Good evening from the Clark Athletic Center at the university of massachusetts in boston. Im jim lehrer of the news hour on pbs and i welcome you to the debate between the democratic candidate for president , Vice President al gore and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. They will be conducted within for th formats agreed to by the two campaigns. No answer to a question can exceed two minutes, rebuttals are limited to one minute. But as moderator, i have the option to follow up and extend any particular give and take 3 1 2 minutes. No single answer can exceed two minutes. The candidates under their may not question each other directly. There will be no Opening Statements but each candidate may have up to two minutes for a closing statement. The questions and the subjects were chosen by me alone. I have told no one from the two campaigns or the commission or anyone else involved what they are. Theres a small audience in the hall tonight. They are not here to part
Highly contested races in u. S. History. The outcome was not decided until five weeks after the boaters went to the polls, when the u. S. Supreme court stopped the florida recount. This awarded the states electoral votes to president bush. Mr. Lehrer good evening from the field house at Washington University in st. Louis. Im jim lehrer of the newshour on pbs. And i welcome you to this third and final campaign 2000 debate between the democratic candidate for president , Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. Lets welcome the candidates now. [applause] before proceeding tonight we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of governor mel carnahan of missouri, who , along with his son and his former chief of staff, died in a private plane crash last night near st. Louis. A reminder, as we continue now, that these debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The formats and the rules were worked out by the comm
President yee good afternoon. And welcome to the october 6th, 2020, regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer. Commissioner fewer present. Clerk supervisor haney . Supervisor haney present. Clerk supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman present. Clerk supervisor mar. Supervisor mar present. Clerk supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin present. Clerk supervisor preston. Supervisor preston present. Clerk supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen present. Clerk supervisor safai. Supervisor safai present. Clerk supervisor stefani. Supervisor stefani present. Clerk supervisor walton. Supervisor walton present. Clerk and supervisor yee. President yee present. Clerk mr. President , all members are present. President yee okay. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart. Will you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United St
Each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes. When you have 30 seconds remaining, you will hear a chime indicating when your time is almost up. When your allotted time is reached, i will indicate that your time is up and take the next person to speak. Best practice is to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly, and mute volume on your computer. I would like to take roll at this time. [roll call] clerk thank you, commissioners. First on your agenda is consideration of items proposed for continuance. Items 1a, b, and c for case numbers 2019000494 dnx, cua, and vnr are proposed for continuance to september 4, 2020. Item 3, case number 2019016388 cua, item 4, case number 2019017022 cua, is proposed for continuance to october 29, 2020. Further, commissioners, under your regular calendar, item 10, case 2019021010 cua at 717 california street, conditional use is requesting a continuance to november 11, 2020, and item 19, is requesting a continuance to october 1, 2020. I have
Interesting is the one we are going to discuss tonight, james carville. For quite a number of reasons. First of all, garfield is one of the most intelligent president s that we have ever had. He is up there in the top half dozen. When we go through his life, by the end of it or the middle of it youre going to start laughing because you are just going to say, no, that cant be. He cant be that good in that field, it is just not possible and then we will find Something Else and you will say no. He is just incredibly bright and the hope for his presidency was enormous. And so we are going to discuss an absolutely brilliant human being. I was chatting with a friend before and he asked me if i thought garfield was the most intelligent. I dont know how you test Something Like that. Its not as if you give president s iq tests. It is a lot easier with things that can be measured. Tall and short. We all know that madison was our shortest president and lincoln or tallest, that is easy. I dont kno