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Pros And Cons Of President Dwight David Eisenhower

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Subsequently, not being satisfied with the actions that were being taken by President Dwight David Eisenhower’’s administration, in the 1960’s presidential election, the American electorate elected President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a first-term Senator from Massachusetts over the incumbent Vice President of the United States of America under President Dwight David Eisenhower: Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon. A lecture from POSC 458 - the Vietnam Wars seems to indicate that Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon’’s poor performance in the first televised presidential debates could have been just as consequential if not more, than a rejection of President Dwight David Eisenhower’’s policies towards the Vietnam War by the voters as television

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