Kathleen hall jamieson, the renowned scholar from the university of pennsylvania, one of the countrys foremost experts on media and politics and the founder of factcheck. Org. Schaefer, an experienced republican strategist and Media Consultant who has worked in many president ial campaigns including the campaign of mitt romney in 2012. In our third segment we will take questions from the audience. You can submit questions in the chat function or via twitter. At politics 2020 or via events at brookings. Edu. Lets have a look at the very first president ial debate between kennedy and neck than. Nixon. Here is a picture of them that shows really the problem. The very first televised president ial debate was between these two men in 1960. The idea did not come from the candidates or plug or parties, came from the networks. Kennedy quickly accepted. Nixon against the advice of many also accepted. It is now widely thought that 1960 debate was a disaster for nixon, who had been sick and who m