DBWI: When Is The Best Time For A Nixon Presidency?

I've been reading alot about Richard Nixon Lately, and I have to say,
he is one of the most impressive people in American politicas never to be elected President. Senator, Vice-president, Governor and even Secretary of State for a brief time, but never President.

He ran twice for the Presidency, and both times secured the GOP nomination, but lost the top spot twice, in 1960 to John F. Kennedy, and then again in 1968 to Kennedy'd younger brother Robert.

So my question is when: When would be the better time for Nixon to be elected President 1960 or 1968?

Also, lets assume he is elected for two-terms. What happens during those years?
 
Well, obviously he gets some goons to break into Democratic National Committee HQ at the Watergate complex for the '72 election. They are captured and confess that the President Nixon himself ordered this, and evidence backs this up. Nixon loses in a landslide to RFK, and resigns, and his VP becomes president for a few months, whoever he is. Maybe Ronald Reagan - Nixon might have gone to the White House in '68 if Reagan hadn't split to a third party and divided the Republican vote. Ronald Reagan probably would have been president IOTL actually if he hadn't been assassinated during his '76 campaign.

Haha just kidding. :p Just because all that happened to RFK doesn't it'll happen to Nixon - though I have heard some rumours about him. Ever read President Agnew's memoirs? But Agnew might have been lying, he was a crook after all, with the Maryland thing killing the GOP's chances to win in '80. If it wasn't for Rockefeller dying in 1979 he wouldn't have ever been president.

I think it would have been better if he was elected in '68 because he probably would have handled Vietnam much better than RFK. He probably wouldn't have driven the Chinese and Soviets back together like RFK did during the Taiwanese Missile Crisis (that would be butterflied away, too).
 
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