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NBC looked back to Presidential history with an Exclusive introduced by in-house historian Michael Beschloss. It was audiotape of then-senator John Kennedy in after dinner conversation in January 1960, just as he was preparing for the primary season of his victorious Presidential campaign against Richard Nixon. The tape has him chatting in his Georgetown townhouse with Benjamin Bradlee of Newsweek and another journalist, James Cannon. JFK anticipated an "interesting" campaign, a "checkerboard-chess struggle of the next seven months" and joked about lying to journalists about his ailing adrenal gland. Referring to his dark complexion, reporter Jack Anderson had asked him: "God, a guy with Addison's Disease looks sort of brown and everything." JFK replied: "Christ, that is the sun!"
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