What Carter Got Wrong
Book Recalls ‘Malaise’ Talk
- By Paul Singer
- Roll Call Staff
- July 7, 2009, Midnight
It’s hard to imagine: As the nation’s economy sags under the burdens of skyrocketing inflation and crippling gas shortages, as the citizenry grown cranky resorts to fisticuffs and grass-roots rebellion, the president of the United States goes on television and tells his people that they are a whiny bunch of narcissistic greedheads who need to quit tuning out and start banding together.
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