Know Your History: Richard Nixon And John F. Kennedy. What You Don’t Know!
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Extracts from Ron Unz (A fighter for Truth, a genuine historian)
Nixon won his Senate race in a huge landslide at the age of 37. That victory combined with his earlier success in the Hiss case persuaded Dwight Eisenhower to put him on the national ticket two years later, so Nixon’s meteoric political rise placed him a heartbeat away from the Presidency before he’d celebrated his 40th birthday, making him one of the youngest vice presidents in our national history.
Following a step behind, Kennedy also reached the Senate in that same 1952 election. As Presiding Officer of the Senate, Nixon spent the 1950s in an office across from that of Kennedy, with whom he remained quite friendly.
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