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Eyes on the U.S. Trump And The World

Presidential Debate, Mister Television V. Madam Secretary

Donald Trump is a master of TV. Monday night’s one-on-one showdown with Hillary Clinton will be a new test.

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Eyes on the U.S. Trump And The World

A Mean Life: Donald Trump And The Purpose Of Politics

NEW YORK — In October 1980, in his first major interview on network television, Donald Trump sat on a couch in his Fifth Avenue apartment discussing the tough decisions he had made as a builder. (“Rona Barrett Looks at Today’s Super Rich” would air the following year.) Then the 34-year-old Trump abruptly turned the casual interview into something more controversial: a lecture on the lack of leadership in the United States. Gas prices were soaring, and inflation was rampant. More than four dozen Americans who had been kidnapped from the U.S. Embassy in Iran were being held hostage while, according […]

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