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Better Chance. Whichever course he chooses, say some Republican leaders, Nixon will probably never again get as good a shot at the presidency as in 1960. He ran as a sitting Vice President, more experienced than any of his predecessors in the job, was heralded as a well-publicized debater...
Republican party chieftains were staggered by the effect of the first debate. Knowing that Nixon had been a champion debater in high school and college, recalling his easy platform conquests in his California campaigns for House and Senate, Nixon men had confidently expected their man to give Kennedy a decisive...
But if Nixon's answer is no, the Democratic candidate will revive charges that he self-publicized "kitchen debater" is afraid of meeting him face to face again before 70 million Americans.
Bumbling Battler. The next big round of the campaign will also be an unorthodox sort of political battle: the coming TV encounters, which both men will go into aware that their clashes before the cameras and microphones, watched by perhaps more than the estimated 45 million who viewed the conventions...
The paradox is repeated in Candidates 1960 (Basic Books; $4.95), a spotty collection of sketches by Washington correspondents, edited by CBS News Analyst Eric Sevareid. The Dick Nixons portrayed by the Baltimore Sun's Philip Potter (anti) and the New York Daily News's Frank Holeman (pro) are...