Video: 'Clinton vs. Trump: The second 2016 presidential debate'
(Sunday, October 9, 2016, 9:00–10:30 p.m. EDT; during the 2016 United States presidential election campaign) — Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton collided in an almost unremittingly hostile debate on tonight Washington University in St. Louis, a 90-minute spectacle of character attacks, tawdry allegations, and Trump’s startling accusation that Clinton had “tremendous hate in her heart.”
Video: 'Gore vs. Kemp: The 1996 vice presidential debate'
(Wednesday, October 9, 1996, 9:00-10:30 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. Continue reading Economy dominates Gore-Kemp vice presidential debate 30 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 9 1996)
Video: 'Trump Hot Mic LEAKED: "Grab 'Em By The Pu$$y"'
(Saturday, October 8, 2016, 3:53 p.m. EDT; during the 2016 United States presidential election campaign) — With his campaign in crisis, U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed today to stay in the race despite calls from more than two dozen prominent Republicans for him to drop out following yesterday’s release of a Sept. 16, 2005 recording of him making lewd comments about women. Continue reading Donald Trump vows to stay in presidential race after lewd remarks surface 10 years ago this hour (Oct 8 2016)
Video: 'Ford vs. Carter: The second 1976 presidential debate'
(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.” Continue reading Ford stumbles in second debate with Carter, denies ‘Soviet domination of Eastern Europe’ 50 years ago this hour (Oct 6 1976)
Video: 'Clinton vs. Dole: The first 1996 presidential debate'
(Sunday, October 6, 1996, 9:00-10:30 p.m. EDT; during the 1996 presidential election campaign) — U.S. President Bill Clinton briskly defended his stewardship tonight as improving the lives of ordinary Americans while former Senator Bob Dole tried to chip at his record by saying that average people had become worse off in the last four years and would prosper with Dole’s proposal for a major tax cut. Continue reading Clinton, Dole spar over Medicare, taxes in first debate 30 years ago this hour (Oct 6 1996)
Video: 'The Eugene Hasenfus Story'
(Sunday, October 5, 1986, approximately 12:45 p.m. CST) — In an incident that helped expose the Iran-Contra affair, a plane secretly ferrying supplies to Nicaraguan Contra rebels was shot down over southern Nicaragua today by Sandinista forces. Continue reading Plane shot down over southern Nicaragua, exposing Iran–Contra affair 40 years ago this hour (Oct 5 1986)
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)
Video: 'Clinton vs. Trump: The first 2016 presidential debate
(Monday, September 26, 2016, 9:00–10:30 p.m. EDT; during the 2016 United States presidential election campaign) — In a relentlessly antagonistic debate tonight at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton clashed over trade, the Iraq war, his refusal to release his tax returns and her use of a private email server, with Trump frequently showing impatience and political inexperience as Clinton pushed him to defend his past denigration of women and President Obama.
(Friday, September 26, 1986, 11:02 a.m. EDT) — William Hubbs Rehnquist took his oath today as the 16th Chief Justice of the United States, and Antonin Scalia took his as the newest Associate Justice. Continue reading Rehnquist, Scalia take their places on U.S. Supreme Court 40 years ago this hour (Sep 26 1986)
