[a fool in paradise]

Nixon couldn’t make it today for the same reason it was said that he lost the 1960 television debate. Too much of the electorate focuses on the looks of the candidate and not on the issues.

[cripplecreek]

Nixon couldn’t make it today for the same reason it was said that he lost the 1960 television debate. Too much of the electorate focuses on the looks of the candidate and not on the issues.

Same media doing the same crap. The media portrayed Nixon as a sickly old man when the reality was that he was less than 5 years older than Kennedy and in considerably better health. Bernie Goldberg says that for televised debates they used softer lights on Kennedy but put much harsher lighting on Nixon and put it much closer so it would cast shadows in his eye sockets.