... many feared that somehow John Kennedy would be controlled by the Pope in Rome! He was also only forty-three years old. He was running against Richard Nixon, who had served as vice president for two terms under the popular President Eisenhower. John and Jacqueline Kennedy had their first child, Caroline, in 1957. ... on the radio thought that Nixon had won. But the vast majority saw the election on TV, and declared Kennedy the winner. Among the first to master the dominant medium of the era, Kennedy won the election by the narrowest of margins. The 1960 debate again Richard Nixon was not ...

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