[IP] Never let the truth get in the way of a good story...
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From: "Kevin G. Barkes" <kgb@xxxxxxx>
Date: September 4, 2004 3:02:12 PM EDT
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Subject: Never let the truth get in the way of a good story...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's Blunder at the Republican Convention:
The Nixon-Humphrey Presidential Debate Never Took Place
by Michel Chossudovsky
At the Republican Convention, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said he
became a Republican after listening to a televised debate between
Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon in 1968.
In his address, he described arriving in the United States from Austria
and hearing Richard Nixon challenge Hubert Humphrey in a televised
presidential debate:
"I finally arrived here in 1968.I had empty pockets, but I was full of
dreams. The presidential campaign was in full swing. I remember
watching the Nixon and Humphrey presidential race on TV. A friend who
spoke German and English, translated for me. I heard Humphrey saying
things that sounded like socialism which is what I had just left. But
then I heard Nixon speak. He was talking about free enterprise, getting
government off your back, lowering taxes, and strengthening the
military. Listening to Nixon speak sounded more like a breath of fresh
air.
I said to my friend, "What party is he?" My friend said, "He's a
Republican." I said, "Then I am a Republican!" And I've been a
Republican ever since!" (complete speech at
http://www.2004nycgop.org/cgi-data/speeches/files/
2jl158h8hr9cm5t7e4d379jp6o186680.shtml
The records on televised presidential debates are unequivocal. They
started in 1960 with the famous Kennedy-Nixon debate. Nixon's
performance in this debate was in part instrumental in his defeat and
the election of John F. Kennedy to the White house in the November
1960. (for a review of presidential debates since 1858 see The
Commission on Presidential Debates at:
http://www.debates.org/pages/history.html )
In the 1968 presidential campaign, Hubert Humphrey and Ed Muskie ran
against Richard Nixon and Maryland Governor Spiro Agnew. Richard Nixon
did not want to repeat his 1960 experience with JFK. He refused to
debate his Democratic opponent Hubert Humphrey. (See Providence
Journal-Bulletin (Rhode Island), October 3, 2000)
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