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american—born writer and broadcaster bonnie greer shared her reflections on the profound impact jimmygoing to be talking to you from the perspective of being a young university student, paying her way through university, having no money, just coming out of the political activism of the vietnam war and the black power movement. just roe v wade, fighting for our rights as women. and the horribleness of watergate, which is very difficult to explain now. it was horrific. so the world was very dark and it was a recession and there was a heat wave. so the world was very dark. everybody was poor except the trumps. and then comesjimmy carter, a guy who in a sense sort of harked back to lincoln. what we understood about lincoln, then about the united states as a moral compass in the world, notjust a great power, not just a country that did deals, notjust that it was a moral force in the world. we'd just been in vietnam where that was catastrophic and where we were immoral. and suddenly my generation said, let's do something good. we had a criminal president in richard nixon. gerald ford was us