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The Making of the President 1960

Theodore H. White

What is a presidential election? "The most awesome transfer of power in the world—, the power to marshal & mobilize, the power to send men to kill or be killed, the power to tax & destroy, the power to create & the responsibility to do so, the power to guide & the responsibility to heal —all committ...

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

The book was cited as a detailed account of the 1960 election and how Kennedy secured the Democratic nomination.

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And there's lots of background stuff on how John Kennedy won the Democratic nomination and how Richard Nixon won the Republican nomination.

— Episode: How an Open Democratic Convention Would...

Episode: How an Open Democratic Convention Would Work

The book was cited as a detailed account of the 1960 election and how Kennedy secured the Democratic nomination.

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And there's lots of background stuff on how John Kennedy won the Democratic nomination and how Richard Nixon won the Republican nomination.

The Rest Is History

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The Rest Is History

The hosts noted that White's acclaimed 1960 book had been sharply critical of Nixon, calling him hollow and a plastic man, but later describing him as softer and more selfconfident.

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Theodore H. White, who wrote The Making of the President in 1960, the great book on presidential campaigns and had been really hard on Nixon said, you know, he's hollow. He's a plastic man. He says, N...

— Episode: 513. America in '68: Nixon's Great Comeb...

Episode: 513. America in '68: Nixon's Great Comeback (Part...

The hosts noted that White's acclaimed 1960 book had been sharply critical of Nixon, calling him hollow and a plastic man, but later describing him as softer and more selfconfident.

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Theodore H. White, who wrote The Making of the President in 1960, the great book on presidential campaigns and had been really hard on Nixon said, you know, he's hollow. He's a plastic man. He says, Nixon is now a softer, more mellow, more selfconfident, more amusing, welltodo lawyer statesman. I find him a good man now.

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