Tanning. Tannedskin wasn’t seen as anecessarybeautytreatment in Americansociety until the last 20years or so, with the exception of the taxidermy community.
But their respective policy differences over two small islands off the coast of China were lost in the stark contrast between a Nixon who looked so pale and unwell that his mother phoned him up afterwards to ask if he was OK, and a tanned, relaxed Kennedy.