by David Ells
http://news.yahoo.com/nixon-admits-1960-debate-prep-totally-..."He was exhausted, sweaty and pale. His shirt was one size too big and five shades too light. And after a full day of campaigning, he was tired and anxious, all things a candidate does not want to be during his first televised presidential debate.
It was this sickly demeanor that made Republican Vice President Richard Nixon's first and only televised presidential debate appearance go down in history as one of the worst. And in tapes released exclusively to ABC News today, Nixon was poignantly aware of how poor his performance was in that 1960 presidential debate against Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy."