1976 No Watergate

[katelyn not caitlin]

How does 1977-81 Reagan handle the fall of the Shah and the trouble in Afghanistan?

[katelyn not caitlin]

Richard Helms et al will still likely destroy most of the evidence even without Watergate.

[katelyn not caitlin]

Richard Helms et al will still likely destroy most of the evidence even without Watergate.

This is kind of interesting, but I don't know if it means anything. There are two sayings related to this
1.Every document has a cousin
2.Every document is in triplicate.

So, in boxes all over the country if not the world, there are likely Operation Chaos/MK Ultra documents just waiting to be discovered.

I'm referring to OTL -- which is why a full investigation was impossible.

[katelyn not caitlin]

Everybody welcome Katelyn! To answer her first point - I don't think the Persian monarchy would have collapsed in 1979 or any other point in an earlier Reagan Presidency. (The Trump Effect comes to mind.)

Both my young and current selves thank you for being a 'weetheart!

[katelyn not caitlin]

What would happen in 1980, DW?

[katelyn not caitlin]

The main questions to me is how popular is Nixon by 1975/1976 and does he make an endorsement?

I'd hope the "monkeys" clip of Reagan's on the Nixon tapes would leak in this alt-1976 but guess not