Nixon had urged U.S. military aid to the beleaguered French in Vietnam in 1954; he was part of an administration that was pushing for support for the anti-Communist forces in Laos (JFK, by ...

"What we have today is more like a competitive press conference," Nichter said. "Even in 1960, Nixon came ready to debate whereas JFK knew the real audience was the one watching at home.

On the night of June 17, 1972, McCord — who resigned from the CIA the prior year and subsequently had been hired to work for the Republican National Committee and President Richard Nixon’s re ...

A televised picture, broadcast in May 1977, of American presidential candidates John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) and Richard Nixon (1913-1994) at a Chicago television studio for their debate on Sept ...

John F. Kennedy (left) and Richard Nixon (right) participating in the first-ever televised presidential debate in Chicago in 1960. Nixon would wear makeup and gain weight before the rest of the ...

One photo shows the Sept. 26, 1960, debate between then-Vice President Richard Nixon and then-Sen. John F. Kennedy from behind the cameras and lights used in the first-ever televised clash.

"I think that the election of 1960 takes all the events of 2020, and, frankly, of 2024, and sets them on their head," says Chris Wallace of comparisons between JFK vs then Vice President Richard ...

The aesthetics were not Nixon's only shortcoming on debate night. "It wasn’t just about the visuals," Fredrik Logevall, a JFK biographer and the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International ...

One photo shows the Sept. 26, 1960, debate between then-Vice President Richard Nixon and then-Sen. John F. Kennedy from behind the cameras and lights used in the first-ever televised clash.