An audience in the palace of fine arts theater in san francisco. An estimated 100 million 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 frankel, associate editor of the new york times. Henry trewhitt, Diplomatic Correspondent of the baltimore sun, and richard have ler valeriani of nbc news. The ground rules are that questions will be alternated between two 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 there 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 follow up question to clarify the candidates answer when necessary with up to two minutes to reply. Eac
Jimmy carter focused on foreign and military issues. The debate is best remembered for president fords statement that there is no soviet domination of Eastern Europe. Good evening. Im Pauline Frederick of npr, moderator of this 2nd of the historic debates of the 1976 campaign between gerald r. Ford of michigan, republican candidate for president , and jimmy carter of georgia, democratic candidate for president. Thank you, president ford, and thank you, governor carter, for being with us tonight. This debate takes place before an audience in the palace of fine arts theater in san francisco. An estimated 100 million 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 frankel, associate editor of the new york times, henry l. Trewhitt, Diplomatic Correspondent of the baltimo
Americans are watching on television as well. San francisco was the sight of the signing of the american charter. It is an appropriate place to hold this debate, the subject of which is foreign and defense issues. The questioners tonight are max frankel, henry trewhitt, and richard valeriani, Diplomatic Correspondent of nbc news. Rules are the same for the first debate. Questions will be alternated between candidates. Governor carter will take the first question. Each question sequence will be as follows. The question will be asked and the candidate will have three minutes to answer. His opponent will have two minutes to respond. Prior to the response the questioner may ask a followup question to clarify with up to two minutes to reply. Each candidate will have three minutes for a closing statement at the end. President ford and governor carter do not have it prepared remarks with them this evening but they may take notes during the debate and refer to them. Mr. Frankel, you have the f
We will share guidelines in chats and links to the book so you have easy access. Remember your purchase supporting bookstore and staff. I would like to give a walk through our platform and event after this instruction. Our guest joining us on screen. Will we be taking questions from the audience. Please submit the questions below. If you are looking at the far below all the way to the right you will see two bubbles where you should put them. I would avoid the chat to keep track of all the questions. Also if you are watching Facebook Live stream, submit questions in the comments field and be sure to grab them there. Now i would like to give a warm welcome to our guests for the night, eddie cole, phd, associate professor of Higher Learning and organizational change at ucla and author of the campus color line College President s and the struggle for black freedom, College Published by Princeton University press. You can find him on twitter eddie cole. Former phd, historian of black womens
Today we have the pleasure of posting and discussing the personal new book the campus color line. Will be out on september 29. Please consider grabbing the book if you dont have one and now were open a limited capacity weekends are busy is your best is to come by on monday or tuesday and with the easy access thank you for supporting our bookstore and our staff like to give a walkthrough to our platform. We will be taking questions from the audience. All the way to the right and then to keep track of all the questions and not to give a warm welcome home. And the Author College president s in the struggle for black freedom and you can find them on twitter also the phd with a black womens history and racial politics. And with history and African Studies at the university of texas austin and is the author of remaking black power transformed an era with that please help me to welcome and thank you both for being here tonight. Welcome everyone we are glad to have everybody here i will dig in