D.B.W.I. What if Vernon Jordan did not stick to his guns,

The great breakthrough in Watergate scandal cane when Richard Nixon fired CIA Director after he refused to allow his agency to interfere withe the FBI's investigation of Watergate. When Waters told of how White House Chief of Staff Bob Halderman had pressured him to bock the FBI, this inspired the grand jury to supena the White House tapes of Halderman's meetings with Nixon ( The other POD in this TL is the Oval Office taping system not becoming public knowledge before 1972.) The Supreme Court took the case of US vs Nixon and ruled on July 28, 1972 that executive privilege did not apply in evidence in criminal cases , On August 7, 1972 the Nixon White House turned over the Smoking Gun tape of Nixon and Halderman plotting to obstruct justice. o On August 10, 1972 Nixon left office. President Agnew won the Republican nomination but his unpopularity and his pardon of Nixon lowered his margin of victory. The Agnew Rockefeller ticket narrowly defeated McGovern and Shriver. After Agnew's promise of a pardon become public Agnew resigned on February 22. 1973.
 
Richard Nixon 1969 - 1972
Spiro Agnew 1972 - 1973
Nelson Rockefeller 1973 - 1977
Jimmy Carter 1977 - 1981
George H W Bush 1981 - 1989
Bob Dole 1988 - 1993
Bill Clinton 1993 - 2001
George HW Bush 2001 - 2009
Barack Obama 2009 -
 
Looking over the 1976, electoral map I see that Reagan would win enough Southern states to win.

So here is the revised list of presidents:

Richard Nixon 1969 - 1972
Spiro Agnew 1972 - 1973
Nelson Rockefeller 1973 - 1977
Ronald Reagan 1977 - 1981
Walter Mondale 1981 -1989
Hugh Carey 1989 - 1993
Jack Kemp 1993 - 2001
Lamar Alexander 2001 - 2009
Barack Obama 2009 -
 
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