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Jimmy Carter’s connection with the ‘Midnight Rider’:

“The connection, however, was a double-edged sword, one made obvious when, during Carter's 1976 run for president, Georgia prosecutors indicted one of Gregg Allman's longtime associates on drug trafficking charges. Despite fear of reprisal, Allman testified against him.

A wiser politician might have cut ties with Allman for fear of blowback. Carter did the opposite. Wharton called the event "a perfect example of how Carter was willing to risk his entire political future on friendship."

Chip Carter remembers that friendship in action: "Gregg and Cher came upstairs at the White House and had dinner with us. And then Gregg played [Harry] Truman's piano and sang for like three hours after that — just with our family sitting there."‘

Sauce: https://www.military.com/off-duty/2020/09/11/jimmy-carters-white-house-was-tour-stop-long-haired-rock-outlaws.html