Asserting that “character is the first and most important consideration” when choosing a president, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie told a packed Loew Auditorium on Thursday that, in an era of seemingly intractable problems, it was time to “dispense with TV tough guys” who did not know which questions to ask, much less the solutions to propose.

The Republican presidential candidate was at Dartmouth as part of the Path to the Presidency speaker series, which is co-sponsored by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences and the Dartmouth Political Union and has brought a number of candidates to campus this fall.

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