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To: michael97123 who wrote (69510)	1/28/2003 12:55:02 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

It was 1980, actually. JIM LEHRER: Two memorable happenings in that debate. You said, "I had a discussion with my daughter, Amy, the other day before I came here to ask her what the most important issue was, she said she thought nuclear weaponry." Was that something you had in your mind to say, or did that come to you there on the podium? PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER: Well, I had discussed this with my political advisors, not that I would say it, but just the fact that Amy had said it to me, and I was trying to make the point that President Reagan's condemnation of nuclear arms agreements that had been negotiated by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and Nixon, and they were fallacious and we shouldn't deal with the Soviet Union on this kind of thing. He had made a statement that it was okay with us if Iraq had the atomic weapons, things of that kind. It was important to show that not only I, but all Americans were concerned about a nuclear issue, and I chose the accurate description of a conversation I had had with Amy, hoping that it would prove that this was a matter of great concern. Trying to emphasize the fact that my position on both nuclear arms control issues and nonproliferation was superior to his. JIM LEHRER: You were ridiculed for it and you were criticized for it. Did you expect that? Were you surprised? PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER: I was surprised. But President Reagan and his political advisers turned it around to I think his advantage by saying that I was getting my advice on nuclear power issues or arms control issues from my teenage daughter. And it was used by the Republicans to ridicule me, and I think they probably gained some political points from it. pbs.org Of course, Karl Rove would never, ever dream of gaining political points from all this. Never. I'm shocked, shocked! that even someone as cynical as moi would ever allow that thought. And if the Republicans did actually manage to gain political points, well, that's just something else worth cheering for, around here anyway. Moral clarity, forces of righteousness and all that.