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HENRY KISSINGER, Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford...
...there is no agreement at all. The cases for and against debates begin with recognition of a simple fact: they are among the most popular programs television has ever put on. An average of 77 million people watched some portion of the four Kennedy-Nixon debates; the three Carter-Ford match-ups drew an average audience of 85 million. In 1980, 120 million took in at least part of the single Reagan-Carter debate. Preliminary estimates of the number who tuned in to the first Reagan-Mondale face-off are considerably lower, ranging from 70 million to 80 million...
...Landslide Winners Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Nixon in 1972 did not debate their rivals; Incumbents Gerald Ford in 1976 and Jimmy Carter in 1980 agreed to participate only because their campaigns were in serious trouble, and ended up losing the elections...
Fortunately, doubts are growing about these dubious events. This skepticism could conceivably lead to reform and perhaps even produce true debate. Up until now it has been an article of faith promoted by the television impresarios that the electoral tides began to ebb for Nixon, Ford and Carter when they faltered in the studios before the huge television audiences. There are poll data to support this contention. More subtle analysis these days suggests, however, that other forces were at work that would have surfaced with or without the great electronic spectacles. There was an unease over Nixon, and affection...
Last week that close partnership came undone. Even as the United Automobile Workers union was celebrating the successful end of contract negotiations with the Ford Motor Co. and the ratification of another agreement with General Motors, its Canadian branch went on strike against GM. Blue-and-white picket signs went up in front of the Windsor transmission plant, just a short drive from GM's Detroit headquarters, as workers shut down all 13 Canadian GM plants...