Word: kalb
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According to media reports, Bush is the only presidential candidate of either party to refuse to take part in Marvin Kalb's excellent series of nationally televised interviews, "Candidates '88". Kalb, director of the Kennedy School's Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy, is an incisive questioner whose televised exchanges with Michael Dukakis, born-again candidate Gary Hart and Paul Simon are among the most substantial of the campaign. Kalb certainly would have questioned the vice president about evidence--including a recently surfaced memo signed by former National Security Council chief John Poindexter--that suggests Bush's support...
...series because of scheduling pressures. Barbara Pardue, Bush's press secretary, points out that the candidate has been interviewed by David Frost and Barbara Walters and appeared on NBC's Meet the Press. Yet the "half day" Pardue said it would take Bush to "do a good job" on Kalb's hour-long program, which is taped in the Kennedy School's Arco Forum and broadcast on PBS, shouldn't be difficult to find in the schedule of a candidate who all but resides in neighboring New Hampshire. And Bush's television interviews to date have either preceded disclosures about...
With $23 million raised and a still comfortable lead in the polls, Bush, like his boss, evidently feels no need to answer tough questions. That in effect is what he told Kalb when he declined to be interviewed. What he told the American people is that he would be their president without putting his case before them...
When pressed by Kalb on his pledge to increasesocial spending programs at the same that he plansto balance the federal budget, Simon resorted tohis tried and true rhetorical formula, urging thecountry "to seize and create our own destiny...
...Kalb may recognize this problem in his debates.Even as he jibed with Simon over bow ties andbooks, Kalb seemed to want to move away from thepersonal issues that have dominated the campaign.Before the cameras went live yesterday afternoonand before the former television journalist openedwith his question about hearing aids, Kalbreminded the Kennedy School audience to stay awayfrom "mushy" questions