The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1960 - Kennedy vs Nixon
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This ReadWriteThink-reviewed webpage, from the "Museum of the Moving Image", includes a video collection of presidential campaign ads, including those covering the second debate in the 1960 political campaigns, Kennedy vs. Nixon. While Vice President Richard Nixon was enjoying a growing reputation for his foreign policy skills, Senator John F. Kennedy proclaimed "I'm not satisfied when the United States had, last year, the lowest rate of economic growth of any major industrialized society in the world." Kennedy's focus on economic growth in his presidential campaign ads may well have won him the presidency. Less
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Topics: History-Social Science, United States History, Economics
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