the lunch counter to being a serious contender for the presidency >> it was a seminal decade that paved the way for change in a way that maybe no other one did since the 60's. >> we're part of a hybrid culture. deny that, so in some ways, the more obvious by racial identity that i have to affirm, african-americans also have to affirm, and white americans have to affirm because they partake in hybrid culture the truth of the matter is american culture at this point, what is truly american is black culture to a large degree. flip on the television set. and it's had a profound influence on thi s entire nation

and has to be affirmed. i must say to you that the state of the union is not good >> these people somehow politics into power and make the government work. >> we're privileged to witness a significant achievement in the cause of peace. >> what was once a distant foreign policy to issue has become a domestic issue >> there is no delays in the spirit of this country. >> we can turn of this country around and we can turn our economy around. and the time to do it is now .

just a few moments now, president nixon will be appearing before the people perhaps as last time as president of the united states. >> hail to the chief >> good evening, i shall resign the presidency affected tomorrow. turning over the direction of the government to vice president ford i know that the leadership of america will be in good hands. >> in those first few days and weeks when gerald ford ascended the presidency you can say if

you were casting someone to play the road to heal a nation, gerald ford would win the nation >> ladies and gentlemen the vice president of the united states and mrs. ford. >> gerald ford was one of the most popular people in congress, conservative and republican to the core. but always willing to talking always willing to compromise. my fellow americans, our long national nightmare is over. >> part of what gerald ford wanted to do was move beyond watergate. to say our long national nightmare is over was to try to tell the nation my main job as president will be to heal of this country. >> may our former president, who brought peace to millions find it for himself [cheers and applause] >> david what do you think? >> i would guess that in his term we may see a little of what we are promised in the preamble

to the constitution but seldom see, that's a little bit of domestic tranquility. >> when gerald ford became president, he understood the public needed something completely different. seemed to be the right man for the times. >> it's likely to give the nation's economy a psychological lift but it will take more than a new president to cure the economy. >> it was an extremely difficult time. ford inherited the deepest recession since the 1930's but spending 25% of his time on left over nixon matters. ford is in brand new job faces a really consequential choice, pardon nixon try to put watergate behind the country or let the investigation run its course >> this year especially the past few months and weeks filled with scored days, today was another one historians will be borrowing about and thinking about for

days to come >> i gerald ford president of the united states grant a full free and absolute pardon on to richard nixon for all offenses against the united states. >> do you think the president's action was wrong. >> absolutely wrong. >> ford did the generous thing and i think the american people must forget about nixon. >> it raises as a political issue the whole question of equal justice under law except for president whose seem to get special triplet. >> we're about to see something which, as far as we know may never have been seen before in american history, a sitting president of the united states testifying before a congressional committee. >> subcommittee will be in order. >> i just been out of law school a few years. i was the last person on that subcommittee to ask a question. and i thought for sure somebody in the subcommittee would ask president ford the tough questions about the pardon. nobody asked the questions. >> i would like to point out,

mr. president, the circumstances of the pardon which you issued the secrecy with which it was issued made people question whether or not, in fact, it was a deal. >> mrs. i repeat if we had an deem, trial conviction the attention of the congress and the american people would have been diverted from the problems that we have to solve. >> ford now looks very smart in history for issuing the pardon. it did not look that great at the time. he took a beating for it. >> if we had a trial and nixon, the country would have been stopped. you got to remember, presidents are there to governor and we didn't have much governing. >> wherever you look across the united states, plants are closing, industries slowing down, businesses failing, at least 6 million people out of work and unemployment is had the

highest level 13 year >> economically the country began to pay a heavy price for the long vietnam war for which tax increases have not been passed to pay for it >> we have stagflation, >> they're usually 68 a pound now they're 94 a pound >> for many pensioners the struggle is to find enough to eat, from garbage, if necessary. >> inflation went through the roof. people came into my congressional office crying >> americans were feeling poorer and poorer, salaries weren't going up as quickly as the cost of milk and cheese, something was wrong with the system. >> there's one point on which all advisors have agreed. we must whip inflation right now. unless every able american pitches in, congress and i cannot do the job.

>> gerald ford is a conservative republican trying to figure out how do you deal with economic problems without strong government? he puts together this program which relies on voluntary action by americans. >> there was no program basically the president was saying buy less. the wind buttons were part of the propaganda also pamphlets and posters >> i object to distracting people's attention away from the principal goals the principle methods of coping with inflation >> are you suggesting that buttons and flags are trivial >> yes abc news presents live coverage of the state of union message to congress. >> the president of the united states. >> when he goes to give state of the union address, he is under tremendous pressure, i remember being there and it was powerful clearly. >> a lot hangs on this, this the

first state of the union. >> 26 years ago, a freshman congressman who was out to change the world stood at the back of this great chamber as tread truman said i'm happy to report to the 81 it's congress that the state of the union is good. today, millions of americans are out of work, recession and inflation are eroding the money of millions more, prices are too high and sales are too slow. and i must say to you at the state of the union is not good.

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aimless. >> he's a good actor but he also is a foremidible challenger. >> ronald reagan was challenging a sitting president in his own party, relatively conservative president and calling him a liberal sell-out >> in the texas primary reagan wiped out the president in stunning victory. >> in august of 1974, of this country had difficult and foremidible obstacles ahead of us, we went in the right direction, young man and for those of you -- >> this was a period of time right in the wake of watergate, americans were very, very suspicious about government and about people who spent too much time in washington, dc. so jimmy card carter could run as someone called himself an outsider, wasn't tainted boy wanted. >> i recall running for president it was a major headline that said jimmy carter

is running for what? for what? running, i'm running for president. >> jimmy carter. >> i don't know who he is. one of us one of common people. >> jimmy carter grow grew up in a small town in the south, george, became a peanut farmer and from georgia he basically started his pillow ascend. >> the idea that somebody from that region could aspire to that kind of office people didn't try c yesterday about 50,000 democrats in iowa met in caucuses, former georgia jimmy carter did extremely well. >> the iowa caucus was something nobody paid attention to but carter and his team said if we go and win the media will treat

us like a serious political front runner. >> he's also deeply religious prays in public and spokes openly about his religious beliefs >> carter is a person you thought would lead american to some kind of spiritual row redemption, which at the time we really needed. >> nothing has happened the night to change the feeling that jimmy carter is on his way to a coronation at madison square garden. >> the battle for the republican nomination turned out to be really close, close enough to make the ford finger nails sweat but gerald ford got the nomination. when ford was nominated, reagan's supporters staged a demonstration on the convention floor and the went on and on and

on and on. by the end of that convention, it's clear although gerald ford may be the nomination, ronald reagan won the hearts and minds of conservatives >> reagan did great damage, look at the poll numbers he's 30 point ahead of gerald ford, he had a weak position in the national race, so he challenged jimmy carter to a debate. >> as president i'd like to explore a little more deeply our relationship with the russians >> max frank kel asked ford a question about whether the united states was accepting of soviet domination of eastern europe. >> there is no soviet domination of eastern europe and there never will be under a ford administration. >> i'm sorry, could i just -- did i understand you to say, sir, that the russians are not

using eastern europe as their own influence >> everybody's jaw dropped. >> are you alive? are you aware? what he meant to say was i will not accept any soviet domination of eastern europe >> governor carter your response? >> charitably it was a moment you at her snip, uncharitably it was a loss of reality. >> the country makes the judgment maybe we need to go in a different direction and replace the president. >> ford had never lost an election in his life. won 15 straight terms in the house, and all of a sudden, he's beaten by this one-term governor of georgia. and he was crushed. >> my voice isn't up to par, me calling the real spokesman for the family. >> it's been the greatest honor

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. the parade started. he's out of the car. >> this is a change in the schedule, he's walking. most presidents in our time have wanted to do this, but in recent years, after our various tragedies, it has been discouraged and there has not been very much of the. >> jimmy cart's his wife get out of the car, it was game changing. people looked and said this is what we need, a real person as president. carter was man of the people. glamor was not what we were in the market for, we were looking for a redemeanor. >> take a look around. actually going sprayers taking a

look at the living quarters for the fortunate. >> president carter knew he had four years to do things that he thought were important, fix the economy, try to bring some peace to the middle east, fix energy and some other things. >> we will have available for public scrutiny and for congressional action by april 20th a comprehensive long range energy policy. the winner of 1977 is one of the worst that the country had experienced and this comes at a time the economy is still doing poorly. >> severe weather led to a serious shortage of natural gas >> federal power commissioned estimates at least 200,000 layoffs due to industrial gas curtailments so far. >> congress will consider this week emergency gas legislation. >> good evening, president carter is about to speak to the nation from the white house on the subject of energy >> i want to have an unpleasant

talk with you, the energy crisis not yet overwhelmed us but it will if we do not act quickly. we need to shift the code while taking care to protect the environment and to apply stricter safety standards to nuclear energy. this difficult effort will be the moral equivalent of wore >> the policies that he rolls out around the speech don't go anywhere, one of the key reasons is that jimmy carter had poor relations with congress. >> for the producing states i think it would be a catastrophic cataclysmic calamity. >> he's trying to prepare the public mind to accept only the carter proposal and nothing else. >> cart alienated the powers that be in according to, so when jimmy carter he didn't have friend coming out and speaking for him. in fact, i was getting calls from democrats criticizing him. >> i've always heard about the advise and consent role of the congress, so far they've been a

little strong on advice than they have on consent >> carton health official a financial mess and there was no magic wand to cure it he needed a big feather in his hat quickly. >> almost a white house cliche had a president is having trouble at home they advise a trip abroad. >> the president went on the trip to the middle east, he met with egypt and king how is an of jordan, the king of saudi arabia and the shaw in iran. >> united states always backed the sha, of iran that goes back to 1983 when america essentially put him into power. >> it's stability and one of the more troubled areas in the world. >> even though western governments loved him they weren't paying attention to the facts on ground and many people who were discontented with the

shah in part because of extremely oppressive policy >> it was important for the oil resources but also because the shah was an ally when the came to regional goals, this was a natural alliance for the united states. >> the president and the shah of iran spent a long team talking about the middle east and it was brought up by other leader and other country >> jimmy carter saw the middle east and the settlement of on the conflict between the israelis and arabs and central to any kind of stability for the next generation. >> hopes for middle east peace settlement were never higher than they were last november when he went to jerusalem, then the enthusiasm began to drop off while the world watched they took to bickering and negotiations broke down. >> jimmy carter took advantage of the willingness to talk to the israelis, i believe he thought he might be able to do

something that his predecessors couldn't, a human gamble. >> the state is set and participants are beginning to arrive in the washington area, president carter egyptian president and israeli prime minister will sit down together in the solitude of camp david's attempt to work out a peace settlement for the middle east. failure here would just increase the impression reflected in the polls that mr. carter is nicetown button he want president. >> what the three are discussing friendly intense we don't know because of the unprecedented secrecy. >> why by the end of the second day roslyn said you could hear them screaming at each other at the top of their lung, carter had to physically separate them c the middle east settlement of camp david is week old and no official word how the talkses are going or when they might end. but the length already given

rise to reports of a stale mate. >> carter had a photograph of the three men and made copies for begen.nine grandchildren and signed each of them love jimmy cart. very reluctantly, carter went back to see begging handed him the photographs and said i had hoped to write that this is where your grandfather and to made peace. and bay gin began to weep. he went back and the phone rang and it was bagen saying he would sign. >> we're privileged to witness between the a significant achievement in the cause of peace. an achievement none thought possible.

a year ago. >> the peace treaty changed the tenor of politics across the area, an arab country recognized israel's right to exist's changed the dynamics of the middle east. >> what a picture. what a picture. the room, of course, is cheering, applause. he said peace now celebrates a great victory. >> of f

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this is cnn. the camp david accord was cart's crowning achievement but shortly thereafter diminished boy the crisis with iran. >> the rebel priest exiled in paris called on supporters to oppose the shah >> called for the building of islamic state not dependant on the west >> i don't think united states as a secular country understood that slam or islam it lasted two and a half millennium. >> we put the shah in but you're saying keep him in. >> i think it's a decision by

the people of that country. >> what do you think the shah of iran is in egypt, his country are deliriously row joycing at his departure and all around the world trying to come to grips were i the fall of the man known as the king to king. >> old chan of death to the shah was replaced by a new one, death to carter. >> jimmy carter knows we want freedom and we don't want his human rights anymore. >> obviously the source of energy for the 1970s was a core question, iranian revolution is drying up energy supply, we're literally running out of gas. >> your attention, employees, there's been a state of emergency declared. >> in a nuclear power plant near harrisburg, pennsylvania, the cooling system broke down this morning, some radio active steam escaped into the air, radiation passed through the forefoot

concrete walls and detected a mile away from the plant >> this were you the first big nuclear disaster at the time when the country was increasingly reliant on nuclear power, it was scary. >> the beginning of mistrust of nuclear power as the magic to the energy problem. >> the president said today that he believes this incident will make it necessary to reassess the country's present nuclear safety regulations. that comes from a president who has been claiming that more nuclear reactors are needed to offset the demand for foreign oil. >> the energy crisis which had been going on all decade only gets worst with middle east ern turmoil. >> californians sat fuming in their cars waiting patiently wondering who and what had put them there, somehow, there wasn't enough gas loan to go around but prices rose elsewhere and lines were forming and americans began realizing california was not unique,

california was first. >> people in this country we're about the price of gas, this is about the availability of. >> while producers were getting ready the consumerers are beginning to meet in japan, president carter's state visit began today. >> is there anything you can do >> my information is that in the next for you weeks, hopefully sooner, there will be an increase in supply of gasoline to the affect areas. >> i think it's phony, i believe they're trying to get the prices jacked up. that's my personal upon. >> what was once a distant foreign policy issue has become a domestic issue >> truck strike driven food prices upward, slowed industry and resulted in violence, the bloodiest episode in pennsylvania 32 people injured put motorists joined to protest the shortage. >> they packed the intersection and it turned violent.

>> this is levittown pennsylvania, the middle america and middle is in torment about crisis. >> sunday july 1st because of gas line, president carter flies home from the tokyo economic summit and announce as television speech to the nation thursday, then to camp david boy helicopter presumably to work on the that energy space launch. but then a sudden change. the energy speech is cancelled with no explanation. >> critics spoke of in decision. >> carter decides he wants to meet with advisors from all walks of life. >> the latest group shuttled to camp david includes several nonoil experts and three governors he's been up there three days, no word when it will end and the president will come down from the mountain >> when all of us expects the president to i light from his chopper carrying with him two tablets of stone. >> sources say mr. carter will address what he calls a a.m.

lace affecting the nation >> this is an abc news special report. stand by. >> david. i want you to speak to you first not about a subject even more serious than energy or inflation. it is a crisis of confidence for the fortunate in history of our country, a majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years. too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption, human i identity is defined by what one does but adjournings the president concluded the speech, what a remarkable speech, almost a sermon. >> he gets a bump in the polls, people are olympic, they this good, then the opt eds begin to

drift in. >> i think the president and advisors are making a mistake if they think out there in the country people feel there's a crisis of confidence in themselves, they feel as a crisis of confidence in the president. >> it was the analysis of the speech that turned him, and basically he fired his cabinet. >> when members of the cabinet gather to do the white house this morning for a two-hour meeting with the president, they seemed in good spirits but boy entitlement they left. things changed along with the senior white house staff, their resignations were requested. >> don't you think someone should come out and assure the country >> i don't think there is a crisis. >> the american people have the right to know who's running government. >> they do have right to know, they do know who's running the government. american public isn't confused about who's running the government, the president is running it >> sometimes perception is more important than reality and the perception big water marina jimmy carter mad one big mistake after another.

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. the shah of iran is in a new york city hospital between the and american government. source in washington say it deposed iranian monarch suffering from cancer and blocked bile deduct. he was admitted on the condition he not engage in political activity here, present iranian government was assured of that.

meanwhile tighter scour the measures are in effect in the u.s. embassy in tehran as a possible consequence by even shah fanatics >> carter agreed to let him come to the united states for medical treatment. at that point it was the match that lit this confrontation. >> the american embassy is in the hands of muslim students, they stormed the embassy, fought the marine guards three hours overpowered them and took dozens of americans hostages >> the iranians burned the united states flag and denounced the us government saying they would stay until the u.s. sends the deposed shah back to iran. >> what i remember and this was second day that the provisional government that the prime minister, which was essentially the possibly we dealt with had resigned. at that point, i remember thinking, we are definitely in

the soup. because there was no one to talk to. no government for our government to talk to. >> in tehran, it is tuesday morning, the hostages at the american embassy, more than 60 spend another night, 9th as prison of their iranian cap fors, president carter made the first response to their ordeal. >> i mean ordering we discontinue purchasing any order of iran for delivery to this country. >> officials believe that through today's action they removed a bargaining no longer be used in dealing with the hostage, others say today's announcement was intended to dampen the outrage and frustration expressed by the country's seeming helplessness >> how they treated our did it mats were humiliating that put scored pressure on jimmy cart. >> the meeting is on but nothing

to suggest the meetings produced any new ways of solving the crisis >> any encouraging news for iran, mr. president. >> the first sign of hope in two weeks from the american embassy in tehran, the students holding hodges there promised to obey an order today from the ayatollah to free women and blacks, explained us landrum has a special respect who spend ages under american pressure and tyranny. >> boy camp david the president was apparently confident that at least some hostages will soon be free. we are thankful said his statement. the ordeal may be over for them and that they may be soon reunited with their families. but it went on to urge that the authorities in iran now moved to secure the safe release of all those still being held. >> what can you do? you bring pressure, sanctions, go to the united nations, send,

but america can't do a damn thing. >> ted kopple news, wallet cronkite, carter started becoming the symbol of lost american prestige. >> ronald reagan is running officially got in the race tonight in new york city at a fund-raising dinner and tape add speech yesterday for showing between the on about 90 independent television stayingses >> i mean here between the to announce my intention to seek the republican nominations for president of the united states, crisis we face is not the result of failure of the american spirit, it's a failure of leaders. >> the country is looking for optimism, dawn, new beginnings and ronald reagan i put it miced all of those things >> between 76 and 80, reagan is building a coalition bringing in christian fundamentalists and

law and order nixon people, you got to do conservativism with a smile, making people feel good, not scold them. >> we can turn of this country around and our economy around and the time to do it is now: >> there are many democrats worried that carter is not going to win, so ted kennedy, who's a senator from massachusetts, decides to take him on. today, i formally announce that i'm a candidate for president of the united states. >> many democrats believe carter moved too far to the center and that he abandoned the traditional ideas of the party. >> jimmy carter and kennedy became the popular opposites within the party and jimmy carter on top of that had a feeling that the kennedys felt they were above southerners.

when you ask in passing what do you think about challenged boy ted kennedy he said i'll whip his ass >> this is special from cbs news, the 174th day of the iran crisis brought a startling and tragic turn events. the united states mount add military to rescue the hostages but failed. >> eight helicopters proceeded toward a desert staging area to hundred miles west coast of tehran. >> two of the helicopters experienced problems on route >> once on ground yet another helicopter malfunctioned leaving only five for the mission, to's moment the president scrubbed the mission. >> in a rush to pull out one of the helicopter s

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>> the democrats have their first day of the convention, kennedy lost the first and decisive fight. jimmy carter is chosen for this party. >> i congratulate carter on his victory here. i am confident the party will reunite on the basis of democratic principles and we will march towards a democratic victory in 1980. >> people are cheering kennedy on. the enthusiasm for what he has to say is more than the response carter gets. >> in good times and bad. we have told people the truth. >> carter want kennedy to come on stage and they can hold up their hands together to show the party's unified but when kennedy comes up he does not do

that. >> there will be no photos and tomorrow mornings paper of ted kennedy holding carter's hand aloft. this is slightly awkward. >> kennedy could not be victorious and he ripped the party apart and what they needed to take the election was for unity. >> this country needs a new administration. with a renewed dedication to a dream of a america. a administration that will give the dream new life and make america great again. >> ronald reagan will call carter out for this idea that we live in an age of limits and say no, america's future is just as expensive as it ever was. >> tuesday you will all go to the polls, i think when you make that decision you should

ask yourselves, are you better off than you were 42 years ago? this is continuing election night coverage. >> it is beginning to look like a landslide for ronald reagan tonight. they are not breaking up the champagne at the headquarters now, it is only because they cannot find a opener. >> jimmy carter did not act like a man. he said he did not feel like people voted against him personally. mister carter showed anguish only once, and he said his wife saw one of the majority preachers on television and he said americans acted to put a true christian in the oval office. >> a certain gloating that they

were responsible for carter's defeat. >> carter is back in his office burning the midnight wheel. he is doing it here on his last night in washington. >> right until the last moment, jimmy carter is doing everything he can to get the hostages home. >> jimmy carter was perceived as the ultimate ally of the shawl and they did not want to give any awards to jimmy carter. we had to wait until ronald reagan had taken the oath of office before the plane was allowed to fly out. everything was delayed despite the agreement to make sure jimmy carter did not get any credit. >> it is a bittersweet moment when jimmy carter left to go

home to washington. >> jimmy carter had bad luck. >> because of the blowback from watergate and vietnam, it is recognized that jimmy carter inherited a situation that was not manageable. >> a few moments ago on air force one i received word officially for the first time that the aircraft carrying the 52 american hostages had cleared iranian airspace on the first leg of a journey home and that every one of the 52 hostages was alive, well and free.