DBWI: Nixon didn't kill himself after Watergate?

OOC: ASB IMHO.

IC: Then the Watergate inquiry might've proceeded further. Even the November midterms were mitigated somewhat, but Ford still lost the nomination to Reagan, who won in '76.
 
First of all, I like how the OP assumes that this is suicide.

Nixon suffered from Phlebitis and an overdose of anti-coagulants is believed to be the proximate cause of his death. Did Nixon know he was overdosing or did he place undue trust in the hands of his doctors?

Dr. John Lungren, Nixon's personal doctor, claimed full ignorance. But the Medical Community chose to strip his medical credentials from him. The questions which may never be answered is whether this is a mistake, or deliberate. Some claim that it was Suicide for Nixon, but it seems an odd way to go.

Nixon, of course, suffered a stroke from these chemicals which he died of thirteen months later. Indeed, that's the only reason Watergate even received national attention--Nixon's first meeting with special investigator Archibald Cox was followed by the stroke. There may be a some truth to the claim that Nixon's political enemies share some responsibility.

My thoughts is that Nixon was simply stressed out.
 
First of all, I like how the OP assumes that this is suicide.

Nixon suffered from Phlebitis and an overdose of anti-coagulants is believed to be the proximate cause of his death. Did Nixon know he was overdosing or did he place undue trust in the hands of his doctors?

Dr. John Lungren, Nixon's personal doctor, claimed full ignorance. But the Medical Community chose to strip his medical credentials from him. The questions which may never be answered is whether this is a mistake, or deliberate. Some claim that it was Suicide for Nixon, but it seems an odd way to go.

Nixon, of course, suffered a stroke from these chemicals which he died of thirteen months later. Indeed, that's the only reason Watergate even received national attention--Nixon's first meeting with special investigator Archibald Cox was followed by the stroke. There may be a some truth to the claim that Nixon's political enemies share some responsibility.

My thoughts is that Nixon was simply stressed out.

Might be something to his being stressed out and the other theories about their being something wrong in his head- came out a few years ago that for several years in the 1960s, he was quietly seeing a psychiatrist for some reason- nobody knows why as that shrink had his patient files destroyed when he died, taking that secret to the grave wrapped in the cloak of doctor-patient confidentiality, but it's certainly possible that the stress of whatever he was facing caused whatever that was to flare back and that might have made him snap.

I bet Nixon would have won a third term.

Um, no he couldn't- see the 22nd Amendment
 

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Well Pat Nixon would never have been President, thats for sure.

Nor would you have the sympathy that you have for Nixon now, he would have been reviled, and his many achievements forgotten.
 
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