Just thought I'd mention it

This is another thing you've probably come across, but I wanted to mention quickly just in case.

In his speech to the RNC, Gov. Gropinator recalled how as a child "I saw [Soviet] tanks in the streets. I saw communism with my own eyes." He went on to say

"I finally arrived here in 1968. ... The presidential campaign was in full swing. I remember watching the Nixon and Humphrey presidential race on TV. ... I heard Humphrey saying things that sounded like socialism which is what I had just left. But then I heard Nixon speak. He was talking about free enterprise, getting government off your back, lowering taxes, and strengthening the military. Listening to Nixon speak sounded more like a breath of fresh air."

1) According to Austrian historians, there were no Soviet tanks anywhere near where the anti-girlie man lived; they left in July 1945, two years before he was born. Stryia province, where he grew up, was in the British zone.

2) They also note that

Austria was governed by coalition governments, including the conservative People's Party and the Social Democratic Party. Between 1945 and 1970, all the nation's chancellors were conservatives - not Socialists.

What's more, when Schwarzenegger left in 1968, Austria was run by a conservative government headed by People's Party Chancellor Josef Klaus, a staunch Roman Catholic and a sharp critic of both the Socialists as well as the Communists ruling in countries across the Iron Curtain.

3) As Michel Chossudovsky of the Montreal-based Centre for Research on Globalisation notes, there were no televised debates between Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon in 1968.

Now, admittedly, in this case he referred to the presidential race, not a presidential debate. But this is a favorite story of his and in telling it in times past, he has referred to watching a debate.