It’s hard to think of a political oration that has backfired as famously as Jimmy Carter’s ‘crisis of confidence’ speech, delivered from the White House on 15 July, 1979.
The fact that it is still today called the ‘malaise’ speech, despite the fact he never used the word, speaks to the scale of its failure.
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