Right The First Time

The evolution of the McCains’ adoption story to involve the direct intervention of Mother Teresa can actually be traced to between 2004 and 2008. On the still-functioning McCain 2000 website in 2004, the text read:

During one of those missions, on a visit to Mother Teresa’s Orphanage Cindy agreed to bring two babies in need of medical attention back to the United States.

By 2008, it had been changed as follows:

On one of those missions, Mother Teresa convinced Cindy to take two babies in need of medical attention to the United States.