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- Senator John F. Kennedy and vice president Richard Nixon, prior to their first presidential debate.
What was the first televised presidential debate about?
- The typical answer to that question is 1960, Kennedy v. Nixon. In fact, the first televised debate occurred four years earlier, when Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson challenged incumbent Republican president Dwight Eisenhower—but those two men did not appear in the debate.