How Jimmy Carter was actually one of the most consequential presidents in modern history

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3. If more Americans had really listened to and heeded that address instead of ridiculing it...

...as the "Malaise" speech (a word found nowhere in it, by the way), the country would be a much different and better place. The writer and historian Morris Berman has identified the "Crisis of Confidence" speech, and the reaction to it, as a crucial turning point in postwar American history. Berman has discussed Carter's address in many talks and interviews as well as in his "American Decline" trilogy (The Twilight of American Culture, Dark Ages America, and Why America Failed).

Here's another place that Carter's speech can be found and easily downloaded (in several formats). YouTube makes that difficult without browser add-ons like Video DownloadHelper.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090721024329/http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3402