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Just an idle thought...there have been several timelines on the subject of Richard Nixon winning the 1960 US presidential election (the most recent of which is 037771's excellent All Along the Watchtower). However, has the question ever been considered of what might have happened if Eisenhower had died at some point during his presidency and left Nixon, his VP, as President? I understand Eisenhower's health wasn't great so this isn't exactly unlikely even without positing accidents.
Nixon was considered pretty young for a president (by the standards of the time) even if he had been elected in 1960, so what on earth would it have been like if he had become president as early as 1953, at the age of forty? What would be the effects of having such a fervent Anti-Communist in power at this early and crucial stage of the Cold War, as well as someone relatively inexperienced?