Robert Redford plays presidential coach

Actor and filmmaker Robert Redford played videotapes of the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debate to coach Jimmy Carter before his debates with former President Gerald Ford.

"I was probably President because of Bob Redford," said 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 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," Carter said at Redford's Sundance, Utah, resort as part of an author's series.