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...saying goes, a fool can ask ten questions while a wise man is answering one. Generally, print journalists knew their subjects better than electronic journalists; the best-balanced team of questioners were the three who queried the vice-presidential candidates; the best single questioner was Max Frankel, who exhibited the sharpness he will bring to the New York Times editorial page when he becomes its editor in January. His question to Ford produced the famous gaffe on Eastern Europe, which Frankel, unbelieving, gave Ford a chance to correct. An equally pertinent Frankel question to Carter went unanswered as Carter unabashedly...
Incredulous, New York Times Associate Editor Max Frankel asked a follow-up question that offered Ford a chance to retreat, but Ford lowered his head and charged into a trap of his own making. By his reckoning, Yugoslavia, Rumania and even Poland were not under the Soviet thumb. "Each of these countries is independent, autonomous; it has its own territorial integrity...
Ford got into the jam in the course of answering Frankel's question about whether the Soviets had the better of the U.S. in the grain sales and the 1975 Helsinki agreement, which confirmed the postwar boundaries of Eastern Europe. The President easily came up with justification for the grain deals but ran into trouble trying to defend the Helsinki pact. He has clearly demonstrated in the past that he understands the realities of Eastern Europe, and he apparently meant to say, as he did several sentences later, that the U.S. "does not concede that those countries are under...
Gerald Ford was on the defensive-and Jimmy Carter on the offensive-for most of the debate. The opening question amounted to Ford's best argument for his foreign policy. New York Times Associate Editor Max Frankel asked Carter what fault he could find with the foreign policy of an Administration that had improved U.S. relations with the Soviet Union and China and promoted steps toward peace in the Middle East and southern Africa...
...felt he had taken the Sunday department about as far as he could without the resources of the news department," says one daily editor. One of Frankel's own editors agreed that the two sides of the paper were isolated to the detriment of both, that a separate Sunday department "had all the usefulness of rumble seats...