International ramifications of no Watergate Scandal?

[GauchoBadger]

Assuming that the Watergate scandal never happens, how would US foreign policy develop from there?
How would Nixon's second term go in regards to this issue? What are the overall ramifications over the Cold War?

 

[GauchoBadger]

What could happen to South Vietnam, for example?
I mean, retaking all of the north was already a foregone conclusion, but could it survive as a rump state in the southern 1/3rd of Vietnam?
How would Nixon, or his likely successor, deal with the Egyptian-Israeli negotiations before OTL's Camp David Accords?

 

[Corjomc]

I think South Vietnam survives at least until 1977 when Nixon's term officially ends.

No Jimmy Carter Presidency so who wins in '76?

Does Reagan win but it turns into a "To win is to lose" scenario and we get Kennedy in 1980?

The Kennedy Revolution takes America much more to the left and Teddy gets an airport in DC named after him.

Back in Saigon it turns into another Korea but with the North Vietnamese being embarrassed to be compared so often to the other communist regime.

Eventually the military influence and strongman politics are curbed in the South and the become one of the big Asian markets.

 

[Simon]

How would Nixon, or his likely successor, deal with the Egyptian-Israeli negotiations before OTL's Camp David Accords?

Possibly an earlier Accord negotiated by Nixon, foreign relations was his main interest after all. Operation Nickel Grass shores up his flank against any charges of being anti-Israel but he's also a big enough bastard that he'd be willing to apply pressure to the Israelis if he thought that they were causing the US problems internationally or dragging their feet in talks.

 

[fscott]

Why is Nixon being a bastard for standing up for the United States when that's what he was elected to do?

 

[Simon]

Why is Nixon being a bastard for standing up for the United States when that's what he was elected to do?

Israel was, at least nominally, an American ally in the region. That however wouldn't stop Nixon, and Kissinger, from leaning on them to push through what they thought, from the US perspective, was the best solution. I certainly wasn't using it in a negative sense, just look at my Profile Page.

 

[Enigmajones]

Well there wouldn't be insert name-gate every time a scandal happens.

 

[Simon]

Well there wouldn't be insert name-gate every time a scandal happens.

Thank the gods.

 

[Aisha Clan-Clan]

More backing for project independence, which means that efforts to fund well any energy source+build up solar/nuclear get entrenched enough that there's an iron triangle to keep it in place so even if we get some budget-cutter republican in office eventually, at absolute worst you have several times NASA's OTL budget thrown at it. Move up OTL's current slow push towards decarbonization a decade early plus cut depending on how optimistic you are a third to 75% of OTL US energy needs.

The US no longer needing to worry about non-north american energy sources starting in say the 1990s, combined with no Reagan making hawkishness great again is BIG. Odds are the US begins to withdraw from international committments in the 2000s, or if not going isolationist begin doing things more openly for it's own interest rather than say the Saudi interests.

 

[marathag]

More backing for project independence, which means that efforts to fund well any energy source+build up solar/nuclear get entrenched enough that there's an iron triangle to keep it in place so even if we get some budget-cutter republican in office eventually, at absolute worst you have several times NASA's OTL budget thrown at it. Move up OTL's current slow push towards decarbonization a decade early plus cut depending on how optimistic you are a third to 75% of OTL US energy needs.

Nixon was all for the Alaskan Pipeline and nuclear, he was really big on nuclear-- wanted 1000 new plants by 1980. Solar was not going to be a player in the '70s.

He still advocated the expansion of offshore drilling, while emphasizing the need for environmental safeguards, from the recent Santa Barbara blowout, for it to be done bette.

He would have been all for fracking.

 

[Aisha Clan-Clan]

Nixon was all for the Alaskan Pipeline and nuclear, he was really big on nuclear-- wanted 1000 new plants by 1980. Solar was not going to be a player in the '70s.

He still advocated the expansion of offshore drilling, while emphasizing the need for environmental safeguards, from the recent Santa Barbara blowout, for it to be done bette.

He would have been all for fracking.

Project Independence was about all forms of energy self-sufficiency so yes, your thing applies too.

Well, with even minor funding in place from earlier instead of otl's lack of interest from 1980-sometime in the late 2000s solar could have started being more relevant in the 90s or 00s.