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What if Nixon had chosen Ronald Reagan to be his new VP after Agnew rather than Gerald Ford? Connally gets talked about a lot and was Nixon's preferred choice, but he had issues and enemies on both sides of the aisle. So Nixon decides to go with the lame-duck governor of California instead (apparently Reagoan was one of the names being considered). Nixon still ends up resigning in August of '74 as in OTL and Reagan becomes President about six years earlier than in OTL. How would things be better or worse going forward from here? How does Reagan fare in the '76 election? How different is the political landscape in the late '70s and early '80s?
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