June 28, 1979

A Big Mac cost $0.95 that summer of 1979, and the Dow Jones sat at 838 — and Carter was summoning senior advisers to Camp David for what would become a sweeping review of his administration's direction, the country was otherwise moving through a summer of ordinary American life. On radio, Donna Summer's "Bad Girls" dominated the airwaves, while audiences packed theaters for "Moonraker," the latest James Bond film, and families settled in each week with the Emmy-winning sitcom "Taxi." On August 10, Michael Jackson released "Off the Wall," an album that would go on to sell seven million copies in the United States alone, announcing a new era for one of pop music's most significant careers.