Do not do it. Absolutely. That changed that election. Do you really feel that? There's a lot of speculation, but to hear from you, that's really interesting. Absolutely. Change that election. Yeah. I tell people all the time going into that election, if you look at the polling, Richard Nixon was getting the majority of the black vote. Even afterwards, 28% of that vote still went to Richard Nixon. But it sent a message that Kennedy was willing to take a risk, do the right thing. (13:55–14:03)
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Asserts that polling showed Richard Nixon was getting the majority of the black vote before the 1960 election.
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