Hot in the grips of Election ’88, this October 6th in 1988. The morning after the only vice-Presidential debate of the campaign had many talking about the now-famous exchange between Democratic candidate Lloyd Bentsen and Republican candidate Dan Quayle over Quayle’s qualifications to assume the Presidency in lieu of the
– ABC Radio World News This Week – October 3, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Hard to say “business as usual” this first week in October, 1976. The Presidential Campaign was officially a month-old and despite widespread yawns from both sides of the political aisle, polls showed the Carter-Ford
October in an election year – President Roosevelt on the campaign trail, delivering an address at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh on October 1, 1936 A baseball park is a good place to talk about box scores. Tonight I am going to talk to you about the box score of the
On September 23, 1952, vice-Presidential candidate Senator Richard Nixon was fighting for his political life amid charges of misusing campaign contributions, secret bank accounts and dirty tricks. So much were the allegations that it was advised Eisenhower dump the nefarious running mate and look for someone else. In his defense,
– News for Week of July 11, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Busy week, this particular one in July 1974. Surprise results from elections in Canada, uneasy ceasefire staying along Israeli borders and that thing called Watergate that kept the country and much of the world
March 14, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup; Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 14, 2000 – Election 2000 – only three months into it and already Al Gore secured enough delegates to put him over the top. Only a week after Super Tuesday, the batch of
– ABC Radio News+ News from WXYZ, Detroit – March 10,1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Sixty-one years ago today, battle lines were being drawn for the Presidential election of 1964. The very first Republican Party Primary, in New Hampshire was underway. First results were in, and the village
– BBC News – Palestinian Elections – CBS News – Condoleeza Rice Interview – Jan 25-27, 2006 – 19 years ago, things changed in Gaza. Hamas, an organization labeled by many governments as a terrorist organization decided to don political attire and go after a popular election. In what was
– News for January 14, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day was largely relegated to speculation on the new Eisenhower term, since the Inaugural was a little over a week away, this January 14th in 1957. But it was also concerned with developments in the Middle-East
– ABC Radio: Voices In The Headlines – week ending November 14, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A harbinger of things to come? Maybe. But at the time, the week ending this November 14th in 1965 was no small feat no matter how you looked at it. Starting
