Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, just a few words of welcome today. Im tom blanton. Im director of the National Security archive at George Washington university and honored to be one of the organizers of today. This is the day, 25 years ago, that president george h. W. Bush signed the nunnlugar legislation into law. Now, being document fetishists, we scanned the bush library for the photographs of that extraordinary moment, and none exist. There was not even a signing ceremony, which gives you a sense of the kind of mixed opinion inside the Bush Administration about this Congressional Initiative in Foreign Policy. But the judgment of history is in. The wall street journal called the nunnlugar legislation one of the most prescient pieces of legislation ever enacted. And today on the National Security archive website you can see the declassified documents showing the real danger of that time, the first ever declassified list of the 3,429 soviet Strategic Nuclear warheads that
Quayle defeated Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen, winning the popular vote 53 to 46 . This debate is a little over one hour is little over an hour and a half. Woodruff on behalf of the commission on president ial debates, i am pleased to welcome you to this Vice President ial debate. Im Judy Woodruff of pbs macneillehrer news hour and frontline. My colleagues on the panel are John Margolis of the chicago tribune; tom brokaw of nbc news; and brit hume of abc news. The importance of tonights debate is underscored by two facts. Both george bush and Michael Dukakis said their selections of a running mate would reveal a lot about themselves. And based on the history since world war ii, there is almost a 5050 chance that one of the two men here tonight will become president of the United States. The candidates are senator dan quayle, the republican nominee, and senator Lloyd Bentsen, the democratic nominee. [applause] woodruff for the next 90 minutes we will be questioning the candidates fo
And what question would you most like to ask of your opponent . Vice pres. Bush i have none i would like to ask of her, but i would like to use the time. Let me put it this way, i do not have any questions. From the different cartermondale administration that the American People have the clearest choice. It is back to going to the failed ideas of the past. Inflation, despair, no leadership. Blaming the American People for failed leadership. Or another option. Keeping the recovery going into a benefits everybody. Prosperity, opportunity. I would like to hear her talk on those things, but i think the yellow light is flashing and we will leave it there. Nothing of the world series . [laughter] i think the comment on the cartermondale administration is typical. Im also tickled by the comments on human rights. The soviet union allowed 51,000 people to immigrate because in this measure because of administrations policies. It was not a great record on human rights achievements. This administr
For our country, for the future, for the principles we believe in, Walter Mondale and i have just begun to fight. [applause] thank you very much. I would like to thank Vice President bush, congresswoman ferrero, the members of our panel for joining us in this league of women voters debate. I would like to join you in taking them him at the city of philadelphia, and the league of women voters. The next debate, the president ial debate will take in kansas city on october 21. The subject will be for affairs and will begin at 8 00 eastern time. We hope you will join us on the 21st. Thank you. [applause] ahead of tuesdays five president ial debate, we will take a look back at the candidate virginia senator tim kaine in indiana governor mike pence using the cspan video library. Ive seen the story before in seen the bad news of a shooting or a weather emergency or famine. There will be more stories. There were something in the store yesterday that was different and it was you. Your spirit of
Our website, cspan history. The next president making appointments to the Supreme Court will be president donald trump. With Hillary Clinton white house, the rest of the world they have forget looked up to the United States of america. Cspan continues with the Vice President ial debate between governor mike pence and senator , beginning at 7 30 p. M. Eastern with a preview of the debate. 8 30, the predebate briefing for the audience. At 9 00, live coverage of the debate followed by your reaction. The 2016 Vice President ial debate. Watch liveon cspan, and anytime ondemand at cspan. Org, and listen live on the free cspan radio app. Each week until the 2016 election, road to the white house rewind brings you coverage of past residential races. Next, a Vice President ial debate from 1980 between dan quayle and Lloyd Bentsen. Questions from panelists. The republican ticket of incumbent Vice President bush and dan quayle defeated democrats Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen in the general el