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Jim Lehrer on moderating presidential debates and buses

By Steve Date | 05/04/10

Second of two reports

Sen. John McCain, left, and then-Sen. Barack Obama, center, greet moderator Jim Lehrer following a presidential debate in Oxford, Miss., on Sept. 26, 2008.
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Sen. John McCain, left, and then-Sen. Barack Obama, center, greet moderator Jim Lehrer following a presidential debate in Oxford, Miss., on Sept. 26, 2008.

Jim Lehrer has been the moderator of 11 presidential debates. In today's video report, the anchor of the "NewsHour" on PBS who visited Minnesota this weekend talks about what it's like to be at the center of such a historic event.

Lehrer also talks about a planned visit to the Greyhound Bus Museum in Hibbing, Minn., with good friend and author Paul Nagel of Minneapolis.


And Lehrer, who has long had a passion for buses and owns a 1946 Flxible Clipper, does his famous "bus call."

Lehrer traveled to Minnesota as part of a cross-country tour visiting PBS stations and promoting his new novel, "Super."

Comments (1)

Submitted by Bernice Vetsch on August 31, 2010 - 12:01pm.

Jim Lehrer's first novel featured a young one-eyed man who left home via the bus for the big city (Okahoma City, that would be) and later ended up being elected governor of Oklahoma. He and his wife Jackie became wealthy by developing her idea for a drive-through grocery store.

A later novel was about a bus driver who, to his great regret, left the scene of a fatal accident.