Beenubject matter has agreed will be restricted to internal or domestic american matters. Now for the first Opening Statement by senator john f. Kennedy. In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln said the question was if this nation would exist. Nation would this exist half free. In 19 six the, the question is if this nation will exist half slave, half free. I think it will depend in great measure on what we do here in the United States, on the kind of society that we build, on the kind of strength that we maintain. We discussed tonight domestic issues, but i would not want that to be any implication to be given that this does not involve directly our struggle with mr. Khrushchev for survival. Mr. Khrushchev is done new york, and he maintains a communist offensive throughout the world because of the productive power of the soviet union itself. The chinese communists have always had a large population, but they are important and dangerous now because they are mounting a dangerous effort
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Guest no, it is a myth but it is longstanding. It is partially true. The moderator was sitting behind the candidates, so he really could not see how they were looking on camera, he was just listening to what they were saying. He said after that, he thought that nixon had won and when he watched the rerun of the debate, he actually thought kennedy had won. The reason that popped up with there had been a survey done by marketing firms of people who had listened on radio. They had said they thought nixon had won it. You canthe viewers, watch and listen and then vice versa. If nothing else, just the difference in the voices, the difference in the accents. Most people think kennedy emerged the winner. He just looked pretty bad in pretty nervous. 60 years this weekend since that first nationally televised president ial debate. There were essentially four debates between john f. Kennedy october 7, nixon, 1960, the second. October 13, 1960, the third. If final one, october 21 before the electi
A military past with washington telling the American Forces that that presence is now in the go as well. That has all the United Nation saves northern gauze that is on the verge of starvation is way the Defense Force is once again school, the al. Shes the hospital in the area, the a very well welcome to you, assistant 2 pm here in moscow. And this is all to international, but the next as well news update is good to have you with us as always. Now, top story this hour, Vladimir Putin is re elected for a 5th to another land slide when, with over 87 percent of the votes, as russians overwhelmingly back him to leave the nation for 6 more years. The day off, his victory coincided with the 10th anniversary of the re certification of crimea with russia and president pete to attend to the celebration on red squad. That must be occasion that i gave those. Yeah. Dear friends, from all my heart, i agree to all and congratulate you on the celebration. Under unification of crimea and semester pulle
Switzerland. A missile test fired by iraq violated international rules. That is the message from the u. N. Security councils panel of experts. Despite that the agency praised iran for the way it has curtailed its nuclear program. The u. N. Security Council Panel says it was a breach of the nuclear deal. Lets go live to Gabriel Elizondo at the united nations. This was a missile test flight which the u. N. Said could have carried a nuclear war head. It didnt, but the potential was there. It sounds pretty serious. Reporter it is and thats what the panel of experts basically concluded is it was in violation of u. N. Resolution. And we expect that the Security Council will be briefed on this in about three hours time or so, and thats going to be very, very important, because that will be the first time that the u. N. Security Council Hears these particular findings, david. Now its important to point out that this a panel of experts only looked at the earlier october 10th Ballistic Missile t