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Candace Crowley moderates the second presidential election debate between Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama. In this debate, the participants discuss domestic affairs and foreign policy in a town hall style format. Romney and Obama highlight their positions on unemployment, workplace equality, energy, taxes, immigration, Benghazi, gun control, and manufacturing.

In this October 28, 1980 debate, presidential candidates Governor Ronald Reagan and President Jimmy Carter respond to press questions about their positions on inflation, unemployment, the defense budget, urban decline, terrorism, nuclear arms control, energy independence, and social security and other Federal programs.

Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale engage in their first Presidential debate of the 1984 campaign, with the questions restricted to domestic issues. Reagan seeks to focus on economic performance under his administration as compared to Carter-Mondale, while Mondale focuses on the deficit, arguing that Reagan's prediction of growing out of the deficit are fanciful; Reagan lacks an honest plan for confronting it. Note: This historical recording may contain...

In this October 1984 debate between President Reagan and Walter Mondale, the presidential candidates address foreign and domestic matters. Reagan and Mondale highlight their positions on the Soviet Union, strategic missiles, nuclear arms, illegal immigration, and more.

The second of three US Presidential Debates, sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates, between independent candidate Ross Perot, Democratic nominee Governor Bill Clinton and Republican nominee President George Bush. The debate takes place at the University of Richmond in Virginia on October 15th, 1992 and is moderated by Carole Simpson.

President Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter engage in the first of their series of Presidential debates in 1976 at the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia, the first Presidential debates since Kennedy-Nixon. This debate on domestic policy focuses on the challenges of combatting both inflation and unemployment. There is little direct clash over Watergate, but at the thematic level there is much discussion of restoring trust in government and confidence...

In this October 1996 debate between Senator Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton, the presidential candidates address domestic and foreign matters. Dole and Clinton highlight their positions on health care reform, Social Security, welfare, foreign aid, retirement, Affirmative Action, U.S. manufacturing, and more.

Bill Clinton and Bob Dole engage in the first of their presidential debates in the 1996 campaign. Clinton argues that America is better off than four years ago, while Dole tries to focus on Clinton's more liberal policies. The candidates highlight their positions on Medicare, drugs, special interest, gun control, foreign policy, healthcare, education, and the national deficit.

"Alan Schroeder sheds new light on every debate from 1960 to the present. From the selection of questioners to the camera angles, from issues of makeup to lighting and stage set, Schroeder shows how decisions are made that influence every aspect of what the audience perceives. The Presidential Debates: Forty Years of High-Risk TV takes readers on a backstage tour, approaching the debates within the framework of the fundamental steps to which TV producers...

In this October 11, 2000 ABC News debate, presidential candidates Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore respond to Jim Lehrer's questions about their positions on foreign policy, including military intervention and nation building; racial profiling and civil rights; gay marriage; gun control; affordable healthcare; and the environment and global warming.