Celebrating the U.S. Hockey Team’s “Miracle on Ice”

Relive the historic upset of the Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics

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On July 15, 1979, Americans switched on their TVs to watch President Jimmy Carter deliver what would become known as his “crisis of confidence” speech. America, the president told millions, had lost its sense of greatness. “The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America,” Carter said. “The symptoms of this crisis of the American spirit are all around us."

First Vietnam, then Watergate and now long lines at the gas pump, as inflation soared. “What can we do?” Carter asked.

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