[Pappy Smear]

So Watergate gets buried, and Nixon serves out his term. Who gets elected in 76? No way Carter gets elected without Watergate. Without Carter, Reagan never gets elected in 80--tho maybe in 76 he might have. Maybe Bob Dole in 76?

All in all, how it all turned out seems relatively well.

[MJY1288]

I agree, plus it's a futile discussion, simply because the past is the past, and no amount of imaginative thinking could ever really come up with all the possibilities of where we would be today if Watergate was buried.

I'll gladly suffer through Carter in order to have been blessed with Ronald Reagan as my President

[John Robertson]

See my #8.

[edsheppa]

Who gets elected in 76? No way Carter gets elected without Watergate. Without Carter, Reagan never gets elected in 80--tho maybe in 76 he might have.

My guess is Ford in 76, Dem in 80. There was no essential difference between Ford's economics and Carter's. My God do you remember WIN buttons? Carter said was turn down the heat and wear a sweater, but I can easily hear Ford saying it instead.

One big difference might have been Iran. I don't think the mullah's could have taken over without our loss of will. Iraq starts its war and we intervene with Iran. The whole trajectory of the mideast could have been different.