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3. Carter's "malaise" speech, in which that word was never mentioned...

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Sat Mar 1, 2025, 03:28 PM

Mar 2025

...can be viewed and downloaded at the following link.

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

Carter's national address occurred on July 15, 1979; the title was "A Crisis of Confidence". In recent years, the speech has undergone a great deal of reevaluation, and it is now seen as a prophetic warning about many of the nation's destructive tendencies and social pathologies.

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I bet we're all waxing nostalgic over Jimmy Carter's malaise comment, [View all] Baitball Blogger Mar 2025 OP

Another myth propogated by the media. President Carter did not say that word. John1956PA Mar 2025 #1

And they have only escalated that strategy of Baitball Blogger Mar 2025 #2

Carter's "malaise" speech, in which that word was never mentioned... keep_left Mar 2025 #3