DBWI: Richard Nixon's Big Comeback

What if 1960 Republican Presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon made a big political comeback in the 1968 elections, and using his prestige as Eisenhower's VP, manages to snatch the nomination from Nelson Rockefeller, and then wins against Hubert Humphrey?
 
Wasn't Nixon and his law partners under investigation?

I think he may even have testified before a grand jury in New York at around the time of the GOP convention.

OOC: I really think Nixon has to be dead, impaired, or under indictment to be stopped from running in '68.
 
What if 1960 Republican Presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon made a big political comeback in the 1968 elections, and using his prestige as Eisenhower's VP, manages to snatch the nomination from Nelson Rockefeller, and then wins against Hubert Humphrey?

Then he wouldn't have been my Commercial Law professor at Berkeley... seriously, IMHO he was a better academic than a politician.
 
Magniac: "If all I had was my law practice, I'd be mentally dead in two years and physically dead in four."

Nixon getting into legal trouble during the five years he was a Wall Street legal partner is eminently doable.

All he needs is for John Mitchell to drag him down.
 
Well, they were: a certain someone ordered the IRS to ping Nixon's tax returns, in particular the Hughes loan, in 1964. Nothing resulted from that IOTL. Archibald Cox (as SG) v. Nixon in a courtroom. Or RFK v. Nixon in a courtroom. I demand VIP tickets. ;)
 
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