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I haven't seen this question really asked before, but what happens to Richard Nixon if Hubert Humphrey or somebody else beats him in 1968?

He's not the type of person to slither off and never to be seen again. He loved power and was fairly young at the time (Nixon was younger than Reagan), but after the two defeats for the Presidency and a failed governor's race, I'm sure he felt fairly out of options.

I have a few ideas on where he could go from there:
- Any Republican Presidency would almost certainly appoint Nixon as Secretary of State if he wanted
- IOTL, after the 1970 Senate Election, California had two Democratic Senators and Nixon could be tapped to run against either, and could even win
- Private practice maybe? Would that be a possibility for him? He was a lawyer
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