The details of which candidate said what during a single televised debate in October 1960 could have given the electoral victory to Nixon instead of to Kennedy, but no details of who said what could have blocked the European conquest of Native Americans.

— Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997)

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