Carter summoned Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat to Camp David to make peace, not apartheid, in the Middle East. But the Israeli president broke his promise to freeze settlements.

So, in July 1979, the nation was in a deep, Carter-induced funk. And Carter's reaction was to ... blame the nation. That was the theme of the

Dr. Lori Amber Roessner is a professor in the University of Tennessee’s School of Journalism & Electronic Media. She authored the 2020 book “Jimmy Carter and the Birth of the Marathon Media Campaign,” which analyzed how his 1976 presidential campaign impacted political messaging strategies and how the media covers campaigns.