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I think Robert Redford should give it. Just because as serious as they BOTH were - and as much of the real deal Jimmy Carter is?
He should be sent out by another real deal who believed in him!
Actor and filmmaker Robert Redford played videotapes of the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debate "over and over" to coach Jimmy Carter before his debates with former President Gerald Ford.
Redford played California Democratic senate hopeful Bill McKay in the 1972 film "The Candidate," which won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
"I was probably president because of Bob Redford," said Mr. Carter, who confided that before the debate leading to his 1976 election he "didn't know what in the world I was going to do."
Redford told him what not to do. He arrived at Mr. Carter's house with a projector and films of the historic debate that made Richard Nixon look dour and John F. Kennedy charismatic.
Redford "played the tape over and over and gave me advice," the former president said Saturday at Redford's Sundance resort as part of an author's series.
Redford embraced President Carter before taking the podium to praise his old friend at his Sundance ski resort, nature preserve and corporate retreat in Utah's Wasatch Mountains.
Redford played California Democratic senate hopeful Bill McKay in the 1972 film "The Candidate," which won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
"I was probably president because of Bob Redford," said Mr. Carter, who confided that before the debate leading to his 1976 election he "didn't know what in the world I was going to do."
Redford told him what not to do. He arrived at Mr. Carter's house with a projector and films of the historic debate that made Richard Nixon look dour and John F. Kennedy charismatic.
Redford "played the tape over and over and gave me advice," the former president said Saturday at Redford's Sundance resort as part of an author's series.
Redford embraced President Carter before taking the podium to praise his old friend at his Sundance ski resort, nature preserve and corporate retreat in Utah's Wasatch Mountains.
I think Robert Redford should give it. Just because as serious as they BOTH were - and as much of the real deal Jimmy Carter is?
He should be sent out by another real deal who believed in him!
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