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Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum
Or maybe Carl just knew taking the Presidency at that point would be a career ender.
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Your comment about Carl Albert prodded me to do some Googling as well. Albert's career in the Senate ended with his retirement in 1976. Watergate was around 73-74, so I suspect he saw the end of his career in the not so distant future anyway.
Albert was a Democrat. There's no way, short of Nixon's unexpected death before Ford was appointed and confirmed, that he (Nixon) would have allowed a situation where a Democrat would ascend to the Oval Office.
I remember Watergate well, but I think that any speculation that Nixon and Ford had made a deal was just that -- speculation. It was certainly never proved.
Could it have happened? Yes. Another thing we'll probably never know.