President jimmy carter and former california governor Ronald Reagan debated once. The debate took place in cleveland, ohio one week before election day. Good evening. Im ruth hiner fald of the league of women voters education fund. Next tuesday is election day. Before going to the polls voters want to understand the issues and know the candidates positions. Tonight voters will have an opportunity to see and hear the Major Party Candidates for the presidency, state their views on issues that affect us all. The league of women voters is proud to present this president ial debate. Our moderator is howard k. Smith. Thank you, mrs. Hiner field. The league of women voters is pleased to welcome to the cleveland, Ohio Convention center music hall president jimmy carter, the democrat irpartys candidate for reelection to the presidency and governor Ronald Reagan of california, the republican partys candidate for the presidency. The candidates will debate questions on domestic, economic, Foreign
Future president ial the television and Radio Station from the United States are proud to provide facilities for discussion of issues in the current Political Campaign by the two major candidates for the president. The candidates need no introduction. Richard im nixon and the democratic candidate senator john f. Kennedy. According to rule said by the candidate, each man should make an Opening Statement of eight minutes duration. A closing statement of freeman adjuration. And between, the candidate will answer or comment upon answers to questions hook by a panel of correspondents. In this first discussion of four, join to pyramids is the subject matter has been restricted to internal or domestic american matters. For the first Opening Statement by senator john f. Kennedy. In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln said the question whether this nation could exist free. In the election in 1960 with the world around us, the question is whether the world will exist. Half labour have three .
I think first of all, our own records prove that we know the way. There were essentially four debates between john f. Kennedy october 7, nixon, 1960, the second. October 13, 1960, the third. Time il o talk every speak about civil rights in the south . It is because i am preaching. It is a problem for all of us. It is a responsibility of leadership. I do it because we have to solve this problem together. I do it at this time khrushchev, because a man who has enslaved millions, man who has slaughtered thousands, we cannot have a situation where he can continue to point a finger at the usa and say we are denying rights to our citizens. Those trying to carry out the situation what will he do to provide fair employment . He has been the head of the committee on government contracts and he has not indicated his support of providing fair employment around the country so everyone can get a job regardless of their race, nor has he indicated that he would support title iii, which would give the
I think first of all, our own records prove that we know the way. There were essentially four debates between john f. Kennedy october 7, nixon, 1960, the second. October 13, 1960, the third. Time il o talk every speak about civil rights in the south . It is because i am preaching. It is a problem for all of us. It is a responsibility of leadership. I do it because we have to solve this problem together. I do it at this time khrushchev, because a man who has enslaved millions, man who has slaughtered thousands, we cannot have a situation where he can continue to point a finger at the usa and say we are denying rights to our citizens. Those trying to carry out the situation what will he do to provide fair employment . He has been the head of the committee on government contracts and he has not indicated his support of providing fair employment around the country so everyone can get a job regardless of their race, nor has he indicated that he would support title iii, which would give the
Beenubject matter has agreed will be restricted to internal or domestic american matters. Now for the first Opening Statement by senator john f. Kennedy. In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln said the question was if this nation would exist. Nation would this exist half free. In 19 six the, the question is if this nation will exist half slave, half free. I think it will depend in great measure on what we do here in the United States, on the kind of society that we build, on the kind of strength that we maintain. We discussed tonight domestic issues, but i would not want that to be any implication to be given that this does not involve directly our struggle with mr. Khrushchev for survival. Mr. Khrushchev is done new york, and he maintains a communist offensive throughout the world because of the productive power of the soviet union itself. The chinese communists have always had a large population, but they are important and dangerous now because they are mounting a dangerous effort