Tizzie is looking at things from a 21st Century perspective. It might be true, that today what Dick/Don did might be "spinned" by a good lawyer, but in 1963, Dick/Don would be screwed. We had a young war hero in the White House, and America saw military service as a sacred obligation. If it were revealed that he switched idendity with a fallen officer, he would have been raked over the coals, legally and socially. Good luck spinning that to a jury that had just watched a John Wayne movie the weekend before. Keep in mind that this arrogant prick makes his living in public relations. That career would be flushed down the shitter.

Dick/Don had plenty to worry about. Of course, it is also a good bet that Betty would not reveal his secret, because she does not want to be caught up in that shit storm either. She would be much better off pursuing a divorce for adultery. With Dick/Don still earning, she would be a lot better off financially, and she could spare herself and her children the public scorn of being related to such a despicable coward, fraud, and deserter.

Also keep in mind that his crime would be ongoing, in that he is filing taxes every year under an SSAN of a dead man. Every time he applied/renewed his passport, or cashed a tax refund, went to night school on the GI bill, he was submitting false statements to the federal government.

A district attorney wanting to further thier career would have salivated over making this a very public case. The New York Daily News would have had a field day. Dick/Don would have gone from Madison Avenue big shot to prison bitch in no time.