Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson is seen during an interview before a rally in New York, U.S., September 10, 2016. <\/p>\n
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Gary Johnson had another painful media exchange: During a televisedtown hall at the University of New Hampshire in Durham on Wednesday night, the Libertarian presidential nominee could not name a single world leader he respected. <\/p>\n
Asked by moderator Chris Matthews to list one world leader he admired, Johnson paused and his vice-presidential running mate, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, jumped in with: Mine was Shimon Peres. (Peres, the former president and prime minister of Israel, died this week at 93.) <\/p>\n
Matthews fired back, saying it needed to be a living foreign leader. <\/p>\n
You got to do this. Anywhere. Any continent, Matthews said. Canada, Mexico, Europe, over there. Asia. South America. Africa. Name a foreign leader that you respect. <\/p>\n
Johnson replied that he was having an Aleppo momentreferring to the recent interview in which he did not seem to recognize Aleppo as the war-torn city in Syriaand said he would choose the former president of Mexico. <\/p>\n
Which one? Matthews asked, and Johnson could not come up with the name. Well, name anybody, Matthews said. <\/p>\n
Finally, Weld jumped in by naming Fox, or former Mexican President Vicente Fox. (Fox! Johnson said. He was a terrific leader.) <\/p>\n
Matthews then asked Weld who his favorite foreign leader is.Get him off the hook, Matthewssaid. <\/p>\n
Weld replied with Merkel, referring to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. <\/p>\n
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