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.