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Telephone lines were open for comments on the 2012 presidential campaign prior to the second of three presidential debates. Also included were interviews with journalists and debate official…

Janet Brown talked about plans for the presidential debates in the fall, the established criteria for participation, and the current status of invitations to the major candidates. She also r…

Executive Director on the Commission for Presidential Debates Janet Brown talked about the scheduling of the presidential debates. The commission sponsored just the post-convention debates. …

Janet Brown and Virginia DeSimone addressed an audience at a forum on “American Politics and the Electoral Process,” sponsored by the National Archives. Both speakers discussed the significa…

The Commission on Presidential Debates held a symposium that discussed possible changes to the formats in the 1992 debate. They answered audience questions.

LIVE Viewer Call-In: Open Phones, 1988 Presidential Debate Preview The debate will be between Vice President George Bush and Gov. Michael Dukakis

The media was given a briefing and tour of the 1988 Presidential debate site on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles, California. Bob Neumann, the Director of Media Arrangements for the Commiss…

An open phones segment before the vice-presidential debate from Omaha, Nebraska in 1988.

Janet Brown, Executive Director of The Commission on Presidential Debates, gave a statement and took questions about the League of Women Voter’s withdraw from a 1988 Presidential Debate.

A media briefing and tour were held at Wake Forest University, the site of one of the Presidential debates in 1988. Information was given to the media about the debate and the events surroun…

The panel talked about the U.S. election process and how the public chooses their candidates. They answered students' questions.