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Howe. Mr. Howe and good evening, senator kennedy. Mr. Kennedy good evening, mr. Howe. Mr. Howe now let me read the rules and conditions under which the candidates themselves have agreed to proceed. As they did in their first meeting, both men will make Opening Statements of about eight minutes each and closing statements of equal time running three to five minutes each. During the half hour between the opening and closing statements, the candidates will answer and comment upon questions from a panel of four correspondents chosen by the nationwide networks that carry the program. Each candidate will be questioned in turn with opportunity for comment by the other. Each answer will be limited to two and onehalf minutes, each comment to one and onehalf minutes. The correspondents are free to ask any questions they choose in the field of Foreign Affairs. Neither candidate knows what questions will be asked. Time alone will determine the final question. Reversing the order in their first mee
Served in congress. Prior to the mid20th century, many served as territorial delegates and commissioners as opposed to voting representatives. Archives hosted this event and provided the video. Historian at the center for legislative archives. Thank you for attending todays talk on this last day of july. This is the last talk in the series until we resume in september. For those of you in attendance, our guest hardly needs an introduction. Matthew wasniewski is the historian of the u. S. House of representatives and a member of the advisory meeting on the records of congress. Friend andgtime supporter, as well of us as well as a source of guidance to the center through his service on the advisory committee. Matt is here today to discuss hispanic americans in congress, which was published last year. This is the third in a series that has come out of the house office under his leadership. The previously published volumes being women in congress 19172006, black americans in congress, 1870
Here. Good morning. Thanks for having me. Senator, were 49 days away from the election. You serve as chairman of the Senate Select committee on intelligence. From that seat, what is the biggest threat to our president ial election in terms of foreign interference . I think first we have to break up foreign interference into two categories. One is meddling in the architecture and mechanics of the election. And then the other is sort of the messaging, sort of the psychological operations and warfare design to get us the divide against each other. Let me talk about the second one for a moment, in terms of putting out messages and the like, thats year around. What their adversaries do is look at all the preexisting fractures in our society and seek to push on that. On social media, what youre seeing is that theyre using theyll create a website somewhere. They may even hire americans to write on that website and put that out there as real news content. So, thats an ongoing challenge. And th
Struggles she faced in challenging congressional traditions and running for president and she discusses the 1992 president ial election in which ross perot emerged as a thirdparty candidate. Shirley chisholm, how do you explain this incredible president ial year . I think i can explain in terms of the fact its gotten to a point in American History now where the American People feel a kind of alienation and cynicism from traditional politics as we have known it when we are addressing the selection of a person to guide the ship of senate for a fouryear period, i. E. The president. The people feel that not only democrats or republicans, that its all part of the same old traditional package that there needs to be change in america and that if the change does not imme nate from the programs and the agenda and plans of either one of the two parties americans have gotten to the point where they are willing to make that change outside of the regular twoparty structure. How do you think we got