Duct Tape, A security guard, and a nap.

It's saturday, June 17th, 1972. A man named Frank Willis, going about his rounds at the Democratic National Comitee in the Watergate office building, finds a piece of Duct tape on the floor. He takes it off. But instead of returning later to find another piece of duct tape and 5 burglars, he takes a nap.... and the burglars leave the Watergate without getting caught.

But what has Frank Willis changed by sleeping?

The language

Think of how much poorer our language would be, no filegate, Irancontra-gate, billiegate, on and on.........

It is remarkable that the man who was vice president in 1952, could have been the president still in January 1977! IN OTL Carter narrowly beat Ford, despite Wategate. Without Watergate, Ford or Reagan would handily have beat Carter in 1976. But would Nixon have gone down as one of the "great" presidents?

Books

Not as a Great President , But as a Great Political Writer. There would be College Courses in his Books.

he would be remembered for his two big foreign policy achievements: ending the Vietnam war and making nice with red China...