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| Courtesy: The New Hampshire Primary Debate Partnership, a joint effort of New Hampshire Public Television, New England Cable News and The Union Leader. |
| "Republican
Presidential Forum"
Friday Oct. 22, 1999 at New Hampshire Public Television studio in Durham, NH. 7:00-8:00 p.m. (EST). |
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The Questions Media |
Sponsored by: The New Hampshire Primary
Debate Partnership, a joint effort of New Hampshire Public Television,
New England Cable News and The Union Leader.1
Candidates: Gary Bauer, Steve Forbes, Orrin Hatch, Alan Keyes and John McCain.2 Moderator: Cokie Roberts. Format: Three 20-minute segments on economy and health care, foreign affairs, and social issues and education. Candidates seated in a semi-circle: from left to right Bauer, Hatch, Forbes, McCain and Keyes (order determined by a drawing). In each segment Roberts posed a question and each candidate had approximately 90 seconds to detail his position, proceeding left to right in a roundtable format, before an open discussion began. This was repeated in the second and third segments. No opening or closing statements. Simulcast on NHPTV,
New England Cable News and C-SPAN.
1. Associate sponsors include: NBC News, ABC News, C-SPAN, the Associated Press, the University of New Hampshire, New Hampshire Public Radio and WNDS-TV. 2. Texas Gov. George W. Bush
had actually campaigned in New Hampshire on Oct. 22 during the day, but
in the evening he attended a fundraising dinner in Sugarbush, Vermont for
the Vermont Republican Party, honoring a commitment he had made back in
July.
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