give their last words. >> we're coming to the end of this wonderful debate and it's time for your closing remarks. secretary clinton, you're first. >> thank you very much for a lively debate. i appreciate greatly all the questions, especially the questions in person from the people here and those coming at us from facebook. it just reinforces my strong commitment to do everything i can to break down all the barriers that stand in the way of people living up to their own potential and of our country doing the same. so i am going to take on those economic barriers. i have a plan to create jobs and raise incomes. i'm going to take on the education barriers that even leave too many children behind, even after completing schooling, i'm going to take on the health care barriers. i will unite our country. i will find common ground as i have as first lady, senator and secretary of state and i will

stand my ground. i will be honored to have your support in the upcoming primaries on tuesday and hope to have the great honor of serving you as your president. [ cheers and applause ] senator sanders, your closing remarks. >> this has been a wonderful debate, but time being limited, some of the most important issues facing our country have not been asked. and that is is it acceptable in america the top 1/10 of 1% now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%. is it acceptable while the average american works longer hours for lower wage, 50% of all new income is going to the top 1%. is it acceptable wall street millionaires are spending billions trying to buy

elections? is that democracy or this that oligarchy. is it right that in the greatest country in the history of the world, so many of our young people can't afford to go to college or leave school deeply in death. in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, if we stand up, fight back we can do a lot better. that's why i'm running for president. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you.

secretary and senator, we want to thank both of you for being here. we also want to thank our wonderful audience for being here. >> on behalf of "the washington post" and univision and facebook, we'd like to thank you again for joining us in this debate and also to remind people to get out and vote. >> translator: we want to use these last moments, it's very important to go out and vote. remember next tuesday, march 15th is elections in florida, illinois, missouri, north carolina, ohio, all these states and in all these states the hispanic vote is crucial. let's talk about the importance of hispanic votes, how in close races it is the hispanic vote that can choose the next president of the united states.

the only way that this can happen is if we all go out and vote. so you know it perfectly who does not vote doesn't count. >> translator: nobody can reach the white house without hispanic vote. remember, don't let others decide for you. the power is in your hands. you have to participate, you have to vote. thank you for being with us this evening and thank you for trusting in univision.

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1960 america, land of the free, is terrified of the red menace. >> america was very unsettled. the soviets had the bomb and because of that there was uncertainty there, there was fear. >> america has confidence in its president, father of the nation in world war ii, dwight d. eisenhower. but even presidents have to retire. who can step into his shoes? many think this is the man --

eisenhower's vice president for eight years, richard milhous nixon. >> richard nixon is well known to the american people. >> nixon's not scared of the russians, as soviet premier nikita khrushchev finds out as a moscow trade fair. >> it wasn't supposed to be much. it was supposed to be just a meeting, but it turned into a confrontation. >> there must be a free exchange of ideas. >> capitalism versus communism. back and forth and back and forth. jabbing with the fingers. the words didn't matter. it was the images that mattered. he was presidential. he seemed ready for the white house. >> meanwhile, traveling through the bleak wisconsin landscape, there is another man who believes he's destined for the

white house. he's young, he's inexperienced, and he's almost unknown. his name is john f. kennedy. and he aims to win the wisconsin democratic primary. >> how are you this morning? >> and you would stand right there. my job would be shake hands with jack kennedy. shake hands with teddy. bobby. >> bob kennedy. >> we worked hard. >> i come here today as a candidate in the wisconsin primary. >> kennedy is smart. he knows that if he can prove himself a vote winner here in the primaries, the democratic party will have to take him seriously as a candidate for president. >> this was a new way of campaigning. this was a new way of becoming the nominee. >> first of all, he's going to have to beat hubert humphrey.

>> hubert humphrey, democrat senator from minnesota is confident he'll win wisconsin hearts. >> let me tell you, i've been working for the dairy farmer ever since i set foot in the senate of the united states. >> we knew we had a tough job to win. it was a monumental challenge. >> kennedy does have one advantage, being a kennedy. his father joseph, rich, powerful and the former ambassador to great britain, has always wanted a son for president. >> politics was definitely a family affair. you had a large family who was out there saying we are supporting our brother or our brother-in-law. and that, i think, was a very compelling picture. >> and if the might of the kennedys isn't enough, then there's jfk ever present, ever glamorous wife, jackie.

>> you put the two together, and people are just in awe. really, they were the beatles before the beatles. >> and for the icing on the campaign cake, frank sinatra serenades wisconsin with a special version of "high hopes." ♪ because he's got high hopes ♪ he's got high hopes >> so i started singing and kennedy said, it's never been sung like that before. ♪ vote for kennedy >> doesn't happen when a billboard number one singer decides to use his talents to sell a political campaign. ♪ kennedy >> glamour, show business and family, who can compete with that?

not hubert humphrey. ♪ hubert humphrey ♪ the president for you and me >> humphrey recognized what he was facing. he called himself the corner drugstore compared to a chain. the kennedys were a chain, powerful, big. >> how are you? >> he was passing out palm cards on the streets. >> i'm senator humphrey. this doesn't work too good either. >> it just didn't work. >> a desperate humphrey lunges for kennedy's achilles' heel. jfk's a catholic, and no catholic has ever been elected president. >> there was a very strong anti-catholic feeling. ♪ >> jfk's team fight back. it's bare knuckle time as kennedy aide paul corbin came out swinging.

>> paul corbin was a political hack who was also a dirty trickster. he would stop at nothing. corbin arranged to have a lot of anti-catholic literature shipped into wisconsin, so right away a lot of voters are offended. and they think that the awful bigoted stuff was coming from hubert humphrey. >> corbin's dirty trick works. thousands of incensed catholics get up and vote for kennedy. >> we won. it was tough, but we won. >> after victory in wisconsin and a landslide in west virginia, kennedy heads straight for the nomination. but the democratic bosses are out to get him. >> in my own mind -- >> the first knife in kennedy's

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♪ adoring crowds greet kennedy at the democratic convention. >> we had great hopes that jack was going to win. he had won all the primaries, but it wasn't a sure thing. >> good afternoon from the sports arena in los angeles, california, the site of the democratic national convention. >> kennedy holes up with his brother bobby and his team. his hotel suite becomes a command bunker. his target, the old guard of the democrats. he knows they plan to crush him. >> kennedy had a major foe trying to bring him down at every opportunity. his name was lyndon b. johnson, the senate majority leader from texas.

>> johnson wants the nomination for himself, and he's prepared to play dirty. >> lyndon johnson's allies and friends at the convention begin to talk about kennedy's health problems. >> kennedy had serious health problems. addison's disease. he had a hormonal deficiency that could have killed him. in fact, his father put medicine in safe deposit vaults all over the united states so that kennedy would never run short. >> so what johnson does is he makes it a campaign issue. >> the kennedy forces denied it vociferously. and had doctors come out and say he was beyond it in health and energy and vitality and never had so-called addison's disease and they lied through their teeth. >> kennedy's illness is never mentioned again. it's a victory for jfk's team,

if not for truth. >> had the american public known just how sick jack kennedy was, he probably could not have been a presidential candidate. >> now, they work the convention floor. >> john f. kennedy. >> to win the nomination, they must get an outright majority. >> kennedy had the most advanced operation any candidate in either party had ever had at a national convention. bobby kennedy was the campaign manager. >> he's tough. he's brash. and he can be mean. and he's leading the vote counting on the floor of the convention. >> they knew exactly what they were doing. >> the delegates start voting. >> johnson believed that he'd win. kennedy was worried. he thought he had it sewn up,

but he wasn't certain of it. >> mr. chairman, my only vote will make majority for senator kennedy. >> yes! >> kennedy won the nomination, but he did not unify the party. there were many senior democrats suggesting that he couldn't win in november. >> in a surprise move to heal party wounds, kennedy names as his running mate lyndon b. johnson. >> one of the smartest things that kennedy did was to make lbj his running mate. he had the wisdom to know that he needed texas, and he needed southern votes. and lbj was able to deliver texas. >> let me say first that i accept the nomination of the democratic party.

the republican nominee, of course, is a young man, but his party is the party of the past. >> nixon was watching kennedy's acceptance speech, and he thought it was weak. he thought kennedy came across as being privileged and effeminate, not that good on tv and nixon thought to himself, i can beat him. >> richard nixon. >> 12 days later an unopposed richard nixon secures the republican nomination. >> thank you. >> when mr. khrushchev says our grandchildren will live under communism, let us say his grandchildren will live in freedom. >> nixon's speech fires the opening shot of the election. the race for the white house is on. ♪ kennedy kennedy kennedy

♪ kennedy for me ♪ kennedy ♪ kennedy >> the kennedys do what kennedys do best, spend money. >> it was called the jingle ad. every product was sold with a jingle, so why not a candidate? ♪ it's up to you ♪ it's strictly up to you >> that ad aired a lot during the daytime. so at the time, and it's somewhat sexist to say, it was aimed at housewives watching soap operas. ♪ kennedy >> what is the most important issue confronting the american people in this election campaign? >> nixon was selling security, stability, you know what you get with me, you know what you had with eisenhower, let's stick with what works. >> i'm going to wear this in the st. patrick's day parade in boston.

>> the press loved kennedy and kennedy loved the press. >> they thought he was charming. they thought he was fun. they went on sing-alongs on the campaign plane. >> nixon was exactly the opposite. they thought he was awkward, weird, uncomfortable. >> the press liked jack, and they did not like dick. >> nixon's staff had urged him to develop a better relationship with the press, and finally nixon had agreed to go down and socialize with them at the pool at the hotel in the evening. well the press was all there drinking and enjoying the pool, and all of a sudden they saw nixon appear at the opposite end of the pool. he waved, jumped in, got out and went right back to his hotel room. and that was nixon press relations.

>> press men loved kennedy. churchmen not so much. across the country protestant ministers are directing anti-catholic hatred at kennedy. chief among the bigots is dr. norman vincent peale. in front of a mass meeting he declares -- >> faced with the election of a catholic, our culture is at stake. >> it was protestants versus catholics. >> and america in 1960 is still a protestant nation. even kennedy's father joe doubts his son can ever be president. my belly pain and constipation?

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the whole city of houston was almost in turmoil. the christian anti-communist crusade had the city scared. and the ku klux klan, they're all attacking senator kennedy as a catholic that he shouldn't be president.

the opposition were so strong and so vocal and so wide, i felt he needed help. >> pastor herb meza believes he has the fix. >> i immediately invited john kennedy to come and speak. we needed to hear from him. >> meza's plan is almost holy in its simplicity. >> the offer was to have kennedy come and address a group of protestant ministers numbering about 400 in the houston area. kennedy agreed to do it. >> when meza's congregation hear that kennedy's coming, all hell breaks loose. >> i remember an elderly lady from new orleans who wrote to me and said, i'm 65 years old. i've been teaching sunday school for 20 years.

i hope your daughter marries a nigger. and that was the kind of climate we were in. >> may i call this special meeting of the association of ministers of greater houston to order. let us stand for prayer. >> america tunes in to see the debate live. >> god be merciful unto us and bless us. >> tonight the men of god are not men of peace. >> senator kennedy sat next to me, and he said, reverend, how are things doing? he was shaking. i was amazed. i told my wife later, he was shaking. senator john f. kennedy. but after i introduced him and he got up to speak, all that disappeared. he became so cool, so collected, and he began taking questions. >> the reason for our concern -- catholic hierarchy. >> the policy of cath like leadership. >> including the political realm. >> he answered every single

question put to him. and some of them were very pointed and very ugly. >> there will be many catholics who will be appointed if you're elected president. >> i'm not the catholic candidate for president. i'm the democrat party's candidate for president. >> i was deeply moved by some of the things that senator kennedy said that evening. among them i remember he said -- >> finally, i believe in a nation where religious intolerance will someday end. where all men and all churches are treated as equals. >> where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice. >> the kind of america i believe in. >> they gave him a standing ovation. everybody got up and applauded for about a couple of minutes. >> praying the religious controversy is resolved, kennedy's team focus on the swing states.

nixon, meanwhile, adopts an ambitious strategy to win over the electorate one by one. >> nixon pledged to visit all 50 states, and it was the dumbest move of the campaign. >> as much as we all adore hawaii and alaska, they're a long way away. and the time that was devoured and measured in the number of votes that you're going to get, it's a bad formula. you just sort of drain your energy. >> nixon traded his physical advantage, the fact that he was in better shape and kennedy traded it away because he created this impossible and unnecessary goal that tired him out. he also got sick. >> nixon was physically clumsy.

famously so. he dropped things. he could barely turn on a radio. and he's getting out of a car and he cracks his knee on the car door. and he winds up in the hospital with a serious infection for two weeks. he can't campaign. >> and he lost about ten pounds, and he's looking sallow and he's looking gaunt. and he wasn't himself. at that point he should have said we're not going to be able to make the 50 states. >> and we can't take a chance now on that kind of inexperienced leadership. that's the issue of this campaign. >> but he was stubborn. he could be bull-headed. and instead he made his commitment to do all this traveling. it was a terrible mistake. >> nixon is exhausted, haggard, trailing in the polls, but then

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with only seven weeks until election day, the nation prepares itself for the first ever live televised presidential debate. >> this was the largest audience for any public event to that point in american history on television. this was 70 million people. this wasn't a 10% or 20% of the electorate. it was near 100% of the electorate. on the day of the debate, nixon had regular campaign events. he didn't save up his energy. >> he went to the carpenters union who got to endorse a democrat in order to rally them. this is the day of the debate. >> meanwhile, jack kennedy is

sunning himself, taking a nap, maybe doing a little bit of studying, but basically preparing himself by relaxing. when they get to the studio, nixon is all nervous and anxious. >> and as he gets out of the taxi, he hits his knee again. >> so nixon arrives for the debate in agony. and he's looking for kennedy. where is kennedy. kennedy cruises in, calm, steady. >> they're asked if they want makeup. and jack kennedy says no. and nixon who wants to be manly says, well, i don't need it either. meanwhile, kennedy goes back and gets some max factor applied to him and nixon sends somebody down to michigan avenue to buy a hideous thing called shave stick

which he rubs on like gray grease across his face. >> nixon was pacing around the studio. he was asking people questions. >> i think i better shave. >> well, it was past time for all of those questions. >> studio, 30 seconds to air. >> kennedy did not present himself until he was fully ready. he wasn't going to stand around with richard nixon and chat before the main event. he was going to come in like the prize fighter he was. >> and nixon made every mistake you could think of in that debate. >> look at the faces of the two candidates in this debate. and ask yourself, who is presidential and who is scared. >> the contrast is dramatic. >> and now for the first opening

statement by senator john f. kennedy. >> mr. nixon. >> kennedy looks cool, confident, presidential. >> i want people to start to look to america. >> nixon looks nervous, looks anxious. his eyes are darting about. he keeps looking at kennedy. what's kennedy up to? he's sweating. he's uneasy. it's the exact opposite of the image he's supposed to project. >> the things that senator kennedy has said many of us can agree with. >> and again and again the vice president would say, i agree with senator kennedy. >> and i subscribe completely to the spirit that senator kennedy has expressed tonight. >> and it made him look like basically second fiddle. >> and the fact is television sees it all. >> nixon's supporters are cringing and kennedy's aides are

gloating. mayor daley of chicago says nixon looks embalmed. >> would you like to comment on that statement? >> i have no comment. >> reporter joe alsip says that nixon looks like a suspect in a statutory rape case. nixon's own running mate, henry cabot lodge, says we've lost. >> tv polls show kennedy wins the debate. but radio listeners side with nixon. and an arrest in alabama could play to nixon's advantage when civil rights take center stage. >> i met richard nixon when i was in the ninth maybe tenth grade. and we got to shake hands with him. i thought richard nixon would be a good president. >> there's a huge public

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the arrest of martin luther king is a turning point in the kennedy/nixon campaign. for kennedy's civil rights adviser harris wofford, this is more than political. it's personal. king and his wife coretta are close friends. >> she called me in panic. that's terrible. and i said we'll see what we can do. absolutely, yes. and i thought, you know, if these beautiful, passionate kennedys would just show it by a phone call, it would mean something to coretta.

>> wofford contacts kennedy's brother-in-law sargent shriver who is in charge of civil rights. >> hello? >> wofford asks if kennedy will call coretta to offer his support. >> he says it will only work if i present the idea to kennedy without any of the staff hearing. >> shriver knows kennedy's team will block anything that might cost them votes in the south. >> the kennedys were never great advocates of civil rights. generally they regarded it as a problem for their campaign. they would have preferred not to discuss it at all. >> but that's not shriver's only problem. kennedy is about to leave on a plane. >> so shriver had to race to the airport. >> behind the scenes, nixon tries to secure the release of his friend, dr. king.

>> richard nixon wants to do something, and he calls the white house, and the white house refuses. they won't do it. >> nixon fails. can shriver succeed in his mission? >> shriver got there, but the staff was all around kennedy. >> shriver waits until kennedy is alone. >> all right, guys. let's go. >> ready to go, jack? >> finally, he had about two minutes with kennedy, and he said, we've all been worrying about what we can do to help. what about calling coretta king?

>> kennedy's fearful of alienating southern governors and southern democrats by being pro civil rights. but that all changes. >> kennedy calls coretta king to offer his support. >> that was a big decision. kennedy decides to do what is morally right. >> a simple phone call was a very noble thing to do. undoubtedly he did this for political reasons, but he did it. nixon did not. >> when kennedy's call leaks to the press his brother bobby all but froths at the mouth. >> he was white with anger. he said sargent shriver and i have probably lost the campaign.

he was furious. >> my father was a little disturbed about that because he was worried how well that would go over with some of the, you know, white governors. >> the deed is done. but bobby soon realizes he can turn the situation to his brother's advantage. he demands the release of king. >> and so my father called the judge. and at that point, things really shifted. >> i understand from very reliable sources that senator kennedy served as a great force in making the release possible. >> all of a sudden jack kennedy was champion of the greatest civil rights leader of them all.

>> i'm positive it changed the voting patterns of a lot of african-americans. >> and nixon's support amongst black voters falls off. nixon usually had good political instincts about this kind of thing, but he just blew it. >> there's no doubt that bobby and john f. kennedy exploited that brilliantly. jack kennedy was no civil rights -- he wasn't marching anywhere, that fella. >> now, kennedy is riding the polls like a tame pony and victory is in sight. but nixon has one last card to play, his old boss, ex-general and president dwight d. eisenhower. >> john kennedy is amazed that eisenhower has not been doing more for nixon. and he's been worried about it because he knows how popular

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you ♪ six days to the election and richard nixon drops the republicans' h-bomb on jfk in the form of dwight eisenhower.

>> we brought him in with 100 policemen, ticker tape and the whole thing. and it was a smashing success and we needed it. it was a good bump at that time. >> there's a surge to nixon. on the eve of the election, the polls predict a nail-biting finish. >> by november 7th, the kennedy campaign think kennedy can win. they believe kennedy should win. but they're not sure kennedy will win. >> jack and a heavily pregnant jackie cast their votes and nigh to hyannis port to be with the kennedy clan. >> just about everybody on both sides knew that this was going to be an extremely close election. and so everybody was nervous. >> none more so than richard nixon who casts his vote with his wife pat in california and

then makes a break for the border. >> nixon was gloomy as usual. thought he was going to lose. went off with a pal to mexico to drink margaritas and to desert the press. >> essentially throughout the day they kept getting reports, good and bad. they didn't know what they meant. no one ever does. in the evening, the first returns were very pro-kennedy. >> we want kennedy. >> kennedy wins connecticut and the network broadcasters are saying that it might be a landslide. but by midnight the picture is changing. and nixon is starting to pick up midwestern and western states and it's clearly going to go down to the wire. >> the great shock of the night for the kennedy forces and the first time when they thought they had lost was when kennedy failed to carry ohio. >> that was a huge setback for the campaign, and there was a lot of concern. how could we get this wrong?

>> the popular vote was too close. no one knew for some time which candidate had actually won. i r pajamas and he said, hey, guys, this thing is not going to get decided tonight. get some sleep. and with that, turned around and left the room. >> john kennedy went to bed. you know, that night. and i'm not going to stay up, biting my teeth, wondering what's going to happen. i'm going to get some teeth. >> while the two rest, the race tightens. just after midnight, nixon is to be told that he has lost the key state of illinois. the writing is on the wall.