Jimmy Carter Crisis of Confidence

 


 On July 15, 1979, an ailing 98-year-old Carter delivered a televised speech famously known as his ‘Malaise Speech.’ Seeming concerned as in the image above, he addressed the fact that Americans had lost belief in their government, lost faith in among themselves, and in their capabilities as citizens to shape the democracy of their country. He recognised the detachment between the government and the American Community at large. People got the feeling that their government was not playing its vital role of working for them (Hastings, 2023).

 

RFERENCES

Texas Carter, J. (1979). Crisis of confidence. Televised speech July, 15, 1979.on, 12.

 

 

 

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