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Issues. The questioners tonight are max frankel, associate editor of the new york times, henry l. Trewhitt, Diplomatic Correspondent at the baltimore sun, and richard valeriani, Diplomatic Correspondent of nbc news. The ground rules 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 r...

The questions will be alternated between candidates. By because of a coin possibly coin, governor carter will take the first question. The question will be asked in the candidate will have up to three minutes to answer. His opponent will have two minutes to respond. Response, the questioner may ask a followup question to clarify the answer. Without the two minutes to respond. Candidate will have three minutes for a closing statement at the end. President ford and governor carter do not have notes are prepared remarks with them this evening. They may take notes during the debate and refer to th...

Election, winning 50 of the popular vote to mr. Fords 48 . The league of women voters sponsored this debate. It is about 90 minutes. Ms. Frederick good evening. Im Pauline Frederick of npr, moderator of this second 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 one hund...

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 runn...

Diverse background of of policy and of partisanship, all coming together at this time, recognizing he is the man that we need to leave lead in these next four years, because these are tumultuous times. We have got to win the wars. We have got to get our economy back on track. We have got to not allow the greed and corruption on wall street anymore. And we have not got to allow the partisanship that has really been entrenched in washington, d. C. , no matter whos been in charge. When the republicans were in charge, i didnt see a lot of progress there, either. When the democrats, either, though,...