Nixon: A Great President

Either no Watergate or he gets away with it and he makes a better choice of a running partner how about Ronald Reagan?. But for that he could claim to have ended the Vietnam war and to have brought about detente with Russia and China although the collapse of Saigon would have occurred in his tenure. If he had persued plans being considered for healthcare or rather they had come fruition as there was no distraction caused by Watergate maybe things would have been different.

The problem was his paranoia, he would almost certainly have won in 1972 anyway so why get dirty?
 
Either no Watergate or he gets away with it and he makes a better choice of a running partner how about Ronald Reagan?.

If he had persued plans being considered for healthcare or rather they had come fruition as there was no distraction caused by Watergate maybe things would have been different.

Ronald Reagan would not have accepted. Alternatives to Agnew, however, are plentiful in number and all of them would have for better VPs.

The Congressional Democrats turned him down on healthcare because they anticipated winning the 1976 election (which they did,*but they got Carter, so…) and bringing socialized healthcare instead of the universal healthcare Nixon proposed. If Nixon is a strong position with a strong VP they may deal.
 
Either no Watergate or he gets away with it and he makes a better choice of a running partner how about Ronald Reagan?. But for that he could claim to have ended the Vietnam war and to have brought about detente with Russia and China although the collapse of Saigon would have occurred in his tenure. If he had persued plans being considered for healthcare or rather they had come fruition as there was no distraction caused by Watergate maybe things would have been different.

The problem was his paranoia, he would almost certainly have won in 1972 anyway so why get dirty?

Nixon might have decided to intervene in Vietnam during the fall of Saigon.

Ronald Reagan would not have accepted. Alternatives to Agnew, however, are plentiful in number and all of them would have for better VPs.

The Congressional Democrats turned him down on healthcare because they anticipated winning the 1976 election (which they did,*but they got Carter, so…) and bringing socialized healthcare instead of the universal healthcare Nixon proposed. If Nixon is a strong position with a strong VP they may deal.

Why wouldn't Reagan have accepted?
 
Why wouldn't Reagan have accepted?

Because he said he wouldn't, because Nixon would be too threatened by Reagan's independent power base, and because Reagan gains little (he's governor of California, after all, a far better position than VP in 1968 just as Governor of New York was better than the VP in 1960 for Rockefeller).

There's plenty of reasonable options and I can drag them out if you need them, I'll just need to flip through my copy of An American Melodrama.
 
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