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Arguments Table
| Speech | Name | Component | Year | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good evening. | Edwin Newman | O | 1976 | 23 Sep 1976 |
| I'm Edwin Newman, moderator of this first debate of the 1976 campaign between Gerald R. Ford of Michigan, Republican candidate for president, and Jimmy Carter of Georgia, Democratic candidate for president. | Edwin Newman | O | 1976 | 23 Sep 1976 |
| We thank you, President Ford and we thank you, Governor Carter, for being with us tonight. | Edwin Newman | O | 1976 | 23 Sep 1976 |
| There are to be three debates between the presidential candidates and one between the vice-presidential candidates. | Edwin Newman | O | 1976 | 23 Sep 1976 |
| All are being arranged by the League of Women Voters Education Fund. | Edwin Newman | O | 1976 | 23 Sep 1976 |
| Tonight's debate, the first between presidential candidates in sixteen years and the first ever in which an incumbent president has participated, is taking place before an audience in the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia, just three blocks from Independence Hall. | Edwin Newman | O | 1976 | 23 Sep 1976 |
| The television audience may reach a hundred million in the United States and many millions overseas. | Edwin Newman | O | 1976 | 23 Sep 1976 |
| Tonight's debate focuses on domestic issues and economic policy. | Edwin Newman | O | 1976 | 23 Sep 1976 |
| Questions will be put by Frank Reynolds of ABC News, James Gannon of the Wall Street Journal, and Elizabeth Drew of the New Yorker magazine. | Edwin Newman | O | 1976 | 23 Sep 1976 |
| Under the agreed rules the first question will go to Governor Carter. | Edwin Newman | O | 1976 | 23 Sep 1976 |