Word: self-doubt
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...what is still a man's world. Every fear they have for Geraldine Ferraro - What if she hesitates? What if she is dismissed as "just like a woman"? -is rooted in their own experience. It is empathy of the most profound sort, a conflicting mixture of pride and self-doubt...
...Reagan lose any time getting on the campaign trail. At a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Chicago, he accused the Democrats of being responsible for a "dismal chapter of failed policies and self-doubt." They "claimed to be for a strong defense, he chided, while advocating the cancellation of the B-1B bomber and MX missile and supporting a nuclear arms freeze. That sort of stance, he said, reminded him of the saying, "Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build...
...Carter experiment in obsequiousness, and the criticism and uncertainty it stimulated among our allies and friends, there was an imperative need to deal with the Soviet question. With the election of Ronald Reagan, the U.S. confronted a great opportunity. If it could shake off its lethargy and abandon its self-doubt, it could lead the free world into a new era of stability, peace and social progress. My years in Europe had convinced me that our allies thirsted for American leadership. Other nations wanted the reassurance, the freedom to develop, that only a strong American advocacy of the rule...
Caddell went on to become a trusted adviser for Jimmy Carter. Sometimes his advice went badly awry. It was Caddell who urged President Carter to deliver his controversial 1979 "malaise" speech, which suggested that the nation was gripped by despair and self-doubt...
Throughout World War II and most of the postwar era there was still basic agreement on the moral imperative of defending freedom and the self-evident differences between totalitarian and democratic governments. But that broad consensus began to break down in the '60s and '70s. Partly in response to the Viet Nam tragedy, an era of paralyzing self-doubt ruled out just and legitimate uses of American power, even acts of self-defense...