‘Barry’ Finale: Henry Winkler on That Shocking Revenge Moment There was no written text of the speech, no press to report it, no audience hungry to hear it, and no real reason for giving it – except that Jimmy Carter had a few serious things on his mind that day, and he figured it was about time to unload them, whether the audience liked it or not….
They had not come there to hear lawyers denounced as running dogs of the status quo, and there is still some question in my own mind – and in Carter’s too, I suspect – about what he came there to say. Or, hell, even the same identical speech a national audience might be slightly puzzled by some of the references to obscure judges, grade-school teachers and backwoods Georgia courthouses, but I think the totality of the speech would have the same impact today as it did two years ago.īut there is not much chance of it happening….… And that brings up another remarkable aspect of the Law Day speech: it had virtually no impact at all when he delivered it, except on the people who heard it, and most of them were more stunned and puzzled by it than impressed. There were, however, a lot of people who believed every word and sigh of MacArthur’s speech, and they wanted to make him president – just as a lot of people who are still uncertain about Jimmy Carter would want to make him president if he could figure out some way to deliver a contemporary version of his 1974 Law Day speech on network TV…….
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