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The 1960 presidential cycle featured former Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the Democratic nominee, and Vice President Richard Nixon, a Republican. The fourth debate, in the first set of...
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1 day 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 ...
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 21, 2010 · The first televised presidential debate in American history took place between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon on September 26, 1960.
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SENATOR KENNEDY: Mr. Smith, Mr. Nixon. In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln said the question was whether this nation could exist half-slave or half-free.
23 hours ago · Or as Max Frankel, then the executive editor of The New York Times, wrote sardonically several months after Nixon’s death in 1994, “Nixon lost a TV debate, and the Presidency, to John F ...
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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.