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When JFK won the US presidency

Ted Sorensen was a close aide and speechwriter for John F Kennedy. He remembered the night that Kennedy won the US presidential election in 1960.

Ted Sorensen was a close aide and speechwriter for John F Kennedy. In an interview with Lucy Williamson he remembered the night that Kennedy won the US presidential election in 1960. It was a close race against the Republican contender Richard Nixon.

Photo: US President John F. Kennedy giving his first State of the Union address to Congress in January 1961. (Credit: NASA/SSPL/Getty Images)

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