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Not sure if this has been discussed somewhere but I was wondering what would have been the effect on the Watergate scandal if J. Edgar Hoover had lived longer. In OTL he died in May 1972, before the scandal recieved massive news coverage. Would Hoover been able to make the whole thing go away, possibly as a way to control Nixon, to have another trump card in those secret files of his? Or was it too big for even him?
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