#POTUS: The Newsom-DeSantis Presidential Debate that hasn't happened. Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution
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#POTUS: The Newsom-DeSantis Presidential Debate that hasn't happened. Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye in the World. I'm John Boucher. The governor of California, Mr. Newsom, |
| 0:09.4 | the governor of Florida, Mr. Dishantists, debate, question mark, Bill Whale. At the Hoover |
| 0:15.5 | Institution, he keeps his guests busy with his podcast, but right now I'm keen on a time |
| 0:21.9 | machine that Bill makes available on his most recent column of California Dreaming, which |
| 0:27.3 | is a time machine back to 1967 to come with an analogy of Dishantists versus Newsom, 1967, |
| 0:36.4 | Kennedy versus Reagan. Bill, a very good evening to you. The link that you provide in your |
| 0:42.5 | excellent column takes us to 1967. The scale of this debate, one, a Kennedy, the Famine |
| 0:49.9 | needs no introduction, Bobby Kennedy, and the other Ronald Reagan, then the governor |
| 0:55.1 | of California. What do we learn from that debate that can inform us, if and when, there's |
| 1:00.5 | a Dishantist Newsom conversation on television? Good evening to you. Good evening, John. |
| 1:05.6 | We learned that it's a different world in 1967 than 2023. No news there, I suppose, but |
| 1:12.1 | you just watched the video. It's fascinating. First of all, it's in black and white. |
| 1:16.4 | This is back when satellite technology technology was still primitive and only in about |
| 1:21.2 | a fifth or six year of existence, so it's not the greatest equality like you see today, |
| 1:26.1 | but you see two things that stand out. Number one, this is the debate between Reagan and |
| 1:30.0 | Bobby Kennedy, but what they're doing is they're fielding questions from a group of students |
| 1:34.0 | over London. It's a debate over the war and Vietnam one topic. It's really the two of them |
| 1:39.3 | asking questions back and forth. It's a very kind of civil conversation. Second thing |
| 1:43.2 | you see here is just gifted Ronald Reagan is a politician, and that he not only gets great |
| 1:48.3 | speeches, but he's very quick on his feet. He's Amy Bull getting a lot of nasty hostile questions |
| 1:53.6 | from students over London, but he handles all very easily. And John, it's just it's kind |
| 1:58.4 | of a narrative that that is Ronald Reagan and that he is at all times in his career underestimated |
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