Yes, he promised more military spending and tried to hit the president hard on Obama's supposed "apology tour" in the Middle East, but otherwise this debate felt like a 90-minute confirmation of what a lot of analysts have pointed out: Strip away the "no apologies" rhetoric, and the differences between the president and his rival on foreign policy look relatively modest.
No doubt the US network chiefs were already writing herograms to their on-course director for securing such an intimate view of Willett in the minutes preceding the confirmation of his victory.
Strike confirmations, recalls Stephanie Lamy, emerged on Twitter "in about six to eight minutes, on average". NATO says it took "one or two minutes" for the initial confirmation of a strike, although it had a singular advantage: the "Air Tasking Order" showing where and when each aircraft was due to strike.
Within minutes of confirmation that the Champions League quarter-final first leg will be replayed on Wednesday night, the Bundesliga club sent out a tweet informing Monaco supporters that a scheme to house them for the night was already under way.
The landing included the much-written about "seven minutes of terror" and confirmation of a safe landing arrived as expected and was followed shortly thereafter by black-and-white photographs of the rover's wheels and the ground on Mars.
Eliminating Chelsea, and exorcising the nightmarish memories of Demba Ba's last-minute goal here a year ago, was confirmation of PSG's quality.
And the rapturous reception he received as he gave way to cramp seven minutes from the end was confirmation of star status already being afforded.
150,000 tickets sold out in just 29 minutes, and that's without any confirmation of who the headliners will be.
Thus, interest in the lady bug was fleeting, just a few minutes long enough for a visual confirmation of a working food chain to solidify the day's lesson.
The median time from withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment to confirmation of death was 17 minutes (0.28 hrs).
Medical confirmation of death took place from 0 minutes (minimum and median) to 35 minutes (maximum) thereafter with physicians having left the bedside during withdrawal in 18 cases (47%) to attend other patients or to give the family private time.
