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2 days ago · Max Frankel, then the executive editor of The New York Times, wrote several months after Nixon’s death in 1994 that “Nixon lost a TV debate, and the Presidency, to John F. Kennedy in 1960 ...
4 hours ago · Sen. John Kennedy, left, and Vice President Richard Nixon prepare for the first televised presidential debate on Sept. 26, 1960. AP
Sep 21, 2010 · With little more than a single unremarkable term in the U.S. Senate under his belt, the 43-year-old Kennedy lacked Nixon’s extensive foreign policy experience and had the disadvantage of...
- Missy Sullivan
Step back in time to 1960 with this YouTube short, exploring the first-ever televised presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Discover...
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Sep 25, 2020 · The 2020 presidential election marks the 60th anniversary of the landmark televised Kennedy-Nixon debates, a series of events that have shaped national politics ever since.
- Bill Newcott
Sep 25, 2015 · Relive the Highlights of the Kennedy vs. Nixon Debate Decades Later. On Sept. 26, 1960, two presidential candidates went head to head in the first-ever televised presidential debate. While...
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Sep 23, 2010 · Beyond what the debate meant for the political arena, by catapulting Kennedy to the presidency, Sorensen speculates it fundamentally altered the world as we know it.