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In this third episode in our three part mini - series on the 1976 Presidential Election, we get in the trenches and watch the campaign play out.  For the Republicans if it can go wrong it does go wrong, from the audio going out at the Presidential Debate, to the gaffes of "No Domination of Eastern Europe by the Soviets", to the number of dead "in Democrat Wars in this century", these two giants  of Republican political history, Gerald Ford and Bob Dole,  seem to blunder from one mistake to the next.  However, the polls keep closing. 

Which has the back and forth between the two sides pretty darn exciting to watch as they criss cross the country campaigning to the masses and in one case giving the unlikeliest of interviews, from the unlikeliest of candidates, to the unlikeliest of magazines. Yes, Jimmy Carter actually sits down to talk politics, the Presidency, and the campaign, with Playboy. 

By the time we get to election day both sides have given it their all and Gerald Ford has totally lost his voice. In what would be one of the closest elections in history and the election that had begun with the biggest deficits between two candidates in memory. Gerald Ford may have come up short but he had nothing to be ashamed of considering the size of the hole he had found himself in.  We close out this episode on the dawn of a new era in American History, an era that will see some of our lowest moments, and our coldest moments in the history of the Cold War, and then one tremendous triumph made possible by the hard work of 9 successive Presidents whose lives and experiences had been molded by the bloodiest war in World History.  And all of that is yet to come. 

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