The Watergate break-in is never uncovered?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I disagree.

Nixon was barely keeping the oilmen and ranchers and such forth in line through persuasion and intimatidation and the IRS. They hated price controls, the EPA and the high taxes. Inflation would have hammered Nixon's second term most likely and Reagan might very well end up getting nominated in 1976 since Ford would likely not be a contender having never been President. The votes and the money for the GOP were in the South, Southwest and West. This shift probably still occurs in any scenario unless the inflation is removed somehow.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

It is amazing how the tapes, meant to help him write his own history, have largely been the source of defining him in the most negative light possible, that shown by his own words. The man who said what his particular audience wanted to hear whilst remaining firm on only a few foreign policy questions, has been revealed finally with regards to what he truly was and it isn't pretty.

Even if Nixon had come out of his Presidency reasonably popular and successful, we have seen this rodeo before. When Harding died, he was rather popular, thant he dirt came out.