Sep 26, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
As today’s fiftieth anniversary of the first debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon concludes, it’s worth thinking about the long, long process that led to it. The series of debates across between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln became part...
Sep 26, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
In a special edition of Meet the Press co-sponsored with the University of Virginia, UVA’s Larry Sabato, former RN aide Patrick Buchanan, former JFK aide Ted Sorensen and journalist Sander Van Oker remember the first RN-JFK debate: Visit msnbc.com for breaking...
Sep 25, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
On a late September Monday evening fifty years ago today, 80 million Americans (a number approaching half the population of the United States at the time) sat before their flickering black and white television sets to watch the first televised presidential debate in...
Sep 25, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
On September 26, 1960 cathode rays changed presidential politics forever. For on that Monday evening Richard Nixon and Jack Kennedy faced off on the first televised presidential debate in American campaign history. Neither Nixon nor Kennedy was a stranger to debates....
Sep 24, 2010 | News, Pre-Presidential Years, The New Nixon
Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of the first television debate between Richard Nixon and John Kennedy. In Slate, David Greenberg writes about the familiar claim that JFK won the debate among those who saw the debate on TV while RN won among those who only heard it...
Sep 23, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
One day in 1974, as Spring began to give way to Summer, Frank Gannon—wordsmith and White House Fellow—took a walk in Washington, largely to get away from the stress induced by the Nixon White House’s ever-increasing Watergate milieu. He found his way to an old...
