text:  No, it's never happened before. They didn't even have presidential debates until 1960. Everybody talks about, you know, that famous Kennedy-Nixon debate where Nixon looked like he had a five o'clock shadow and was sweating and things like that. And Kennedy just looked as poised as could be. But I think part of the reason Nixon wasn't completely ready for that, first of all, he was sick. But second of all, there'd never been a debate before. So.