Well past time to set the record straight on the Carter presidency

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38. Carter also gave the prescient but much-maligned "Crisis of Confidence" national address...

...often called the "Malaise" speech, even though that word is found nowhere in it. The speech has undergone a rehabilitation since July 1979, and the ridicule of the reactionaries to it seems absurd today. Historian and writer Morris Berman has identified the "Crisis of Confidence" speech, and the reaction to it, as a crucial turning point in postwar American history.

If more Americans had really listened to and heeded that address instead of ridiculing it, the country would be in a much different and better place.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217660503#post1

(See also my responses below the linked post).

Here's where you can download the Carter address in several formats.

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