Be happy you missed Jimmy Carter’s destruction of the economy and the nation in the 70s. There was one good thing about that era, though; watching Ted Kennedy eviscerate Carter when he tried to take the nomination from him in 1980. :-)
I was just a wee one during Carter so I don’t remember him. I do (barely) remember the Blizzard of ‘78 because it was so ridiculously overwhelming I can actually recall a bit of that.