Debate Quote by Fabrizio Moreira

John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio.

— Susan Estrich

During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner.

— Jeane Dixon

Kennedy didn't beat Nixon. Satire beat Nixon.

— Chris Rock

The world of TV debates is antiquated. What looked smart and modern in 1960, with Kennedy versus Nixon, looks quaint and over-rehearsed between Obama…

— Ruzwana Bashir

John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the…

— Robert Dallek

Nobody understood how to use television for his own purposes better than Nixon, despite his poor showing against John F. Kennedy in the televised…

— Michael Korda

I would be with a bunch of Kennedy fans watching the debate, and their comment would be, 'He's really slaughtering Nixon.' Then we would…

— Lenny Bruce

Modern presidential debating only started with Richard Nixon and John F.Kennedy in 1960, although the proximity of that to the Lincoln-Douglas centennial is more…

— Allen C. Guelzo

In Halberstram's fun house, television elected John F. Kennedy in 1960 (presumably Richard J. Daley and his precinct captains were at home on election…

— Edwin Diamond

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and…

— Ben Bradlee

I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in…

— Richard Schiff

“On July 2, 1960, a few weeks before that year’s Democratic National Convention, former President Harry Truman publicly stated that John F Kennedy—who had…

— Robert Greene