I didn't look very substantive and they didn't know me very well. The sad part of it was that the American public was getting the impression that's all what I was capable of doing. But if you watched what I was on doing, it was 15 seconds of 30 seconds of Gerry Ferraro with a zinger that hit either President Reagan or either Vice President Bush. If you recall in the campaign, I was on television virtually every night of the week. The bottom line as far as I was concerned was presenting to the public who Gerry Ferraro was. And it was, it was not beating George Bush, believe it or not. JIM LEHRER: When you actually went on the stage in Philadelphia, did you have an objective, a bottom line of what you wanted to accomplish? So I just found the whole process very tedious. I also lose interest if I have to go over and over and over again things because it looks to me if you're practicing and it becomes artificial. I'd rather give you a spontaneous direct response to it. If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know. I don't like to practice ahead of time what I'm going to say. GERALDINE FERRARO: Well, for one thing, you get kind of tired repeating the same responses to the same questions and trying to hone them. Were you really prepared, or were you nervous or what? JIM LEHRER: When you finished the process, did you feel like you were ready. And then spent a couple of days at a hotel in New York again practicing and simulating the debate and standing at a lectern again being peppered with the questions from people who were playing moderator, and playing reporter, and playing George Bush.Īnd then we went into a studio and duplicated the whole thing and again ran through the debate, timing it, and watching my responses. But we spent a week going over questions and answers trying to hone them down to where they were two-minute responses. I'd been given a book at home loaded with responses to potential questions and all separated by category and subject. We spent a full week getting ready for the debate, though I spent several weeks ahead of time studying the issues. Do you remember how you prepared for that debate? And then get some comments, some overall comments on the process and debating generally… Your debate was as candidate for vice president in '84, it was in Philadelphia and it was against George Bush. JIM LEHRER: We want to go through your experience, your own experience with national debates.
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