But the hour didn't go as planned. Johnson, who had been pilloried for blanking on the relevance of the Syrian city of Aleppo in another MSNBC interview, whiffed his way through an even easier foreign policy question.
"Who's your favorite foreign leader?" Matthews asked.
"Who's my favorite?" Johnson replied.
"Anywhere in the continents," Matthews said. "Any country. Name one foreign leader that you look up to."
William Weld, Johnson's running mate, chimed in with an assist: "I'm with Shimon Peres."
"I'm talking about living, okay?" Matthews said. "You gotta do this. Any continent. Canada, Mexico?"
"I guess I'm having an Aleppo moment," Johnson said.
"In the whole world!" Matthews said. "Anybody in the world."
"I know, I know," Johnson said.
"Pick any leader," Matthews said.
"The former president of Mexico," Johnson said.
"Which one?" Matthews said.
"I'm having a brain freeze," Johnson said.
Weld, who had left the governor's office in Massachusetts in an unsuccessful attempt to become ambassador to Mexico, began naming the country's former presidents. "Fox? Zedillo? Calderon?"
"Fox," Johnson said with a combination of jubilation and relief. "He was terrific." msn
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