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September 26, 1960 is the day that changed part of the modern political landscape, when a Vice President and a Senator took part in the first nationally televised presidential debate.
kennedy_nixon_debateThe Vice President was Richard M. Nixon and the U.S. Senator was John F. Kennedy. Their first televised debate shifted how presidential campaigns were conducted, as the power of television took elections into American’s living rooms.
The debate was watched live by 70 million Americans and it made politics an electronic spectator sport. It also gave many potential voters their first chance to see actual presidential candidates in a live environment, as potential leaders.
The importance of the event can’t be underestimated. Before 1960, there were candidates who debated (Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas were 19th century examples) and there were candidates who appeared on television. And there were candidates who went out on the trail and “stumped” for votes, appearing in public at pre-arranged events or at whistle-stop tours on trains.
But most voters never had a chance to see candidates in a close, personal way, giving them the opportunity to form an opinion about the next president based on their looks, their voice and their opinions.
Going into the debate, Nixon was the favorite to win the election. He had been President Dwight Eisenhower’s vice president for eight years. Nixon had shown his mastery of television in his 1952 “Checkers” speech, where he used a televised address to debunk slush-fund allegations, and secure his vice presidential slot by talking about his pet dog, Checkers. Nixon had also bested Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in the famous Kitchen Debate.
Kennedy was the photogenic and energetic young senator from Massachusetts who ran a calculated primary campaign to best his chief rival, Senator Lyndon Johnson. But Kennedy had debate experience in the primaries and said, “Nixon may have debated Khrushchev, but I had to debate Hubert Humphrey.”
The debate took place in Chicago and CBS assigned a 38-year-old producer named Don Hewitt to manage the event. Hewitt went on to create “60 Minutes” for CBS. The highly promoted event would pre-empt “The Andy Griffith Show” and run for an hour. Hewitt had invited both candidates to a pre-production meeting, but only Kennedy took up the offer.
When Nixon arrived for the debate, he looked ill, having been recently hospitalized because of a knee injury. The vice president then re-injured his knee as he entered the TV station, and refused to call off the debate.
Nixon also refused to wear stage makeup, when Hewitt offered it. Kennedy had turned down the makeup offer first: He had spent weeks tanning on the campaign trail, but he had his own team do his makeup just before the cameras went live. The result was that Kennedy looked and sounded good on television, while Nixon looked pale and tired, with a five o’clock shadow beard.
The next day, polls showed Kennedy had become the slight favorite in the general election, and he defeated Nixon by one of the narrowest margins in history that November. Before the debate, Nixon led by six percentage points in the national polls.
There were three other debates between Nixon and Kennedy that fall, and a healthier Nixon was judged to have won two of them, with the final debate a draw. However, the last three debates were watched by 20 million fewer people than the September 26th event.
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Why did Abraham Lincoln pick Andrew Johnson to be his vice President?
A) He was firmly against slavery.
B)He was from the same state as Abraham Lincoln.
C) He was from a Southern state, and would help to reunite the country after the Civil War
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A.
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explain how George Washington set precedents and addressed issues facing a young nation
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John looked out of the train window and saw the bright lights of the city. He was delighted after 4 years he was finally going to go to the law office he had always wanted to go to. He had been going to Gonzaga for law for 4 years trying to get the appropriate degrees and had finally passed the LSAT's and the bar exam. As he pulled into the train station he suddenly had the thought what if he wasn’t good enough what if he failed and they didn’t what him anymore. “No” he thought “I made it this far i can’t fail now.” He stepped off the train and was instantly assaulted by the noise of the city this was not like spokane this place was untamed raw.
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why is america falling apart?
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don't know the context of the situation or the era but I'll list a few things
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the economy
the government
population problems
war and conflict
downfall of occupation
agricultural issues
health issues
inequality and agrumental racism between people
poor conditions including pollution and qualities of building's and housing
agruments over anything political or over land distribution
What was the Reconquista?
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The Reconquista was a period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula of about 780 years between the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in 711, the expansion of the Christian kingdoms throughout Hispania, and the fall of the Nasrid kingdom of Granada in 1492.
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Campaign to drive Muslims from the peninsula
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What does the phrase “share and share alike” reveal about the relationship between Odysseus and his men?
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That they finally know what he is and they thought he was good to them but he wasn't.
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When settlers came to the West American Indians often died as a result of the introduction of new O plants. O diseases. O animals.
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Answer: When settlers came to the West, American Indians often died as a result of the introduction of new - diseases.
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- animals.
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Part 3: Who is Kim Jong-un? Film - The Deadliest Dictator
1. Why did Kim Jong-il choose Kim Jong-un as his successor?
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On March 2014, kim jong-un was elected to a seat in supreme people's assembly, the countrys unicameral legislature. Kim became the chair man of the workers party of korea on a party congress held in 2016.
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Because he believed Kim Jong Un would be the better succesor of his role out of the siblings
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What do you believe is the most compelling reason why the Industrial Revolution originated in England? Why
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coal
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I believe that the biggest and most compelling reason was coal. The English were the ones that discovered that coal burns longer and cleaner than any other current material and began stockpiling in the early 1700s. This stockpile of coal allowed them to explode in growth when the Industrial revolution began in 1760. Mainly because they had all the necessary coal they needed to build and power all of the machinery.
Who is one person/explorer who helped make travel to the West easier. Explain what they did.
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My dad, so he said he was gonna get milk so he traveled to the west with another chick. They had grabbed all his stuff and left for a while. He never came bacc bro