10 min. promo film based around the Spring 1998 meeting of US Mayors in Indianapolis presentation of the Character First! program. According to the voiceover (:45), the event was hosted by the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP). The founder president of IBLP is Chicago-area evangelist Bill Gothard. (In news reports, Character First! has denied that is affiliated with IBLP or Gothard.)

The video features quick shots of the event, interspersed with dais speeches by various public officials including Ray Nash, former Sheriff of Dorchester County, SC.

From "New Dorchester County Sheriff Gets Rid of Bible-based Training Program," The Post & Courier, 1/8/09: tinyurl.com/db44vj

SUMMERVILLE — Dorchester County Sheriff L.C. Knight has hit the ground running his first week in office, working to live up to his promise to revamp a department rocked with allegations of embezzlement and constant budget battles with council....He succeeded Ray Nash, a three-term sheriff who declined to run again after an audit showed almost $360,000 missing from a jail fund overseen by his former jail chief. Nash was not implicated but said he was wrong to put too much trust in one person. Knight said the incident showed that Nash's Bible-based character-training program, which was mandatory for all employees, was a waste. Killing the program was one of Knight's first official acts. "I put an end to that yesterday," Knight said Wednesday, his second day in office. "And I also advised them that anyone who didn't have character probably wouldn't work for me."