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Twenty-five years ago, on July 15, 1979, a mere ten years after America put a man on the moon, President Jimmy Carter addressed the nation. Carter spoke to his television audience of "a fundamental threat to American democracy." A threat, he said, that 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. Our people are losing ... faith, not only in government ...