Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from by Jim Lehrer

By Jim Lehrer

“In his quiet yet severe approach, Jim Lehrer earns the belief of the key political avid gamers of our time,” notes Barbara Walters. “He explains and exposes their hopes and goals, their strengths and screw ups as they fight to place their most sensible foot forward.”

From the fellow extensively hailed as “the Dean of Moderators” comes a full of life and revealing e-book that attracts again the curtain on greater than 40 years of televised political debate in the US. A veteran newsman who has presided over 11 presidential and vice-presidential debates, Jim Lehrer provides readers a ringside seat for the various epic political battles of our time, laying off gentle on the entire severe turning issues and rhetorical fake pas that helped be sure the result of America’s presidential elections—and with them the process heritage. Drawing on his personal studies as “the guy within the heart seat,” in-depth interviews with the applicants and his fellow moderators, and transcripts of key exchanges, Lehrer isolates and illuminates what he calls the “Major Moments” and “killer questions” that outlined the debates, from Kennedy-Nixon to Obama-McCain.

Oftentimes those moments contain the applicants themselves and are seared into our collective political reminiscence. Michael Dukakis stumbles badly over a query concerning the dying penalty. Dan Quayle compares himself to John F. Kennedy as soon as too usually. Barack Obama and John McCain slightly make eye touch over the process a ninety-minute dialogue. At different occasions, the talk moderators themselves turn into a part of the story—and Lehrer is there to provide us a behind the curtain examine the drama. Peter Jennings indicates stunning the applicants via postponing the conscientiously negotiated ideas mins earlier than the 1988 presidential debate—to the consternation of his fellow panelists. Lehrer himself weathers a firestorm of feedback over his functionality as moderator of the 2000 Bush-Gore debate. after which there are the excruciating moments while audio traces pass useless and TelePrompTers remain darkish simply seconds prior to happening the air dwell in entrance of a world tv viewers of millions.

Asked to sum up his event as a player in high-level televised debates, President George H. W. Bush memorably likened them to a night in “tension city.” In Jim Lehrer’s soaking up insider account, we discover out that more true phrases have been by no means spoken.

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18 Shin­ing ­Path’s re­sponse was as fast as its bat­tered lo­gis­ti­cal ma­chine would allow.  .  . has ­brought us here and leads us to the ­golden and re­splen­dent com­mu­nism with a firm and se­cure hand” (PCP-SL 1992b). By then, how­ever, a sec­ond let­ter had ap­peared, in which ­Guzmán not only re­af­firmed his re­quest to es­tab­lish peace talks but also rec­og­nized the mer­its of the ­self-coup of 5 April 1992. ” Next, the great­est of sur­prises: And then you come to power. And the facts show that your man­age­ment has ­achieved ob­jec­tive ad­vances, es­pe­cially after the ­events of 5 April 1992, a sit­u­a­tion that was ­clearly ar­riv­ing as nec­es­sary for the Pe­ru­vian state, to which end the foun­da­tions for the eco­nomic pro­cess and for ad­vanc­ing the read­just­ment of the state have been es­tab­lished; and as far as what con­cerns us di­rectly, from that date and under your po­lit­i­cal di­rec­tion, it has de­vel­oped a co­her­ent and system­atic strat­egy im­ple­mented at var­i­ous lev­els, es­pe­cially in the field of in­tel­li­gence, achiev­ing real suc­cesses, es­pe­ cially in the cap­ture of ca­dres and lead­ers, in­clud­ing the sig­na­to­ries of this T h e Ye a r s W e L i v e d i n D a n g e r 29 let­ter, which is ev­i­dently the most im­por­tant suc­cess of the Pe­ru­vian state under your lead­er­ship dur­ing these thir­teen years of war.

14 In the fol­low­ing ­months, the cap­tures pro­ceeded in rapid suc­ces­sion. At the end of 1992, nine­teen of a total of ­twenty-two mem­bers of Shin­ing ­Path’s Cen­tral Com­mit­tee were in ­prison. ” After the ­speech he was taken to a high se­cur­ity ­prison to spend the re­main­der of his life. De­fend­ing the Life and ­Well-Being of Pres­i­d ent Gon­z alo As proof of their stub­born po­lit­i­cal will, by early 1993 the na­tional lead­er­ship of Shin­ing Path had been re­built to some de­gree.

But, I re­it­er­ate, the prin­ci­pal thing was to make them under­ stand that we were a hard bone to chew, and that we were ready to do any­thing, any­thing. 7 How­ever, while Shin­ing Path was boast­ing that “the party has a thou­sand eyes and a thou­sand ears” and knew where and who to hit, the mil­i­tary en­gaged in blind re­pres­sion. As a re­sult, in many parts of Ay­a­cu­cho, the contra­dic­tions ­between Shin­ing Path and the pea­santry that had ­started to sur­face at the end of 1982 were de­ferred.

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