Now that we look upon televised presidential debates as a hallowed institution, it's easy to forget that no such encounters took place prior to 1960, when John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon slugged it out on network TV. After that, 16 years went...

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We seem to have gotten used to the idea that political campaigns are just strings of sound bites for months on end. And it seems like it's always been that way. But, of course, it hasn't. We don't imagine George Washington giving10-second...