For all the scorn heaped on Carter later, the speech was successful, at first. His approval rating shot up a remarkable 11 points . Then came chaos — some of it Carter’s fault, some of it not.

Contrast to that, with a speech from July 15, 1979 - height of an energy crisis, unemployment, inflation, and President Jimmy Carter spoke to what he saw in the spirit of the American public ...

President Donald Trump and Former President Barack Obama sat next to each other at the funeral of Former President Jimmy ...

What started as a small dispute over the historical record of a presidential speech from four decades ago has now metastasized into a raging controversy over a new book about Roger Ailes and Fox ...

As president, Jimmy Carter promised always to tell the American people the truth about what was happening in the country. We'll look at how that affected his presidency as we remember Carter's ...

Examining Carter's 'Malaise Speech,' 30 Years Later Thirty years ago, President Jimmy Carter diagnosed the nation with "a crisis of confidence," and Americans' reception of the criticism was ...

The phrase called to mind Jimmy Carter's famous "malaise" speech of 1979, in which he lamented that the country had not come together to solve its problems.Carter never actually used the word ...

Perhaps Jimmy Carter, who turns 100 years old Tuesday, was ahead of his time as president in terms of his unique perspective on the American experience. Specifically, 45 years ahead of his time.

Thirty years ago, on July 15, 1979, President Jimmy Carter went on national television to give a jolting speech. Billed as an address about the "energy crisis" — the recent cutoff of Iranian ...

Former President Jimmy Carter took a sly dig at President Donald Trump Saturday as he hyped the size of the crowd listening to his commencement speech at the Liberty University a year after Trump ...