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Nuclear disarmament and the test ban were hot issues in the 1960 presidential campaign. During the fourth TV debate, both Kennedy and Nixon clearly supported nuclear negotiations . While openly blaming the Soviets for any missed opportunity in the nuclear field, the Republican candidate presented himself in a widely circulated electoral brochure, as a leader who wanted to “continue every effort to arrive at disarmament with inspection.” The Democratic standard-bearer was even more vocal in his support of nuclear negotiations . “Should the American people choose me as their President,” Kennedy wrote in a letter addressed to former member of the US Atomic Energy Commission , Thomas Murray , and published by The New York Times (October 9, 1960), “I would want to exhaust all reasonable opportunities to conclude an effective international agreement banning all tests.”
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Fazzi, D. (2016). Knowledge Is the Power, Education Is the Key. In: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Anti-Nuclear Movement. The World of the Roosevelts. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32182-0_7
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