Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A lokacin yakin neman zabe, Kennedy ya zargi cewa a karkashin Eisenhower da 'yan Republican kasar ta fadi a baya da Tarayyar Soviet a cikin Cold War, a soja da kuma tattalin arziki, kuma a matsayin shugaban kasa zai "sake motsa Amurka". Gwamnatin Eisenhower ta kafa NASA a shekarar 1958, amma Kennedy ya yi imanin cewa Jam'iyyar Republican ta yi watsi da bukatar da ake bukata don kama Soviet Union a cikin Space Race. Ya yi alkawarin cewa sabuwar gwamnatin Democrat za ta fahimci muhimmancin nasarorin sararin samaniya ga tsaron kasa da martabar kasa da kasa na Amurka. Nixon ya amsa cewa, idan an zabe shi, zai ci gaba da "zaman lafiya da wadata" da Eisenhower ya kawo wa al'ummar a cikin shekarun 1950. Nixon ya kuma yi jayayya cewa tare da al'ummar da ke cikin Cold War tare da Soviets, cewa Kennedy ya yi matashi kuma ba shi da kwarewa da za a amince da shi tare da shugabancin. Idan an zabi Nixon, a shekaru 48, kwanaki 11, zai kasance shugaban kasa na hudu a ranar rantsar da shi. Kennedy, akasin haka, yana da shekaru 43, kwanaki 236, a ranar da aka rantsar da shi; mutum na biyu mafi ƙanƙanta don fara shugabancin (a 42 Theodore Roosevelt, wanda ya ɗauki shugabancin bayan kisan gillar shugaban Amurka William McKinley
Shekaru 60 da suka gabata, shi ne ƙarami).