Video: '1980 Presidential Candidate Debate: Governor Ronald Reagan and President Jimmy Carter - 10/28/80'

(Tuesday, October 28, 1980, 9:30-11:00 p.m. EST; during the 1980 United States presidential election) — With just seven days left before Election Day in the United States, President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, and former California Governor Ronald Reagan, a Republican, met tonight at Public Auditorium in Cleveland for their only presidential debate of the campaign.

Video: 'Television & the Presidency Part 12' (Oct. 28, 1980, at 4:10)

After Carter asserted that Reagan opposed national health insurance, Reagan’s response was “There you go again,” the best-remembered moment of the debate.

In his closing remarks, Reagan asked viewers: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”