Can you compare the advantages and disadvantages that Richard Nixon had going into the 1960 debates with John F. Kennedy?


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John F. Kennedy On 26 September 1960, 70 million U.S. viewers tuned in to watch Senator John Kennedy of Massachusetts and Vice President Richard Nixon in the first-ever televised presidential debate. Kennedy's aide and speech writer, Ted Sorensen remembers prepping the candidate for the big night. They were on the roof of their Chicago hotel, running through a pile of note cards.

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