Malaise

...Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam years, the Watergate scandal that swallowed Richard M. Nixon's legacy, the malaise-ridden administration of Jimmy Carter and the sweeping transformations of the Reagan administration. "John was a political reporter...

In this article: Washington, U.S. News & World Report, John F. Kennedy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and The Boston Globe

...a Democrat, because you're making too much sense. I mean... When he was polling for Jimmy Carter, Caddell, then 29, was the impetus behind Carter's disastrous "malaise speech." (As explained in a new book on the subject, What the Heck Are...

In this article: Glenn Beck, Jimmy Carter, Sean Hannity, White House, Freddie Mac, Rahm Emanuel, and Ann Coulter

...Carter, and the nation will soon hammer the nails into the coffin of a dying Democratic coalition just as voters, tired of the Carter "malaise" era, handed the White House to Republicans in 1980. To others, Obama has come to usher in a...

In this article: Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, David Gergen, and White House

...self-confidence. Carter came to give the "malaise" speech at the prodding of Patrick Caddell, who was himself inspired by a reading of historian Christopher Lasch's surprise best-seller of 1979, The Culture of Narcissism. A quiet Midwesterner...

In this article: Jimmy Carter, Sarah Palin, Christopher Lasch, Paul Krugman, Inflation, Mental disorder, and Vanity Fair

...for oil in his state's wilderness. (One participant, former defense secretary Clark Clifford, told reporters that the president was worried about "malaise," thus slipping the term into the bloodstream.) Carter also met with ordinary...

In this article: Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, White House, Stuart Eizenstat, Barack Obama, and Camp David

...did not agree. In the wake of a cabinet shakeup in which Carter asked for the resignations of several cabinet members (see "Malaise speech" below), Carter appointed G. William Miller as Secretary of the Treasury. Miller had been...

In this article: Jimmy Carter, United States, Ronald Reagan, Inflation, White House, Menachem Begin, and Iran

The night my father died, I thought the storm would never end. It blew on into the 1980s. It blew away the malaise and misery index of Jimmy Carter. It even knocked down the evil Soviet empire. As I got older, the sun seemed to shine...

In this article: John Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, and Martin Luther King

Why Jimmy Carter's Malaise Speech Should Have Changed America Posted July 24, 2009 In the summer of 1979, America faced an energy crisis punctuated by long gas lines and frayed national nerves. President Jimmy Carter was scheduled to...

In this article: Jimmy Carter, Health and Human Services, Bob Dole, Camp David, Washington, and South Dakota

...president. After being soundly drummed out of the White House in 1980 by Ronald Reagan -- following a term characterized by economic malaise, an energy crisis, a 444-day hostage standoff and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan -- one of...

In this article: Carter Center, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, White House, South Carolina, Laura Ling, and Euna Lee