OXFORD, Miss. – Andy Mullins had spent three years as point person of this historic 97-minute event — the Sept. 28, 2008, presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
As a reward, then-Ole Miss Chancellor Robert Khayat made sure his chief of staff got one of the coveted seats inside the Gertrude C. Ford Center. And while the candidates bantered about foreign policy, national security and economic issues, an exhausted Mullins didn’t get a chance to relish the moment. Read the entire story.