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CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, October 8, 1984
Selections for panel disputed
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — the presidential campaign camps blamed each other over the problem of which journalists would question President Reagan and Walter Mondale last night during their first television debate.
Sandi Risser, spokeswoman for the league of Women Voters, which sponsored the debate in Louisville, Ky., said "nearly 100" names were submitted — 36 initially, the rest later.
Dorothy Ridings, president of the league, said the rejections were evenly divided.
It was about half and half (re-
sections by each camp). "Ridings
said. "There was no pattern to the
rejections."
Risser said the same process of submitting names to the camps was used both in the 1976 and 1980 debates. "In '76 none were rejected. In '80 there were some strikes, but a lawsuit was easily formed! It had worked well before, and justifiably a campaign might know something about a person that would be a legitimate reason not to use a person."
A senior Reagan aide gave several names to illustrate why the Reagan camp turned down some of the league's choices.
Sources in his campaign said they rejected about 20 journalists.
He said an initial list included such journalists as Jerrold Schechter, who served as a spokesman for the National Security Council under President Carter; William Greider, whose interviews with budget director David Stockman for The Washington Post featured flattering picture of economic policy-making within the administration, and USA Today Editorial Director John Seigenthaler, rejected as a one-time "Kennedy man."
LOUISVILLE, KY. — After the debate, President Reagan calls his wife over as his Democratic opponent, Walter Mondale, kisses his wife, Joan.
Debate winner up to pollsters
By ARNOLD SAWISLAK UPI Senior Editor
WASHINGTON — President Reagan and Walter Mondale came to their first debate armed with facts, figures, quotations and the concealed debaters — the rhetorical spears and arrows that skewer an opponent.
The question of who "won" the 102-minute confrontation will have to await the verdict of the pollsters in the practice of their arcane art.
It seems certain, however, that neither man "lost" the debate; neither dominated the contest nor committed significant blunders of the magnitude of Gerald Ford's famous 1976 gaffe about Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, or Jimmy Carter's citing his pre-teen daughter Amy as advising him on nuclear war.
ANALYSIS
Both appeared stiff and somewhat stilted at the start of the debate, but both loosened up as the clock ran down. Even so, there was more than a little stumbling and fumbling for them, and very little humor or passion
man came prepared to make certain points on his own behalf — and did. Each also had a quive of barbed comments to nick the other — and did.
And each had his hardy quotations — Reagan from Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Paine, Mondale from John Kennedy and Will Rogers.
Both men had memorized more statistics than a classroom of students taking detailed notes could provide. And any casual living room audience.
Mondale obviously wants to avoid the appearance he was out to savage the president, and praised Reagan and for raising America's morale.
AS BEST AS could be seen, each
HE ALSO HAD some points to make - his demand that Reagan offer more than economic recovery as his answer to federal deficits; and
his charge that the benefits of the Reagan years have gone mostly to the rich and privileged.
Reagan was defensive — the classic role of the incumbent — but not apologetic. He did not waver from the strategic line drawn early on by his campaign: the country is better off than it was when he came to office and the charge that Mondale has nothing more in his program than higher taxes and more government spending.
Mondale tried hard to tie the Rev. Jerry Falwell around Reagan's neck. Reagan draped Carter around Mondale. Mondale pressed hard on Reagan's record of budget cut proposals in social programs; Reagan said he would never take Social Security from senior citizens.
When it was over, Americans had gotten a pretty good look at the two men who want to lead them from 1985 through 1989. And perhaps it was the audience, the hundreds in Louisville and the millions in front of television sets elsewhere, who were the winners.
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