ixon in remaining on the ticket.[44] In the 1952 presidential elections, Eisenhower and Nixon defeated Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson and Alabama Senator John Sparkman by seven million votes.[44] Nixon assumed the office as the second youngest Vice President in American history.[48]
As Vice President, Nixon expanded the office into an important and prominent post.[44][49] Nixon conducted National Security meetings in the president's absence.[44] As President of the Senate, he intervened to make procedural rulings on filibusters to assure the passage of Eisenhower's 1957 civil rights bill, w
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