Americans are watching on television as well. San francisco was the site of the signing of the United Nations charter, 31 years ago, thus it is an appropriate place to hold this debate. The subject of which is foreign and defense issues. The questioners tonight are max frankle, associate editor of the new york times. Henry l. True et, Diplomatic Correspondent and richard Diplomatic Correspondent of nbc news. The ground rules tonight are basically the same as they were for the first debate two weeks ago. The questions will be alternated between candidates. By the toss of a coin, governor carter will take the first question. Each question sequence will be as follows, the question will be asked and the candidate will have up to three minutes to answer, his opponent will have up to two minutes to respond. And prior to the response, the questioner may ask a followup question to clarify the candidates answer when necessary with up to two minutes to reply. Each candidate will have three minut
Thank you very much indeed. Great pleasure to be here. And i thought i would say a couple of things by way of pressers. Our efforts are made possible in part to the efforts of many people, including the Wilson Center and the National History center and these are the people who behind the scenes handle a logistics and work out whatever issues we have to make sure that all goes smoothly. Today is theus director of the National History center. We are always grateful for the the society of Foreign Relations which under rights the seminar. Support that makes it possible for us week to week to bring distinguished scholar to talk about their work in the wonderful setting that is the Wilson Center. Roger lewis will introduce our speaker. He is a famous historian. Of paper andhor , colossus, civilization. He is a fellow at the Hoover Institution at stanford. His many awards include the Benjamin Franklin prize for ludwigservice and the ehrhardt prize for economic journalism. He has given a lectu
And not simply left to the minority, who might have bothered to vote. Im not going to insult your intelligence tonight or impose upon your time by rehashing issues of the campaign or by making lastminute charges against my opponent. You know what the issues are. You know this is the clearest in thiso americans century. I would however urge that you one in mind tomorrow overriding issue. And that is the issue of peace. Hes in vietnam and the broader issue of peace and the world. We made a breakthrough in negotiations which will lead to peace in vietnam. We have agreed there will be a ceasefire. We have agreed that our prisoners of war will be returned. And we have agreed that the people of South Vietnam will determine their own future and not have a communist government or Coalition Government imposed upon them against their will. There are some details that we are insisting still be worked out. We insist because we want to be sure that this will not simply be a temporary peace but peac
World for generations to come. Regardless of how you vote, i urge each of you to vote. By your vote, you can make sure that this historic decision will be a decision made by a majority of all americans eligible to vote. And not simply left to the minority who might have bothered to vote. Im not going to insut your intelligence tonight or impose upon your time by rehashing issues of the campaign or making any lastminute charges against our opponents. You know what the issues are. You know that this is the clearest choice to americans of probably had for president in this century. I will surge thurge that you ha overriding issue and that is the issue of peace, peace in vietnam and the broader issue of peace in the world. As you know, we made a breakthrough in the negotiations which will lead to peace in vietnam. We have agreed that there will be a ceasefire. We have agreed that all our prisoners of war will be returned and missing in action will be accounted for. And we have agreed that
World for generations to come. Regardless of how you vote, i urge each of you to vote. By your vote, you can make sure that this historic decision will be a decision made by a majority of all americans eligible to vote. And not simply left to the minority who might have bothered to vote. Im not going to insut your intelligence tonight or impose upon your time by rehashing issues of the campaign or making any lastminute charges against our opponents. You know what the issues are. You know that this is the clearest choice to americans of probably had for president in this century. I will surge thurge that you ha overriding issue and that is the issue of peace, peace in vietnam and the broader issue of peace in the world. As you know, we made a breakthrough in the negotiations which will lead to peace in vietnam. We have agreed that there will be a ceasefire. We have agreed that all our prisoners of war will be returned and missing in action will be accounted for. And we have agreed that