"The Republican National Committee is preparing to change its rules to require presidential candidates seeking the party’s nomination to sign a pledge to not participate in any debates sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates,” reports @maggieNYT.
@maggieNYT Here’s the last major-party Presidential nominee who refused to debate fall opponent:
@maggieNYT Will Republican candidates for Congress also be required not to debate their opponents?
LBJ while talking to Walter Cronkite for what turned out to be his last TV interview (about civil rights), tomorrow 1973, ten days before his death at age 64:
FDR at home in Warm Springs, Georgia, April 1945, the day before he died at age 63:
Ad for posthumous broadcast of LBJ’s last TV interview, conducted tomorrow 1973:
“Ignorance and misinformation can handicap the progress of a city or company. But they can, if allowed to prevail in foreign policy, handicap this country’s security….We can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense.” JFK in Dallas speech he did not live to deliver 11/22/63
Place setting that waited for President Kennedy at Trade Mart luncheon, Dallas, 11/22/63:
JFK’s prosthetic chair at Trade Mart luncheon, awaiting motorcade’s arrival, Dallas, November 22, 1963: