The Liberal Consensus Tested JFK Richard Nixon The Election of 1960 The Best and the Brightest Camelot?

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The Liberal Consensus Tested JFK Richard Nixon The Election of 1960 The Best and the Brightest Camelot?

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Joe Kennedy

JFK- WW II

Kennedy as author Profiles in Courage (1956) Why England Slept (1950)

Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ)

Richard M. Nixon

Televised Presidential Debates

The Best and the Brightest

The Cabinet Secty of Defense- Robert McNamara Secty of State- Dean Rusk Nat. Security Asst.- McGeorge Bundy Secty of Treasury- C. Douglas Dillon

Attorney General Bobby Kennedy

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