Jimmy Carter

Under questioning about the tone of the campaign on 22 October 1976, Carter acknowledges mistakes and says he would not repeat his Playboy interview. He then describes how he wants the remaining campaign to proceed. The useful moment is the explicit concession before the return to policy: he gives the audience something more definite than an assertion that his words were misunderstood. His account of wider voter disillusionment remains an argument, not evidence of what every voter felt.