He was nothing more than the first "TV character president" we ever had. If it weren't for television he would have been some nobody in Massachusetts politics.
Yes, and I recall reading the story in which Don Hewitt, who produced the Nixon-Kennedy TV debate in 1960, got away with making Kennedy look poised and polished and Nixon look very much the opposite. And also the comment from a friend of Nixon’s who thought Dick sounded fine over the radio, but this friend apparently did not watch the spectacle on TV.
Mediocre is generous....He is responsible for the people of Cuba living in a communist hell for fifty plus years!!!