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John F. Kennedy won the 1960 presidential election defeating Richard Nixon. In the 1960 presidential election John F. Kennedy received 303 electoral votes, Richard Nixon received 219 electoral votes, and Harry Byrd received 15 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Kennedy 34,226,731 and Nixon 34,108,157.
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What new form of mass media helped Kennedy defeat Nixon during the 1960 president elections?
Television helped Kennedy to win the 1960 election because was a handsome, younger man.
What man defeated Theodore Roosevelt of the us?
Woodrow Wilson defeated Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 U.S. Presidential Election.
Which president ousted an incumbent president from office but lost to the same man in the next election?
Benjamin Harrison. He defeated the incumbent Democrat Grover Cleveland in 1888, but was challenged by Cleveland again in 1892 and was defeated.
Who ousted an incumbent president from office but lost to the same man in the next election?
Benjamin Harrison defeated an incumbent president, Grover Cleveland, only to lose to Cleveland in the next election. Harrison was America's 23rd President.
Who was the youngist man every elected president?
The youngest man ever elected president of the United States was John F. Kennedy. He was 43 years old when he was elected in 1960.
Did president John F. Kennedy go to the moon?
What about Kennedy's speech about going to the moon?
Who promised that the US would land a man on a moon?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy in a speech he made as president of the United States some time in the early 1960's.
Who was 35th presidrnt?
John F. Kennedy was the 35th president. Kennedy's record in elected office and the books and articles that he had written attracted national attention. After he lost the vice presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1956, he decided to run for president. Formally announcing his candidacy in January 1960, Kennedy made whirlwind tours and won the Democratic primaries in New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Oregon, Maryland, Nebraska, and West Virginia. On July 13, 1960, Kennedy was nominated for president, with Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) as his running mate. "Jack in Walk" shouted the Boston Globe after Kennedy's nomination. But it would be no easy walk to win the White House against the Republican candidate, Vice President Richard Nixon (1913-1994). At that time, Kennedy was a controversial candidate because he was a Roman Catholic. Religious prejudice, or dislike of a person based solely upon his or her religion, probably cost him over a million votes in Illinois alone. Kennedy responded to the issue of religion in his "Houston speech" on September 11, 1960. He believed in the absolute separation of church and state (the belief that one body-church or government-would have no influence over the other). To him, this meant that no priest could tell a president what to do and no Protestant clergyman could tell his parishioners how to vote. In other words, Kennedy's religion would not affect the decisions he made as president. A series of televised debates with Nixon was crucial to Kennedy's campaign. Many viewers believed Kennedy defeated Nixon with his style. Kennedy showed the American people that he had a sense of humor, a love of language, and a sense of the past. On November 9, 1960, John F. Kennedy became the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic in American history to win the presidency. The 1960 presidential election was one of the closest in the nation's history. Kennedy won the popular vote by only 119,450 votes. On December 19, 1960, the electoral college cast 303 votes for Kennedy and 219 for Nixon. At the inauguration on January 20, 1960, the first U.S. president born in the twentieth century was sworn into office. Kennedy's inaugural address included the challenge: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
JFK and creation of Apollo program?
Kennedy had absolutely nothing to do with the creation of the Apollo porgram. It was created during the Eisnhower administration in early 1960, a full year before Kennedy took office. Kennedy's role in Apollo was to give it a mission. That mission was "to land a man on the moon and retrun him safely to the earth."
Who was youngest man ever to be elected and could read 2000 words per minute?
John F. Kennedy was the youngest person elected president. He was also a speed-reader.
Who was the man who defeated the spanish armarda by it self?
The Spanish Armada was not defeated by one man, it was defeated by the weather and its inability to sail against the prevailing wind.
What are the release dates for Man from Interpol - 1960 A Man Alone 1-28?
Man from Interpol - 1960 A Man Alone 1-28 was released on: UK: 1960 USA: 6 August 1960
