 And we don't want to abuse that privilege. October 6, 1996, Hartford, Connecticut, the first presidential debate between Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. And moderator Jim Lehrer of PBS gives pre-debate instructions to the studio audience, similar to what Lester Holt of NBC News told an audience 20 years later. September 26, 2016, Hofstra University in New York, before the first debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.