While President Eisenhower recovered from a heart attack he suffered in 1955, he decided not to seek another term in 1956. His 43 year old Vice President Richard Nixon won the Republican nomination and narrowly defeated Democrat Adlai Stevenson to become the 35th President of the United States and then went on to defeat Democratic Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson in the 1960 Presidential election. Hubert Humphrey, Democratic Senator from Minnesota, was elected over Governor Nelson Rockefeller in 1964 to succeed Nixon as President.
My question is what if Eisenhower does in fact decide to run for another term in 1956? Knowing that he had a heart attack, does he survive a full second term? Do the rest of the 1950s fare any differently? Who wins in 1960 with Ike being term limited?