The 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debate addresses critical domestic and international issues facing the United States. Senator Kennedy emphasizes the need for a stronger America to ensure global freedom ...

While some presidential debates haven't moved the needle in public opinion, others have provided consequential moments that made or broke campaigns. 1960: John F. Kennedy vs. Richard Nixon The ...

Kennedy. That hurt Nixon’s image enough to cost him the election. I wonder if the June 27 debate will also be remembered in a similar vein. All too predictably, the Republican candidate Donald ...

John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon taken prior to their first debate at WBBM-TV in Chicago in 1960. Courtesy: AP Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy and his Republican rival Richard M.

Polite and apolitical (yet mildly for Kennedy), a Briggs Hall ... During the debate, there was controlled laughter, most of it at Nixon's expense. "I know Mr. Khrushchev" drew ripples, but the ...

said that he would not have picked Kennedy over Nixon three weeks ago. "Then something happened." That "something" was the series of television debates--"the epical change of our times." ...