Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Jimmy Carter Credits Preacher for His Victory; Says Texas Baptist Preacher Support Crucial

Jimmy Carter said July 23, 2010 that he doubts he would have been elected 39th president of the United States without the aid of Jimmy Allen, a Texas Baptist preacher who endorsed him at a time when his 1976 presidential campaign was floundering.

Carter credited Allen's help in an address to some 260 guests at a Georgia event, according to the Everyday Christian website.

"He was reluctant to get involved in politics," Carter said of Allen, "but he remembered that I said I was a born-again Christian."

Although Allen was not an official spokesman for Texas Baptist, Carter said, "because of the introduction and endorsement I got in San Antonio, Texas turned around."

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