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watch the full debate here - https://youtu.be/XF7rTQJk8qYStep back in time to one of the most pivotal moments in American political history—the first full pr...
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Step back in time to one of the most pivotal moments in American political history—the first full presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nix...
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Nov 21, 2022 · Kennedy-Nixon Debates. Date: November 21, 2022. John F. Kennedy participates in the first of four televised debates with Vice President Richard Nixon.
By: Kylie Curtiss and Vivian Cao
Sep 26, 2022 · The first presidential debate on TV not only played to Kennedy's charisma, it also merged politics with popular culture — and paved the way for today's image-obsessed electoral landscape.
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.
On September 26, 1960 Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon stood before an audience of 70 million Americans, two-thirds of the nation‘s adult population, in the first nationally televised presidential debate, which ushered in a new age of presidential politics.
