But the for a decision-flip--Yeah, put Felt in that job--so much of history would have been so very different.
In fact...do you know those novels where Hitler won the war--what the world would be like?
Think of a novel where Watergate was a blip, then went away.
Nixon finishes his term.
Finishes much of his agenda.
Ford, probably two terms, in spite of himself.
We would never have had to up with Jimmah Cahtah.
And probably no Clinton (southern governor, etc.).
Only two dem presidents in 40 years...Carter and Toon.
And if Nixon had given Felt the job, we wouldn't have had to put up with them.
The lingering "triumph" of the Left bringing down Nixon never would have saturated the culture.
And liberalism would be far, far paler than it is today.
But, you know, would there have been a Ronald Reagan?
Would we have had the Shining City on the Hill?
No Watergate, no Carter. But that doesn't mean Ford would have been President for one term, let alone two. He would have had a hard time making it to the White House on his own. Probably there would still have been some kind of reaction against Nixon in 1976.
But with a Ford presidency, and especially with no Jimmuh Cartuh, there'd have been no Reagan.
No Reagan, no collapse of Communism.
No collapse of Communism, no Osama bin Hidin running amok in the Western world.
Three million people in Southeast Asia wouldn't have been butchered and some of us would probably be driving Vietnamese cars like we drive Korean cars.
Hoover had secret (blackmail ?) files on everyone and he wasn't afraid to let people know he had them. Felt as Hoover's protege would have continued the domination of Washington by the FBI. Nixon courageously slew that dragon at great personal cost to himself. If Nixon had given Felt the job we might be a police state by now.