The presidential debates memorandum of understanding for the 2004 U.S. presidential election debates is a memorandum of understanding between the Bush 2004 campaign and the Kerry 2004 campaign covering in minute detail all aspects of the presidential candidate debates held between the two candidates.

The Citizens' Debate Commission (CDC) and others were instrumental in getting the campaigns to publish the MOU in advance of the debates. One of the commissioners of the CDC, George Farah , has written about the earlier debate MOUs in No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates (2004, ISBN 1583226656).

External links

• Copy of the 2004 MOU, in PDF format:
  • from the PBS and Open Debates websites
  • from the Bush campaign and the Kerry campaign websites
• List of documents from Open Debates website, with links to MOUs for the 1988, 1992, and 1996 debates