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This is a special night for me. Because three years ago, on July 15th, 1976,

I accepted the nomination of my party to run for President of the United

States. I promise you a President who is not isolated from the people,

who feels your pain, and who shares your dreams, and draws his strength and

his wisdom from you

During the past three years, I’ve spoken to you on many occasions on national

concerns, the energy crisis, reorganizing the government, our nation’s economy,

and issues of war and especially peace. But over those years the subjects of

the speeches, the talks, and the press conferences have become increasingly

narrow, focused more and more on what the isolated world of Washington thinks

is important. Gradually, you’ve heard more and more about what the government

thinks or what the government should be doing and less and less about our

nation’s hopes, our dreams, and our vision of the future

Ten days ago, I had planned to speak to you again about a very important

subject -- energy. For the fifth time I would have described the urgency of the

problem and laid out a series of legislative recommendations to the Congress.

But as I was preparing to speak, I began to ask myself the same question that

I now know has been troubling many of you…

Why have we not been able to get together as a nation to resolve our serious

energy problem? It’s clear that the true problems of our nation are much deeper

-- deeper than gasoline lines or energy shortages, deeper even than inflation

or recession…

So, I want to speak to you first tonight about a subject even more serious than

energy or inflation. I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat

to American democracy. I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental

threat to American democracy

I do not mean our political and civil liberties. They will endure.

And I do not refer to the outward strength of America, a nation that is at

peace tonight everywhere in the world, with unmatched economic power and

military might

The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways

It is a crisis of confidence

It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our

national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of

our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation

The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the

social and the political fabric of America

We always believed that we were part of a great movement of humanity itself

called democracy, involved in the search for freedom; and that belief has

always strengthened us in our purpose. But just as we are losing our confidence

in the future, we are also beginning to close the door on our past

In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit

communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship

self-indulgence and consumption

Do you lie to the judge?

Do you lie to the judge?

Do you lie to the judge?

Do you lie to the judge?

Do you lie to the judge?

Do you lie to the judge?

Do you lie to the judge?

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