B.O.G.A.R.T.
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September 26, 1960, for the first time in history 66 million Americans were glued to their TV screens witnessing a spectacle that would alter the way how we approach politics forever. What they saw wasn't a political debate between two politicians with opposing ideologies, it wasn't a battle between reactionary and progressive -- after all, Kennedy consistently kept positioning himself to the right of Nixon -- and Nixon, known as a racial progressive in the Eisenhower administration, was actually a member of the NAACP when Kennedy was still pandering to wealthy Dixiecrat's in the south. When Eisenhower was warning americans about the dangers of the military industrial complex, Kennedy was rubbing shoulders with senator McCharty as he fixed a internship for his brother Bobby. At the debate on that historic night, Kennedy swung at Nixon from the right and hard -- accusing him of being too soft on Cuba, and caving in to the Soviets for not wanting to start a termo-nuclear war in the name of freedom. But americans didn't care about that crap, and almost payed for it half a year later. Kennedy was fresh and young, well... he was only 3 years younger than Nixon, but his intact NW0 hairline always said otherwise.
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