WI: CREEP Breaks into the Brookings Institute in 1971

In June 1971, nearly a year to the day before the Watergate break-in, Nixon ordered CREEP (Committee for the Re-Election of the President) to break into the Brookings Institute. The Institute was a liberal think tank said to house files that Nixon could use to blackmail the Democrats. The White House tapes show that Nixon ordered his men to break into Brookings, and even wanted them to firebomb the building. However, the order was never carried out. What if CREEP had done as Nixon had instructed? How does this impact the 1972 election and the course of Nixon's Presidency? Does Watergate still happen?
 
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