[DBWI] What if phlebitis didn't force Nixon to resign in 1974?

We all know that in 1974 phlebitis forced Richard Nixon to become the first president of the US to resign for health reasons. Suppose he had been healthier, though?

(Just because Nixon eventually recovered, you hear all sorts of unsubstantiated stories that there was some other "real" cause of the resignation, like some scandal to which Nixon was supposedly associated. I think we can dismiss all such stories as conspiracy theory nuttiness. If there were such a scandal, surely it would have been uncovered by now.)
 
(Just because Nixon eventually recovered, you hear all sorts of unsubstantiated stories that there was some other "real" cause of the resignation, like some scandal to which Nixon was supposedly associated. I think we can dismiss all such stories as conspiracy theory nuttiness. If there were such a scandal, surely it would have been uncovered by now.)

Given the amount of CIA MK ULTRA experiments and certain political tricks that have been laid dormant for decades, I still don’t dismiss the idea of scandals associated with that guy.

Though Nixon being forced to leave office for health reasons did actually have a positive effect: it forced the idea of health into the mainstream. Politicians’ health was now more open, which became a big case when the Republicans were accused of hiding Reagan’s Alzheimer’s as part of a political ploy to manipulate him. Republicans suffered a lot politically there.

Furthermore, it got people talking about health and more importantly, the cost of it. Once people realized the very nice medical deals politicians had, universal healthcare became a big thing. Republicans tried peddling Nixon’s idea, but it lost to the Democrats’ idea, whom actually got folk from Europe (mainly Scandinavia) to help with it. Hence how the US got the Americare System, which is still ranked among the top 5 to this day.
 

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The thing is that Nixon was the last powerful President and the first "Amercian Shogun". If he stays on and completes his term then I doubt that occur, he goes into a happy retirement and writes his memoirs. He remained involved in political dealings because he felt he had been cheated out of implementing things he had a mandate to enforce and he had the support in Congress and political establishment to do so even from his house in California. The healthcare debates are a major example. I mean Reagan was forced to resign because he went against Nixon in trying to limit healthcare expansion. Tricky Dicky indeed.

As for the scandal rumours, I think thats been confirmed. He did play dirty during his "shogunate" why would he resist during his Presidency when he had actual formal powers.
 
...the Republicans were accused of hiding Reagan’s Alzheimer’s as part of a political ploy to manipulate him. Republicans suffered a lot politically there.

Very true. Took them a while to truly recover.

Furthermore, it got people talking about health and more importantly, the cost of it. Once people realized the very nice medical deals politicians had, universal healthcare became a big thing. Republicans tried peddling Nixon’s idea, but it lost to the Democrats’ idea, whom actually got folk from Europe (mainly Scandinavia) to help with it. Hence how the US got the Americare System, which is still ranked among the top 5 to this day.

And thank God for it. Without it the AIDS epidemic could have got far worse...

It got so popular that the Republicans basically admitted it was here to stay...they joke that the first thing the GOP says to hopefuls standing for election is ‘DON’T EVEN TBIBK ABOUT TOUCHING AMERICARE’. It was an incautious remark about it that cost Bush the election...
 
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