Clip: Ronald Reagan and the 1980 Presidential Campaign

TIMELINE

00:00:00	A DISCUSSION WITH MY DAUGHTER AMY THE OTHER DAY BEFORE I CAME HERE TO ASK WHAT SHE THOUGHT THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE WAS.
00:00:11	SHE SAID NUCLEAR WEAPON AND THE CONTROL OF NUCLEAR ARMS.
00:00:13	THIS IS A FORMIDABLE FORCE.
00:00:15	SOME OF THESE WEAPONS HAVE 10 MEGA TONS OF EXPLOSION.
00:00:22	IF YOU PUT 50 TONS OF TNT IN EACH ONE OF RAILROAD CARS, YOU WOULD HAVE A CARLOAD OF TNT, TRAIN LOAD OF TNT STRETCHING ACROSS THIS NATION.
00:00:34	THAT'S ONE MAJOR EXPLOSION IN A WARHEAD.
00:00:40	WE HAVE THOUSANDS -- EQUIVALENT OF MEGA TONS OF TNT WARHEADS.
00:00:47	THE CONTROL OF THESE WEAPONS IS THE SINGLE MAJOR RESPONSIBILITY OF A PRESIDENT.
00:00:54	AND TO CAST OUT THIS COMMITMENT OF ALL PRESIDENTS BECAUSE OF SOME SLIGHT TECHNICALITIES THAT CAN BE CORRECTED IS A VERY DANGEROUS APPROACH.
00:01:04	>> JIMMY CARTER, NUCLEAR PHYSICIST, ENGINEER, AND A HALF ACADEMY GRADUATE GOING INTO THIS DEBATE STILL NECK IN NECK, SOME POLLS HAD RONALD REAGAN UP A COUPLE OF POINTS, SOME HAD CARTER EVEN OR A POINT OR TWO AHEAD.
00:01:19	WHY DID THAT SHAPE THE RACE, THAT MOMENT.
00:01:22	>> I HAD INTERVIEWED JODY POWELL BEFORE HE PASSED AWAY SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, I INTERVIEWED HIM SEVERAL YEARS AGO ABOUT THE DEBATE PREP AT CAMP DAVID WITH THE PRESIDENT FOR THE UPCOMING DEBATE WITH RONALD REAGAN.
00:01:36	AND IN THE DEBATE PREP, CARTER INVOKED