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What if Raymond Lee Harvey had in fact assassinated Jimmy Carter on May 5, 1979? Walter Mondale becomes President in 1979? What would be the effects? How would Mondale handle Carter's OTL term? For one thing no crisis of confidence speech, Mondale argued to Carter it was not a crisis of confidence ailing America but an inflation crisis. How would America be effected by Carter being assassinated? What would Carter's reputation be? How would the 1980 election be effected? Would Ronald Reagan still be elected and the Reagan Revolution still happen? What if?