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Kennedy's Victory Won By Close Margin; He Promises Fight For World Freedom; Eisenhower Offers 'Orderly Transition' (JAMES RESTON, 11/08/02, The New York Times)

Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts finally won the 1960 Presidential election from Vice President Nixon by the astonishing margin of less than two votes per voting precinct.

Nevertheless, yesterday's voting radically altered the political balance of power in America in favor of the Democrats and put them in a commanding position in the Federal and state capitals unknown since the heyday of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Of course Mr. Kennedy proceeded to botch the Cold War horribly in the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War... Posted by Orrin Judd at November 9, 2002 8:03 AM