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Jim Lehrer

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I'm in the reporting part of journalism.


— Jim Lehrer


#journalism #part #reporting

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.


— Jim Lehrer


#am #basis #daily #daily basis #experience

People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry.


— Jim Lehrer


#anything #else #get #going #i

There's only one interview technique that matters... Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare.


— Jim Lehrer


#ask #homework #interview #listen #matters

You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.


— Jim Lehrer


#angry person #cell #cell phone #go #hear

A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.


— Jim Lehrer


#candidates #debate #directly #exchange #facilitate

A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.


— Jim Lehrer


#american people #any #explain #given #people

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.


— Jim Lehrer


#comes #discourse #fact #form #i

Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.


— Jim Lehrer


#best #every #find #function #give

I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.


— Jim Lehrer


#bus #bus driver #driver #driving #eyes






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Lehrer Jim (2011). Presidential debate moderator
Nicknamed the "Dean of Moderators" by CNN's Bernard Shaw Lehrer has moderated 12 presidential candidate debates including the first presidential debate between senators Barack Obama and John McCain on September 26 2008. ISBN 0-375-50371-4.

: /ˈlɛərər/; born May 19 1934) is an American journalist and the executive editor and former news anchor for PBS NewsHour on PBS known for his role as a frequent debate moderator during elections. James Charles "Jim" Lehrer (pron.

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