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Presidential Debate History How we got them, and what they mean Year-by-year 1960 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 Presidential debates are a modern television age creation. The nominees of the two major parties did not debate until 1960, when Republican Vice President Richard Nixon faced John Kennedy, the junior Democratic Senator from Massachusetts. Although the 1960 debates were popular with the ...