Tribune, tom brokaw of nbc, and brit hume of abc news. The importance of tonights debate is underscored by two facts. Both george bush and Michael Dukakis said their selections of a running mate would reveal a lot about themselves. And based on the history since world war ii, there is almost a 5050 chance that one of the two men here tonight will become president of the United States. The candidates are senator dan quayle, the republican nominee, and senator Lloyd Bentsen, the democratic nominee. [applause] Judy Woodruff for the next 90 minutes, we will be questioning the candidates following a format designed and agreed to by representatives of the two campaigns. However, there are no restrictions on the questions that my colleagues and i may ask this evening. By prior agreement between the two candidates, the first question goes to senator quayle, and you have two minutes to respond. Senator, you have been criticized, as we all know, for your decision to stay out of the vietnam war,
Committees suffering from bows and arrows. This book came about, and many of my friends have heard me give this origin story. This book came about because of the review i did that mention the series that was used biography to teach history. It would hit biographical topics or would use a representative biography to get at a broader subject of history. They had just published their first volume, it was on pocahontas because of the issues regarding native American History. They were looking for someone to do something on American Foreign relations. He offered me the opportunity to put together a perspective. These were supposed to be short and concise books. That was the idea. The topic i debated and consulted with some people about which biographical figure might serve that purpose in the american context. I kept coming back to hendry to Henry Kissinger. A long career of american and foreign relations. He really does represent something about 20thcentury American Power. When i did get t
Museums and historic places. Next we travel about 15 miles northwest of washington, d. C. To Great Falls Tavern Visitors Center where we will take a boat ride to learn more about the of the the history of the chesapeake and the ohio canal. [foghorn] i would like to introduce myself. My name is cassondra, and i seasonal park ranger here at the am a chesapeake and ohio canal. I think we are going to cast off shortly. We are going to go ahead and start and give you a brief history of here on the canal. All right, it is called the chesapeake and ohio canal, but doesnt reach the Chesapeake Bay or go up to the ohio river, and when we first started building the canal in 1828, we wanted to try to connect the Eastern Shore with what was considered the west back then. The west was up in ohio, pennsylvania, that area. We wanted to connect pittsburgh to the Chesapeake Bay. So what we did was, we started building this canal. We tried earlier, it was George Washingtons dream to use the Potomac River
Thomas jeffersons correspondence and other papers be accessiblewill to scholars and the public. [applause] good evening. Good evening from the civic center in philadelphia, pennsylvania. I am the president of the league of women voters, sponsor of tonights Vice President ial debate between republican george bush and democrat Geraldine Ferraro. Our panelists for tonights debate are the National Correspondent for u. S. News world report, jack white, correspondent for time magazine, normal quarrels, correspondent for nbc news, and robert boyd, Washington Bureau chief for knightridder newspapers. , politicalocher correspondent for abc news, is our moderator. A few words about the order of the format. The order of questioning was determined by a toss of the coin. Congresswoman ferraro elects to speak last so Vice President bush will get the first question. The debate will be built upon a series of questions from the reporters on the panel. A reporter will ask a candidate a question, a follo
Rehabilitated his image and set , precedents for what presidency life could involve. This evening, we are pleased to introduce an author on the postpresident ial years of Richard Nixon. This very important and often overlooked part of nixons life is worthy of a book of its own probably a series of books. ,not one to be written off, Richard Nixon rose from defeat to become americas elder statement. Andhis period between 1974 he reinvented what it means to 1994, be a former president , serving as advisor to everyone of his successors. He made 29 foreign trips and worked with World Leaders across the globe. To tell this remarkable story, were joined by kasey pipes. He is a historian whose previous book on president eisenhower is well acclaimed. He served in the administration of president george w. Bush and was later a senior fellow at gettysburg college. Would you please join me in afterng the author of the fall, kasey pipes . [applause] kasey thank you all very much. Thanks for being he