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On 26 September 1960, an estimated 70 million Americans watched John Kennedy and Richard Nixon in the first ever televised presidential debate. Nixon perspired heavily and appeared unshaven while Kennedy was immaculate and composed with a California suntan. Kennedy had found his perfect medium and in future he was to use it to great effect. Read about the famous TV encounter between Kennedy and Nixon along with other significant political encounters that changed the world.
Contents: The Old Etonians, The Yalta Conference – Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill, The Bandung Conference, Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, Kennedy and Nixon on TV, Richard Nixon and Chairman Mao, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, The Reykjavik Summit 1986, The Bush- Gorbachev Summits, The Earth Summit at Rio1992, Camp David Summit 2000, The Pyongyang Summits 2002 and 2007
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