America's Upbeat Mood

Once again, people feel good about their lives and their country

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Once again, people feel good about their lives and their country

"I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy... It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. .. The confidence that we have always had as a people is not simply some romantic dream or a proverb in a dusty book that we read just on the Fourth of July . . . Confidence has defined our course . . . We know the...

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