I do not know so much from Ronald Reagans side but i think it was arranged largely from the kennedy side. Frank mankiewicz was the spokesman. Rfk later regretted this debate and said he was the one who got me into that debate with Ronald Reagan. He did not appreciate that. He said dont ever get me on the same stage with that sob ever again. Clearly thought that Ronald Reagan showed him up on the stage a little bit. You wrote a piece calling this the great forgotten debate. Why . Newsweek even said at the time that this looked like it could be the setup for a series of great future president ial debates. The idea that these two guys, it is quite possible they couldve been two major parties, nominees in the foreseeable future. Rfk in 1968, reagan a must got it in 1976. Did get it in 1980. Had Robert Kennedy not been shot and murdered one year after that, who knows . It is quite possible you could have seen Ronald Reagan and rfk running against each other. You could have seen them running against each other in 1984. What could have been is really fascinating to think about. We take it for granted today. 50 years ago the fact that the , students were in london via satellite was a big idea. It was. You will notice during the video, Ronald Reagan was tugging on his earpiece, struggling to get a connection. Kennedy seems to be having better audio. In a most like reagan was having trouble with the noise, i dont know. For back then, it was a pretty impressive technical logistical feat. 1967, that they could pull all about off from 10 00 eastern time in the United States is pretty impressive. What role did don hewitt play all of this . He was the one who set it all up. He became the brains behind 60 minutes. He knew reagan, he knew rfk. Both of these guys were very much sort of new york hollywood media savvy. Fromd reagan prior to this 1954 to 1962 has his own tv show. It was ge theater. Ronald reagan was the host. So Ronald Reagan would probably have known that whole group trade you a limited to this moment ago. You get excited about this program 50 years later. As a historian and author, why . Paul it captures two important american politicians at a Pivotal Point in time when they were on the rise. This is Ronald Reagan rising. He had given his speech on behalf of Barry Goldwater in 1964. For reagan, this is probably his largest tv moment three years later after that. Kind of propelling him further on the National Political stage. He was already known on the National Media staging and from hollywood, movies, tv, but this really propelled him to the National Stage politically. And bobby kennedy, is famous as he already was being attorney general, this was a big nationally and even interNational Stage for him as well. Could you imagine Something Like this today . That is a good question. I dont know who exactly it would be. It would have to be maybe somebody on the likes of a marco rubio on the republican side and maybe an Elizabeth Warren on the democratic side. Even then, it would not be the same thing because of it was done by cnn, fox, msnbc, cspan, you would not have the concentrated audience that you have today when there is basically only cbs, nbc. Historian and author joining us from pit. I keep your time on cspan3. Good to be with you. Never let anyone to find you. That is the first lesson i want to leave you with. Only you define who you are. , our hearts should be open not just of falling in love to the world. We need to look and care and we need to contribute. Dont ever let anyone tell you your dreams are silly. If you have to look back on your life, regret the things that you did and not what you did not do. Nothing stays still. Things will change. The question for you is whether and how you will participate in the process of creative change. Just a few past commencement speeches from the cspan library. Watch more speeches on saturday, may 27 and monday, memorial day. This weekend on the onsidency, history professor letters exchanged by Abraham Lincoln and his friend josh was be. Here is a preview. At the end of the letter there is a ps which is a bit controversial. Going aftern he is prostitutes. A whole chapter in my book about sex and prostitution. Some people dont quite get it. All of the stories about lincoln going to prostitutes are from 50 years later and thirdhand and often are modeled in the mind. Clearly if you really unpack it and you have to unpack it story by story, they are all of lincoln jokes that got lost in translation by a man who had absolutely no sense of humor. Went tous was when he Niagara Falls after a trip to washington and in fact he wrote about thehimself amazing falls and they were here when christ walked the earth and with the ancient greeks were here. He was really very moved. He came back in herndon has tim what you thought of Niagara Falls, not knowing about this fragment lincoln had wrote. And lincoln said i just wondered where all that water came from. He is making fun of him. Entire program at it, p. M. This is American History tv on cspan3. Tonight on afterwords, campusists examines Sexual Assault policies in his book the campus rape frenzy, the attack on due process at americas universities. He is interviewed by the editor and chief of the law journal. Share for the viewers what is your general thesis that we are looking at. What will we be reading about in the pages. The gist is there is a huge met that has taken root that there is an epidemic of campus rape and a culture of campus rape where it is encouraged and condoned even by administrators. That it is increasing and it is worse on campus that it is offcampus and that it requires completely demolishing all due for the accused people, 99 of whom are male. This comes from extreme feminist , male hating extreme feminist in some cases. It was also in pushed ahead by the obama administration. Watch that tonight on cspan two. Next on American History tv, author lynne cheney discusses resident James MadisonsPersonality Health problems and , his political career. She also talks about the influential women in his life. Her book on the president was First Published in 2014. This lecture was one in a series of founders. [applause] i put it down for me and that it will have to come down a little bit more for dr. Cheney. Welcome history lovers good morning. I am thrilled you are here and i am particularly happy to welcome students from the palm beach fifthgrade academy. [applause] also students from the Palm Beach University and faculty