Between president ial candidates in 16 years and the first ever in which an incumbent president has participated, is taking place before the audience in the walnut street theater in philadelphia, just three blocks from independence hall. The audience may reach a hundred million in the United States and many millions overseas. Tonights debate focuses on domestic issues and Economic Policy. Questions will be put by Frank Reynolds of abc news, james gannon of the wall street journal, and Elizabeth Drew of the new yorker magazine. Under the agreed rules the first question will go to governor carter. That was decided by the toss of a coin. He will have up to three minutes to answer. One followup question will be permitted with up to two minutes to reply. President ford will then have two minutes to respond. The next question will go to president ford with the same time arrangements, and questions will continue to be alternated between the candidates. Each man will make a threeminute stateme
4 trillion in debt. Going into debt, an additional million in an hour and a half. Its not the republicans fault, of course, and its not the democrats fault, and what im looking for is who did it. Now, theyre the two folks involved, so maybe if you put them together, they did it. The facts are, we have to fix it. Somewhere out there there is an extraterrestrial doing this to us, i guess. Everybody said they will take responsibility. Someone somewhere has to take responsibility for this. That was independent candidate ross perot during three separate debates in 1992 talking about one of his favorite issues, the u. S. Debt. In that election the texas businessman won 90 of the popular vote, the largest vote for an independent candidate sin since. Good night and thank you for being with us. Were doing this series as a way of looking at American History through the lens of president ial candidates who failed in the white house but had an influence on American History. Ross perot is one of 12
Indeed, freedom to print things and publish things. It is not institutionally freedom of the press. Every saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lectures in history is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. Wherever he goes, he speaks out, clearly and forcefully on the issues, answers questions, explains exactly where he stands on domestic and Foreign Policy. Everywhere he goes, the people are responding with enthusiasm for this new and different kind of person. Barry goldwater has been constantly on the go. Its a grueling schedule. And whenever he can, he catches a quick nap with his daughter peggy and his wife peggy. Soon its back to the campaign where Barry Goldwater is calling for courage and integrity in meeting problems. Hes calling for an end to donothing policies, for progress based on the dynamic principles of the republic. Hes calling for a rebirth of individual freedom. We put our reliance upon freedom, upon the Free Enterprise system. We reject, therefo
Integrity and meeting problems. He is calling for an end to do nothing policies. He is calling for a rebirth of individual freedom. We base our reliance on freedom. We reject, therefore, the ideas of the economic planners in washington. A group of people sitting in washington can plan when the country is going to make, where it is going to be made, the quality of the product, the price of the product, the wages to be made, the profits to be made, etc. In simpler terms, this is called socialism. It has never worked in the history of the earth. It is not working today in countries where it has been tried. Republican president ial candidates Barry Goldwater campaign in 1964. Cspans the contenders coming to you from phoenix, arizona. We look at his politicalperspecr pretty black and white especially compared to todays politics where you dont know quite who is doing what to goma. To whom. He was the personification of good versus bad, right versus wrong, whether you agree with him or not. I
It is not the freedom for what we now refer to institutionally as the press. Every saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lectures in history is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. Wherever he goes, he speaks out, clearly and forcefully on the issues, answers questions, explains exactly where he stands on domestic and Foreign Policy. Everywhere he goes, the people are responding with enthusiasm for this new and different kind of statesman. Barry goldwater has been constantly on the go. Its a grueling schedule. And whenever he can, he catches a quick nap. Here, with his daughter, peggy and with his wife, peggy. Soon, its back to the campaign, where Barry Goldwater is calling for courage and integrity in meeting problems. Hes calling for an end to donothing policies, for progress based on the dynamic principles of the republic. Hes calling for a rebirth of individual freedom. We put our reliance upon freedom, upon the Free Enterprise system. We reject, therefore,