president malaise- actually it was HARDBALL'S chris mathews that wrote the speech.
I had forgotten that tidbit- I remember Cubans in Angola & Yemen & elsewhere, 23% interest rates, gas lines, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Panama Canal giveaway, the foolish outlawing of recycling nuclear fuel... I could go on, but you get the idea.
He was a small, mean little man raised far above where he should have been. His "reforms" of Georgia, which were a big part of his pitch for higher office, are still yielding unexpected and bitter fruits today. Much as his larger "legacy" for America will in the decades to come.