Good evening from the Municipal Auditorium in kansas city. Im dorothy rattings, the president of the league of women voters, the sponsor of this final president ial debate of the 1984 campaign between republican Ronald Reagan and democrat walter mondale. Our panelists for tonights debate on defense and Foreign Policy issues are georgie anne geyer, norman kalb, Morton Kondracke of new republic magazine, and henry trewhitt, Diplomatic Correspondent of the baltimore sun. And ed newman is our moderator. Ed . Thank you. A brief word about our procedure tonight. The first question will go to mr. Mondale. Hell have two and a half minutes to reply. Then the panel who asked the question will have a followup. They will be limited to one minute. After that the same question will be put to president reagan, there will be a followup and each man will have one minute for rebuttal. The second question will go to president reagan first. After that the alternating will continue. At the end there will b
Shall we think about americas patriotism . I am going to get out of the way and let our very distinguished panelists who need no introduction and whose biographies you have come up to speak and maybe i will make a comment or two or ask a question or two and then we will take questions from all of you. Will bee speakers diana, jim, and bill. Is of loyola university, maryland. Studded with leon when she was in graduate school at the university of chicago, was the coauthor of the 2011 book that amy organized and amy and leon and diane coauthored. Whats it was probably we hail and it is accompanied by i excellent website that recommend for any american holiday or just for Understanding America in general. Wonderful readings and it is wonderful to look at. After diana, we will hear from jim caesar. But certainly well yes, a student of leon not a direct student of leon but leon. And influenced by jim caesar, gary byrd professor of Politics University of virginia, distinguished in enough amer
Shall we think about americas patriotism . I am going to get out of the way and let our very distinguished panelists who need no introduction and whose biographies you have come up to speak and maybe i will make a comment or two or ask a question or two and then we will take questions from all of you. Will bee speakers diana, jim, and bill. Is of loyola university, maryland. Studded with leon when she was in graduate school at the university of chicago, was the coauthor of the 2011 book that amy organized and amy and leon and diane coauthored. Whats it was probably we hail and it is accompanied by i excellent website that recommend for any american holiday or just for Understanding America in general. Wonderful readings and it is wonderful to look at. After diana, we will hear from jim caesar. But certainly well yes, a student of leon not a direct student of leon but leon. And influenced by jim caesar, gary byrd professor of Politics University of virginia, distinguished in enough amer
What was your first journalistic experience . Susan i remember being 10 years old and handing out copies of the newspaper that my parents founded, the legal times, at the Aba Convention in washington. And probably ever since then. Brian how long did they own legal times . Susan they started in 1977 and their Company Owned it until 1986. Brian who is the first person who tie you would journalism is all about . Funny. You know, it was there was a famous teacher at the high school i went to. Tom lyons was the supervisor of the newspaper at andover. He was also george w. Bushs favorite teacher in high school. Many years later he was still around, a very, very older statesmen at the school, and not only was he a great leader in journalism but also in the role of a free press. He taught constitutional law as well. My junior year in high school. It was incredible experience. Brian your husband is with us today. Peter baker. Before i go to peter baker, what were the circumstances where you met
Morning at 7 a. M. Eastern, 4 00 a. M. Pacific. Have a great monday. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] break house has been on so members can return to their districts. Agenda includes a three extension for faa funding. Week the house is expected to consider a resolution by speaker paul ryan, opposing the action on immigration. The senate is back today at three eastern. He has been serving as acting secretary for over a year and a confirmation vote is set for 5 30 eastern today. Also coming up, can burns will gates toenry louis talk about race in america. This coming april he will premiere his documentary, jackie robinson. Live at 1 p. M. Eastern today here on cspan. Also republican president ial candidate Governor John Kasich is in his home state of ohio. Mitt romney has not yet endorsed any candidate, but has criticized front