The 60’s took a giant leap to better political progress for issues and developments in the US. This era was the first of its kind to present a live, televised Presidential Debate. Nixon and Kennedy make history as they experience talking to the entire country through television. President Kennedy specifically took advantage of this by applying makeup so as to give him a better impression to the people. People who watched the interviews on TV believed that Kennedy had won the debates, but people who listened to the radio believe Nixon had made better points. During 1966, President Eisenhower was pushing the overthrow of Fidel Castro giving the CIA a $13 million dollar budget on the operation. This operation is called the Bay of Pigs operation and it fails after 3 days of fighting. Cuba defeats the CIA’s attempt to overthrow the communist government and fails. The Cuban Missile Crisis threatens the US’s national security with nuclear warfare. President John F. Kennedy fights with this problem through political strategies. Eventually war is prevented due to President Kennedy’s strategies. He is soon assassinated, the same year Martin Luther King Jr. makes his “I Have a Dream” speech. In 1965 troops are sent to Vietnam for war. Following the beginning of war the Black Panther Party is established. MLK is assassinated and Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon. The US is in extreme power and wealth for most of the 60’s and is even growing. Aside from the Vietnam War and the Cuban Missile Crisis, most of these events were positive movements towards a better United States.