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Sunday, November 13, 2011

20th Century Vision: 'PBS MacNeil/Lehrer Report Iowa Caucus 1988'

Source:20th Century Vision- PBS News anchor Jim Lehrer, David Gergen, and Mark Shields, talking about the 1988 Iowa Caucus.

"The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.[6] It is a nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of educational television programming to public television stations in the United States, distributing series such as American Experience, America's Test Kitchen, Antiques Roadshow, Arthur, Barney & Friends, Between the Lions, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Downton Abbey, Finding Your Roots, Frontline, The Magic School Bus, Masterpiece Theater, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Nature, Nova, the PBS NewsHour, Reading Rainbow, Sesame Street, Teletubbies, Keeping up Appearances and This Old House." 

From Wikipedia 

"PBS MacNeil/Lehrer Report Iowa Caucus 1988" 


When then Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole was running for President back in 1987-88, he won the Iowa Caucus, beating both Vice President George H. Bush, who was considered the establishment candidate, as well as beating Reverend Pat Robertson who was the Christian-Conservative candidate. That made the 1988 Republican primary race for President a two-candidate field between Minority Leader Dole and Vice President Bush, giving each candidate a target to shoot at.