July 14, 1960: John F. Kennedy is chosen as the presidential nominee … and The Times disapproves.

"Mr. Kennedy disturbs us because he made such a desperate game of winning the nomination. It is no sin to be ambitious; the ambition of his rival, Richard M. Nixon, is well known and of long standing. But there was a ruthless, all's-fair-in-love-and-politics quality in Kennedy's drive for the nomination, and one cannot be sure yet whether it is the game that he loves or the candle that he deserves."

On the jump, analyses by The Times’ Kyle Palmer and James Reston of the New York Times.