Nixon won the election.
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Two years later, in nineteen fifty-two, the Republican Party chose him as its candidate for vice president. The candidate for president was Dwight Eisenhower.
Eisenhower and Nixon easily defeated the Democratic Party candidates, Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson and Alabama Senator John Sparkman.
They won again in nineteen fifty-six.
During his eight years as vice president, Nixon visited sixty countries. He faced violent protests during a visit to South America in nineteen fifty-eight. The following year, he visited the Soviet Union. He and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev had what became known as the "kitchen debate." It took place in Moscow as they visited a model of a kitchen that might be found in an American house.
RUSSIAN PREMIER NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV: [Speaking in Russian]
The debate was about world peace. Nixon at one point told Khrushchev that he did not know everything. But there were light moments as well.
SOUND: [Spirited and playful interchanges between Khrushchev and his interpreter, Nixon’s interpreter, and Nixon, ending with…]
NIXON: “All that I can say from the way you talk, and the way you dominate the conversation, you would have made a good lawyer yourself.”
In this November 14, 1960 photo, President-elect John F. Kennedy, left, and Vice President Richard Nixon in Miami, Florida
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