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New York Times, July 18, 1979
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/18/...s-by-cabinet-and-senior-staff-some-going.html

Some of this was long-standing differences such as with Joe Califano at HEW and Mike Blumenthal at Treasury. But apparently some of it was Carter trying to demonstrate change.

And this is what really hurt Carter.

It wasn’t the “Crisis of Confidence” Speech on Sunday night, July 15, 1979, which was initially pretty well received. It was that he fired half his cabinet two days later.

Please paint a picture in which Carter doesn’t make this clumsy move and the last part of his presidency is, say, moderately more successful.
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