This is just over 90 minutes. Moderator good evening from the field house at Washington University in st. Louis. Im jim lehrer of the newshour on pbs. And i welcome you to this third and final campaign 2000 debate between the democratic candidate for president , Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. Lets welcome the candidates now. [applause] moderator before proceeding tonight, we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of governor mel carnahan of missouri, who along with his son and his former chief of staff, died in a private plane crash last night near st. Louis. A reminder, as we continue now, that these debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The formats and the rules were worked out by the commission and the two campaigns. Tonights questions will be asked by st. Louis area voters who were identified as being uncommitted by the gallup organization. Earlier today each of them wrote a question o
This awarded the state electoral votes and presidency to governor bush. This is just over 90 minutes. Jim lehrer good evening from the field house at Washington University in st. Louis. Im jim lehrer of the news hour on pbs. And i welcome you to this third and final campaign 2000 debate between the democratic candidate for president , Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. Lets welcome the candidates now. [applause] jim lehrer before proceeding tonight, we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of governor mel carnahan of missouri, who along with his son and his former chief of staff, died in a private plane crash last night near st. Louis. Jim lehrer a reminder, as we continue now, that these debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The formats and the rules were worked out by the commission and the two campaigns. Tonights questions will be asked by st. Louis area voters who were identified as being
[applause] before proceeding tonight, we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of the governor of missouri along with his son and former chief of staff who died in a private plane crash last night near st. Louis. A reminder as we continue now that these debates sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The formats and role worked up by the commissions and campaign. Tonights questions will be asked by st. Louis area voters who identified as being uncommitted by the gallup organization. Earlier today, each of them read the question on a small card like this. The cards are collected and give it to me. My job under the rules of the evening was to decide the order of the question and to call on the questioners accordingly. I also have the option of asking followups. In order to get the more the panels questions, for the record, i plan to do sparingly and mostly as a clarification. The audience participants are bound by the following rules, they shall not ask all of
Lehr. Thank you and good night. [ applause ] coming up this weekend on American History tv on cspan 3. The Abraham Lincoln president ial Library Foundation published a book of musics by public figures and ordinary americans celebrating or responding to lincolns gettysburg address. Editor of gettysburg replies, the world responds to Abraham Lincolns gettysburg address reads passages from the book saturday night at 8 50 p. M. Eastern. His presents still resonates from the words he has written and the artifacts and documents that he has left behind for our prosperity. He was a complex man who looked at complex issues plainly and purely. He accepted and spoke the truth. Many believe lincoln transseconded all over president s to have served before him and since. Then on real america the march in washington on august 28th, 1963, the u. S. Information agency filmed the march on washington for jobs and freedom and produced a documentary for foreign audiences. And sunday at 4 30 p. M. Eastern t
Remember, this is texas. Also he wanted three fajitas. He also wanted a whole pizza. He requested a meat lovers pizza, which as far as i can tell is a pizza hut branded pizza that has pepperoni and ham and more ground beef and bacon and sausage on it. He also requested a pint of blue bell ice cream, vanilla flavor, and he asked for a slab of Peanut Butter fudge with crushed peanuts on top. He then also asked for three root beers to wash it all down. That was his requested last meal before he was executed by the state of texas. He requested the meal. The prison obtained the meal for him. And then he said he was not hungry and did not eat any of it. And that was why texas got rid of the practice of granting prisoners their chosen final meal before their execution. Because of what Lawrence Russell brewer did for his last meal before texas killed him. Just before his execution, lawrence brewer, the same guy, told khou in houston that he had no regrets, the crime for which he was being exec