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Cuba and the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates

Friday, September 27, 2019 1:10

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Back in 1960, millions of Americans tuned in for a real “TV first” this week.   They watched a debate by the two major presidential candidates running for president in 1960.

Who won? Did the debates impact the vote?

Senator Kennedy won by 114,000 votes out of 70 million cast that day. It was 49.72% vs 49.55%.

The conventional wisdom is that JFK won “the video” and Nixon won “the audio”.

Again, your guess is as good as mine. It’s like losing the pennant by one game and arguing about what “one game” made the difference.

What impact did it have?

Senator Kennedy hit the Eisenhower administration very hard about the growing communist menace in Cuba. His debate comments actually had an impact on many Cubans, like my father, who were following the debates by shortwave radio.

What do we remember from the 1960 presidential debates? Vietnam was not a topic in the Kennedy-Nixon debates but it consumed the nation in the 1960′s.

Civil rights was discussed but nothing really happened until President Johnson used his legislative skills to pass important laws. None of that was really mentioned in those 1960 debates.

I guess that debates are important and we should continue the tradition. However, the reality of the presidency often overwhelms campaign promises or ‘tough talk” at the debates.

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