all there is. There will be yelling tonight about how loudly or sternly we are or should be speaking to Them. There is not likely to be much clarity about who "they" are, and how we should, in terms of specific policies, go forward in the world. Intricacy may have tripped up Ford -- but that is a good thing about intricacy. The sort of questions that are dismissed as gotchas -- as when George W. Bush was asked to name world leaders -- would be valuable here, if only as a quick reminder that the world outside of the campaign's packaged tour exists, and that is where the President has to operate. Is it too much to ask to introduce a few characters other than the mullahs, the terrorists, and Bibi? (There's always the Pope.) Speaking of characters, the Carter-Ford debate afforded some opportunities for "Saturday Night Live" -- particularly when it came to their final debate, seen in the video below. And there were other cameo appearances in accounts of the debate. The Times article the next morning quoted Ford officials trying to make sense of what he was saying, including one who argued that Americans with family ties to Eastern Europe would be "strongly supportive" of Ford's position. "The American people will understand," said the official, chief of staff Richard B. Cheney.