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First Televised Debates

Date: November 1960

The Kennedy-Nixon debates changed politics forever. Radio listeners thought Nixon won, but the 70 million TV viewers—seeing a tan, confident JFK versus a sickly Nixon—declared Kennedy the winner.
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