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WASHINGTON POST, September 26, 1960
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nitewrighter · 9 months
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if it makes you feel better, that body language book is complete nonsense and you should ignore everything it says. it's all pseudo-science pushed on insecure women. literally burn it to heat your home, at least then it'll have some use.
She actually talks a lot about the inherent sexism and racism in a lot of body language interpretation and verbal cuing and how women and people of color are judged a lot more unfairly in professional environments, and throws in loads of caveats about cultural and personal contexts. It’s not like one of those TikTok channels or the TV show “Lie To Me” it’s more like, “So. You Don’t Know What To Do With Your Hands During Presentations And Job Interviews. Here’s What we observed by interviewing a bunch of employers, conducting a bunch of mock interviews, and reviewing a bunch of TED talk footage and other effective public speakers.” It's not like "X number of blinks mean you're lying." It’s really a bunch of basic, common sense stuff like “actually face people when you talk to them” and “add notes telling yourself to breathe at certain points in your presentation if you tend to get nervous and rush.” And there’s a lot of emphasis on doing what feels comfortable and natural to you. My wish is that she’d talk about the ableism in employers and body language as well, more. I mean obviously we do need to be critical in any behavioral studies but like, people do conduct behavioral studies.
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deadpresidents · 2 years
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Were the Lincoln and Douglass debates the first real presidential debates and why did they only have them in Illinois instead of other states?
Although Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas were opponents in the 1860 Presidential election, the Lincoln-Douglas debates weren't Presidential debates at all. The Lincoln-Douglas debates took place in 1858 during their campaign for the U.S. Senate from Illinois.
The first Presidential debates were those between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy in 1960. There were a handful of Presidential primary debates before that, but JFK-Nixon were definitely the first between the major party nominees for President.
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mossadegh · 4 months
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At the final 1960 Presidential debate with John F. Kennedy, Vice President Richard Nixon said the U.S. “quarantined” Guatemala’s Jacobo Arbenz, who was ‘thrown out’ by the people, and would do the same to Cuba’s Fidel Castro. Noting the unmentioned CIA role, The New York Times called it “the joke of the weekend”.
The Mossadegh Project
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anonymous-dentist · 2 years
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I appreciate Soap trying to get me to watch lore vods but frankly if I wanted to discuss wacky horrible elections I could point at al gore and laugh
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jstor · 6 months
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On this day in 1960, the first televised U.S. presidential debate occurred between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon–impacting United States presidential election cycles for decades into the future.
This article by David Greenberg describes the ritual of presidential debates and their role (or lack thereof) in the selection of United States presidents.
Image: Students watch the 1960 Presidential debates in Mather Hall Student Center (Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut). From the Trinity College Archival Images collection on JSTOR.
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dreamofstarlight · 7 months
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Jackie Kennedy watches the first debate between her husband Senator John F Kennedy of Massachusetts and Vice President Richard Nixon at her home in Hyannis Port - September 1960
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tomorrowusa · 4 months
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Sandra Day O'Connor died Friday at the age of 93. She was the first woman to serve on the US Supreme Court. Although she was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, her approach was more centrist than his and she was often the swing vote on the court.
After her retirement from SCOTUS in 2006, President George W. Bush appointed the hard right Samuel Alito to replace O'Connor. In 2022 Alito was the driving force behind the dismantling of Roe v. Wade.
Justice O’Connor joined the controlling opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that, to the surprise of many, reaffirmed the core of the constitutional right to abortion established in 1973 in Roe v. Wade. To overrule Roe “under fire in the absence of the most compelling reason to re-examine a watershed decision,” she wrote in a joint opinion with Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and David H. Souter, “would subvert the court’s legitimacy beyond any serious question.” Last year, the court did overrule Roe, casting aside Justice O’Connor’s concern for precedent and the court’s public standing. In his majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Alito wrote that Roe and Casey had “enflamed debate and deepened division.” Justice O’Connor also wrote the majority opinion in Grutter v. Bollinger, a 2003 decision upholding race-conscious admissions decisions at public universities, suggesting that they would not longer be needed in a quarter-century. In striking down affirmative action programs in higher education in June, the Supreme Court beat her deadline by five years. [ ... ] Justice O’Connor was also an author of a key campaign finance opinion, McConnell v. Federal Election Commission in 2003. A few years after Justice Alito replaced her, the Supreme Court, by a 5-to-4 vote in 2010, overruled a central portion of that decision in the Citizens United case.nge? A few days later, at a law school conference, Justice O’Connor reflected on the development. “Gosh,” she said, “I step away for a couple of years and there’s no telling what’s going to happen.” [ ... ] She held the crucial vote in many of the court’s most polarizing cases, and her vision shaped American life for her quarter century on the court. Political scientists stood in awe at the power she wielded. “On virtually all conceptual and empirical definitions, O’Connor is the court’s center — the median, the key, the critical and the swing justice,” Andrew D. Martin, Kevin M. Quinn and Lee Epstein and two colleagues wrote in a study published in 2005 in The North Carolina Law Review shortly before Justice O’Connor’s retirement.
Let this be a reminder that the direction of the Supreme Court depends on the President who appoints its members and the Senate which confirms them.
While we may not have warm and fuzzy feelings about Ronald Reagan, two of his three† appointments to SCOTUS were centrists. Of the six current justices appointed to the court by Republican presidents, one is a conservative and the other five are hardline reactionaries.
When voting for president or senator, we are indirectly also voting for SCOTUS justices who could be on the court for decades. We ought to keep that in mind when we hear people suggesting that we should cast "protest votes" for impotent third parties which have no chance of getting elected.
Remember that no 2024 Republican presidential candidate will nominate to the court somebody as relatively moderate as Sandra Day O'Connor.
† I count Rehnquist, who Reagan elevated from Associate to Chief Justice, as a Nixon appointee.
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i’ll be bobby kennedy and you be the speech therapist i hired to get rid of my abrasive boston accent
you be bobby kennedy and i’ll be the guy he attacked in a bar for having the same birthday as him
you be bobby kennedy and i’ll be richard nixon and you can tell me my makeup looks good before the debate that will change how we understand presidential elections for the next half-century (tender)
you be bobby kennedy and i’ll be richard nixon and you can tell me my makeup looks good before the debate that will change how we understand presidential elections for the next half-century (humiliation kink)
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petervintonjr · 10 months
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"We, the people. It's a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787, I was not included in that 'We, the people.' I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in We, the people. Today I am an inquisitor. An hyperbole would not be fictional and would not overstate the solemnness that I feel right now. My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. And I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction, of the Constitution." --from Barbara Jordan's opening remarks to the House Judiciary Committee on July 24, 1974, regarding the impeachment of Richard Nixon
Today, June 1, kicks off Pride Month (and also incidentally marks the third anniversary of the start of this series), and I thought it appropriate to examine the amazing accomplishments of Texas civil rights leader, attorney, and Congresswoman Barbara Charline Jordan.
Born in a poor Houston neighborhood in 1936, Jordan discovered an early aptitude for languages and oration, and also debate. She graduated from Texas Southern University in 1956, then obtained her LL.B. from Boston University School of Law in 1959. She was admitted to both the Massachusetts and Texas bars in 1960, then began practicing law in Houston --at the time only the third African American woman to be so licensed. An outspoken supporter of John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign, she herself entered politics and unsuccessfully ran for state representative in 1962 and again in 1964. Two years later her fortunes changed, however, and in 1966 she became the first African American elected to the Texas Senate in 1966.
Jordan's standing as a fellow Texan Democrat endeared her to then-President Lyndon Johnson and in many respects she became LBJ's protégée. In 1972 Jordan ran for Congress for Texas's 18th District, and unseated the incumbent Republican, becoming the first woman --of any race-- elected to Congress from that state.
Jordan's political career accomplishments extend far beyond this biography's available space, but among the high points include her aggressive sponsorship of the Voting Rights Act of 1975 (an extension of the more famous 1965 measure), and the Equal Rights Amendment in 1977. Also significantly she served on the House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon impeachment hearings, and her speech at the 1976 Democratic National Convention is widely regarded as one of the best keynote speeches in modern history; her presence in many ways even eclipsing that of the party's nominee, Jimmy Carter. (She would return as a keynote speaker for the 1992 Democratic National Convention.)
Jordan retired from politics in 1978 and became a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas in Austin. In 1993 Jordan was the first recipient of the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights. A year later she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton for her trailblazing work. That same year Jordan was also named the chair of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform. Jordan died from complications from pneumonia in January of 1996, and is buried at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin --significantly breaking barriers even in death as the first-ever black woman to be interred there. While Jordan never explicitly acknowledged her personal sexual orientation in public, she was open about her life partner of nearly 30 years, educational psychologist Nancy Earl.
Her legacy continues through the Jordan Rustin Coalition (named for her and for Civil Rights organizer Bayard Rustin --see Lesson #05 in this series): a non-profit advocacy group working to empower Black same-gender loving, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and families; and to promote equal marriage rights and to advocate for fair treatment of everyone without regard to race, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
Full text of Jordan's July 24, 1974 remarks: https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/impeachment/my-faith-constitution-whole-it-complete-it-total
A truly absorbing 1976 article about Jordan's life and career by William Broyles, indexed at: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/the-making-of-barbara-jordan-2/
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mxtomituck · 1 year
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My takeaway from the whole Speaker of the House thing is as follows:
We’ve only just started getting used to the amount of accessibility and transparency that we have with our government here in the US. The Kennedy-Nixon debate was the first major televised presidential debate. It drastically affected the outcome of the 1960 election. Now we have CSPAN and livestreams and can watch this circus live, baby.
And all I can think is… we live like this? We’ve managed to stick around for 247 years when this many fatal errors are BUILT INTO THE SYSTEM? To be clear, I’m not saying autocracy is the answer here. There HAS to be a better way to do all of this. There has to. It can’t possibly be that this is the best example of what democracy has to offer. This is insane. These people in congress are insane. And I mean all of them. To sit through this kind of bullshit and just say “yeah okay this is normal…”?????
I get that mass media has completely changed the game. If we even use the radio as a time marker we can see how the US got to coast for the first 150 years - but now????? We’re all just going to pretend like we don’t need a major overhaul of this ridiculous pageant that passes for governance?????
I can’t.
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38.   “Look at what you did to me. I’ve had to deal with this all day.”
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Pairing: Lenny Bruce & Midge Maisel Rated T Warnings: Discussions of Assassination, Mention of the Holocaust
"Sorry I'm late!" Midge practically flies into their home, hanging up her coat and purse and going to the living room.
She joins her husband on the couch, giving him a quick kiss hello before their four-year-old climbs into her lap. "Hello, sweetie," she greets, giving Sarah a tight hug.
"You're telling me your...place of employment...had no idea this was coming?!"
"Pop, we're not diviners! We're analysts!" Noah cries, waving his hands.
Lenny leans in to her. "Look at what you did to me. I've had to deal with this all day."
"What are they even arguing about?" She whispers.
"Senator Kennedy's assassination," he explains quietly.
"Cheerful," she mutters, kissing Sarah's hair as she buries her face in her mother's neck.
"After President Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., your analyses didn't predict that maybe we should protect the man who could very well be the only thing standing between Nixon and the White House?!"
"Papa," Midge interjects, "maybe we should change topics."
She's ignored as her brother answers, "That's the Secret Service’s job!"
"I'm gonna take Sarah upstairs," Midge tells Lenny.
"Well I'm coming with you. I'm a terrible mediator," he grumbles.
As they get out to the hall, Midge asks, "Where are the rest of our kids? And Mama and Astrid?"
"Kids are upstairs. They got out at the first sign of argument."
"Smart ones, our offspring."
"Astrid and your mother are out back. I saw your mother pull out a pack of those French cigarettes."
"Oy, who would have thought Mama would be a corrupting influence on anyone?" She jokes, heading up the stairs.
"I tried to get Sarah to go with the other kids, but she kind of clung to me, and I couldn't get Abe and Noah to stop arguing."
"That's my little monkey," Midge coos, rubbing Sarah's back as she sniffles.
"Why's Papa so angry?" The little girl whimpers, and it breaks Midge's heart.
She takes a deep breath and sighs. "Because something bad happened a couple days ago, and Papa's not very good at hiding his feelings."
"I wanted to show him my coloring..."
Midge's eyes well up with tears, and she squeezes Sarah a little tighter as she enters the girl's bedroom, Lenny right behind her. "Why don't you stay in here for a while and color some more?" She suggests, setting Sarah on the bed and petting her hair.
Small hands wipe at big blue eyes, and she nods. "O-okay," she whimpers.
Midge kisses her cheek and gives her another squeeze.
"I'm gonna stay with her," Lenny whispers.
She nods and kisses him softly. "Yeah, take a break from the madness. I'll let you know when it's safe again."
"Bless you." He kisses her one more time.
She goes downstairs, returning to the living room where the argument is still in full force. "Hey!" Midge shouts.
Both men look at her in shock. "Miriam, when did you get here?" Her father asks.
"Um, sometime around 'we're not diviners,'" she snaps. "My daughter is upstairs crying because you two have been shouting for god knows how long."
"We weren't shouting. It was a spirited debate," Abe protests.
"Papa," she scolds. "You're arguing about assassinations in front of a four-year-old. You don't think that's a little, I don't know, insane?!"
"How much does she actually understand?" Noah asks.
"She's four, Noah, and her father's daughter - she understands plenty. And even if she didn't, she understands what yelling means!"
Both men appear to finally deflate at that. "Shit, Midge, I'm sorry," Noah exhales.
"Thank you. Now go apologize to your wife before Mama kills her with those Gauloises."
"Your mother's smoking?" Abe asks with wide eyes.
"Yes, and apparently taking Astrid down with her."
Noah heads out back, their father following, but Midge stops him with a hand pressed to his chest. "You are going upstairs and apologizing to your grandchildren."
"Miriam, please. Your mother - "
"Sarah's finally coloring inside the lines, and she just wanted to show you that tonight. You're going to apologize to her and look at her coloring book and pretend to be very, very impressed. You're going to apologize to my husband for making him put up with this insanity for the last hour, and then you're going to apologize to our other kids for making them feel like they had to run away in their own home," she orders.
Abe looks at her for a moment. "Okay," he caves with a nod. "I'm sorry, Miriam. This year has been...it just feels very similar to..."
"I know," she breathes, her own anger ebbing a bit. She was very small during the second war, but she remembers the tensions. "I know it does. Trust me, Lenny and I are on edge, too, but we have kids - one of whom is very small. We have to keep it together around them."
Her father nods, looking appropriately reprimanded. "I'll go speak to Sarah."
"And look at her coloring," Midge reminds him.
Abe sighs. "And look at her coloring."
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nitewrighter · 9 months
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Super curious – what’s that body language book you were reading?
Cues by Vanessa Van Edwards. She mostly works in a lot of corporate workshops so the body language focus is mostly in the context of professional environments, presentations, and networking, which like, I think is already a very specific context. Again, I do wish the book discussed ableism in how we interpret body language the same way it discussed sexism and racism, but I am grateful that a lot of her "If they're making this face, that means X" explorations basically come with the caveat of "Okay our research indicates that this signals discomfort, but 99% of the time you don't actually have the full context as to why this person would be making this face or doing X and also just one body cue doesn't actually immediately indicate this, so don't take this one facial expression to mean they're lying or mad at you, but these kind of signals do indicate you may want to pump the brakes and reconfigure your approach." But again, that whole, "you don't have the full context" factor I think could be explored more, especially in the context of ableism.
Like, for example, in the Nixon Kennedy debates, these were the first televised presidential debates, and people who listened to the debate on the radio thought Nixon had won, and people who watched the debate on television thought Kennedy had won! Basically even though Nixon knew his stuff at the time, the visual medium of television did impact his campaign. In the televised recording Kennedy was very handsome and confident and Nixon kind of looked like a shifty pile of shit--and there's a reason for this! Nixon banged his knee on a car door minutes before the debate and was in literal physical pain standing on that leg throughout the debate (apparently it was so bad he later had to be hospitalized for staph), and also he refused to wear makeup for the debate so he looked shinier under studio lighting, and he didn't know which cameras to look at during filming while Kennedy was just fixed on one camera the whole time, so he showed up sweatier and stubblier and more shifty-eyed than Kennedy and arguably less prepared.
So like, for me listening to this book, it was this moment of "Wow, so indicating any kind of physical discomfort can really fuck you over when you're trying to look competent for a job. What does this mean for people with chronic pain?" And again, additional caveat that like, as far as examples go, you don't get much more "specific to American culture" than a presidential debate--like, I'm willing to say USAmericans can be a very superficial, "Interpreting strength and confidence as competence" people. Like it's worth noting that a lot of our school history books include "he was tall :)" among the reasons as to why we picked Washington as our first President. But yeah it's an very interesting book. It's very 'your mileage may vary'--- a lot of the advice in there is, like I've said before, very basic common sense stuff my dad would often tell me right before job interviews, haha.
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deadpresidents · 7 months
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porciaenjoyer · 4 months
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hi!! i did go to the jfk thing at my school at the end as i kind of expected it was one (1) history teacher who just REALLY liked jfk doing a talk.. it was pretty interesting he showed us a bunch of clips like frank sinatra’s song for kennedy’s presidential campaign.
also there was a video about how his tv cinematography helped him subtly convince the people to vote for him. and the whole time the voiceover was just shitting on nixon for looking tired and pale and washed out on screen that was kind of funny
that sounds SO cool to be honest... i want a jfk event at my school....!!!! and yeah the televised debates + television in general are suchh an interesting aspect of that election to me... too bad for tired and pale nixon and his injured knee
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The 1960 U.S. presidential election was one of the most contentious of the post-war era in the Black Sun continuity. The Democratic and Republican Parties struggled to regain power, the Socialist party fought to continue its agenda of radical reform, and the American party sought to "save America's soul."
Vice President Jacob Olson pledged not only to continue his predecessor's agenda of economic and social reforms, but to also a more aggressive foreign policy against the provocations and expansionist aims of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and their varied allies and minions. Despite a precarious and contentious start to his presidency from his narrow electoral victory, Olson's navigation of multiple crises at home and abroad would lead to him being re-elected in 1964 with the highest threshold that the Socialist party had yet to receive.
Kennedy family scion, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., aimed to restore the Democratic Party's national viability after years in the political wilderness - caused by the disastrous wartime presidency of Huey Long. Polls showed him highly competitive in the weeks before election day. While failing to win the White House in 1960, Kennedy offered one of the stronger Democratic showings since 1940. He would be re-elected to a third term in his senate seat in Massachusetts in 1964 despite a Socialist wave that accompanied President Olson's own re-election. In 1968, Kennedy would stage a stunning comeback, finally winning the presidency as candidate for the new National Union party - formed from a merger of the moderate remnants of both the Democratic and Republican parties after the disastrous 1964 presidential election.
California senator Richard Nixon was seen as his party's best hope at maintaining relevance. The Republicans had been struggling after conservative rebels formed the American Party during the 1948 election in protest against President Thomas Dewey's more liberal policies. Nixon not only struggled to stake out a distinctive position amid the crowded field of candidates and ideologies, but also failed to match the more powerful charisma of both Olson and Kennedy - made especially noticeable during the first ever televised presidential debates. Nixon would narrowly lose re-election to his senate seat in 1962, which effectively finished his career in national politics. His final press conference has become well known for his embittered comments to reporters: "you don't have Nixon to kick around any more..."
Indiana senator William E. Jenner was seen as the great white hope of American conservatives. Virulently anti-Socialist and willing to keep quiet on civil rights in order to get support from the South, he promised a "return to normalcy and tradition for all Americans." Though Jenner offered a surprisingly strong showing, he came no where close to victory, even with running mate Strom Thurmond attracting significant support in the South. He was only just barely able to win his home state of Indiana - with the Olson coming a close second. Jenner chose not to seek re-election in 1964, facing a increasingly difficult electoral map. A socialist candidate would gain his seat that same year. Jenner largely disappeared from politics from that point on, returning to the private sector for the rest of his life.
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