nsistent throughout time.Seeing that I was not alive and my parents were both under three years old I thought it would be interesting to ask my grandmother her views on the Election of 1960. I asked her who and why she voted for. She told me that she voted for Kennedy. When I told her that many people think Kennedy won due to his good looks she said, “That is foolish and that is not why I voted for him.” She told me her reasons included he was young, he was Catholic, he was Massachusetts, he had been in politics all his life and she liked his views. One major reason she voted for him was because, “I thought Nixon could not be trusted. I could not trust him as far as I could throw him.” She believed that Kennedy was the best man for the job. When I asked her what she thought about the televised debates she said, “ There were interesting, you could see the reactions on their faces. Not like on the radio you could not see their emotions and facial expressions.”...
