DBWI: Fromme Fails, Ford Lives

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Witnesses reported that Fromme appeared "dazed", "disoriented" when apprehended by Secret Service

September 5, 1975, President Gerald Ford was shot and killed. The assassin was Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a radical environmentalist and former Manson family member. President Rockefeller would be sworn in later that same day.

WI, for whatever reason, Fromme failed and Ford had survived?
 
Manson probably doesn't get dragged out of his cell and beaten to death by right-wing prison guards(oops, sorry, I mean "parties unknown") seeking to avenge his supposed masterminding of the assassination.
 
President Rockefeller was the second president in a row to not have been elected as president or vice president. A lot of people saw his presidency as a fluke, even more than Ford's was. Ford surviving would butterfly away the reduction of executive power and the resurgence of states' rights advocacy in the late 70s into the 80s. I think TTL would have a strong executive, unlike OTL.
 
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