and things like that. >> tensions in the capital across the country increased. when the second middle east oil crisis hit in 1979. >> i need gas. >> bringing with it a vicious return of empty gas stations. heating oil shortages. and skyrocketing prices. >> here was jimmy carter who had promised to take on the energy crisis, and yet, here we were again, waiting in these mile-long gas lines. people ran out of fuel. sometimes they turned violent. there were murders and stabbings. and a sense that washington was incompetent. >> and americans more and more became dissatisfied with its leadership. >> where is our leadership out of the washington, d.c. >> with his poll numbers plummeting to record low levels and inflation rising into double digits, carter knew he had to do more than come up with new policy proposals, he had to address the country's increasing sense of doom. >> by july of 1979 carter was