In the 1960 campaign, President Nixon could have pivoted toward the urban voter or the Southern voter. Despite the choice of Lodge and the supposed "Compact of Fifth Avenue" with Governor Rockefeller, Nixon was no liberal and his anti-Communist bona fides were there. I would argue that he would have governed from the Right albeit with a gloss that would have made it seem less draconian, less strident. The conservatives would have needed a hero and Goldwater would not have challenged Nixon. I doubt Goldwater would have run in 1968 but maybe.