During the 1960 Presidential election, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon faced off in their first head to head debate. His Olympic medals were destroyed in the LA fires. Here’s how the IOC ...

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 ...

Nixon’s near comeback invites the counter-factual. Should he have taken President Eisenhower’s advice and declined to debate Kennedy? The presidential debate historian Alan Schroeder termed Ni ...

After the first televised presidential debate in 1960 — between President John F. Kennedy and then-Republican nominee Richard M. Nixon — the country didn’t see another matchup between a ...

26, 1960, when Vice President Richard Nixon debated John F. Kennedy in Chicago ... eschewed them as “not presidential.” The subsequent three debates were, according to the Commission on Presidential ...

Vice President Richard Nixon and Sen. John Kennedy face off during a September 1960 presidential debate. (AFP/Getty Images) If you’re one of the many Americans already worn out by the ...

Having just been subjected to a close and bruising presidential election, you might be reluctant to read a current book about ...

Kennedy against Republican Vice President Richard Nixon, who was recovering from a hospital visit ... Bush won the election. The vice presidential debate came alive when Dan Quayle, Bush’s running ...

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.