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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.
=== Presidency (1961-1964) ===
Nixon was inaugurated on January 20th, 1961, and was sworn in by Chief Justice Earl Warren. Pat Nixon held the family Bibles open at Isaiah 2:4, which reads, "They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks." In his inaugural address, which received almost uniformly positive reviews, Nixon remarked that "the greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker"—a phrase that found a place on his gravestone.
==== Foreign Policy ====
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Nixon continued the policy of Containment, the belief that the United States should limit the expansion of fascism abroad rather than enter into direct confrontation with the, German-led, Einheitspakt and the. Japanese-led, Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Nixon would often act as the decider in foreign policy matters; often ignoring his own Secretary of State, William P. Rogers. As President, Nixon would have to deal with escalating tensions between the African Reichskommissariats ([[Reichskommissariat Zentralafrika|Zentralafrika]], [[Reichskommissariat Ostafrika|Ostafrika]] and [[Reichskommissariat Südwestafrika|Südwestafrika]]) and [[Union of South Africa|South Africa]] which would lead directly to the [[South African War]] in November of 1963.
Furthermore, Nixon would have to deal with the [[Hawaiian Missile Crisis]], involving the placement of Japanese ICBM missiles on the Hawaiian Islands. Nixon would be given recommendations to invade the islands in 1961, however he took the advice of Vice President Kennedy and chose not to invade while allowing Kennedy to enter into negotiations with Japan. While the United States has laid claim to the islands since 1959, they remain under Japanese control.
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