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Imagine it's April 9, 1979.

You're a public opinion pollster in Washington, D.C., and you've been called to the White

House for breakfast with First Lady Rosalind Carter.

You got to know the Carter's when you advised them during the 1976 campaign, but over the past

two years, the president has become too busy to pay much attention to your polls and memos.

Thankfully, though, you still have the ear of the First Lady.

So over breakfast this morning, you're hoping to convince her to alert the president to his dismal approval ratings,

which recently dropped to 25%, even lower than Richard Nixon's numbers during the worst of the Watergate scandal.

So you put down your fork and get straight to the point.

Ma'am, these latest numbers are frightening.

It's clear that people are feeling alienated, disillusioned, and angry.

They're looking for someone to blame.

So they're blaming my husband.

It would appear so.

These problems, the long lines of gas stations, inflation,

unemployment, he didn't create them. We all know that. But they are threatening the political and

social fabric of the country. The problem is the president is focusing a lot on foreign affairs,

but he's ignoring the urgent pocketbook issues facing everyday Americans. People are in a funk. What do you mean a funk?

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