Video: 'Jimmy Carter - Gerald Ford Presidential Candidates Debate #2 (1976)'

(Wednesday, October 6, 1976, 9:30-11:00 p.m. EDT; during the United States presidential election, 1976) — U.S. President Gerald R. Ford, in his second presidential debate with Democrat Jimmy Carter, said tonight that there was “there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration.”

He added that he did not “believe that the Poles consider themselves dominated by the Soviet Union,” and made the same claim with regards to Yugoslavia and Romania.