I don't think it's overstating the fact that, on that date, politics and television changed forever, after that debate, it was not just what you said in a campaign that was important, but how you looked saying it.

Bruce DuMont

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The fact that a person can stand next to a famous person and go toe to toe with them, it elevates them in the public eye.

The innocence of the 1950s ended with (the bumping of) 'The Andy Griffith Show,' and the seriousness of the 1960s began with the first Kennedy-Nixon debate.