When presidential candidates last debated in Washington, men wore hats and restaurant patrons puffed on Chesterfields while dining. The Oct. 7, 1960, debate featured but two candidates: one a sitting vice president known as a staunch anti-communist, the other a freshman senator from Massachusetts with no foreign policy experience.
The top issue that night was the threat of “global communism.” It should have been a slam-dunk for Vice President Nixon. That’s not how history remembers it.
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