PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1960S
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Television Debates
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The Berlin Crisis
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His military policy
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Kennedy’s Age
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Detailed explanation-1: -The 1960 presidential election was not decided by one event, tactic or blunder. John Kennedy’s selection of Lyndon Johnson as Vice President, his convincing rebuttals to attacks on his religion, inexperience and health, and Republican errors all had a substantial bearing on the outcome.
Detailed explanation-2: -The 1960 United States presidential debates were a series of debates held during the 1960 presidential election among Democratic nominee John F. Kennedy and Republican nominee Richard Nixon. The four presidential debates were the first series of debates conducted for any presidential election.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which presidential campaign produced the first nationally televised debate? The typical answer to that question is 1960, Kennedy v. Nixon.
Detailed explanation-4: -What was one way in which the televised debate between Kennedy and Nixon was significant? The visual nature of the debate played to Kennedy’s strengths, especially as Nixon was sick with a virus. Due to his concerns that he came across as weak during the Vienna Summit with Nikita Khrushchev, John F.