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'Television and the Presidency': The Bush and Clinton Years (Fox News documentary)

FOX News airs the fourth in its five-part series on how television shaped the most powerful office in the world, and in turn changed the course of history. "Television and the Presidency" airs Sunday at 3 p.m. EST.

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"If the other guy is coming at you with a negative, you have to be ready for it," said Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, explaining the role of television ads in the 1988 election. "And if you don't, you're going to get killed. That's the lesson of 1988."

It's a lesson Dukakis learned the hard way after a series of cutting clips made mincemeat of his presidential aspirations.

Developments abroad during the late 1980s were beamed home, and just two years after President Reagan demanded the end of the Berlin Wall, the symbol of the Cold-War split between East and West finally came down.
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