Eisenhower dies in 1953.

What if Eisenhower succumbed to a fatal heart attack weeks after taking office, making Nixon, at 39, the youngest President?
 
Suez Canal? I would hope that Nixon would actually support the valued French and British allies instead of turning on them for pretty crass political reasons, but I don't know his feelings on the matter.

The '54 midterms should be good for the Republicans on the sympathy vote, I'm unsure about the '56 general. Does Adlai get his OTL round 2? Can Nixon, young, disliked, probably embroiled in the Suez Canal win? Who is Nixon's VP candidate?

My pet favourite weird political thing (The Big Switch) might go off in '58, which frees up a couple alternative Republicans for the '60s.

What happens in Korea? This depends on when Eisenhower dies, of course, but it's possible that Korea would still be an ongoing concern.
 
The '54 midterms should be good for the Republicans on the sympathy vote, I'm unsure about the '56 general. Does Adlai get his OTL round 2? Can Nixon, young, disliked, probably embroiled in the Suez Canal win? Who is Nixon's VP candidate?quote]

I imagine that Nixon would choose Lodge to be his running mate in '56. Remember that during Nixon's 1st term he would not have a VP. Also, he would not be elegible to run in '60 due to the 22nd Amendment. I think Nixon would win in '56 against Stevenson or whom ever, unless the Suez Canal situation goes horribly bad or civil unrest breaks out in the south and is mishandled by the administration.
 
Probably Nixon would come under the tutelage of both Foster and Allen Dulles, as well as Thomas Dewey: together those older and presumably wiser heads would guide decisions about foreign policy (containment of communism; support of Great Britain) and domestic policy (move ahead cautiously but resolutely on civil rights). I agree that Lodge would likely have been Nixon's VP candidate in '56, with the Democrats running Stevenson and Kennedy (Kefauver would probably shoot for the top slot in '60). On a few other fronts, McCarthy's censure would have remained as such and not get tempered by Nixon; perhaps Nixon would have been willing to listen to Dulles' successors and be more open/flexible to the revolutionaries in Cuba, thereby pre-empting (or at least neutralizing) Castro.
 
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