1960

Party

Democratic

Republican

Independent

 

Candidate

John F. Kennedy

Richard M. Nixon

Harry F. Byrd

Electoral Count

303

219

15

Popular Vote

49.7%

49.5%

00.7%

 

Key Terms: 1960 Election

  1. Catholic issue

  2. New Frontier
  3. Missile Gap
  4. U2 Incident
  5. Fidel and Cuba
  6. Indochina
  7. '59-'60 recession
  8. TV debates
  9. slender victory
  10. Camelot

     

Key Terms: Kennedy Administration

  1. New Frontier

  2. Camelot
  3. Bay of Pigs
  4. Missile Crisis
  5. Berlin Wall Speech
  6. flexible response
  7. Vietnam
  8. test ban treaty
  9. wages/prices and steel
  10. civil rights and Dixecrats
  11. Peace Corp

When Nixon called one of Kennedy's statements a "bare-faced lie," Kennedy retorted: "Having seen him four times close-up and made up, I would not accuse Mr. Nixon of being "bare-faced."

As returns were coming in election night, LBJ called to say Texas was close but safe. JFK hung up and told his friends with a smile: "Lyndon says, "I hear you're losing in Ohio but we're doing fine in Pennsylvania."

Presidential Campaigns, Paul F. Boller, Jr., Oxford University Press, New York, 1984.