstretched hand. 884 00:41:01,050 --> 00:41:03,190 "A man's embrace to take me in. 885 00:41:03,210 --> 00:41:07,059 "The need for just a word of praise. 886 00:41:07,079 --> 00:41:09,159 "From those rare times when we did cross the bridge 887 00:41:09,179 --> 00:41:14,190 "between us, the pure joy survives. 888 00:41:14,210 --> 00:41:19,039 "I never put aside the past resentments of the boy until, 889 00:41:19,059 --> 00:41:23,170 "with my own sons, I shared his final hours, 890 00:41:23,190 --> 00:41:27,050 "and came to see what he'd become, 891 00:41:27,070 --> 00:41:29,190 "or always was: 892 00:41:29,210 --> 00:41:35,019 the father who will never cease to be alive in me." 893 00:41:35,039 --> 00:41:39,030 [cheers and applause] 894 00:41:43,079 --> 00:41:45,059 - When we did the Inaugural Concert, 895 00:41:45,079 --> 00:41:47,099 the curtain opened. There's John Wayne. 896 00:41:47,119 --> 00:41:48,159 I--I still have, what's it called--a cue card. 897 00:41:48,179 --> 00:41:51,139 I--I had the cue card signed by John Wayne, 898 00:41:51,159 --> 00:41:54,159 and it says, "Hello, I'm John Wayne." 899 00:41:54,179 --> 00:42:00,190 - Good evening. My name is John Wayne. 900 00:42:00,210 --> 00:42:03,199 I've come here tonight to pay my respects 901 00:42:03,219 --> 00:42:10,039 to our 39th President, our new Commander-in-Chief, 902 00:42:10,059 --> 00:42:15,010 and to wish you Godspeed, sir, in the uncharted waters ahead. 903 00:42:15,030 --> 00:42:20,159 I am considered a member of the opposition, 904 00:42:20,179 --> 00:42:23,030 the loyal opposition-- accent on the loyal. 905 00:42:23,050 --> 00:42:24,000 I'd have it no other way. 906 00:42:24,019 --> 00:42:27,070 [applause] 907 00:42:27,090 --> 00:42:28,219 - John Wayne was a wonderful American. 908 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:30,170 We would disagree on a lot of politics 909 00:42:30,190 --> 00:42:33,010 but we probably would not have gotten 910 00:42:33,030 --> 00:42:34,099 the Panama Canal Treaties passed 911 00:42:34,119 --> 00:42:35,199 if it hadn't been for John Wayne. 912 00:42:35,219 --> 00:42:38,210 He was good friends with the President of Panama, 913 00:42:38,230 --> 00:42:40,179 and he talked to all the Republicans. 914 00:42:40,199 --> 00:42:42,030 Oh, he called every Republican senator several times, 915 00:42:42,050 --> 00:42:46,050 trying to get them to vote with us on those things. 916 00:42:46,070 --> 00:42:48,119 So it was a way--the commonality 917 00:42:48,139 --> 00:42:51,090 of what you believed in and getting it done 918 00:42:51,110 --> 00:42:54,079 was something that was happening back there. 919 00:42:54,099 --> 00:42:57,000 - In conclusion, may I add my voice 920 00:42:57,019 --> 00:42:58,150 to the millions of others around the world... 921 00:43:01,070 --> 00:43:05,000 that wish you good well, Mr. President. 922 00:43:05,019 --> 00:43:07,070 We ask only one thing: 923 00:43:07,090 --> 00:43:10,150 That you preserve this one nation, 924 00:43:10,170 --> 00:43:14,070 under God, with liberty and justice for all, 925 00:43:14,090 --> 00:43:16,210 and we know that you will, sir. Thank you. 926 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:19,230 - It was a really pleasant night. 927 00:43:20,010 --> 00:43:23,150 Everybody was, you know, happy for him 928 00:43:23,170 --> 00:43:27,110 and, uh, surprised that John Wayne showed up. 929 00:43:27,130 --> 00:43:30,130 It was an honor to be asked to perform. 930 00:43:30,150 --> 00:43:32,130 I'd like to dedicate this song to Jimmy Carter 931 00:43:32,150 --> 00:43:37,019 in the hopes that perhaps a time of righteousness 932 00:43:37,039 --> 00:43:39,219 and dignity may now be upon us. 933 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,219 [guitar strumming] 934 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:47,139 ♪ ♪ 935 00:43:47,159 --> 00:43:54,019 ♪ Many times I've been mistaken ♪ 936 00:43:54,039 --> 00:43:58,190 ♪ And many times confused ♪ 937 00:43:58,210 --> 00:44:05,059 ♪ Yes and I've often felt forsaken ♪ 938 00:44:05,079 --> 00:44:09,190 ♪ And certainly misused ♪ 939 00:44:09,210 --> 00:44:15,130 ♪ Ah but I'm all right I'm all right ♪ 940 00:44:15,150 --> 00:44:21,030 ♪ Just weary to my bones ♪ 941 00:44:21,050 --> 00:44:23,159 ♪ ♪ 942 00:44:23,179 --> 00:44:29,030 ♪ Still, you don't expect to be bright and bon vivant ♪ 943 00:44:29,050 --> 00:44:33,159 ♪ So far away from home ♪ 944 00:44:33,179 --> 00:44:39,110 ♪ So far away from home ♪ 945 00:44:39,130 --> 00:44:40,210 - Paul Simon and Aretha Franklin 946 00:44:40,230 --> 00:44:43,019 were two of my favorite performers, 947 00:44:43,039 --> 00:44:47,019 and so when I got ready for the Inaugural performers 948 00:44:47,039 --> 00:44:48,019 to be chosen, 949 00:44:48,039 --> 00:44:50,130 uh, they were at the top of my list. 950 00:44:50,150 --> 00:44:55,170 - ♪ God bless ♪ 951 00:44:55,190 --> 00:45:01,039 ♪ America ♪ 952 00:45:01,059 --> 00:45:05,190 ♪ Land that ♪ 953 00:45:05,210 --> 00:45:10,090 ♪ I love ♪ 954 00:45:10,110 --> 00:45:14,090 ♪ Stand beside her ♪ 955 00:45:14,110 --> 00:45:19,099 ♪ And guide her ♪ 956 00:45:19,119 --> 00:45:23,130 ♪ Through the night ♪ 957 00:45:23,150 --> 00:45:29,130 ♪ From the light from above ♪ 958 00:45:29,150 --> 00:45:35,130 ♪ From the mountains ♪ 959 00:45:35,150 --> 00:45:40,130 ♪ To the prairies ♪ 960 00:45:40,150 --> 00:45:45,210 ♪ To the oceans ♪ 961 00:45:45,230 --> 00:45:52,110 ♪ White with foam ♪ 962 00:45:52,130 --> 00:45:56,019 ♪ God bless ♪ 963 00:45:56,039 --> 00:46:01,010 ♪ America ♪ 964 00:46:01,030 --> 00:46:05,019 ♪ My home ♪ 965 00:46:05,039 --> 00:46:07,059 ♪ Sweet ♪ 966 00:46:07,079 --> 00:46:13,019 ♪ Home ♪ 967 00:46:13,039 --> 00:46:17,070 ♪ God bless ♪ 968 00:46:17,090 --> 00:46:21,230 ♪ Bless America ♪ 969 00:46:22,010 --> 00:46:26,019 ♪ My home ♪ 970 00:46:26,039 --> 00:46:28,199 ♪ Sweet ♪ 971 00:46:28,219 --> 00:46:33,059 ♪ Home ♪ 972 00:46:33,079 --> 00:46:36,079 [cheers and applause] 973 00:46:45,030 --> 00:46:46,150 - I think we had eight 974 00:46:46,170 --> 00:46:49,190 or ten places that we had to go 975 00:46:49,210 --> 00:46:51,179 on Inaugural night and Rosalynn 976 00:46:51,199 --> 00:46:54,079 and I went to every one of them and danced. 977 00:46:54,099 --> 00:46:56,030 Thank you very much for helping me get here 978 00:46:56,050 --> 00:46:59,070 and being the President of the greatest country on Earth. 979 00:46:59,090 --> 00:47:03,190 Are you having a good time? So are we. 980 00:47:03,210 --> 00:47:05,150 - I can definitely feel in my heart 981 00:47:05,170 --> 00:47:07,219 that we helped him become president. 982 00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,230 You know, I mean a lot of other people did too, you know, 983 00:47:11,010 --> 00:47:13,039 but--but we had a hand in it. 984 00:47:13,059 --> 00:47:16,150 - This is great. - You're looking good. 985 00:47:16,170 --> 00:47:19,000 - Gregg Allman was one of the first persons 986 00:47:19,019 --> 00:47:20,230 I invited to the White House when I got to be president. 987 00:47:21,010 --> 00:47:24,099 He came there with Cher as a matter of fact. 988 00:47:24,119 --> 00:47:26,079 - I had dinner with him the first night 989 00:47:26,099 --> 00:47:28,079 he had dinner in the White House. 990 00:47:28,099 --> 00:47:29,130 They were showing them where 991 00:47:29,150 --> 00:47:30,219 to put the spoons and the plates 992 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:34,010 and all this, you know. They had the finger bowls. 993 00:47:34,030 --> 00:47:38,000 - Being from Plains, we had never had finger bowls. 994 00:47:38,019 --> 00:47:40,030 We showed up at the White House, 995 00:47:40,050 --> 00:47:41,039 and at lunch and dinner 996 00:47:41,059 --> 00:47:44,199 they put a crystal bowl with water in it 997 00:47:44,219 --> 00:47:49,030 and a lemon geranium leaf in it, 998 00:47:49,050 --> 00:47:52,179 and what you're supposed to do is use the leaf 999 00:47:52,199 --> 00:47:54,039 to rub your fingers and rinse in the finger bowl, 1000 00:47:54,059 --> 00:47:58,010 and then we often times sat there with guests 1001 00:47:58,030 --> 00:47:58,190 who had never had a finger bowl, 1002 00:47:58,210 --> 00:48:01,010 like Gregg and Cher. 1003 00:48:01,030 --> 00:48:04,159 - And she picked up the glass and started drinking it. 1004 00:48:04,179 --> 00:48:08,139 It had a little gardenia floating in it and a lemon. 1005 00:48:08,159 --> 00:48:09,130 - And we all sat there talking, 1006 00:48:09,150 --> 00:48:11,190 and when they finished 1007 00:48:11,210 --> 00:48:12,210 all of us washed our hands in the finger bowls 1008 00:48:12,230 --> 00:48:15,170 and then moved on to the next course. 1009 00:48:15,190 --> 00:48:19,000 - ♪ I love to take a photograph ♪ 1010 00:48:19,019 --> 00:48:25,130 ♪ So mama don't take my Kodachrome away ♪ 1011 00:48:25,150 --> 00:48:26,179 - You know, the White House was a great place to live, 1012 00:48:26,199 --> 00:48:28,090 and the music was fabulous. 1013 00:48:28,110 --> 00:48:31,150 - Various entertainers would come to the White House, 1014 00:48:31,170 --> 00:48:33,010 and sometimes unannounced, 1015 00:48:33,030 --> 00:48:34,059 and the President's Office 1016 00:48:34,079 --> 00:48:35,190 didn't know what to do with them. 1017 00:48:35,210 --> 00:48:38,170 So many times they would just call and say, 1018 00:48:38,190 --> 00:48:41,219 "Crosby, Stills and Nash are--are at the front gate, 1019 00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,090 "and, uh, we don't have them scheduled to see the President. 1020 00:48:44,110 --> 00:48:46,019 Can you take care of them?" 1021 00:48:46,039 --> 00:48:47,039 And my office was in the West Wing in the basement, 1022 00:48:47,059 --> 00:48:49,159 and they just sort of hung out. 1023 00:48:49,179 --> 00:48:51,070 Everybody would come by and meet them and-- 1024 00:48:51,090 --> 00:48:54,119 and then finally took them in to see the President. 1025 00:48:54,139 --> 00:49:01,030 - ♪ Will you come see me ♪ 1026 00:49:01,050 --> 00:49:05,130 ♪ Thursdays and Saturdays ♪ 1027 00:49:05,150 --> 00:49:08,090 - This is the first-time young people were kind of in charge. 1028 00:49:08,110 --> 00:49:10,110 This was really groundbreaking, 1029 00:49:10,130 --> 00:49:12,079 when you'd come out of the Nixon era, you know? 1030 00:49:12,099 --> 00:49:15,010 And so actually they liked and listened to rock-and-roll, 1031 00:49:15,030 --> 00:49:18,019 and wasn't--we weren't just window dressing, 1032 00:49:18,039 --> 00:49:20,139 and--and then when we went to the White House, 1033 00:49:20,159 --> 00:49:21,150 we were welcomed in. 1034 00:49:21,170 --> 00:49:23,159 - It was kind of funny, 1035 00:49:23,179 --> 00:49:26,179 because I was on crutches at the time. 1036 00:49:26,199 --> 00:49:30,059 I had just been to Jamaica, I think it was, 1037 00:49:30,079 --> 00:49:32,030 and I got busted down there. 1038 00:49:32,050 --> 00:49:35,150 So one, I was so glad to get out of jail 1039 00:49:35,170 --> 00:49:38,019 that I jumped off the porch and sprung my ankle. 1040 00:49:38,039 --> 00:49:39,199 So when I went to--then the next day, 1041 00:49:39,219 --> 00:49:42,190 I had to go see the President of the United States. 1042 00:49:42,210 --> 00:49:45,150 So it was really kind of funny, and we laughed about it a lot. 1043 00:49:45,170 --> 00:49:46,139 - Yeah. 1044 00:49:46,159 --> 00:49:50,090 [rock music] 1045 00:49:50,110 --> 00:49:52,070 - Oh! 1046 00:49:52,090 --> 00:49:58,079 ♪ ♪ 1047 00:49:58,099 --> 00:50:01,010 - President Carter has an encyclopedic knowledge 1048 00:50:01,030 --> 00:50:05,110 of all music, not just rock and roll. 1049 00:50:05,130 --> 00:50:08,010 You know, he has a deep knowledge--deep, 1050 00:50:08,030 --> 00:50:09,179 deep knowledge of classical music, 1051 00:50:09,199 --> 00:50:11,079 but he also knows a lot about blues 1052 00:50:11,099 --> 00:50:13,199 and a lot--an awful lot about jazz. 1053 00:50:13,219 --> 00:50:17,070 - When I had this opportunity to produce music 1054 00:50:17,090 --> 00:50:18,190 at the White House, 1055 00:50:18,210 --> 00:50:23,079 it was one of those moving moments in--in my life in jazz. 1056 00:50:23,099 --> 00:50:25,039 - Many concerts were held at the White House, 1057 00:50:25,059 --> 00:50:28,119 maybe more than any other four years. 1058 00:50:28,139 --> 00:50:31,059 The jazz concert was the one I remember the most. 1059 00:50:31,079 --> 00:50:33,070 It was just magical. 1060 00:50:33,090 --> 00:50:36,070 [jazz music] 1061 00:50:36,090 --> 00:50:43,070 ♪ ♪ 1062 00:50:48,150 --> 00:50:49,230 - Blow! 1063 00:50:50,010 --> 00:50:56,050 ♪ ♪ 1064 00:51:04,159 --> 00:51:07,090 - I was deeply infatuated with jazz musicians. 1065 00:51:07,110 --> 00:51:11,070 So it was a great honor for me and a pleasure 1066 00:51:11,090 --> 00:51:13,010 to bring to the White House 1067 00:51:13,030 --> 00:51:14,019 these people that in many cases 1068 00:51:14,039 --> 00:51:16,090 had not been previously recognized 1069 00:51:16,110 --> 00:51:20,059 for their great contributions to our society. 1070 00:51:20,079 --> 00:51:24,210 If there was an indigenous art form, 1071 00:51:24,230 --> 00:51:28,079 one that was special 1072 00:51:28,099 --> 00:51:29,099 and peculiar to the United States 1073 00:51:29,119 --> 00:51:33,090 and represents what we are as a country, 1074 00:51:33,110 --> 00:51:35,210 I would say that it's jazz. 1075 00:51:35,230 --> 00:51:39,099 At first, this jazz form was not well accepted 1076 00:51:39,119 --> 00:51:41,139 in respectable circles. 1077 00:51:41,159 --> 00:51:44,099 I think there was an element of racism 1078 00:51:44,119 --> 00:51:45,179 perhaps at the beginning, 1079 00:51:45,199 --> 00:51:51,110 because most of the famous early performers were black, 1080 00:51:51,130 --> 00:51:52,199 and particularly in the South, 1081 00:51:52,219 --> 00:51:53,219 to have black and white musicians 1082 00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:57,099 playing together was not a normal thing. 1083 00:51:57,119 --> 00:52:02,099 And I believe that this particular form of music-- 1084 00:52:02,119 --> 00:52:03,159 of art-- 1085 00:52:03,179 --> 00:52:07,210 has done as much as anything to break down those barriers 1086 00:52:07,230 --> 00:52:10,039 and to let us live and work and play 1087 00:52:10,059 --> 00:52:11,199 and to make beautiful music together. 1088 00:52:11,219 --> 00:52:15,059 [applause] 1089 00:52:15,079 --> 00:52:19,230 - Boy oh boy, there was, um, Cecil Taylor and Chick Corea. 1090 00:52:20,010 --> 00:52:22,090 I remember, um, Charlie Mingus was there in a wheelchair, 1091 00:52:22,110 --> 00:52:24,090 you know, but everyone applauded him, 1092 00:52:24,110 --> 00:52:28,150 and it was wonderful that he was there. 1093 00:52:28,170 --> 00:52:31,030 - The President walked over 1094 00:52:31,050 --> 00:52:37,039 to--to Mingus and just held his hand. 1095 00:52:37,059 --> 00:52:39,210 - I remember Charles Mingus, I just said something about, 1096 00:52:39,230 --> 00:52:42,030 "I have confidence in you and I appreciate 1097 00:52:42,050 --> 00:52:45,210 "what you've done in our country and for our people 1098 00:52:45,230 --> 00:52:48,050 and for me personally with your own music." 1099 00:52:48,070 --> 00:52:53,039 - The President, His--His Highness... 1100 00:52:53,059 --> 00:52:55,050 [laughter] 1101 00:52:55,070 --> 00:52:58,000 has asked us to play a tune 1102 00:52:58,019 --> 00:53:00,019 that we played at the White House 1103 00:53:00,039 --> 00:53:02,119 when we were here before. - All right. 1104 00:53:02,139 --> 00:53:03,159 - We're gonna play this tune, 1105 00:53:03,179 --> 00:53:06,199 in which the name of it is "Salt Peanuts." 1106 00:53:06,219 --> 00:53:10,010 [cheers and applause] 1107 00:53:10,030 --> 00:53:11,079 Now, wait a minute, 1108 00:53:11,099 --> 00:53:18,119 but there are some diplomatic strings attached, 1109 00:53:18,139 --> 00:53:20,190 [laughter] 1110 00:53:20,210 --> 00:53:22,090 To wit, 1111 00:53:22,110 --> 00:53:30,050 that the President himself, His Majesty... 1112 00:53:30,070 --> 00:53:33,010 - Right on! [all laughing] 1113 00:53:33,030 --> 00:53:36,010 - Sing the lyrics to "Salt Peanuts." 1114 00:53:36,030 --> 00:53:37,139 - All right, all right! 1115 00:53:37,159 --> 00:53:40,170 - Dizzy Gillespie asked me to come up and join him 1116 00:53:40,190 --> 00:53:45,099 in singing "Salt Peanuts," which is a very peculiar song, 1117 00:53:45,119 --> 00:53:47,030 and that was the only time I think 1118 00:53:47,050 --> 00:53:50,010 when I was in the White House that the New York Times 1119 00:53:50,030 --> 00:53:52,090 congratulated me on my rhythm. 1120 00:53:52,110 --> 00:53:55,170 Not on my tone, but on my rhythm. 1121 00:53:55,190 --> 00:53:57,050 [jazz music] 1122 00:53:57,070 --> 00:54:00,010 ♪ Salt peanuts salt peanuts ♪ 1123 00:54:00,030 --> 00:54:01,059 ♪ ♪ 1124 00:54:01,079 --> 00:54:03,210 ♪ Salt peanuts salt peanuts ♪ 1125 00:54:03,230 --> 00:54:05,050 ♪ ♪ 1126 00:54:05,070 --> 00:54:06,170 ♪ Salt peanuts salt peanuts ♪ 1127 00:54:06,190 --> 00:54:14,179 ♪ ♪ 1128 00:54:17,190 --> 00:54:19,139 ♪ Salt peanuts salt peanuts ♪ 1129 00:54:19,159 --> 00:54:21,190 ♪ ♪ 1130 00:54:21,210 --> 00:54:22,230 ♪ Salt pea-- ♪ 1131 00:54:23,010 --> 00:54:24,130 [all laughing] 1132 00:54:24,150 --> 00:54:28,139 [cheers and applause] 1133 00:54:28,159 --> 00:54:31,099 - Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute, wait a minute. 1134 00:54:31,119 --> 00:54:34,079 I'm just want to--I just want to ask one question: 1135 00:54:34,099 --> 00:54:37,059 would you like to go on the road with us? 1136 00:54:37,079 --> 00:54:42,050 [laughter] 1137 00:54:42,070 --> 00:54:42,179 - I might have to after tonight! 1138 00:54:42,199 --> 00:54:46,050 [laughter] 1139 00:54:46,070 --> 00:54:48,000 - President Carter loved jazz. 1140 00:54:48,019 --> 00:54:51,130 He loved all kinds of music, but he really did love jazz, 1141 00:54:51,150 --> 00:54:55,170 and I have always thought that music was our best ambassador, 1142 00:54:55,190 --> 00:55:00,050 and especially jazz because it is so identified with America 1143 00:55:00,070 --> 00:55:02,070 and being very special to America, 1144 00:55:02,090 --> 00:55:05,070 and music is one of the, I think, most vibrant, 1145 00:55:05,090 --> 00:55:08,030 obviously, parts of soft power. 1146 00:55:08,050 --> 00:55:12,019 - Soft power is the use of culture, uh, music. 1147 00:55:12,039 --> 00:55:13,150 Jimmy Carter was, I think, 1148 00:55:13,170 --> 00:55:17,070 the best ever at his understanding of it, 1149 00:55:17,090 --> 00:55:19,139 mainly because he was a fan. 1150 00:55:19,159 --> 00:55:24,110 He used music in a way that helped him in his politics. 1151 00:55:24,130 --> 00:55:28,159 He used music, uh, to entertain members of Congress a lot 1152 00:55:28,179 --> 00:55:32,019 at different events he did on the White House lawn 1153 00:55:32,039 --> 00:55:33,230 that had never been done quite that way. 1154 00:55:34,010 --> 00:55:37,190 - We would go out through the crowd with index cards, 1155 00:55:37,210 --> 00:55:40,159 knowing to go see this particular congressman, 1156 00:55:40,179 --> 00:55:43,179 'cause you can talk to him for twenty or thirty minutes 1157 00:55:43,199 --> 00:55:45,079 and you couldn't get in their office. 1158 00:55:45,099 --> 00:55:47,039 - I think one of the great events I remember 1159 00:55:47,059 --> 00:55:50,090 was, um, President Carter had a NASCAR event 1160 00:55:50,110 --> 00:55:54,099 and, uh, had none other than Willie Nelson come and sing. 1161 00:55:54,119 --> 00:55:55,139 Again, it was outside on 1162 00:55:55,159 --> 00:55:57,079 the South Lawn of the White House. 1163 00:55:57,099 --> 00:55:58,150 Had race cars come in 1164 00:55:58,170 --> 00:56:00,030 and had some of the, you know, 1165 00:56:00,050 --> 00:56:01,210 big-time drivers of that era there 1166 00:56:01,230 --> 00:56:05,079 and had members of Congress, who were just eating this up. 1167 00:56:05,099 --> 00:56:09,199 - ♪ Irene good night ♪ 1168 00:56:09,219 --> 00:56:12,190 ♪ ♪ 1169 00:56:12,210 --> 00:56:17,070 ♪ Irene good night ♪ 1170 00:56:17,090 --> 00:56:19,199 ♪ ♪ 1171 00:56:19,219 --> 00:56:23,090 ♪ Good night Irene ♪ 1172 00:56:23,110 --> 00:56:27,039 ♪ Good night Irene ♪ 1173 00:56:27,059 --> 00:56:33,050 ♪ I'll see you in my dreams ♪ 1174 00:56:33,070 --> 00:56:37,210 ♪ Stop your rambling ♪ 1175 00:56:37,230 --> 00:56:41,230 ♪ And stop your gambling ♪ 1176 00:56:42,010 --> 00:56:45,170 ♪ Stop staying out so late ♪ 1177 00:56:45,190 --> 00:56:47,179 ♪ Late at night ♪ 1178 00:56:47,199 --> 00:56:49,139 ♪ ♪ 1179 00:56:49,159 --> 00:56:52,039 ♪ And go home to your wife ♪ 1180 00:56:52,059 --> 00:56:56,110 ♪ And your family ♪ 1181 00:56:56,130 --> 00:57:02,070 ♪ And stay by the fireside bright ♪ 1182 00:57:02,090 --> 00:57:03,190 ♪ ♪ 1183 00:57:03,210 --> 00:57:09,130 - My mother was in charge of all the events 1184 00:57:09,150 --> 00:57:11,179 that happened at the White House. 1185 00:57:11,199 --> 00:57:13,119 So when they wanted to do a concert, 1186 00:57:13,139 --> 00:57:14,150 my mother would be the one that would set it up 1187 00:57:14,170 --> 00:57:17,179 and say everything that was going around it. 1188 00:57:17,199 --> 00:57:22,099 - I just want to say it's been a wonderful evening for me, 1189 00:57:22,119 --> 00:57:23,219 and it could only have been better 1190 00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:25,179 if Jimmy had been here to hear you, Willie, 1191 00:57:25,199 --> 00:57:27,019 and your group. 1192 00:57:27,039 --> 00:57:28,079 - When Willie Nelson came 1193 00:57:28,099 --> 00:57:29,139 and performed at the White House, 1194 00:57:29,159 --> 00:57:33,000 and President Carter was at Camp David 1195 00:57:33,019 --> 00:57:34,099 for 13 days with Begin and Sadat, 1196 00:57:34,119 --> 00:57:37,110 but he was not there for a good reason. 1197 00:57:37,130 --> 00:57:39,030 - I have to go back to Camp David. 1198 00:57:39,050 --> 00:57:40,059 I'm sorry, 1199 00:57:40,079 --> 00:57:41,150 but I want to leave you with one thought. 1200 00:57:41,170 --> 00:57:46,030 You know how very important the summit is 1201 00:57:46,050 --> 00:57:48,090 and how much is at stake in these meetings. 1202 00:57:48,110 --> 00:57:52,090 I want to ask you tonight to continue to pray for Jimmy, 1203 00:57:52,110 --> 00:57:55,150 for Prime Minister Begin, for President Sadat. 1204 00:57:55,170 --> 00:57:58,059 Pray for them, pray for those who are with them, 1205 00:57:58,079 --> 00:58:00,039 and that the summit will be a success. 1206 00:58:00,059 --> 00:58:02,059 Good night. I love every one of you. 1207 00:58:02,079 --> 00:58:05,039 [cheers and applause] 1208 00:58:05,059 --> 00:58:09,110 [western music] 1209 00:58:09,130 --> 00:58:11,059 - If you've ever read the history of the talks 1210 00:58:11,079 --> 00:58:15,199 in Camp David between Begin and, uh, Sadat, 1211 00:58:15,219 --> 00:58:19,050 it's a riveting story of how many times 1212 00:58:19,070 --> 00:58:20,210 each of the other sides were willing to pull out, 1213 00:58:20,230 --> 00:58:25,090 and the fact that Carter was there with his wife, 1214 00:58:25,110 --> 00:58:26,219 managing the whole thing, going from side to side, 1215 00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:31,000 not just in policy things but in personality things, 1216 00:58:31,019 --> 00:58:33,159 all things you really need to do to reconcile people 1217 00:58:33,179 --> 00:58:36,119 who have hated each other for their lifetimes. 1218 00:58:36,139 --> 00:58:41,019 [guitar strumming] 1219 00:58:41,039 --> 00:58:42,210 - I had been hired, um, very specifically to work 1220 00:58:42,230 --> 00:58:46,039 on foreign policy issues for the Carter Administration, 1221 00:58:46,059 --> 00:58:47,159 and I have to tell you 1222 00:58:47,179 --> 00:58:51,059 as somebody that was sitting in Washington, 1223 00:58:51,079 --> 00:58:53,079 uh, while they all were at Camp David, 1224 00:58:53,099 --> 00:58:55,190 it was fairly nerve-wracking 1225 00:58:55,210 --> 00:58:58,079 because people kept saying, "When are they coming down? 1226 00:58:58,099 --> 00:59:00,000 When are they coming down from the mountain?" 1227 00:59:00,019 --> 00:59:02,170 And they were there for a couple of weeks. 1228 00:59:02,190 --> 00:59:04,139 - He brings both of these guys, 1229 00:59:04,159 --> 00:59:06,110 takes them up on the top of that mountain, 1230 00:59:06,130 --> 00:59:08,230 Camp David, and kind of locks them up, 1231 00:59:09,010 --> 00:59:12,030 and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth, 1232 00:59:12,050 --> 00:59:13,119 and it almost fell apart, 1233 00:59:13,139 --> 00:59:17,099 and then it starts looking like it's gonna happen, 1234 00:59:17,119 --> 00:59:21,219 and as Carter realizes that, uh, he's gonna get a deal, 1235 00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:25,119 he's gonna get, uh, a Camp David Accords 1236 00:59:25,139 --> 00:59:29,090 between the biggest army in the Middle East, Egypt, 1237 00:59:29,110 --> 00:59:31,050 and the Israelis. 1238 00:59:31,070 --> 00:59:34,210 - President Carter really used his knowledge of the subject 1239 00:59:34,230 --> 00:59:40,210 and his willingness to talk to people in a very direct way 1240 00:59:40,230 --> 00:59:43,099 to get a result. He was very good, I think, 1241 00:59:43,119 --> 00:59:44,179 about being able to put himself 1242 00:59:44,199 --> 00:59:46,130 into other people's shoes, 1243 00:59:46,150 --> 00:59:48,030 to understand what they needed. 1244 00:59:48,050 --> 00:59:51,190 - The odds of pulling off this peace treaty between 1245 00:59:51,210 --> 00:59:56,210 Sadat and Menachem Begin was, you know, slight, 1246 00:59:56,230 --> 00:59:58,179 and--and a lot of, uh, 1247 00:59:58,199 --> 01:00:01,219 his international advisors were saying, "Don't do this," 1248 01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:04,019 and Carter had this moment in time 1249 01:00:04,039 --> 01:00:05,070 that he knew he had a shot at it, 1250 01:00:05,090 --> 01:00:07,179 so he did. 1251 01:00:07,199 --> 01:00:09,219 - Ladies and gentlemen, 1252 01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:13,099 the President of the United States, 1253 01:00:13,119 --> 01:00:17,039 the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, 1254 01:00:17,059 --> 01:00:19,059 and the Prime Minister of Israel. 1255 01:00:19,079 --> 01:00:23,070 [applause] 1256 01:00:23,090 --> 01:00:25,230 - He put his life and soul into that, you know? 1257 01:00:26,010 --> 01:00:29,179 And that--that's been the most important 1258 01:00:29,199 --> 01:00:34,010 and only breakthrough really in the dilemma of the Middle East. 1259 01:00:34,030 --> 01:00:38,090 - We are privileged to witness tonight 1260 01:00:38,110 --> 01:00:41,090 a significant achievement in the cause of peace. 1261 01:00:41,110 --> 01:00:43,070 - President Carter was interested in having 1262 01:00:43,090 --> 01:00:46,030 a moral foreign policy. 1263 01:00:46,050 --> 01:00:49,019 He thought that our dedication to human rights, 1264 01:00:49,039 --> 01:00:51,119 America's value system, 1265 01:00:51,139 --> 01:00:53,110 was what he wanted to represent, 1266 01:00:53,130 --> 01:00:57,050 and he did make, um, the pursuit of human rights 1267 01:00:57,070 --> 01:01:00,119 all over the world one of his basic tenets 1268 01:01:00,139 --> 01:01:03,119 about national security policy--the best of America. 1269 01:01:03,139 --> 01:01:04,170 What are we about? 1270 01:01:04,190 --> 01:01:08,010 [cheering] 1271 01:01:08,030 --> 01:01:10,010 [rock music] 1272 01:01:10,030 --> 01:01:13,219 - Human rights. The right to live like a human. 1273 01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:19,219 That's something that President Jimmy Carter, 1274 01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:25,199 um, tried to make real, uh, with his foreign policy, 1275 01:01:25,219 --> 01:01:29,019 and he had difficulty implementing it 1276 01:01:29,039 --> 01:01:33,000 around the world, but at least he was trying. 1277 01:01:33,019 --> 01:01:36,039 - He sent me to Africa with a note 1278 01:01:36,059 --> 01:01:38,019 on a torn piece of paper: 1279 01:01:38,039 --> 01:01:41,019 "I want you to ask African leaders 1280 01:01:41,039 --> 01:01:43,159 "what they expect of this administration 1281 01:01:43,179 --> 01:01:47,159 and how we can help them." That's revolutionary. 1282 01:01:47,179 --> 01:01:49,059 - With the coming of the New Year, 1283 01:01:49,079 --> 01:01:50,210 a new and controversial chapter 1284 01:01:50,230 --> 01:01:53,039 in America's relationship with Asia. 1285 01:01:53,059 --> 01:01:54,170 Here in Washington this morning, 1286 01:01:54,190 --> 01:01:56,210 the flag of the People's Republic of China 1287 01:01:56,230 --> 01:01:58,019 raised for the first time 1288 01:01:58,039 --> 01:02:00,050 at what's now the Chinese Embassy. 1289 01:02:00,070 --> 01:02:03,090 That ceremony one of several marking the opening of formal 1290 01:02:03,110 --> 01:02:04,170 U.S. ties with Peking 1291 01:02:04,190 --> 01:02:07,090 and the end of formal relations with Taiwan. 1292 01:02:07,110 --> 01:02:09,159 - In terms of opening up to China. 1293 01:02:09,179 --> 01:02:11,019 President Carter followed through 1294 01:02:11,039 --> 01:02:16,150 on what had been an opening by a Republican president, 1295 01:02:16,170 --> 01:02:18,199 and I find that the bipartisanship of that 1296 01:02:18,219 --> 01:02:21,170 is something that is worth noting, 1297 01:02:21,190 --> 01:02:23,119 given what some of the atmosphere 1298 01:02:23,139 --> 01:02:25,050 has been on that recently. 1299 01:02:25,070 --> 01:02:26,199 - How are you? 1300 01:02:26,219 --> 01:02:29,010 - The, um, Chinese ambassador came 1301 01:02:29,030 --> 01:02:32,210 and, like President Carter would always do, he'd say, 1302 01:02:32,230 --> 01:02:34,150 "And if there's anything I can do for you? 1303 01:02:34,170 --> 01:02:36,219 Is there anything you want?" 1304 01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:40,000 And the ambassador said, "Yes. I'd like to go to Nashville." 1305 01:02:40,019 --> 01:02:46,070 [country music] 1306 01:02:46,090 --> 01:02:49,130 - The President asked me to put that trip together, 1307 01:02:49,150 --> 01:02:52,099 and it was just a magnificent weekend, 1308 01:02:52,119 --> 01:02:54,000 'cause Nashville rolled out the red carpet, 1309 01:02:54,019 --> 01:02:56,230 at Jimmy Carter's request, for this, you know, 1310 01:02:57,010 --> 01:03:00,210 first People's Republic of China ambassador. 1311 01:03:00,230 --> 01:03:04,150 Started with a luncheon of every business leader 1312 01:03:04,170 --> 01:03:05,199 in the music business 1313 01:03:05,219 --> 01:03:08,030 coming to the BMI Conference Room, 1314 01:03:08,050 --> 01:03:11,119 and that lunch ended with Barbara Mandrell, 1315 01:03:11,139 --> 01:03:14,210 as the doors opened, standing there with her combo 1316 01:03:14,230 --> 01:03:17,190 singing "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed," 1317 01:03:17,210 --> 01:03:19,030 as the interpreter was telling the ambassador 1318 01:03:19,050 --> 01:03:22,170 what she was singing, he just died laughing. 1319 01:03:22,190 --> 01:03:26,159 And then the weekend ended with Sunday morning brunch. 1320 01:03:26,179 --> 01:03:30,030 Minnie Pearl came. June and Johnny Cash came. 1321 01:03:30,050 --> 01:03:31,090 The terrific remembrance I have of this 1322 01:03:31,110 --> 01:03:33,230 is Dixie rings the bell, 1323 01:03:34,010 --> 01:03:35,159 you know, and says "Breakfast is served." 1324 01:03:35,179 --> 01:03:39,110 This is Sunday morning; this is Nashville, in 1979. 1325 01:03:39,130 --> 01:03:41,019 Somebody would've usually said a blessing, 1326 01:03:41,039 --> 01:03:44,150 but we had our guest from Beijing there, 1327 01:03:44,170 --> 01:03:46,010 and it was a hesitant moment there, 1328 01:03:46,030 --> 01:03:49,170 and all of a sudden Johnny Cash and June Carter 1329 01:03:49,190 --> 01:03:52,030 started singing "Shall the Circle Be Unbroken." 1330 01:03:52,050 --> 01:03:59,099 - ♪ Will the circle be unbroken ♪ 1331 01:03:59,119 --> 01:04:06,050 ♪ By and by Lord by and by ♪ 1332 01:04:06,070 --> 01:04:12,159 ♪ There's a better way of living ♪ 1333 01:04:12,179 --> 01:04:15,199 ♪ In the sky Lord ♪ 1334 01:04:15,219 --> 01:04:20,039 ♪ In the ♪ 1335 01:04:20,059 --> 01:04:23,159 ♪ Sky ♪ 1336 01:04:23,179 --> 01:04:25,230 - And then it was great 1337 01:04:26,010 --> 01:04:28,000 because Deng Xiaoping came to the United States, 1338 01:04:28,019 --> 01:04:30,070 and there was a lot of celebrating, justly so. 1339 01:04:30,090 --> 01:04:34,230 It was one of the really important national security, 1340 01:04:35,010 --> 01:04:38,000 um, agendas that, uh, President Carter did. 1341 01:04:38,019 --> 01:04:43,050 - Country music has become a national treasure 1342 01:04:43,070 --> 01:04:48,210 and indeed a worldwide source of entertainment 1343 01:04:48,230 --> 01:04:50,159 and enjoyment that transcends language 1344 01:04:50,179 --> 01:04:54,039 and transcends national borders. 1345 01:04:54,059 --> 01:04:57,219 It's always good to see something come out of the South 1346 01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:01,110 have an unexpected, uh, achievement. 1347 01:05:01,130 --> 01:05:03,139 [chuckles] 1348 01:05:03,159 --> 01:05:06,090 [applause] 1349 01:05:06,110 --> 01:05:08,099 - Well, I think what they underestimated 1350 01:05:08,119 --> 01:05:10,050 about President Carter was what a dedicated, 1351 01:05:10,070 --> 01:05:15,000 patriotic, smart, political person he was. 1352 01:05:15,019 --> 01:05:17,150 People did think that he was just this peanut farmer 1353 01:05:17,170 --> 01:05:19,059 that had come up from Georgia, 1354 01:05:19,079 --> 01:05:21,010 forgetting that he had been a governor, 1355 01:05:21,030 --> 01:05:24,099 that also he had been-- had military service, 1356 01:05:24,119 --> 01:05:28,079 um, and he was, uh, somebody who loved history, 1357 01:05:28,099 --> 01:05:29,170 uh, and was somebody that 1358 01:05:29,190 --> 01:05:31,219 was so proud to be an American. 1359 01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:33,179 - Ladies and Gentlemen, Loretta Lynn! 1360 01:05:33,199 --> 01:05:36,099 [applause] 1361 01:05:36,119 --> 01:05:38,099 [country music] 1362 01:05:38,119 --> 01:05:42,110 ♪ ♪ 1363 01:05:42,130 --> 01:05:48,219 - ♪ Well I was born a coal miner's daughter ♪ 1364 01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:54,219 ♪ In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler ♪ 1365 01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:59,099 ♪ We were poor but we had love ♪ 1366 01:05:59,119 --> 01:06:03,019 ♪ That's the one thing that daddy made sure of ♪ 1367 01:06:03,039 --> 01:06:10,019 ♪ He shoveled coal to make a poor man's dollar ♪ 1368 01:06:10,039 --> 01:06:11,070 - I believe one of the reasons that musicians, you know, 1369 01:06:11,090 --> 01:06:14,059 were drawn to President Carter and vice versa, 1370 01:06:14,079 --> 01:06:15,130 he was a man of the earth. 1371 01:06:15,150 --> 01:06:17,219 For God's sake, he was a peanut farmer. 1372 01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:20,219 He was raised around that music. 1373 01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:22,110 That was part of that culture. 1374 01:06:22,130 --> 01:06:23,159 You know, Shakespeare said 1375 01:06:23,179 --> 01:06:26,190 "If music be the language of love, play on." 1376 01:06:26,210 --> 01:06:31,070 My favorite is Lord Fletcher of Saltoun. 1377 01:06:31,090 --> 01:06:37,190 He said, "Were I able to make the ballads of a nation, 1378 01:06:37,210 --> 01:06:41,019 I need not write its laws." 1379 01:06:41,039 --> 01:06:45,199 The songs of any given 10- or 20-year period 1380 01:06:45,219 --> 01:06:47,030 will more accurately 1381 01:06:47,050 --> 01:06:50,170 and honestly reflect what happened. 1382 01:06:50,190 --> 01:06:55,199 - ♪ Well a lot of things have changed since way back then ♪ 1383 01:06:55,219 --> 01:06:58,159 ♪ ♪ 1384 01:06:58,179 --> 01:07:03,039 ♪ And it's so good to be back home again ♪ 1385 01:07:03,059 --> 01:07:04,039 ♪ ♪ 1386 01:07:04,059 --> 01:07:08,199 ♪ Not much left but the floors ♪ 1387 01:07:08,219 --> 01:07:12,079 ♪ Nothing lives here anymore ♪ 1388 01:07:12,099 --> 01:07:17,099 ♪ Just the memories of a coal miner's daughter ♪ 1389 01:07:17,119 --> 01:07:18,159 ♪ ♪ 1390 01:07:18,179 --> 01:07:22,099 [applause] 1391 01:07:22,119 --> 01:07:23,219 - Carter did a lot of entertaining 1392 01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:26,010 with these musical friends he had: 1393 01:07:26,030 --> 01:07:28,099 Loretta Lynn, right? 1394 01:07:28,119 --> 01:07:31,230 Uh, Conway Twitty, Tom T. Hall. 1395 01:07:32,010 --> 01:07:33,150 All the greats of that era 1396 01:07:33,170 --> 01:07:35,159 performed, uh, there in the East Room 1397 01:07:35,179 --> 01:07:37,179 of the White House to honor Jimmy Carter. 1398 01:07:37,199 --> 01:07:40,179 [jazz music] 1399 01:07:40,199 --> 01:07:44,030 ♪ ♪ 1400 01:07:44,050 --> 01:07:46,030 I was lucky enough to go to the state dinner 1401 01:07:46,050 --> 01:07:49,079 for the Shah and Shahbanu of Iran, 1402 01:07:49,099 --> 01:07:50,199 a pretty grand affair. 1403 01:07:50,219 --> 01:07:53,059 The entertainment that night was none other than 1404 01:07:53,079 --> 01:07:56,030 Sarah Vaughan and Dizzy Gillespie. 1405 01:07:56,050 --> 01:07:59,030 - [vocalizing] 1406 01:07:59,050 --> 01:08:06,039 ♪ ♪ 1407 01:08:06,059 --> 01:08:09,139 - President Carter had worked so hard on relationships 1408 01:08:09,159 --> 01:08:10,170 with Iran, frankly, 1409 01:08:10,190 --> 01:08:13,099 and he was somebody who analyzed for-- 1410 01:08:13,119 --> 01:08:17,220 from my perspective--national security policy very carefully. 1411 01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:21,090 But, uh, it was a very complex period. 1412 01:08:21,109 --> 01:08:23,140 [rock music] 1413 01:08:23,159 --> 01:08:25,170 - This was not the first time the Shah of Iran 1414 01:08:25,189 --> 01:08:27,090 has been forced to flee his country, 1415 01:08:27,109 --> 01:08:30,199 but this time his absence will certainly be much longer. 1416 01:08:30,220 --> 01:08:33,140 - The Shah becomes very sick with cancer. 1417 01:08:33,159 --> 01:08:35,079 Um, he's-- 1418 01:08:35,100 --> 01:08:40,079 he's trying to get to, uh, America to get treatment, 1419 01:08:40,100 --> 01:08:41,100 and there was a lot of pushback 1420 01:08:41,119 --> 01:08:44,100 from a lot of corners of foreign policy 1421 01:08:44,119 --> 01:08:48,060 not to do that, afraid of what it would uncork. 1422 01:08:48,079 --> 01:08:50,090 The thing that's part of that history 1423 01:08:50,109 --> 01:08:51,159 that I think is not known 1424 01:08:51,180 --> 01:08:54,069 is kind of the Republican foreign policy 1425 01:08:54,090 --> 01:08:57,069 establishment kind of led the charge on Carter 1426 01:08:57,090 --> 01:08:59,119 to let the Shah in to get his treatment. 1427 01:08:59,140 --> 01:09:02,039 - I would say very firmly that under no circumstances 1428 01:09:02,060 --> 01:09:05,220 can the United States give in to the blackmail 1429 01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:07,069 that seems to be practiced 1430 01:09:07,090 --> 01:09:09,140 by the demonstrators in Iran and decline 1431 01:09:09,159 --> 01:09:13,090 to provide the medical service to the Shah of Iran, 1432 01:09:13,109 --> 01:09:16,130 who is very, very ill with cancer. 1433 01:09:16,149 --> 01:09:19,109 - I kind of don't disagree that that was probably 1434 01:09:19,130 --> 01:09:23,069 the humanitarian thing to do, but it was part of the problem 1435 01:09:23,090 --> 01:09:25,069 that led to the hostage situation. 1436 01:09:25,090 --> 01:09:28,079 [rock music] 1437 01:09:28,100 --> 01:09:31,050 ♪ ♪ 1438 01:09:31,069 --> 01:09:34,029 - Muslim students occupying the American Embassy in Iran 1439 01:09:34,050 --> 01:09:36,079 for the second day now have called for their government 1440 01:09:36,100 --> 01:09:38,220 to break all relations with the United States. 1441 01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:40,090 The crowd burned the American flag 1442 01:09:40,109 --> 01:09:43,079 and demanded that the United States return the Shah, 1443 01:09:43,100 --> 01:09:45,090 who is in a New York City hospital, to Iran for trial. 1444 01:09:45,109 --> 01:09:48,079 The students took more than 50 hostages 1445 01:09:48,100 --> 01:09:49,039 and said they would not be released 1446 01:09:49,060 --> 01:09:51,140 until the Shah is in Iran. 1447 01:09:51,159 --> 01:09:53,210 - ♪ One way or another ♪ 1448 01:09:53,229 --> 01:09:55,119 ♪ I'm gonna find ya ♪ 1449 01:09:55,140 --> 01:09:57,100 ♪ I'm gonna get you, get you, get you, get you ♪ 1450 01:09:57,119 --> 01:09:59,199 ♪ One way or another ♪ 1451 01:09:59,220 --> 01:10:01,090 ♪ I'm gonna win ya ♪ 1452 01:10:01,109 --> 01:10:03,119 ♪ I'm gonna get you, get you, get you, get you ♪ 1453 01:10:03,140 --> 01:10:08,069 - Well, the Iranian hostage crisis was a genuine disaster 1454 01:10:08,090 --> 01:10:09,159 in so many different ways, 1455 01:10:09,180 --> 01:10:14,170 because what happened was that a number of our diplomats 1456 01:10:14,189 --> 01:10:18,029 in Iran had been seized and held. 1457 01:10:18,050 --> 01:10:21,050 And it in so many ways completely paralyzed 1458 01:10:21,069 --> 01:10:22,130 the Carter Administration, 1459 01:10:22,149 --> 01:10:24,090 because we had to deal with it day by day. 1460 01:10:24,109 --> 01:10:27,210 People thought, "Why is this happening? 1461 01:10:27,229 --> 01:10:29,170 We're the most powerful country in the world 1462 01:10:29,189 --> 01:10:32,210 and we can't rescue these hostages." 1463 01:10:32,229 --> 01:10:36,079 - My thoughts and my prayers for our hostages in Iran 1464 01:10:36,100 --> 01:10:40,090 are as though they were my own sons and daughters. 1465 01:10:40,109 --> 01:10:41,220 I was under a great deal of strain. 1466 01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:45,029 A lot of people were advising me to bomb Iran, 1467 01:10:45,050 --> 01:10:46,159 but I knew that if I bombed Iran, 1468 01:10:46,180 --> 01:10:48,199 they would kill the hostages first thing. 1469 01:10:48,220 --> 01:10:53,050 - He was dedicated to getting those hostages home alive, 1470 01:10:53,069 --> 01:10:55,210 at almost any political cost. 1471 01:10:55,229 --> 01:10:58,130 Being president is a pretty lonely job. 1472 01:10:58,149 --> 01:10:59,159 You're all by yourself. 1473 01:10:59,180 --> 01:11:02,079 Carter would retreat to his study 1474 01:11:02,100 --> 01:11:05,140 and listen to Willie Nelson. If I remember correctly, 1475 01:11:05,159 --> 01:11:08,069 at that time it was a gospel music album. 1476 01:11:08,090 --> 01:11:10,220 He made his decisions in the solitude of that room. 1477 01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:13,090 - I went into the room 1478 01:11:13,109 --> 01:11:15,020 where Harry Truman used to have his office, 1479 01:11:15,039 --> 01:11:17,050 which was next door to the bedroom. 1480 01:11:17,069 --> 01:11:20,050 I would play Willie Nelson music primarily, 1481 01:11:20,069 --> 01:11:22,020 so I could think about my problems 1482 01:11:22,039 --> 01:11:24,100 and say a few prayers. 1483 01:11:24,119 --> 01:11:27,140 - ♪ Amazing grace ♪ 1484 01:11:27,159 --> 01:11:32,149 ♪ How sweet the sound ♪ 1485 01:11:32,170 --> 01:11:39,189 ♪ That saved a wretch like me ♪ 1486 01:11:39,210 --> 01:11:43,060 ♪ I once was lost ♪ 1487 01:11:43,079 --> 01:11:48,069 ♪ But now I'm found ♪ 1488 01:11:48,090 --> 01:11:50,189 ♪ I was blind ♪ 1489 01:11:50,210 --> 01:11:54,159 ♪ But now I see ♪ 1490 01:11:54,180 --> 01:11:58,210 - If Iran has brought home one thing to Americans, 1491 01:11:58,229 --> 01:12:01,060 it is that foreign affairs cannot be separated 1492 01:12:01,079 --> 01:12:03,079 from our domestic concerns--concern 1493 01:12:03,100 --> 01:12:06,199 about the hostages, about oil prices and supply. 1494 01:12:06,220 --> 01:12:10,220 What concerns people, voters, also concerns politicians. 1495 01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:12,180 This is a presidential election year, 1496 01:12:12,199 --> 01:12:15,069 and Iran has upset the best laid plans 1497 01:12:15,090 --> 01:12:16,170 of most of the candidates. 1498 01:12:16,189 --> 01:12:18,100 - You know, on a political point, 1499 01:12:18,119 --> 01:12:23,029 he could've gone in there anytime and attacked in Tehran, 1500 01:12:23,050 --> 01:12:25,119 multiple lives lost on both sides, 1501 01:12:25,140 --> 01:12:27,220 and he would've been a hero to the American people, 1502 01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:32,000 but his only interest was getting the American hostages 1503 01:12:32,020 --> 01:12:34,010 back alive to their families. 1504 01:12:34,029 --> 01:12:36,149 - I think a lot of other politically strategic military 1505 01:12:36,170 --> 01:12:40,159 thinking would've done something a bit bolder. 1506 01:12:40,180 --> 01:12:44,220 But the hostage thing I think amplified a lot of the fears 1507 01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:47,170 that people had had about him. 1508 01:12:47,189 --> 01:12:49,189 [gentle music] 1509 01:12:49,210 --> 01:12:54,000 - His error was that, when you'd raise something 1510 01:12:54,020 --> 01:12:57,050 that this is gonna be good for you politically, 1511 01:12:57,069 --> 01:12:58,109 he didn't wanna hear it. 1512 01:12:58,130 --> 01:13:01,130 He said, "What is the right thing to do?" 1513 01:13:01,149 --> 01:13:03,109 - Go Jimmy! 1514 01:13:03,130 --> 01:13:08,010 - The 1980 re-election campaign 1515 01:13:08,029 --> 01:13:12,100 opened up in kind of the north part of Alabama. 1516 01:13:12,119 --> 01:13:16,000 - We've got Charlie Daniels here. 1517 01:13:16,020 --> 01:13:17,119 - Well, Charlie Daniels. Look at Charlie. 1518 01:13:17,140 --> 01:13:19,119 I mean, he's pretty--a pretty good Republican, 1519 01:13:19,140 --> 01:13:20,229 but he was a great friend, 1520 01:13:21,010 --> 01:13:23,090 and he and Carter got along well, 1521 01:13:23,109 --> 01:13:26,079 and he did a concert with the president. 1522 01:13:26,100 --> 01:13:28,079 - When the president arrived, 1523 01:13:28,100 --> 01:13:30,119 the Secret Service was all uptight, 1524 01:13:30,140 --> 01:13:33,210 because a whole delegation of Ku Klux Klan folks 1525 01:13:33,229 --> 01:13:38,050 had shown up to heckle, jeer, and wave signs at him. 1526 01:13:38,069 --> 01:13:40,130 I'll never forget that. 1527 01:13:40,149 --> 01:13:43,159 [upbeat fiddle music] 1528 01:13:43,180 --> 01:13:47,100 ♪ ♪ 1529 01:13:47,119 --> 01:13:48,229 ♪ The devil went down to Georgia ♪ 1530 01:13:49,010 --> 01:13:50,199 ♪ He was lookin' for a soul to steal ♪ 1531 01:13:50,220 --> 01:13:52,140 ♪ He was in a bind 'cause he was way behind ♪ 1532 01:13:52,159 --> 01:13:53,170 ♪ And he was willin' to make a deal ♪ 1533 01:13:53,189 --> 01:13:56,000 ♪ When he came across this young man ♪ 1534 01:13:56,020 --> 01:13:57,170 ♪ Sawin' on a fiddle and playin' it hot ♪ 1535 01:13:57,189 --> 01:13:58,210 ♪ And the devil jumped up on a hickory stump ♪ 1536 01:13:58,229 --> 01:14:01,060 ♪ And said, "Boy, let me tell you what" ♪ 1537 01:14:01,079 --> 01:14:02,109 ♪ I guess you didn't know it ♪ 1538 01:14:02,130 --> 01:14:04,140 ♪ But I'm a fiddle player too ♪ 1539 01:14:04,159 --> 01:14:06,090 ♪ And if you'd care to take a dare ♪ 1540 01:14:06,109 --> 01:14:08,029 ♪ I'll make a bet with you ♪ 1541 01:14:08,050 --> 01:14:10,020 ♪ Now you play a pretty good fiddle, boy ♪ 1542 01:14:10,039 --> 01:14:11,149 ♪ But give the devil his due ♪ 1543 01:14:11,170 --> 01:14:12,180 ♪ I'll bet a fiddle of gold against your soul ♪ 1544 01:14:12,199 --> 01:14:15,109 ♪ 'Cause I think I'm better than you ♪ 1545 01:14:15,130 --> 01:14:17,109 - I say that these people in white sheets 1546 01:14:17,130 --> 01:14:20,130 do not understand our region and what it's been through. 1547 01:14:20,149 --> 01:14:23,119 They do not understand what our country stands for. 1548 01:14:23,140 --> 01:14:25,119 They do not understand that the South 1549 01:14:25,140 --> 01:14:28,100 and all of America must move forward. 1550 01:14:28,119 --> 01:14:32,060 Our past is a rich source of inspiration. 1551 01:14:32,079 --> 01:14:34,079 We've had lessons that we learned 1552 01:14:34,100 --> 01:14:37,050 with a great deal of pain, 1553 01:14:37,069 --> 01:14:39,140 but the past is not a place to live. 1554 01:14:39,159 --> 01:14:43,229 We must go forward in the South, and we will. 1555 01:14:44,010 --> 01:14:45,189 - ♪ Fire on the mountain, run boys, run ♪ 1556 01:14:45,210 --> 01:14:47,140 ♪ ♪ 1557 01:14:47,159 --> 01:14:49,090 ♪ The devil's in the House of the Rising Sun ♪ 1558 01:14:49,109 --> 01:14:51,029 ♪ ♪ 1559 01:14:51,050 --> 01:14:52,000 ♪ Chicken in a bread pan pickin' out dough ♪ 1560 01:14:52,020 --> 01:14:54,170 ♪ ♪ 1561 01:14:54,189 --> 01:14:56,130 ♪ Granny, does your dog bite? No, child, no ♪ 1562 01:14:56,149 --> 01:15:00,010 - The Ku Klux Klan was down on me, obviously, 1563 01:15:00,029 --> 01:15:04,020 and they wanted to disrupt the rally, 1564 01:15:04,039 --> 01:15:05,229 and so I thought the only way to do it 1565 01:15:06,010 --> 01:15:08,000 was to confront them directly. 1566 01:15:08,020 --> 01:15:09,210 - We kinda had to walk through this gauntlet 1567 01:15:09,229 --> 01:15:11,130 of all these guys, and you know, 1568 01:15:11,149 --> 01:15:15,109 Carter being Jimmy Carter would stop and jeer back 1569 01:15:15,130 --> 01:15:18,090 at them every once in a while about what cowards they were. 1570 01:15:18,109 --> 01:15:19,189 - This good man, 1571 01:15:19,210 --> 01:15:23,199 who wanted to try to reverse the tide of history, 1572 01:15:23,220 --> 01:15:24,220 not only in the South and in America 1573 01:15:25,000 --> 01:15:27,119 but within his own party--the guys 1574 01:15:27,140 --> 01:15:28,199 with the white hoods 1575 01:15:28,220 --> 01:15:33,079 and the burning crosses did not like that. 1576 01:15:33,100 --> 01:15:35,000 - There was a lot of discontent. 1577 01:15:35,020 --> 01:15:37,210 There'd been outrageous inflation in this country 1578 01:15:37,229 --> 01:15:40,039 through about three presidents. 1579 01:15:40,060 --> 01:15:44,029 You had 18% interest, you had 18% inflation, 1580 01:15:44,050 --> 01:15:47,109 and you had the price of gas through the ceiling, 1581 01:15:47,130 --> 01:15:50,229 and you had long lines, back in '79 and '80, 1582 01:15:51,010 --> 01:15:52,000 people running out of gas. 1583 01:15:52,020 --> 01:15:57,010 It made Carter appear like he was weak. 1584 01:15:57,029 --> 01:15:58,170 - Are you and your family 1585 01:15:58,189 --> 01:16:03,130 more secure after 4 years of Jimmy Carter? 1586 01:16:03,149 --> 01:16:05,039 all: No! 1587 01:16:05,060 --> 01:16:06,210 - And is America still a country 1588 01:16:06,229 --> 01:16:10,010 that enjoys respect throughout the world? 1589 01:16:10,029 --> 01:16:13,100 all: "No!" 1590 01:16:13,119 --> 01:16:18,119 - I think there was a sense of spiritual depression, 1591 01:16:18,140 --> 01:16:21,090 where there was a sense in which we were stuck. 1592 01:16:21,109 --> 01:16:22,229 Then the cultural climate changed 1593 01:16:23,010 --> 01:16:25,130 because of all of the various factors, 1594 01:16:25,149 --> 01:16:28,180 economic and geopolitical. 1595 01:16:28,199 --> 01:16:32,119 The global climate and the national climate changed, 1596 01:16:32,140 --> 01:16:34,140 and I think that tilted the election 1597 01:16:34,159 --> 01:16:36,079 as much as anything else. 1598 01:16:36,100 --> 01:16:37,189 - It was the one-year anniversary 1599 01:16:37,210 --> 01:16:40,170 of the Iran hostage crisis, 1600 01:16:40,189 --> 01:16:44,180 and all the networks had special programs, 1601 01:16:44,199 --> 01:16:48,100 and President Carter's numbers just took a nosedive. 1602 01:16:48,119 --> 01:16:51,159 - Our election map tells the story of the Presidential race. 1603 01:16:51,180 --> 01:16:57,170 Carter won 52 Electoral votes, Reagan in a landslide, 486, 1604 01:16:57,189 --> 01:16:58,199 Anderson none. 1605 01:16:58,220 --> 01:17:01,090 - I wasn't surprised when he lost to Reagan, 1606 01:17:01,109 --> 01:17:07,060 but I was deeply disappointed, profoundly disappointed. 1607 01:17:07,079 --> 01:17:09,159 - I've always felt, all along, 1608 01:17:09,180 --> 01:17:13,140 that he got the shortest end of the stick of any president 1609 01:17:13,159 --> 01:17:15,199 that I could think of in modern history. 1610 01:17:15,220 --> 01:17:17,100 - We all felt so bad for him, 1611 01:17:17,119 --> 01:17:19,140 because we felt like he had done so much. 1612 01:17:19,159 --> 01:17:21,180 - The irony of the Carter Presidency, 1613 01:17:21,199 --> 01:17:23,029 of course, is that many 1614 01:17:23,050 --> 01:17:25,029 of his accomplishments, accomplishments 1615 01:17:25,050 --> 01:17:29,039 about which he is proud, are in the hands of the man 1616 01:17:29,060 --> 01:17:32,100 who is going to be sworn in next Tuesday, Ronald Reagan. 1617 01:17:32,119 --> 01:17:34,130 Such accomplishments as an energy policy 1618 01:17:34,149 --> 01:17:37,029 or a separate Education Department, 1619 01:17:37,050 --> 01:17:40,149 the deregulation of business or the reorganization 1620 01:17:40,170 --> 01:17:42,109 of the government--all those 1621 01:17:42,130 --> 01:17:45,060 could be undone by Ronald Reagan. 1622 01:17:45,079 --> 01:17:47,220 - I was one of the last people in the White House 1623 01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:49,149 when the administration changed. 1624 01:17:49,170 --> 01:17:52,210 And I had gone out to Andrews Air Force base 1625 01:17:52,229 --> 01:17:54,199 with a lot of other people to go 1626 01:17:54,220 --> 01:17:58,020 and say goodbye to President Carter, 1627 01:17:58,039 --> 01:17:59,159 and it was at that moment 1628 01:17:59,180 --> 01:18:02,079 that the hostages were released to President Reagan. 1629 01:18:02,100 --> 01:18:04,229 - There were tears in the eyes of Mr. Carter's aides 1630 01:18:05,010 --> 01:18:07,100 when the Presidential Jet went out of its way 1631 01:18:07,119 --> 01:18:10,090 to fly over the White House one last time. 1632 01:18:10,109 --> 01:18:14,000 In Plains, Mr. Carter made his first public statement 1633 01:18:14,020 --> 01:18:15,210 since the freeing of the hostages. 1634 01:18:15,229 --> 01:18:17,170 - Just a few moments ago, on Air Force One, 1635 01:18:17,189 --> 01:18:21,029 before we landed at Warner Robins, 1636 01:18:21,050 --> 01:18:25,050 I had received word officially for the first time 1637 01:18:25,069 --> 01:18:29,159 that the aircraft carrying the 52 American hostages 1638 01:18:29,180 --> 01:18:33,079 had cleared Iranian airspace, 1639 01:18:33,100 --> 01:18:39,130 on the first leg of a journey home, 1640 01:18:39,149 --> 01:18:43,170 and that every one of the 52 hostages was alive, 1641 01:18:43,189 --> 01:18:46,050 was well, and free. 1642 01:18:48,050 --> 01:18:49,010 - He was praising that day, you know. 1643 01:18:49,029 --> 01:18:51,079 It was like, that's what he wanted. 1644 01:18:51,100 --> 01:18:54,039 He didn't care about how and when it happened. 1645 01:18:54,060 --> 01:18:55,199 He--that's just what he wanted to see happen. 1646 01:18:55,220 --> 01:18:57,000 That's the day that I just fell more in love with him, 1647 01:18:57,020 --> 01:18:59,000 because he is the true definition 1648 01:18:59,020 --> 01:19:00,119 of "Love one another." 1649 01:19:00,140 --> 01:19:02,079 - He resolved the crisis in a peaceful way, 1650 01:19:02,100 --> 01:19:03,079 with humility. 1651 01:19:03,100 --> 01:19:05,189 It took a lot of courage to do that. 1652 01:19:07,109 --> 01:19:08,199 - I tried, when I was president, 1653 01:19:08,220 --> 01:19:11,109 to preserve the peace, and I'm grateful now 1654 01:19:11,130 --> 01:19:14,050 that I went through four years in the White House, 1655 01:19:14,069 --> 01:19:18,180 and we never dropped a bomb, we never fired a missile, 1656 01:19:18,199 --> 01:19:23,039 we never shot a bullet to kill another person. 1657 01:19:23,060 --> 01:19:27,210 And I would say that my religious commitment 1658 01:19:27,229 --> 01:19:32,029 to the Prince of Peace was an important part 1659 01:19:32,050 --> 01:19:35,180 of one of the basic principles that I tried to pursue. 1660 01:19:35,199 --> 01:19:40,199 [pensive music] 1661 01:19:40,220 --> 01:19:43,119 - I think he took that loss with incredible grace 1662 01:19:43,140 --> 01:19:46,010 and dignity. 1663 01:19:46,029 --> 01:19:48,170 I'm sure he had to think a lot about what he was going to do. 1664 01:19:48,189 --> 01:19:51,220 I think he probably entertained the idea of coming to Atlanta 1665 01:19:52,000 --> 01:19:53,060 and living 1666 01:19:53,079 --> 01:19:55,020 and maybe working out of Atlanta, 1667 01:19:55,039 --> 01:19:58,100 but he made the decision--he and Rosalynn--to 1668 01:19:58,119 --> 01:20:00,060 go back to Plains, Georgia, 1669 01:20:00,079 --> 01:20:01,220 and I thought that was very cool. 1670 01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:04,100 Go back to the small town. Be who you are. 1671 01:20:04,119 --> 01:20:05,199 - It worked out well. You know, 1672 01:20:05,220 --> 01:20:08,159 we ended up coming home and starting the Carter Center 1673 01:20:08,180 --> 01:20:09,210 and starting off our new lives, 1674 01:20:09,229 --> 01:20:12,140 so you know, we missed the White House, sure, 1675 01:20:12,159 --> 01:20:15,069 but--and what we might be able to accomplish there--but 1676 01:20:15,090 --> 01:20:19,170 it didn't slow down, you know, Dad's desire to help people. 1677 01:20:19,189 --> 01:20:22,069 - We heard President Carter speak and he talked about 1678 01:20:22,090 --> 01:20:24,199 when he and Rosalynn left the White House 1679 01:20:24,220 --> 01:20:29,060 and he said, "We realized that we had a lot of life left 1680 01:20:29,079 --> 01:20:30,079 "and we had to sit and figure out 1681 01:20:30,100 --> 01:20:31,109 what we wanted to do with our lives." 1682 01:20:31,130 --> 01:20:34,039 And I think that there has not been a president, 1683 01:20:34,060 --> 01:20:37,140 with no disrespect to anyone who's come before or after... 1684 01:20:37,159 --> 01:20:39,220 - Amen. - Who has done more 1685 01:20:40,000 --> 01:20:41,100 since they left office 1686 01:20:41,119 --> 01:20:42,130 than even they did when they were in office. 1687 01:20:42,149 --> 01:20:44,000 And I think it's a testament to them as a couple, 1688 01:20:44,020 --> 01:20:48,060 just the humanitarians that they have been to us 1689 01:20:48,079 --> 01:20:50,039 as a nation and to our world. 1690 01:20:50,060 --> 01:20:53,199 [banjo music] 1691 01:20:53,220 --> 01:20:56,149 - The Carter Center is a joint between my parents, 1692 01:20:56,170 --> 01:20:58,229 and we only do projects that nobody else is doing. 1693 01:20:59,010 --> 01:21:02,069 So we'll take the lead on Guinea worm 1694 01:21:02,090 --> 01:21:05,210 and some of these things that are not household names 1695 01:21:05,229 --> 01:21:09,090 and are not diseases that are here in the United States 1696 01:21:09,109 --> 01:21:12,119 but certainly are worldwide. 1697 01:21:12,140 --> 01:21:15,199 - I associate President Carter with the all 1698 01:21:15,220 --> 01:21:18,079 but eradication of Guinea worm and, you know, 1699 01:21:18,100 --> 01:21:21,229 he used to carry a jar of Guinea worm around with him 1700 01:21:22,010 --> 01:21:25,100 and frighten people into action. 1701 01:21:25,119 --> 01:21:26,210 - If the worm comes out of a joint, 1702 01:21:26,229 --> 01:21:31,069 say, in your knee, it swells up and destroys the tissue. 1703 01:21:31,090 --> 01:21:33,130 So the aftermath is very similar to polio. 1704 01:21:33,149 --> 01:21:35,000 It completely debilitates that knee, 1705 01:21:35,020 --> 01:21:38,029 and sometimes the knee--the leg is crippled 1706 01:21:38,050 --> 01:21:39,210 for the rest of one's life. 1707 01:21:39,229 --> 01:21:41,210 - When we were fighting HIV/AIDS, 1708 01:21:41,229 --> 01:21:44,010 and I'd have the antiretroviral drugs 1709 01:21:44,029 --> 01:21:46,229 and say, "Look, if you just had three of these, you stay alive. 1710 01:21:47,010 --> 01:21:48,100 Three of these a day," 1711 01:21:48,119 --> 01:21:50,010 and I'd show people what they looked like. 1712 01:21:50,029 --> 01:21:52,140 Eventually became one, but it was three. 1713 01:21:52,159 --> 01:21:54,039 I got that from Jimmy. 1714 01:21:54,060 --> 01:21:55,180 - As far as the Carter Center is concerned, 1715 01:21:55,199 --> 01:21:56,210 I would like to see Guinea worm 1716 01:21:56,229 --> 01:21:59,130 completely eradicated before I die. 1717 01:21:59,149 --> 01:22:03,100 I'd like for the last Guinea worm to die before I do. 1718 01:22:03,119 --> 01:22:05,029 [laughter] 1719 01:22:05,050 --> 01:22:06,210 - President Carter and the Carter Center, 1720 01:22:06,229 --> 01:22:10,029 I know--and I know this from travels in Africa 1721 01:22:10,050 --> 01:22:13,020 and around the world-- they're trusted. 1722 01:22:13,039 --> 01:22:16,210 And the truth is, they have the level of trust 1723 01:22:16,229 --> 01:22:20,010 that you don't often see around the world 1724 01:22:20,029 --> 01:22:23,060 from an institution that's embedded in America. 1725 01:22:23,079 --> 01:22:25,010 - This morning, former President Jimmy Carter 1726 01:22:25,029 --> 01:22:27,100 won the Nobel Peace Prize. Mr. Carter was honored 1727 01:22:27,119 --> 01:22:29,130 for what the Nobel Committee called, 1728 01:22:29,149 --> 01:22:31,180 "his decades of untiring effort 1729 01:22:31,199 --> 01:22:35,029 to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts." 1730 01:22:35,050 --> 01:22:37,060 [gentle guitar music] 1731 01:22:37,079 --> 01:22:41,069 - ♪ Georgia ♪ 1732 01:22:41,090 --> 01:22:42,050 ♪ Georgia ♪ 1733 01:22:45,090 --> 01:22:48,199 ♪ The whole day through ♪ 1734 01:22:48,220 --> 01:22:52,020 ♪ Just an old sweet song ♪ 1735 01:22:52,039 --> 01:22:57,109 ♪ Keeps Georgia on my mind ♪ 1736 01:22:57,130 --> 01:23:00,000 - Well, when I went to Europe to be there 1737 01:23:00,020 --> 01:23:03,079 when Jimmy Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize, 1738 01:23:03,100 --> 01:23:06,109 it was one of the greatest moments of my life, 1739 01:23:06,130 --> 01:23:09,069 because I knew it was one of the greatest moments in his, 1740 01:23:09,090 --> 01:23:12,229 and he definitely deserved that prize. 1741 01:23:13,010 --> 01:23:16,210 ♪ In peaceful dreams I see ♪ 1742 01:23:16,229 --> 01:23:19,109 ♪ The road leads back to you ♪ 1743 01:23:19,130 --> 01:23:22,170 ♪ ♪ 1744 01:23:22,189 --> 01:23:30,079 ♪ Georgia, Georgia ♪ 1745 01:23:30,100 --> 01:23:33,039 ♪ No peace I find ♪ 1746 01:23:33,060 --> 01:23:34,029 ♪ ♪ 1747 01:23:34,050 --> 01:23:37,109 ♪ And just an old sweet song ♪ 1748 01:23:37,130 --> 01:23:43,199 ♪ Keeps Georgia on my mind ♪ 1749 01:23:43,220 --> 01:23:47,050 - I'm very humbled, as well as proud, 1750 01:23:47,069 --> 01:23:48,220 because I recognize 1751 01:23:49,000 --> 01:23:51,050 how many people have shared with me the commitments 1752 01:23:51,069 --> 01:23:56,000 and how much work they have done without recognition, 1753 01:23:56,020 --> 01:24:01,029 and my hope is that this award 1754 01:24:01,050 --> 01:24:03,020 will be adequately appreciated by all of them, 1755 01:24:03,039 --> 01:24:07,109 who I feel are a part of my own family. 1756 01:24:07,130 --> 01:24:09,229 And I'm especially grateful to... 1757 01:24:15,010 --> 01:24:16,199 To Rosalynn... 1758 01:24:19,170 --> 01:24:22,079 who has been a partner in everything I've ever done. 1759 01:24:22,100 --> 01:24:25,109 [upbeat music] 1760 01:24:25,130 --> 01:24:29,130 - She's been a good, calming influence on Dad, 1761 01:24:29,149 --> 01:24:33,010 and she has changed his mind, politically, 1762 01:24:33,029 --> 01:24:36,050 on some big issues that I really appreciated, 1763 01:24:36,069 --> 01:24:38,149 like the death penalty, for instance. 1764 01:24:38,170 --> 01:24:40,090 My mother was always been against it. 1765 01:24:40,109 --> 01:24:42,010 Dad always had a few exceptions 1766 01:24:42,029 --> 01:24:43,079 that he would accept, 1767 01:24:43,100 --> 01:24:44,130 and my mother for years 1768 01:24:44,149 --> 01:24:47,050 would not accept a single exception that he did, 1769 01:24:47,069 --> 01:24:50,039 and now Dad's against the death penalty. 1770 01:24:50,060 --> 01:24:53,189 So she has changed him over the years. 1771 01:24:53,210 --> 01:24:57,220 - What I've learned from her is probably the greatest gift 1772 01:24:58,000 --> 01:25:01,069 in a marriage is to take the supporting role. 1773 01:25:01,090 --> 01:25:05,130 It takes a lot more strength. It takes a lot more patience. 1774 01:25:06,210 --> 01:25:08,090 And then, that's why I guess always 1775 01:25:08,109 --> 01:25:11,189 when the light shines on her, she just blows you away. 1776 01:25:11,210 --> 01:25:13,100 - Rosa and I have been involved 1777 01:25:13,119 --> 01:25:16,159 in Habitat for Humanity for 40 years, 1778 01:25:16,180 --> 01:25:19,180 and 35 years in a row 1779 01:25:19,199 --> 01:25:23,039 we have devoted a full week to building houses. 1780 01:25:23,060 --> 01:25:26,060 One year, we'd go overseas, and the next year, 1781 01:25:26,079 --> 01:25:28,029 we'd build somewhere in the United States. 1782 01:25:28,050 --> 01:25:31,000 And I would say the best Habitat volunteers 1783 01:25:31,020 --> 01:25:32,180 we have ever had with us 1784 01:25:32,199 --> 01:25:35,170 have been Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood. 1785 01:25:35,189 --> 01:25:37,199 They went with us twice to Haiti 1786 01:25:37,220 --> 01:25:41,000 after the earthquake devastated that country. 1787 01:25:41,020 --> 01:25:42,069 - You know, they say 1788 01:25:42,090 --> 01:25:44,079 everything comes from the top down. 1789 01:25:44,100 --> 01:25:47,079 Well, the top at Habitat are the Carters. 1790 01:25:47,100 --> 01:25:49,100 The guy is 40 years older than me 1791 01:25:49,119 --> 01:25:52,000 and he runs circles around me. 1792 01:25:52,020 --> 01:25:54,130 - People all over the world are basically the same. 1793 01:25:54,149 --> 01:25:56,039 They want to have a good life; 1794 01:25:56,060 --> 01:25:58,069 they want to have basic human rights. 1795 01:25:58,090 --> 01:26:01,029 And human rights is not just freedom of speech 1796 01:26:01,050 --> 01:26:02,229 or freedom of religion, 1797 01:26:03,010 --> 01:26:06,119 but it's the right to have a decent home and place to live. 1798 01:26:06,140 --> 01:26:08,069 - When I look and see the homeowners 1799 01:26:08,090 --> 01:26:11,020 and then I see all the wonderful volunteers 1800 01:26:11,039 --> 01:26:14,079 who are just working to do something good 1801 01:26:14,100 --> 01:26:17,079 for somebody who needs help, so I thank you. 1802 01:26:17,100 --> 01:26:20,159 - When the build is done, okay, 1803 01:26:20,180 --> 01:26:23,199 when everybody can't walk one more second further, 1804 01:26:23,220 --> 01:26:25,189 this is when the Carters start. 1805 01:26:25,210 --> 01:26:27,000 They'll go around, house-to-house, 1806 01:26:27,020 --> 01:26:29,079 they'll take pictures with a group, 1807 01:26:29,100 --> 01:26:32,039 because what he tells you when you first get there-- 1808 01:26:32,060 --> 01:26:36,180 "If we're taking a picture, 1809 01:26:36,199 --> 01:26:38,170 "it's going to put three of us out of work: 1810 01:26:38,189 --> 01:26:40,199 you, me, and whoever's taking then picture." 1811 01:26:40,220 --> 01:26:42,069 Right? So we don't take pictures. 1812 01:26:42,090 --> 01:26:44,010 We'll all take pictures at the end. 1813 01:26:44,029 --> 01:26:47,039 That shows you how quick he's ready to get to work. 1814 01:26:47,060 --> 01:26:48,229 It's not a competition. 1815 01:26:49,010 --> 01:26:50,050 This is his words: "It's not a competition, 1816 01:26:50,069 --> 01:26:53,039 as long as our house gets done first." 1817 01:26:53,060 --> 01:26:54,199 That's--that's how he does it. 1818 01:26:54,220 --> 01:26:59,210 [cheers and applause] 1819 01:26:59,229 --> 01:27:03,130 - "Itinerant Songsters Visit Our Village." 1820 01:27:03,149 --> 01:27:09,090 When some poets came to Plains one night, two with guitars, 1821 01:27:09,109 --> 01:27:11,170 their poems taught us how to look 1822 01:27:11,189 --> 01:27:16,069 and maybe laugh at what we were and felt and thought. 1823 01:27:16,090 --> 01:27:19,069 After that, I rushed to write in fumbling lines 1824 01:27:19,090 --> 01:27:23,149 why we should care about a distant starving child. 1825 01:27:23,170 --> 01:27:26,159 I found my words would seldom flow, 1826 01:27:26,180 --> 01:27:30,039 and then I turned to closer, simpler themes: 1827 01:27:30,060 --> 01:27:33,119 a pony, Mama as a nurse, the sight of geese, 1828 01:27:33,140 --> 01:27:37,220 the song of whales, a pasture gate, 1829 01:27:38,000 --> 01:27:40,100 a racist curse, a possum hunt, 1830 01:27:40,119 --> 01:27:43,090 a battle prayer. I learned from poetry 1831 01:27:43,109 --> 01:27:47,130 that art is best derived from artless things, 1832 01:27:47,149 --> 01:27:50,079 that mysteries might be explored and understood 1833 01:27:50,100 --> 01:27:55,069 from that which springs most freely from mind and heart. 1834 01:27:55,090 --> 01:27:59,079 As a teenager I began to hear a lot about this poetic figure 1835 01:27:59,100 --> 01:28:01,140 who was running for President of the United States. 1836 01:28:01,159 --> 01:28:05,060 He quoted Bob Dylan, who was at that time my actual 1837 01:28:05,079 --> 01:28:09,050 President of the United States, my United States. 1838 01:28:09,069 --> 01:28:11,050 He campaigned with the Allman Brothers. 1839 01:28:11,069 --> 01:28:13,109 You got the feeling if his hair was just a little longer 1840 01:28:13,130 --> 01:28:16,090 he'd be in the Allman brothers. 1841 01:28:16,109 --> 01:28:19,180 But this was the first world leader I ever heard 1842 01:28:19,199 --> 01:28:22,060 who knew the words to all the songs 1843 01:28:22,079 --> 01:28:24,000 that were my generation's telegraph. 1844 01:28:24,020 --> 01:28:27,189 [upbeat music] 1845 01:28:27,210 --> 01:28:30,079 ♪ ♪ 1846 01:28:30,100 --> 01:28:31,189 ♪ Oh, yeah ♪ 1847 01:28:31,210 --> 01:28:33,149 ♪ ♪ 1848 01:28:33,170 --> 01:28:35,079 ♪ Oh, yeah ♪ 1849 01:28:35,100 --> 01:28:41,140 ♪ ♪ 1850 01:28:44,020 --> 01:28:48,119 ♪ One man comes in the name of love ♪ 1851 01:28:48,140 --> 01:28:53,050 ♪ One man come and go ♪ 1852 01:28:53,069 --> 01:28:57,130 ♪ One man come he to justify ♪ 1853 01:28:57,149 --> 01:29:01,140 ♪ One man to overthrow ♪ 1854 01:29:01,159 --> 01:29:05,229 ♪ In the name of love ♪ 1855 01:29:06,010 --> 01:29:10,119 ♪ What more in the name of love? ♪ 1856 01:29:10,140 --> 01:29:15,000 ♪ In the name of love ♪ 1857 01:29:15,020 --> 01:29:18,140 ♪ What more in the name of love? ♪ 1858 01:29:18,159 --> 01:29:21,010 ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ 1859 01:29:21,029 --> 01:29:28,069 ♪ ♪ 1860 01:29:29,069 --> 01:29:33,029 ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ 1861 01:29:33,050 --> 01:29:35,079 ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ 1862 01:29:35,100 --> 01:29:40,119 ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, in the name ♪ 1863 01:29:40,140 --> 01:29:44,100 - Bono is a rock star, Nile's a rock star, 1864 01:29:44,119 --> 01:29:48,069 but President Carter was a rock star to everyone that night. 1865 01:29:48,090 --> 01:29:49,010 - I have no way of knowing this, 1866 01:29:49,029 --> 01:29:51,079 but I bet you, 1867 01:29:51,100 --> 01:29:53,079 after the history books have been written, 1868 01:29:53,100 --> 01:29:57,029 people are going to see him in a very, very different light. 1869 01:29:57,050 --> 01:29:58,229 - Often people say, "Don't meet your idols, 1870 01:29:59,010 --> 01:30:01,140 because they're never gonna live up to what you expect." 1871 01:30:01,159 --> 01:30:06,210 That was not the case for President Carter. 1872 01:30:06,229 --> 01:30:08,220 [mellow guitar music] 1873 01:30:09,000 --> 01:30:16,000 ♪ ♪ 1874 01:30:16,020 --> 01:30:17,220 - We have any visitors here? 1875 01:30:18,000 --> 01:30:21,020 [laughter] Okay. 1876 01:30:21,039 --> 01:30:24,000 And where are you from? I wanna start here, 1877 01:30:24,020 --> 01:30:25,210 on the front, and where are you from? 1878 01:30:25,229 --> 01:30:27,109 - Maryland. - Maryland. 1879 01:30:27,130 --> 01:30:28,199 - California. - California. 1880 01:30:28,220 --> 01:30:29,220 - South Dakota. - South Dakota. 1881 01:30:30,000 --> 01:30:32,090 - California. - California, oh, same. 1882 01:30:32,109 --> 01:30:34,079 - Texas. - Texas. 1883 01:30:34,100 --> 01:30:36,170 - North Carolina. - North Carolina. 1884 01:30:36,189 --> 01:30:38,140 - Washington, D.C. - Washington, D.C. 1885 01:30:38,159 --> 01:30:41,069 I used to live in some of these places. 1886 01:30:41,090 --> 01:30:44,039 [laughter] 1887 01:30:44,060 --> 01:30:46,060 - Oh, it's impossible to define Jimmy. 1888 01:30:46,079 --> 01:30:47,100 I think of him as a simple kind of man, 1889 01:30:47,119 --> 01:30:49,140 like in the Lynyrd Skynyrd song. 1890 01:30:49,159 --> 01:30:53,119 "He takes his time, doesn't live too fast. 1891 01:30:53,140 --> 01:30:55,060 "Troubles come, but they will pass. 1892 01:30:55,079 --> 01:30:58,100 "Find a woman and find love. 1893 01:30:58,119 --> 01:31:01,100 And don't forget there's always someone above." 1894 01:31:01,119 --> 01:31:03,130 There's many sides to him. 1895 01:31:03,149 --> 01:31:06,229 He's a nuclear engineer, woodworking carpenter. 1896 01:31:07,010 --> 01:31:10,090 He's also a poet. He's a dirt farmer. 1897 01:31:10,109 --> 01:31:12,109 If you told me he was a race car driver, 1898 01:31:12,130 --> 01:31:14,100 I wouldn't even be surprised. 1899 01:31:14,119 --> 01:31:19,130 - It's up to every one of us to make a basic decision: 1900 01:31:19,149 --> 01:31:24,020 "This is the kind of person that I want to be." 1901 01:31:24,039 --> 01:31:25,199 ♪ ♪ 1902 01:31:25,220 --> 01:31:29,119 - ♪ Oh, don't you worry ♪ 1903 01:31:29,140 --> 01:31:31,109 ♪ You'll find yourself ♪ 1904 01:31:31,130 --> 01:31:32,199 - Exactly. Perfect. 1905 01:31:32,220 --> 01:31:39,109 - ♪ Follow your heart and nothing else ♪ 1906 01:31:39,130 --> 01:31:41,069 - I mean, I've watched him over the years 1907 01:31:41,090 --> 01:31:44,090 and I've watched him do what I think 1908 01:31:44,109 --> 01:31:49,000 was the right thing to do, time after time after time. 1909 01:31:49,020 --> 01:31:50,119 With all the odds against him, 1910 01:31:50,140 --> 01:31:52,159 he still did what he thought was right. 1911 01:31:52,180 --> 01:31:57,069 That's not a bad pattern for all of us to follow. 1912 01:31:57,090 --> 01:32:01,000 - ♪ And be a simple ♪ 1913 01:32:01,020 --> 01:32:04,170 ♪ Kind of man ♪ 1914 01:32:04,189 --> 01:32:08,199 ♪ Oh, won't you do this for me, son ♪ 1915 01:32:08,220 --> 01:32:12,140 ♪ If you can ♪ 1916 01:32:12,159 --> 01:32:17,029 - His love for music makes all kind of sense to me, 1917 01:32:17,050 --> 01:32:20,119 because music is the voice of the heart. 1918 01:32:20,140 --> 01:32:22,159 Music is the voice of the soul. 1919 01:32:22,180 --> 01:32:24,140 When you talk about heart and soul, 1920 01:32:24,159 --> 01:32:30,010 I think he's the president, in my mind, of my living time, 1921 01:32:30,029 --> 01:32:34,050 that I can think of, that brought it to the office. 1922 01:32:34,069 --> 01:32:36,109 - I think music is the best proof 1923 01:32:36,130 --> 01:32:38,130 that people have one thing in common, 1924 01:32:38,149 --> 01:32:39,130 no matter where they live, 1925 01:32:39,149 --> 01:32:41,130 no matter what language they speak. 1926 01:32:41,149 --> 01:32:43,079 In the future, 1927 01:32:43,100 --> 01:32:46,210 I think we'll recognize that some of our religious beliefs, 1928 01:32:46,229 --> 01:32:51,020 belief in the truth, belief in helping others, 1929 01:32:51,039 --> 01:32:54,159 and our faith in democracy and freedom, 1930 01:32:54,180 --> 01:32:58,109 those are the kind of things that are similar to music 1931 01:32:58,130 --> 01:32:59,170 that we can share 1932 01:32:59,189 --> 01:33:01,039 and that eventually will bring us together, 1933 01:33:01,060 --> 01:33:03,229 even after a divisive era 1934 01:33:04,010 --> 01:33:08,130 of our constantly changing history. 1935 01:33:08,149 --> 01:33:12,029 - ♪ Be a simple ♪ 1936 01:33:12,050 --> 01:33:16,090 ♪ Be a simple man ♪ 1937 01:33:16,109 --> 01:33:18,170 - Governor, to what extent do you feel you will succeed, 1938 01:33:18,189 --> 01:33:19,180 and I mean by that, will you be satisfied 1939 01:33:19,199 --> 01:33:22,020 if you just get through it or do you 1940 01:33:22,039 --> 01:33:25,060 really think that you have a chance for greatness? 1941 01:33:25,079 --> 01:33:29,010 - Well, I hope I have a chance to exemplify accurately 1942 01:33:29,029 --> 01:33:31,170 what the American people are and what they would like to be. 1943 01:33:31,189 --> 01:33:33,149 If I can stay close to the people of this country 1944 01:33:33,170 --> 01:33:36,079 and not disappoint them, 1945 01:33:36,100 --> 01:33:38,140 I think I have a chance to be a great president. 1946 01:33:38,159 --> 01:33:39,130 - ♪ Ow! ♪ 1947 01:33:39,149 --> 01:33:41,210 ♪ We the people ♪ 1948 01:33:41,229 --> 01:33:43,000 ♪ Remember y'all ♪ 1949 01:33:43,020 --> 01:33:46,039 ♪ Got to make the world go 'round ♪ 1950 01:33:46,060 --> 01:33:48,199 ♪ Got to make the world now ♪ 1951 01:33:48,220 --> 01:33:52,180 ♪ We the people ♪ 1952 01:33:52,199 --> 01:33:54,220 ♪ Got to make the world go 'round ♪ 1953 01:33:55,000 --> 01:33:56,119 ♪ Got to make the world now ♪ 1954 01:33:56,140 --> 01:33:58,109 - ♪ Earnin' the knack ♪ 1955 01:33:58,130 --> 01:34:01,119 ♪ Vast regret ♪ 1956 01:34:01,140 --> 01:34:03,090 ♪ Everybody sweatin' ♪ 1957 01:34:03,109 --> 01:34:05,029 ♪ What you give is what you get ♪ 1958 01:34:05,050 --> 01:34:10,130 - ♪ Hot pants in style, don't let our world go wild ♪ 1959 01:34:10,149 --> 01:34:15,090 ♪ Mama's youngest child is learning fast ♪ 1960 01:34:15,109 --> 01:34:19,109 ♪ We the people, remember y'all ♪ 1961 01:34:19,130 --> 01:34:21,109 ♪ Got to make the world go 'round ♪ 1962 01:34:21,130 --> 01:34:23,199 ♪ Got to make the world now ♪ 1963 01:34:23,220 --> 01:34:26,210 [upbeat rock music] 1964 01:34:26,229 --> 01:34:33,220 ♪ ♪ 1965 01:34:50,149 --> 01:34:53,140 [cheers and applause] 1966 01:34:53,159 --> 01:34:59,199 ♪ ♪ 1967 01:35:36,029 --> 01:35:39,050 I believe the future's gonna be very bright for all of us. 1968 01:35:39,069 --> 01:35:40,100 You're partners of mine. 1969 01:35:40,119 --> 01:35:45,100 Together, I'm sure we'll reach for greatness, 1970 01:35:45,119 --> 01:35:47,170 and we'll never disappoint the people 1971 01:35:47,189 --> 01:35:49,199 who put that trust in us. 1972 01:35:49,220 --> 01:35:51,130 Thank you. Have a good time. 1973 01:35:51,149 --> 01:35:53,170 We'll be seeing you tomorrow, a lot of you. 1974 01:35:53,189 --> 01:35:54,100 Goodnight, everybody. 1975 01:35:54,119 --> 01:35:58,109 [cheers and applause]