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Additional resources for this
issue of HISTORY NOW
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Kennedy-Nixon Debates
You can view an excerpt of the first Kennedy-Nixon debate
at the website of the Museum of Broadcast Communications
in Chicago at:
http://www.museum.tv/
debateweb/html/
greatdebate/index.htm
(Real Player must be installed in your computer in order
to view this video.) A curriculum resource guide is also
available on the same site.
A full transcript of this debate can be found on the John
F. Kennedy Library Website:
http://www.jfklibrary.org/60-1st.htm
You can also view the Kennedy ad that featured President
Eisenhower's questioning of Nixon's experience by going
to the website of the American Museum of the Moving Image
in New York at:
http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/style/index.php?nav_action=style.
Click on "Kennedy, 1960, Nixon's Experience?"
Both the Nixon and Kennedy Presidential Libraries include
extensive websites, with the Nixon site offering an exhaustive
bibliography of works about Nixon:
Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace Website:
http://www.nixonfoundation.org
John F. Kennedy Library and Museum Website:
http://www.jfklibrary.org/index.htm
While television greatly influenced the 1960 campaign,
the election of 1960 produced an equally important change
in the way in which American journalists wrote about presidential
races. Theodore H. White traveled with both candidates
in researching his book, The Making of the President,
1960 (New York: Atheneum, 1961, with many later editions).
White went on to produce books tracing the "Making of
Presidents" in 1968 and 1972, and his methods influenced
every historian and journalist who writes about national
politics to this day. White's book was itself the basis
of a television documentary, The Making of the President,
1960, Wolper Production, Inc., 1972.
To sample significant writings about the debate and the
debaters, students may want to consult:
- Gellman, Irwin F. The contender: Richard Nixon:
the Congress years, 1946-1952 (New York: Free
Press, 1999).
- Hinck, Edward A. Enacting
the Presidency: Political Argument, Presidential Debates,
and Presidential Character (Westport, CT: Praeger,
1993).
- Jamieson, Kathleen Hall, and David S. Birdsell.
Presidential Debates: The Challenge of Creating
an Informed Electorate (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1988).
- Matthews, Christopher. Kennedy & Nixon: The
Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America (New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1996).
- Morris, Roger. Richard Milhous Nixon: The
Rise of an American Politician (New York: Henry
Holt, 1990.)
- Nixon, Richard M. RN, The Memoirs of Richard
Nixon (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978).
- Parmet, Herbert S. Jack: The Struggles of John
F. Kennedy (New York: Dial Press, 1980) and Richard
Nixon and his America (Boston: Little, Brown,
1990).
- Schroeder, Alan. Presidential Debates: Forty
Years of High-Tisk TV (New York: Columbia University
Press, 2000).
- Sorensen, Theodore C. Kennedy (New York:
Harper & Row, 1965).
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