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Presidential Politics and Iraq
March 16, 2004
After a clip of President Bush and presidential Democratic contender Sen. John Kerry's latest remarks on Iraq, Jim Lehrer speaks with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks about the role U.S. policy in Iraq will play in the upcoming presidential election.

Historians Consider the Marathon 2004 Presidential Election
March 16, 2004
Margaret Warner discusses the historical implications of an elongated presidential campaign with historian and author Michael Beschloss and Richard Norton Smith, director of the Lincoln Library and Museum.

Job Outsourcing and the Race for the White House
March 11, 2004
Columnists David Brooks of the New York Times and Tom Oliphant of the Boston Globe analyze the battle between President Bush and Democratic presidential contender Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and the outsourcing of American jobs.

Biographers Review the Lives of the Candidates
March 4, 2004
Margaret Warner gets perspectives on Democratic and Republican presidential candidates from University of New Orleans historian Douglas Brinkley, who wrote a recent book about Kerry's service in Vietnam, and Princeton University history professor Fred Greenstein, who is the author of two books about the Bush presidency.

Bush Campaign Builds Massive 'Grassroots' Network
March 2, 2004
Terence Smith speaks with key figures of the Bush-Cheney 2004 reelection team and other political experts about the campaign's innovative methods of building grassroots support across the nation and a preview of its media campaign plans.

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International Trade
Kerry, President Bush Both Favor Free Trade, Differ in Approach and Planning
President Bush has continued American involvement in free trade organizations and treaties, while highlighting training and assistance programs for displaced workers at home. Sen. John Kerry has said, however, that the president has not done enough to enforce trade agreement rules or to protect American workers from the negative aspects of free trade.

 

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