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8. Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood) and Her Daughter Rachel

Sunflowers and Coffee (circa 2010), by American watercolour artist, Teri Starkweather, born in 1950.

On July 15, 1979, Jimmy Carter delivered an address to the American people from the Oval Office. Formally known as “A Crisis of Confidence,” the address has since been memorialized as “the malaise speech,” and held up as a prime example of Carter’s morally rigid and politically inept presidency—one of the great last gasps of the miserable 1970s. Oil shortages, turbulence in the Middle East, and the lingering shadows of Watergate and the Vietnam War left Americans, in Carter’s view, morally and civically adrift. And, in what most analysts have considered a failure of a presidential speech, he told them so. Today, Americans face eye-watering prices at the pump thanks to an illegal and immoral war against Iran. And the world is reeling from President Trump’s naked threat to commit a genocide against the Iranian people, psychotically posting that “a great civilization will die.” And the problems that Carter identified mostly remain. Americans distrust one another and their government. We have declining rates of political participation and civic participation. Disinformation and resentment dominate our national conversations. And we continue to turn to populist salves for our problems, both real and perceived. What Carter did in his speech was something rare in the annals of democratic government: he confronted the people with the truth—about his own failings, about the reality of the world around them, and most importantly about themselves.

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