WI: President Richard Milhous Nixon in 1980

Is it possible for Nixon to become president ten years later instead of Reagan? How would timeline change with lack of Nixon as president on 1969?
 
Hmmm, I think it's possible as Nixon was younger than Reagan, the question is how does Nixon stay relevant from 1960 and 1980 without running for President? Does he get elected to the Senate again? Governor of California perhaps?
 
Hmmm, I think it's possible as Nixon was younger than Reagan, the question is how does Nixon stay relevant from 1960 and 1980 without running for President? Does he get elected to the Senate again? Governor of California perhaps?
Nixon doesn't run in 1968 and is appointed SoS in a Republican administration, and a Democrat wins in 1976. Nixon runs for the Senate seat in 1976, and runs for president in 1980.
 
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Nixon doesn't run in 1968 and is appointed SoS in a Republican administration, and a Democrat wins in 1976. Nixon runs for the open Senate seat in 1976, and runs for president in 1980.
This and have Nixon beat Pat Brown in 1962 for Governor of California.
 
Nixon runs for Governor of California in 1962 and chooses not to run for POTUS in 1968 to instead serve the people of California.

Nixon doesn't run in 1968 and is appointed SoS in a Republican administration, and a Democrat wins in 1976. Nixon runs for the Senate seat in 1976, and runs for president in 1980.

I agree with that, though I don't think having run for the Senate in 1976 is necessary.
 
Nixon winning the Governors race in 1962 not only keeps him relevant, but it also keeps Reagan out of elected office or at the very least delays his entry into Politics. This I would think is the best way to make this happen.
 
I summon @SargentHawk and @Pericles

Nixon doesn't run in 1968 and is appointed SoS in a Republican administration, and a Democrat wins in 1976. Nixon runs for the Senate seat in 1976, and runs for president in 1980.

Nixon as Secretary of State is scary as fuck. I mean, it is literally his playing field - and that is a good scary, i think.

To that end.....A TL MUST BE MADE!!!!!!

Hmmm, I think it's possible as Nixon was younger than Reagan,

Two years difference is both a lot and hardly anything at the same time.
 
Why'd I get summoned?
Well, you had a Nixon tl.......and you seem to know your stuff.

As for @SargentHawk well,

The Elder Statesman - (Work in Progress) - SargentHawk

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The path in which you could take Nixon in order to get him elected in 1980 is not necessarily set in stone. Nixon was well known in OTL for possessing the almost superhuman ability to make a political comeback. In OTL, by the time of his death, he was again a respected statesman and was a trusted ear to President Clinton and made multiple trips to Russia as a dignitary multiple times after the fall of the Soviet Union. So, saying he must remain relevant isn't all that necessary, what is necessary is how we were to make Nixon relevant again ITTL.

The approach taken would also change what Nixon we were to get in this alternate 1980. Do we want a more moderate Nixon? More Conservative? less paranoid? more paranoid?

The way that gives us a less paranoid Nixon resembling more of the man as he stood in 1960 is to take the route that gives him less defeat than OTL and less distrust in the media. To do this, we grant Nixon an election victory in 1962 over Pat Brown in California. Now, it is also known that Nixon much preferred Foreign Relations as a topic than domestic. While this is not to say he viewed one as more important than another, Nixon excelled in foreign relations and would prefer a role that allowed him to have influence there. Therefore, I do not see Nixon running for another term as California's governor. From there, it would depend on the political landscape of the time on what he did.

To get him to run in 1980 instead of '68, '72, or '76, we will probably need him to sit out in 1968, and have a Republican victory in '72 that then folds in Horribly allowing for another Democratic victory in '76.

In my planned timeline, that Republican in 1972 was to be Alexander Haig who suffers from a scandal worse than Watergate. Nixon manages to remain untainted from the collapsed administration and this Nixon would be one respected by the media for not being involved in a scandal. A Nixon like this, would have had executive experience and foreign relations experience; and his surviving the collapse of the administration would put him in the prime position for a run in 1980.

But like I said, there are probably more than 40 ways to get Nixon to 1980 and win by a good margin. But each way will give you either a massively or slightly different Nixon.
 
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