Video: 'Kaine vs. Pence: The 2016 vice presidential debate'

(Tuesday, October 4, 2016, 9:00–10:30 p.m. EDT; during the 2016 United States presidential election campaign) — Senator Tim Kaine and Gov. Mike Pence repeatedly threw each other on the defensive over their running mates’ policies and character at the vice-presidential debate on tonight at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, with Pence making little effort to directly rebut the near-constant attacks on Donald Trump’s fitness for the presidency.

Video: 'SYND 5 10 76 AGRICULTURE SECRETARY EARL BUTZ ANNOUNCES HIS RESIGNATION'

(Monday, October 4, 1976, Butz spoke at about 1:00 p.m. EDT/Ford spoke at 1:35 p.m. EDT) — U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz resigned today with an apology for the “gross indiscretion” of an obscene joke he’d made that was derogatory to blacks which had generated a growing clamor and threatened to damage President Gerald Ford’s election campaign. Continue reading Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz quits under fire for racist remark 50 years ago this hour (Oct 4 1976) →