The Debate about Debates - with Susan Page

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This week Katie and Jennifer are joined by award-winning journalist, author and the Washington Bureau Chief for USA Today, Susan Page. Susan has covered six White House administrations and ten presidential elections, and interviewed nine presidents. She was the first woman to serve as music chairman of the Gridiron Club show and was the president of the club, the oldest association of journalists in Washington, in 2011. She was president of the White House Correspondents Association in 2000. In 2019 she wrote a biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush titled The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty. And is working on an upcoming biography of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Earlier this month she served as the moderator of the 2020 vice presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris, which took place on October 7, 2020 in Salt Lake City. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.
0:12.0	Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.
0:15.7	Our goal is to promote objective reality.
0:18.8	As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.
0:25.1	Have power and words have consequences.
0:32.8	Our guest today is an award-winning journalist, author and the Washington Bureau Chief for USA Today.
0:40.2	Susan Page has covered six White House administrations and ten presidential elections
0:45.7	and interviewed nine presidents. She was the first woman to serve as the music chairman of the
0:51.1	Gridiron Club Show and was the president of the club, the oldest association of journalists
0:56.1	in Washington in 2011. She was president of the White House Correspondents Association in 2000
1:02.9	and in 2019 she wrote a biography of former first lady Barbara Bush titled The Matriarch,
1:09.7	Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty. And she's working on an upcoming biography
1:15.6	of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Earlier this month, she served as moderator of the 2020 Vice
1:22.4	Presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris, which took place on October 7, 2020
1:28.0	in Salt Lake City, which feels like a year ago at this point in 2020. Susan Page, it's an honor
1:33.8	to welcome you towards matter. Hey Katie, it's great to be with you. Also joining me is Jen Duck,
1:39.4	who has been a Belmont all week and dealing with all of the craziness of the debate, which
1:44.6	actually happened despite several people thinking maybe it wouldn't, but it actually did. Jen,
1:49.2	welcome. Thank you. Congratulations on having the second presidential debate there at Belmont
1:56.0	in Nashville. I'm sure that was an incredible experience. I was there. It happened. It was as you
2:01.6	saw on TV, it was quite an event and the second time Belmont hosted. So really a pleasure to be on
2:07.5	the other side this year as a professor seeing the university have the debate. Well, we're going to
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Riley Fessler, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Riley Fessler and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.