ready to testify. and that was really tough. you can imagine the position greg was in. he didn t want to rat on his friend, you know. he had to testify. or otherwise, he would have just been sitting behind bars for god knows how long. she don t like she don t like she don t like cocaine the trial begins. gregg testifies. it s just a tumultuous time. and not only the drug bust, okay? at that point the allmans had been together for quite some time. it i think there was just a toll taken, and it was time for a break. as an example of how compassionate jimmy carter was, while the rest of the allman brothers turned on gregg for his testimony in court, jimmy never did. i mean, he thought this was the moment to help somebody, when
principles of it. when i first met jimmy, first thing he did was quote my songs back to me. and it was the first time that i realized my songs had reached into basically into the establishment world. and i had no experience in that realm. never seen that side. so it made me a little uneasy. he put my mind at ease by not talking down to me and showing me that he had sincere appreciation of the songs that i d written. many tried to stop me shake me up in my mind said prove to me that he s lord show me a sign what kind of sign they need when it all come from within when the lost has been found what s to come has already been i just keep pressing on pressing on on and on and on and
better if jimmy had been here to hear you. when willie nelson came and performed at the white house, president carter was at camp david for 13 days with begin and sadat. and it was for good reason. i have to go back to camp david. i m sorry. but i want to leave you with one thought. you know how very important the summit is and how much is at stake in these meetings. i want to ask to you continue to pray for jimmy, for prime minister begin, for president sadat. pray for them. pray for those who are with them and that the summit will be a success. good night. i love every one of you. [ applause ] if you ve ever read the history of the talks between begin and sadat, it is riveting story of how many times each of the other side were willing to pull out and in fact, that
we the people, hey now, got to make the world go round got to make the world now there was a plan among my opponents. they d named it abc, anybody but carter. they would send their top person into a state to oppose me, then all the other candidates about ten of them, would support whoever came in against me. jimmy, who was an outsider, you know. more than just an outsider, an outsider from the south. he was from georgia, for christ sakes. i mean, there was something more start out there. at that time in the south, coming out of the south was a death warrant to try to run for national office. we were coming out of the watergate era. and looking for to be a country of integrity again. and certainly in the black communities out of which i came,
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