During his one term in the White House, the Former President Jimmy Carter attacked the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, helped move the world away from nuclear proliferation with the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT), signed the Panama Canal Accords, which end a century of direct American control over the important canal, and it was withdrawn. the civil aviation industry.
But Carter, a former governor of Georgia who defeated Republican President Gerald Ford in the 1976 election, also faced the socialist revolution in Nicaragua in Central America and the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union, which led to the beginning of the Cold War conflict with Moscow and the banning of the Summer Olympics in 1980 in In the US and domestically, the one-time Democratic president battled hyperinflation, known as stagflation, and the energy crisis led to the shutdown of gas lines across the country. .
As Carter struggled to deal with a number of domestic and international crises, the then-president went on national television in July 1979 to deliver a speech called “Crisis Hope “, but later it was called the language of “malaise”, although the world is still weak. it never appeared at Carter's actual address.
Carter called on Americans to return to public service that would unite the country through a call for shared sacrifice for the common good. Although he initially gave the president power in the elections, the reception was short-lived. A few days after the address, Carter fired several members of his cabinet and could no longer be seen as a strong and effective leader.
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President Jimmy Carter and his Republican opponent, Ronald Reagan, shake hands as they greet each other before their interview on the stage of the Music Hall in Cleveland, Ohio. (Getty Images)
Adding to Carter's woes, was the explosion of the American embassy in Tehran in the late fall of 1979, which led to a year-long Iranian hostage crisis.
Carter, weakened politically by a strong and nearly successful challenge by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1980, was defeated by GOP candidate Ronald. Reagan in the general election, the former governor of California swept 44 of the 50 seats.
Historian and author Craig Shirley, who has written several books about Reagan and Carter, pointed to the economic conditions at the time as a major contributor to Carter's demise.
“Interest rates were like 18%. Inflation was almost too high. The value of the dollar wasn't worth today what it was yesterday. It was really wasting people's money. ,” Shirley highlighted on the C-SPAN interview for several years. ago.
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Political scientist Wayne Lesperance, president of New England College, agreed.
“While it is certainly true that the Carter Administration had its share of successes, such as the Camp David Accords and the Panama Canal Treaty, in the months leading up to the 1980 election, voters were focused on the high cost of budgets, low economic growth, energy problems and a growing perception that America's power and influence in the world was waning,” said Lesperance.

Republican President-elect Ronald Reagan (R) and first lady Nancy stand with President Jimmy Carter and his wife Roslyn outside the White House, on Inauguration Day, January 20, 1981. (Photo by Diana Walker/Getty Images)
“Iran's hostage crisis and failed rescue efforts reinforced the perception that the US under Carter had become a paper tiger.” Americans wanted John Wayne. the proverbial shining city on the hill,” he emphasized.
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But it is the language of “malaise” that is still prominent more than four decades after Carter was rejected by the American electorate.
“The one-term presidency of Jimmy Carter would be known for many things: recession, a terrible economy, weakness in the face of the Soviet Union's progress, but also the Camp David Accords and the installation of the Era Reagan's. However, to his eternal regret, Carter's four years in office will always be reduced to the word “malaise,” and his horrible, offensive speech. shame on July 1979,” Shirley wrote on the 40th anniversary of the infamous address.