Veteran journalist Chris Wallace joins "CBS Mornings" to talk about his new book, "Countdown 1960," which gives an inside look at the campaigns of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

In the 1960 presidential election, Democratic Senator John Kennedy of Massachusetts narrowly defeated incumbent Republican Vice President Richard Nixon. This was the first election in which all 50 ...

In Ward 24, Kennedy collected some 24,000 votes to Nixon’s just over 2,130. But those lopsided margins were the least of it. In Ward 2, Precinct 50, almost 80 votes were cast – even though the ...

During the 1960 Presidential election, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon faced off in their first head to head debate. More for You Biden, in Rare Remarks Since Presidency, Warns His ...

The White House race between Al Gore and George Bush, apparently resting on a few hundred votes, is a reminder of the bitter presidential battle of 1960. John F Kennedy beat Vice-President Richard ...

“You gotta swallow this one,” says a Republican hack in Oliver Stone’s Nixon, referring to the 1960 election, in which John F. Kennedy prevailed. “They stole it fair and square.” That ...

John F Kennedy (left) and Richard Nixon (right). The presidential race between Kennedy and Nixon in 1960 was very close and in September they were neck and neck in the polls.

Howard K. Smith sits between U.S. Sen. John F. Kennedy, left, and Vice President Richard Nixon, as shown on a television studio monitor during their debate on Sept. 26, 1960, in Chicago. (AP) By ...

Kennedy and Nixon debated three more times before the 1960 election — in New York City; Washington, D.C.; and Los Angeles. Nixon came off better in the later debates — particularly the last on ...

Because of something that is all but lost to history—something deliriously unlikely that happened on Election Day 1960, as Sen. John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon prepared to find ...

Chris Wallace, a CNN anchor, talks about his new book “Countdown 1960” and the stark differences between Kennedy and Nixon and Donald Trump today.