KENNEDY & NIXON DEBATE SEPARATED BY 3000 MILES
Hollywood, California & New York City (JFK+50) The third presidential debate between Vice-President Richard M. Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy took place on the evening of October 13, 1960.
Despite the fact that the two candidates were 3000 miles apart, they could see and hear each other via television monitors in their respective studios.
Senator Kennedy was asked...
"Republican National Committee chairman Thruston Morton* declared earlier this week that you owe Vice-President Nixon...an apology for charges made by former President Truman who bluntly suggested where the Vice-President and Republican Party could go. Do you...owe the Vice-President an apology?
Senator Kennedy responded...
"Mr. Truman has his methods of expressing things...but I really don't think that there's anything that I can say to President Truman that's going to cause him, at the age of 76, to change his...speaking manner."
JFK+50 NOTE
My apologies, for some reason I researched the 13th instead of the 12th for today's post. Another senior moment, sorry.
At one point in the campaign JFK addressed the issue of Truman's salty language. JFK said that he had sent the former president this message...
'Dear Mr. President, I have noted with interest your statement of where you think the Republicans should go. While I sympathize with your deep motivation, I think it is important for our side to refrain from raising the religious issue.'
*Thruston Ballard Morton (1907-1982) was born in Louisville, Kentucky & graduated Yale University 1929. TBM served in the US House of Representatives 1947-1953 & US Senate 1957-1968 (R-KY).
SOURCES
"Kennedy-Nixon Debate Goes Coast to Coast, Hollywood & New York City," JFK+50, October 13, 2011, www.jfk50.blogspot.com/
"Senator John F. Kennedy & Vice-President Richard M. Nixon, Third Joint Radio-Television Broadcast, October 13, 1960," John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, www.jfklibrary.org/
