"A little more than half a century ago,
American politics stumbled into a new era. In WBBM-TV studios in Chicago
on September 26, 1960, presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and
John F. Kennedy stood before cameras and hot lights for the first-ever
televised presidential debate. An extraordinary 60 percent of adults
nationwide tuned in. This encounter—the first of four—boosted support
for Kennedy, a little-known Massachusetts senator and political scion
who would go on to win the White House. Elections in the United States
would never be the same again. No single aspect of presidential
campaigns attracts as much interest as televised debates, and they have
provided some of the most memorable moments in modern political history..."
Presidential debates
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