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.