Now a discussion on the 2016 general election and Vice President ial debates and possible changes to the rules. We also hear some suggestions concerning debates by both parties in the primary season. This is about 40 minutes. , bill commissioner for president ial debates. You have been getting a lot of attention lately. Guest we want to talk about criteria for thirdparty candidates but lets talk about the commission first. Why it was formed in 1987 and what your mission is. Guest you know, most people do not remember when there were not debates. We go back to 1960 where you had kennedy against nixon and then we went 16 years host and is responsive other network. Guest they were sponsored by the network, but there was no way very goldwater would be getting up with lyndon johnson. Then it makes him in the next two campaigns, he took such bad memories of the 1960 debates of kennedy that he said no, i am not going to debate. It wasnt really until he got to 1976 after the pardoning Governor
Don ritchie and dick baker were great role models and give me a lot of help. Brian i have a lot of video clips from different events in history. I get to throw anything up i want and look to you to be experts on this. Lets start with Everett Dirksen who was a senator from illinois until 1969. Here he is talking about the differences between republicans and democrats. Could you tell me, what is the difference between a republican and a democrat . I am afraid we would have to devote the whole evening to it. I could highlight one or two things. One, of course, is the insistence on the part of republicans that we balance out our Fiscal Affairs and make sure that we are going to have a solid country. I think, generally speaking, our friends on the other side of the aisle are prone to spend money and go in for new activities when it is rather doubtful whether or not it is good for the country and for the interest of the people. Because, you pile up up your national debt, interest, staggering
Don ritchie and dick baker were great role models and give me a lot of help. Brian i have a lot of video clips from different events in history. I get to throw anything up i want and look to you to be experts on this. Lets start with Everett Dirksen who was a senator from illinois until 1969. Here he is talking about the differences between republicans and democrats. Could you tell me, what is the difference between a republican and a democrat . I am afraid we would have to devote the whole evening to it. I could highlight one or two things. One, of course, is the insistence on the part of republicans that we balance out our Fiscal Affairs and make sure that we are going to have a solid country. I think, generally speaking, our friends on the other side of the aisle are prone to spend money and go in for new activities when it is rather doubtful whether or not it is good for the country and for the interest of the people. Because, you pile up up your national debt, interest, staggering
On britain. It did not seem to be a very realistic prospect, fighting the confederacy and britain at the same time. But you know, it was just enough of a threat to give british leaders some pause to step back and continue to wait and see. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] paul thank you very much for your questions. Announcer you are watching American History tv. 48 hours of programming on American History every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter for information on our schedule and to keep up with news. Monday night on the communicators, at this years Consumer Electronics show, we met up with andrew keen and asked why he feels the internet is not the answer. Andrew the internet is not the answer at the moment. In the sense that it is not working currently. Its lending itself to undermining jobs its compounding t
Happens when america retreats from the region and we dont play of the role of posing a balance of power and when we let the countrys fight it out between themselves. It is not just our interest in allies and our interest in allies like jordan and israel but it is because this is throughout syria and turkey, and isis is trying to aggressively recruit United States citizens to join. It is believed that the weapons came from the turkish government. Senator cotton again, i have not seen other reports, so i cant comment on that. I did ask about if there was a mistake if we had a residual force agreement, and there was the agreement on blaming maliki on that. Why couldnt we have forced an agreement, why was that completely squandered . What was your view on that and could we have done something differently in 2011 and how do you feel as someone who served in iraq or someone who has finger on the pulse of how the military feels . Senator cotton i put responsibility chiefly with barack obama a