Video: 'Oct 9, 1996 - VP Debate Between Gore & Kemp'

(Wednesday, October 9, 1996, 9:00 p.m. EDT; during the 1996 presidential election campaign) — Vice President Al Gore and his Republican challenger, Jack Kemp, faced off tonight in a 90-minute debate that presented voters with rival economic messages and partisan cross-sniping over social issues like abortion and affirmative action that have received scant airing in the Presidential contest.

”Bill Clinton and Al Gore suggest that they’ll give us a tax cut, but only if we do exactly what they want us to do,” Kemp said. ”That isn’t America. That’s social engineering.”