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[[File:Electoral College 1960(TNOpediA).png|thumb|1960 presidential election results]]

In 1960, Nixon was convinced by the Republican party leadership to run for the Presidency under the [[Republican-Democratic Coalition|{{color|#00ffdf|Republican-Democratic Coalition (RDC)}}]] alongside Democratic Senator [[John F. Kennedy]]. The ticket would be the first time two candidates on the same ticket were from opposing parties since Republican president Abraham Lincoln ran with Andrew Johnson, a Democrat in 1864.

In 1960, Nixon was convinced by the Republican party leadership to run for the Presidency under the [[Republican-Democratic Coalition|{{color|#00ffdf|Republican-Democratic Coalition (RDC)}}]] alongside [[Democratic Party|{{color|#2300ff|Democratic Senator}}]] [[John F. Kennedy]]. The ticket would be the first time two candidates on the same ticket were from opposing parties since Republican president Abraham Lincoln ran with Andrew Johnson, a Democrat in 1864.

The Nixon-Kennedy ticket would defeat the [[National Progressive Pact|{{color|#ec8e03|National Progressive Pact (NPP)}}]] ticket, consisting of [[Henry M. Jackson]] and [[J. William Fulbright]], in a landslide. Nixon would win 424 electoral votes and 58.5% of the national popular vote. Nixon's landslide victory was aided by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who would help the Nixon campaign wiretap the NPP, blackmail influential opponents, and steal files from the NPP; actions that would help Nixon tarnish the NPP's national image.