imported goods, in exchange for similar concessions from other countries.
             John F. Kennedy's candidacy faced two great hurdles: his youth and his religion. Americans were startled by the idea of a president who was barely forty years of age. Even more unsettling to many Protestants was the prospect of a Roman Catholic holding the office, who might be "controlled" by the Catholic Church. A series of speeches helped to address misgivings about his faith. Kennedy went to Houston to be questioned by leading Protestant clergy about his views on church-state relations. They pronounced themselves satisfied with his answers. However, opponents continued to paint Kennedy as too young for the presidency until his election and even beyond.
             The debates were a profoundly historic chapter in the history of presidential campaigns. They were the first advanced use of what would thereafter be the essential force in our political campaigns, television. One candidate mastered the new medium, the other did not; and the candidate who did eventual
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