Carter and Malaise...

Steve opines: "I think your source is mistaken. I remember Carter giving the "national malaise" speech. It may have been during the campaign and he might even have stolen it from Kennedy, but he was the one who tried to blame his failures on it. He was the one using it for an excuse for why the economy stayed so stubbornly pathetic and why we had lost the respect of most of the free world during his watch."

I believe the Carter speech was called "Crisis in Confidence." Kennedy used the word "malaise" when describing that speech on the campaign trail. Here's the actual speech.