I am not a Quitter.

Nixon refuses to resign.

As a result he is impeached, and faces trial in the senate, about a month after he resigned IOTL.

So Nixon is President for another month, at least.

1. Is there any chance he won't be convicted?
2. If he is convicted, does his being convicted, of have any further impact on American political history, and Nixon's life after the white house?
3. Will the reaction to the Ford pardon (it will likely still happen) be any different since Nixon has faced trial in the senate?
 
It somewhat depends on how arrogant Nixon would have got. As I read the Constitution a day before the vote on his conviction he could, though not avoiding removal by impeachment, pardon himself. ( doing this would have course have let Ford of the hook.)
 

ninebucks

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IIRC, this is the POD of the show, The West Wing; Nixon hangs on and gets impeached, and doesn't get to pardon Ford. A constitutional crisis arises and a new presidential election is sceduled for 1974, offsetting the presidential election cycle untill the modern day.
 
IIRC, this is the POD of the show, The West Wing; Nixon hangs on and gets impeached, and doesn't get to pardon Ford. A constitutional crisis arises and a new presidential election is sceduled for 1974, offsetting the presidential election cycle untill the modern day.

Why would a new election be required, wouldn't ford just become POTUS. For that, I think you'd need there to be a vacancy in the vice Presidency.
 
I recall those days immediately prior to the resignation quite well (I was 22 at the time). Senators Hugh Scott (R, PA) and Barry Goldwater (R, AZ) went to see Nixon in the White House and told him bluntly that he didn't have the votes in the Senate to squeak by: thus, if the House voted for impeachment, as appeared imminent, he would have been ousted. Rather than face that, he resigned within a matter of days.
 
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