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[Sergeant Foley]

US State/Territory Governorships (VIII)
Tuesday, May 31, 1983

*OREGON:
Victor George Atiyeh
*In office: 8 January 1979
*First elected: 1978; Reelected in 1982
*OPEN SEAT: Prevented from succeeding himself due to term limits.
*Seat Up: 4 November 1986

*PENNSYLVANIA:
Richard Lewis Thornburgh
*In office: 16 January 1979
*First elected: 1978; Reelected in 1982
*OPEN SEAT: Prevented from succeeding himself due to term limits.
*Seat Up: 4 November 1986

*PUERTO RICO:
Carlos Antonio Romero Barcelo
*In office: 2 January 1977
*First elected: 1976; Reelected in 1980
*Seat Up: 6 November 1984

*NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS:
Pedro Pangelinan Tenorio
*In office: 11 January 1982
*First elected: 1981
*Seat Up: 5 November 1985

*US VIRGIN ISLANDS:
Juan Francisco Luis
*Ascended to the Governorship upon the sudden death of then-US Virgin Islands Governor Cyril King on 2 January 1978
*In office: 2 January 1978
*First elected: 1978; Reelected in 1982
*OPEN SEAT: Prevented from succeeding himself due to term limits.
*Seat Up: 4 November 1986

*RHODE ISLAND:
John Joseph Garrahy
*In office: 4 January 1977
*First elected: 1976; Reelected in 1978, 1980 and again in 1982
*17 May 1983: Announced that he was going to seek reelection to a fifth term as Governor in 1984.
*Seat Up: 6 November 1984

*SOUTH CAROLINA:
Richard Wilson Riley
*In office: 10 January 1979
*First elected: 1978; Reelected in 1982
*OPEN SEAT: Prevented from succeeding himself due to term limits.
*Seat Up: 4 November 1986.

*SOUTH DAKOTA:
William John Janklow
*In office: 1 January 1979
*First elected: 1978; Reelected in 1982
*OPEN SEAT: Prevented from succeeding himself due to term limits.
*Seat Up: 4 November 1986.

*TENNESSEE:
Andrew Lamar Alexander
*In office: 20 January 1979
*First elected: 1978; Reelected in 1982
*OPEN SEAT: Prevented from succeeding himself due to term limits.
*Seat Up: 4 November 1986

COMING UP IN THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC: Part IX of the US State/Territory Governorships from the Summer of 1983

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[Sergeant Foley]

US State/Territory Governorships (IX)
Tuesday, May 31, 1983

*TEXAS:
Mark Wells White, Jr.,
*In office: 18 January 1983
*First elected: 1982
*Seat Up: 4 November 1986

*UTAH:
Scott Milne Matheson
*In office: 3 January 1977
*First elected: 1976; Reelected in 1980
*OPEN SEAT: Announced on 12 February 1983 that he wasn't going to be seeking reelection as Governor in 1984.
*Seat Up: 6 November 1984

*VERMONT:
Richard Arkwright Snelling
*In office: 6 January 1977
*First elected: 1976; Reelected in 1978, 1980 and again in 1982
*OPEN SEAT: Announced on 6 May 1983 that he wasn't going to be seeking reelection to fifth two-year term as Governor in 1984.
*Seat Up: 6 November 1984

*VIRGINIA:
Charles Spittal Robb
*In office: 16 January 1982
*First elected: 1981
*OPEN SEAT: Prevented from succeeding himself due to term limits.
*Seat Up: 5 November 1985

*WASHINGTON:
John Dennis Spellman
*In office: 14 January 1981
*First elected: 1980
*Seat Up: 6 November 1984

*WEST VIRGINIA:
John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller, IV
*In office: 17 January 1977
*First elected: 1976; Reelected in 1980
*OPEN SEAT: Prevented from succeeding himself due to term limits.
*Announced on 30 May 1983 that he was launching his campaign for the United States Senate in 1984.
*Seat Up: 6 November 1984

*WISCONSIN:
Anthony Scully Earl
*In office: 3 January 1983
*First elected: 1982
*Seat Up: 4 November 1986

*WYOMING:
Edgar Jacob Herschler
*In office: 6 January 1975
*First elected: 1974; Reelected in 1978 and again in 1982
*Seat Up: 4 November 1986​

 

[Sergeant Foley]

KING CHARLES III AND QUEEN DIANA CROWNED IN SPECIAL CEREMONY

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......"in one of the most historic Coronation ceremonies in the history of the United Kingdom, King Charles III and his wife, Queen Diana were officially crowned respectively during an internationally televised ceremony inside Westminister Abbey in London before an estimated 2,200 were in attendance which included several foreign dignitaries such as US First Lady Nancy Reagan, King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia of Spain, Prince Rainier III of Monaco for example. Guests from 204 countries as well as representatives from 158 countries attended which also included 16 Monarchs, 70 Heads of State and 16 Prime Ministers."
-Excerpt from the Seattle Times
7 May 1983

 

[Sergeant Foley]

......"following the Taiwanese Armed Forces' surprise invasion of the Mainland while the world's attention was too busy watching the non-stop chaotic Telenovela called "The Battle of the Crazy" with regard to the explosive Falklands War of 1982 between the Argentine Republic vs the United Kingdom, a deadly war which resulted in the British emerging victorious and the beginning of the end of the Military Junta, whose huge fuck-up and miscalculations led the Chileans to exploit the chaos and getting involved with the British by launching a full-scale double pronged invasion of the Argentine Republic.

It also caused the forced resignation of that jackass Galtieri, who ran like a fucking coward into Portugal, where Gonsalves (that uppity jackass) gave him safe passage. This annoyed everyone in London and Washington. It was like a big "Fuck You" to the entire world. How that son of a bitch got away with ordering the assassinations of Thatcher and the late Queen Elizabeth II amazes me? I cannot believe that crazy, bipolar mother fucker Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri Castelli managed to get away with two high-profile assassinations and I wouldn't be surprised if he had the late Pope John Paul II whacked in that mysterious plane crash too. I mean, that dude was fucking nuts and drove some of his Cabinet minsters crazy with his "Doing God's Work" shtick.

Meanwhile, Taiwanese President Chiang Ching-kuo took advantage of the international community's distractions by giving the go-ahead for an aggressive full-scale invasion of the Mainland by sea, land and air: the result was asbsolute carnage and deadly mayhem. After all, Ching-kuo was only following up on his late father's dream of taking back the Mainland and accomplished this within more than six months, causing the communist government to collapse horribly.

It was perfect timing because Chiang waited until Nixon was disgraced including waiting until Ford and Kissinger were assassinated to begin secretly plotting the invasion of the Mainland. By the time the invasion took place, we were sucker-punched by what had happened that the international ramifications soon opened the door for other incidents in other parts of the world.

We all assumed the worst was over, but then Romania happened when both Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Romanian First Lady Elena Ceausescu were both ousted from power and publicly executed on live television with the world watching this... And I do mean, this was broadcast on live television. I knew then that 1983 was going to become a year of surprises and there wasn't any way how to see the sucker-punch coming."
-Former US Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger
Spring 2004
"Chaos in the 1980s: From the Perspective of Caspar Weinberger during the Reagan Administration"

 

[Sergeant Foley]

......"I was shocked when President Bignone gave us the go-ahead on this secret mission. It was very risky for us to do because our country was already the international laughing stock of the entire world following the big fuck-up with the Falkland Islands when the British kicked our asses and especially when those creepy Chileans invaded our homeland by annexing the disputed islands into Chilean territory. We didn't know why this secret mission was well.... secret.

It was a desperation move for us because with the groundwell of a return of democracy coming so fast, Bignone needed a distraction so while His Excellency and several others inside the Military Junta began destroying incriminating documentation of files which consisted of over 73,000+ and countless wiretapping audio recordings, videos, pictures, etc., I informed my commanding officer of the 41st Batallion, Colonel Gustavo Cervantes, who gave us the personal green-light of this very top secret mission and he gave us strong advice: avoid being spotted because once this mission is completed, we had to get out of there very fast.

I knew what Colonel Cervantes meant. And so did all of the rest of our batallion. So it was me and about 29 of us when we got aboard a large aircraft and flew out of the Argentine Republic for the flight to Europe. It was the Military Junta's final middle finger and especially putting that Incompetent Dancing Bitch in her place!"
-First Lieutenant Mauricio de la Fuente
Argentine Republic Army
41st Batallion
Summer 1983
Somewhere over the Atlantic

 

[Sergeant Foley]

COMING UP IN THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC
Personal PoV's: Summer 1983
Argentine Republic President Reynaldo Bignone and the Military Junta's last stand
as calls for democracy escalated throughout the Argentine Republic

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[Sergeant Foley]

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......"the debut of Anita Baker's album "The Songstress" on 31 May 1983 was released by Beverly Glen Music before she signed with Elektra Records with whom she went on to have a succession of multiple hit albums. Despite the initial release, The Songstress wasn't received well commercially. However, in 1984, the album would be included with a compact disc and made history becoming one of the first independently released compact Discs. Among the songs in the album being very popular with music listeners: "No More Tears" peaked at #49 on the Billboard Hot Black Singles Chart, making it Baker's only entry into the singles chart of the Billboard. Also included on the same chart, Angel" was ranked #5 and "You're The Best Thing Yet" followed at #28."
-Excerpt from the Success of R&B/Soul Music of the 80s

 

[Sergeant Foley]

6.6 Seconds!
12:31 PM, Wednesday, June 1, 1983
Madrid, Spain
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Republic of Korea Prime Minister Roh Tae-woo stepped out of the shimmering glass doors of the Hotel Araneta into one of the wide boulevard of downtown Madrid. It was a surprisingly warm afternoon with the beaming sun high inside the sky lighting up the entire lane. He had spent several hours addressing the ROK/Spain Defense Military Cooperation Council.

"Thinking the writer had cooked up one heckuva speech. I'm going to personally give him special thanks the next time I see him." He said to the heavily built PSS (Presidential Security Service) agent on the left. "Yes sir, most definitely Mr. Prime Minister." He replied stiffly.

Roh had gotten to know the PSS staff little in prior months but following that crazed nutjob tried to attack him the last three months they had brought in a bunch of the newbies as backup just in case. As the Prime Minister approached the limousine he couldn't help glance up towards the building crowd across the street as they were waving Spanish and Republic of Korea flags. To many in the crowd, they saw him as the next President of the Republic of Korea in the future.

Standing with a huge grin on his face to giving one huge wave to the cheering crowd. Cheers pouring in from the adoring crowd each one with the chance of many Koreans living in Spain to see the Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea.

Three quick flashes lighting up the streets for about six seconds almost as bright as the sun shining overheard. It was three loud sounds violent death rating screams in the air and one simple thud. Panic filled the streets like an aggressive plague. A leftist group supporting imprisoned opposition leader Kim Dae-jung were quickly grappled by the Madrid Metropolitan Police Department and stunned nearby passerby in the crowd, but it was too late.

There on the streets of Madrid, laid Republic of Korea Prime Minister Roh Tae-woo with two bullet holes through the right side of his head, which was obviously completely blasted out altogether.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

The Rising Star in California Politics
9:42 AM PST, Monday, June 6, 1983
Mayor's Office, San Francisco City Hall
San Francisco, California

San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein inside her City Hall office beaming with excitement after overwhelmingly defeating the recall initiative against her.​

Having easily defeated the April 26th Recall Election with an overwhelming 80% of the citywide vote, political analysts and political observers agree that the failed recall attempt against popular San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, all but emboldened her reelection prospects for a second full four-year term later in the Fall of 1983. According to State Assemblyman Art Agnos, he believes the main reason why the recall failed which had consisted in the following:

*The Moscone and Milk assassinations on 27 November 1978 including Feinstein ascending to the Mayoralty during the traumatic circumstances.

*San Franciscans rallying around staunch opposition to the recall, which was initiated by the White Panther Party.

*Lack of candidates fearful of running against Feinstein in the recall election due to the large overwhelming support Feinstein got in defeating the recall initiative.

*No major political opposition.

*Encouraging voters to use absentee mail-in ballots in very successful effective campaign from the Feinstein campaign and staunch allies of the popular Mayor.

*Support from the city's daily newspapers including the city's civic and business organizations helped Feinstein easily defeat the recall effort.

Emboldened with an overwhelming and massive landslide victory in defeating the recall, political observers also agreed that Feinstein's new political strength inside the Golden City included the Mayor's successful campaign in bringing the 1984 Democratic Party National Convention to San Francisco, which made her one of the most visible women in the United States.

Many viewed Feinstein as one of the rising stars not only of the California Democratic Party, but also of the national Democratic Party as well with some mentioning her as a future contender either for the Governorship or the United States Senate in the future election cycles going forward. There were some detractors, who accused Feinstein of ignoring them; Feinstein was seen by many outside of San Francisco as part of the Moderate/Centrist side of the political spectrum with her staunch support of capital punishment including friendly with business establishment interests.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

Marvin Zindler...Eyeeewitness News!
12:58 PM CST, Monday, June 13, 1983
ABC 13 KTRK-TV Houston Studios
Houston, Texas

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Marvin Harold Zindler was the talk of the town inside the Space City since coming to ABC 13 KTRK-TV Houston in 1973 and let's just say, things weren't the same ever again!

Born on 10 August 1921 in Houston, Texas, Zindler attended Pershing Middle School and Lamar High School, both in Houston before ultimately graduating from San Jacinto High School. He attended John Tarlenton Agricultural College (now Tarlenton State University in Stephenville, Texas). In 1941, following the outbreak of World War II and the attack on Pearl Harbor which caused the United States to enter World War II, Zindler joined the United States Marine Corps and later received a medical discharge for medical reasons.

In 1941, Zindler married the former Gertrude Kugler and they would be blessed with four sons: Marvin, Jr; Donny; Danny and Mark and one daughter: Helen. He would also have nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild. The Zindler's lived in the Maplewood neighborhood, where he resided for 48 years. Following being honorably discharged from the United States Marine Corps, Zindler began his broadcasting career in 1943 as a part-time night radio disc jockey and spot news reporter at Houston radio station, KATL (now KMIC 1590), while he was working in his family's clothing store. In 1951, while working with KATL, Zindler also hosted the "The Roving Mike", which was a 30-minute radio program airing on Sundays which documented on crime and the people involved in Houston.

In 1950, Zindler became a reporter and cameraman for Southwest Film Production Company which produced the 6:00 PM news for NBC 2 KPRC-TV Houston, but in 1954, he was abruptly fired by an executive at the news station, who said Zindler was "too ugly" to work in television; Less than two years later in 1956, Zindler joined the Scripps Howard Houston Press working part-time as a crime reporter and photographer. While he was working in the family's clothing store and also working for the newspaper, Zindler became quickly dissatisfied with the retailing business and in 1962, his career took a major detour when he decided that law enforcement would be an amazing career move: joining the Harris County Sheriff's Office: handling Civil Process for two years and joined the Fugitive Squad where his work took him all over the world in order to extraditing fugitives.

Two years later, Zindler was assigned by both the Harris County Sheriff and Harris County District Attorney in establishing a Consumer Fraud Division with the Harris County District Attorney's Office. This division as of today is still operating. It was during this time of his law enforcement career, that he got the first taste of working on behalf of the people. However, once Jack Heard was elected as Harris County Sheriff in 1972, one of Heard's first moves was abrutply firing Zindler. And according to Zindler's own personal viewpoint, he felt that Heard firing him from the Harris County Sheriff's Office was a blatant political move which Zindler blamed on agitated car dealers who were alleged to have been rolling back odometers.

Upon hearing about Zindler's controversial abrupt firing from the Harris County Sheriff's Office, ABC 13 KTRK-TV Houston news anchor Dave Ward recommended Zindler to the station's assistant news director to serve as the consumer reporter. On 1 January 1973, Zindler joined ABC 13 KTRK-TV Houston, a news program which had been languishing in third place. And after Zindler joined the ABC owned and operated station, the rest was definitely history!

Zindler made statewide and national headlines when he and fellow journalist Larry Conners reported on a long-lived brothel known as the Chicken Ranch in Fayette County, Texas near LaGrange which led to its closure in 1973. The Chicken Ranch story was also featured in a 1973 edition of Texas Monthly magazine; two 1974 issues of Playboy magazine, which was the basis for the Broadway and film musical, "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" in which the character of Melvin P. Thorpe was based on Zindler. It also served as the basis of the song "La Grange" by ZZ Top. The closing of the Chicken Ranch brothel didn't sit well with Fayette County Sheriff Jim T. Flournoy, who violently attacked Zindler in a fight that left Zindler with two fractured ribs, along with a snatched toupee. Reportedly, Flournoy waved the hairpiece in the air as if it were a prized enemy scalp and threw it in the street.

Then-Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe ordered the operation closed, only to have it reopened again a few months later. Zindler then stepped in to shed more light on the operation, which ultimately led to the operation being closed for good.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

......"Robin Williams is considered one of the rising stars in Hollywood as he has been cast in the role of The Joker in ABC's special miniseries "Bruce Wayne: Road to Gotham". Williams says this role will be a huge boost in leading to future roles whether comedy or dramas going forward in the future."
-Excerpt from the Sacramento Bee
6 June 1983.

......"speculation has been brewing for a television movie special on "Perry Mason" starring Raymond Burr and Barbara Hale which is expected to be filmed in Burr's native Canada due to lack of high production costs and better filming locations.
Upon getting news of these rumors, Burr and Hale both agreed to reprise their roles of Perry Mason and Della Street respectively in the upcoming NBC television films that will be consisting of 30 films overall: "Perry Mason Returns", which will debut in a few years."
-Excerpt from Hollywood Specials.

......"Tom Selleck was becoming more popular as his American procedural crime drama television series, "Magnum PI" was getting strong positive ratings and reviews as millions of viewers. It was confirmed the show will be renewed for additional Seasons going forward as more people will be heading to Honolulu to see live filming of "Magnum PI" and potentially becoming guest stars themselves."
-Star Advertiser
12 June 1983

 

[Sergeant Foley]

......"yep, the dog-whistle attacks hammering Bradley on violent crime including blasting his handling of public safety as Mayor of Los Angeles as well as successfully tying him to an unpopular Jerry Brown basically all but killed his campaign for the California Governor's Mansion. All of that incompetent chaos happening in Los Angeles with all of the looting, vandalism... or the rapes, you can say probably was the nadir of Bradley's political career hitting its political ceiling. Deukmejian was smartly clever in using his aggressive negative advertising commercials hammering Bradley on violent crime, public safety and mismanaging the city budget calling into question whether Bradley would be an effective governor: you may not have liked the vicious and ugly tactics Deukmejiann deployed, but let's be honest: Californians wanted to feel SAFE and public safety was right at the top of the main issues concerning them."
-Leo McCarthy
43rd Lieutenant Governor of California
3 January 1983 to 2 January 1995
Exclusive interview for NBC 3 KCRA-TV Sacramento
Spring 2004

......"I don't think Jerry ever wanted to be in the United States Senate because he has executive DNA, not legislative DNA. Looking back at the Senate campaign of 82, I never thought for one instance that his heart was really in campaigning for United States Senator."
Kathleen Brown
29th California State Treasurer
7 January 1991 to 2 January 1995
Exclusive interview for ABC News "20/20"
Summer 2011

......"the entire ordeal altered the entire California Democratic Party with major political ramifications. Wilson's defeat of Jerry in the United States Senate election including Deukmejian defeating Bradley for the Governorship, caused a huge major discussions within the California Democratic Party on how to move forward because it sparked something in Gray, he used to serve as Jerry's Gubernatorial Chief of Staff. By winning a seat on the California State Assembly in 1982, it opened many doors for his political career going forward."
Willie Brown, Jr.,
41st Mayor of San Francisco, California
8 January 1996 to 8 January 2004
58th Speaker of the California State Assembly
2 December 1980 to 5 June 1995
Member, California State Assembly from Districts 18, 17, 13
4 January 1965 to 14 December 1995
Exclusive interview for ABC 7 KGO-TV San Francisco
Spring 2004

 

[Sergeant Foley]

......"Operation Chaos would've been successful if it hadn't been for the strong divisions within the opposition inside Colombia. Quintero, who thrived off of flexing his "independent foreign policy" shtick, had suspected the failed coup attempt had been instigated by either Brazilian or even American involvement. Nothing more further than the truth, we never even tried, not once, but he wouldn't have any of it. For starters, Quintero got along with Rockefeller and Holton because both tolerated the chaotic antics considering diplomatic relations between Washington, DC and Bogota were somewhat rocky while at the same time, smooth sailing in other areas of cooperation. Once Reagan came into office, the free rides were over and things changed. Quintero watched as Taiwan successfully invaded the Mainland and dividing that country into another DMZ version of North Korea and the Republic of Korea, because the Taiwanese became a nuclear power and got to keep their nuclear weapons. He also watched as the Ceausescu's met their deadly violent ends in Romania following the revolution, it freaked him out and made him paranoid even more. It also didn't help that Galtieri fled like a fucking coward once the Chileans and British invaded the Argentine Republic back in the Fall of 1982 during the tailend of the Falkland Islands War of 1982. In light of these events, Quintero got more conspiratorial and even more paranoid...."
-Caspar Weinberger
16th United States Secretary of Defense
1 September 1983 to 23 September 1987
Exclusive Interview with the Bogota Herald
Summer 1988

......"the failed coup attempt emboldended Quintero to throwing his weight around and cementing his rule as Colombia's President. The plebiscite, where several international observers have been covering and watching very closely, summed it up as a likely victory for the leftist military strongman. However, after the crisis blew over, everything went back to normal inside Colombia."
-South America and the Crazy Political Vibes

 

[Sergeant Foley]

......"during the Investiture Ceremony at the Tervuren Castle in Tervuren, Prince Hubert, the oldest son of King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola watched as their oldest son was formally presented the title of Crown Prince to the throne and officially the heir apparent. Crown Prince Hubert is the oldest of seven children born to the King and Queen."
-The Eighties in Royal Monarchs

 

[Sergeant Foley]

......"the fallout of the 1982 Midterm elections showed some cracks in the President's political armor: the Reaganomics Economics policies caused a huge political backlash from Americans, who voted in all 51 States and the Democrats gained 37 seats in the US House of Representatives: which gave Speaker O'Neill more incentive to force the Reagan administration to the negotiating table; Republicans held onto their majority in the United States Senate picking up Senate seats in Nevada and Virginia while the Democrats picked up New Mexico and New Jersey. It also caused some awkward political gymnastics: President Reagan acquiesced to O'Neill's request in breaking up the Transportation Deregulation Act into six different components, which made negotiations more easier. When the 98th Congress opened in the Spring of 1983, Reagan's approval ratings hit an all-time low: 37% and despite dreadful approval ratings, the President announced he was planning on seeking reelection in 1984. Everything was supposed to be going through on schedule...... But that State Visit to the Republic of Korea..... Ugh! I cannot even talk about it."
-Exclusive interview with former US Attorney General William French Smith
ABC News "20/20" Special: The 11.13.83 Incident and the fallout from the Reagan assassination in Seoul
Spring 2003

......"Reagan's insistence on more aggressive budgeting cuts on domestic spending programs including the super conservative doubling-down on deregulation continued to cause the President's approval ratings to go downward throughout Spring and early part of the Summer of 1983. The honeymoon period, which Reagan had enjoyed earlier coming off of his landslide victory in 1980, was pretty much gone. His unpopularity began to have major impacts outside of the White House, too; it also gave Democrats a little bit of breathing room because the so-called "invisible primary" inside the Democratic Party for the 1984 presidential campaign began to go in full motion. Reagan's unpopularity also was likely going to heavily impact the gubernatorial elections in Mississippi, Kentucky and Louisiana, all of whom were likely going to the Democrats in the upcoming Fall. And in Louisiana, the Silver Fox and flamboyant Edwin Washington Edwards was known for his one-liners and massive popularaity among Louisianans despite his obvious corruption scandals, etc.,"
-The Cajun Governor: Rise of Edwin Washington Edwards and his dominance of the Louisiana Governor's Mansion

 

[Sergeant Foley]

......"Gonsalves made it very clear to Howe that as long as he was the President of the Portuguese Republic, Galtieri wasn't going anywhere because he personally gave the former President of the Argentine Republic safe passage into Portugal. Diplomatic relations between London and Lisbon hit a major detour as a result of Gonsalves' staunch support of the Argentinians' claim to the Falklands. Would Portugal face diplomatic repercussions and consequences as a result? Gonsalves also noted in telegrams and memos to other figures at Belem Palace that he wanted "clean deal, but a deal that makes sense"-full nationalization of foreign industries in Portugal rather than caving into British demands by particularly making sure some segments of the opposition won't use it as an excuse to instigate massive protests against his authoritarian dictatorship. Despite his reputation as a moderate/centrist, Gonsalves was also very aware of the angry voices brewing inside the Portuguese Parliament about "giving away several industries and exports to those uppity British". He was in the midst of his second term as President and had other things on his mind in terms of his wife's terminal illness and nobody faulted him for being distracted by personal family matters; It also didn't help matters that King Charles III during a State Visit several months earlier, that Galtieri be extradited to the United Kingdom to face criminal prosecution and other crimes against humanity for his involvement in the assassinations of then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the mysterious murder of then-Queen Elizabeth II. Charles was getting more and more hostile toward Gonsalves and used other intermediaries by having them send the message personally. Despite the maximum pressure lobbying campaign against him, Gonsalves tripled-down again by gently telling King Charles III, "Your Majesty, with all due respect, former President Galtieri will NOT be extradited to the United Kingdom whatsoever."
-Winfield Gonsalves: The Mini-Galtierista from Portugal.

......"Bishop was getting more agitated by the massive economic sanctions hampering Grenada. As 1983 ventured on, he threatened multiple times to "review diplomatic relations" with the United States and many foreign policy observers had good reason to get worried. Bishop came to power in a socialist revolution by deposing then-Prime Minister Eric Gary from office four years earlier and quickly fostered close relations with Cuba, the Soviet Union, East Germany and other communist and socialist countries. Reagan was not a fan of Bishop's government and the policies in Grenada, by accusing the Grenadan government of using the International Airport's airstrips as a waypoint for military aircraft from the Soviet Union. It disgusted the Reagan administration at the very thought of the Caribbean going full communist right in America's backyard led to some controversial extreme measures and decisions which would ultimately lead to a military coup d'etat months later."
-The Coup and War in Grenada.

......"Jackson emphasized that something needed to be done with Bishop one way or another. He had been holding closed door meetings with President Reagan, Vice President Bush, Secretary of State Shultz and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and also held courtesy meetings with several leaders of neighboring Caribbean countries, who expressed concerns that Bishop was instigating a full-out attack on the entire region. The staunchly conservative Democrat from Washington was known for being staunchly supportive of massive increased military spending including taking hardlines against the Soviet Union. He told the President: "Unless something is done about that Bishop fellow, the entire Americas could fall into utter chaos. Bishop needs to be stopped right now!"
-Scoop: The Washingtonian who changed Washington Politics and America's Foreign Policy

 

[Sergeant Foley]

......"of course, things weren't that all bad. It helped that I used to be in the United States Senate representing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for twelve years and I also knew a lot of the players over there. We managed to get the Health Care Incentives Reform Act passed in a bipartisan vote of 81-21 before the Thanksgiving holiday break. I worked with Daniel Inoyue and Edward Brooke while he was still in the Senate to pass the American Patient Protection Act of 1975, there was lots of bipartisan stuff going on during the Rockefeller years, which also continued during the Holton years and surprisingly during the Reagan years as well. It helped that Reagan was a calm, positive, optimistic fellow, who worked with Tip and Byrd in order to getting things done along with Baker and others, especially the conservative Boll Weevil House Democrats, who staunchly supported for Reagan administration policies such as tax cuts, increases in military spending and deregulation."
-Richard Schweiker
14th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
22 January 1981 to 3 February 1983
Summer 1983

....."for the Democrats, who were thinking about running for the 1984 Democratic Party presidential nomination, they soon quickly turned it down due to fears of getting trounced by Reagan: Governors White of Texas, Cuomo of New York State, Babbitt of Arizona, Lamm of Colorado, Rockefeller of West Virginia including Senators Kennedy of Massachusetts and Long of Louisiana both rejected any presidential campaign hype altogether. It became obvious that Mondale was already flexing his muscles by campaigning in Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, South Carolina, Nevada, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina. Everyone knew that he was running for President and so was Senator Hart of Colorado, who also began campaigning immediately after the 1982 Midterms. Something in Hart's past which was about to explode and upend his presidential campaign.
-Former United States Senator Juan H. Cinton Garcia (D-PR)
Exclusive Interview: ABC 6 WOBE-TV San Juan
"Commemoration of the Free Associated State's 27th anniversary of Statehood"
19 April 2004

 

[Sergeant Foley]

......"Hunt was the most popular Governor in North Carolina history, with a whopping 81 percent approval rating. Having announced his campaign for the United States Senate against the controversial conservative icon Helms in 1984, it was inevitable that the two most powerful politicians inside the Tar Heel State was going to collide one way or another. Helms was trailing by double digits in head-to-head match-ups among several of the major polling surveys. For awhile, it seemed that several segments of North Carolinians were finally going to be rid of the hardcore neo-conservative Southern Republican Helms after 12 years, but what many in the national media didn't know, was that Helms had a special diet of deploying violent racially-charged tactics in order to win reelection and he happily thrived off of using race-baiting."
-The Campaign From Hell: 1984 North Carolina United States Senator

....."1982 was the first of many stops on the road to 1984, and among the big winners of the 1982 Midterms: Mark Wells White, Jr., of Texas with his shocking resounding landslide victory throttling Clements in the Texas gubernatorial election. And with the landslide victory, White was put on the cusp of potential presidential contenders for 1984, 1988 and 1992. It also marked an embarrassment for Vice President Bush to grapple seeing a Democratic Governor running the Lone Star State in his own home state of all places, which was embarrassing and humiliating considering Bush campaigned hard for Clements' unsuccessful reelection campaign. White was one of the countless Democratic Governors, who was among those on the Lookout to Watch lists in the future."
-Excerpt from Pathway in the Nation of the Future: Mark Wells White, Jr's road to the White House
Summer 2004

 

[Sergeant Foley]

......"It was an exciting time as Pope Carlos I arrived in Bogota. The seven-day Papal Visit was a bit of an all-out rockstar among the faithful of the Roman Catholic Church. And of course, Colombian President Lieutenant General Seymour Quintero was eager to showcase himself as one of those high-profile figures in Latin America and in turn, show the international community, that Colombia wasn't some crazy chaotic place run by a leftist military strongman. Quintero was determined to prove them wrong and Pope Carlos I meeting with the leftist military strongman showed just that!"
-Road to the Presidential Palace: Quintero and His Times

....."the calls for democracy was growing daily all across Brazil. Figuereido was having some health issues due to having a heart attack one time which left him somewhat incapacitated; something had to give because the Military Junta had controlled the Brazilian government since 1964 with rotation of military strongman running the Presidency. With the likelihood of the Argentine Republic heading to democracy, Brazilians watched in amazement and were encouraged to keep fighting for the restoration of democracy."
-Excerpt from Brazil's Fight for Democracy.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

List of State Banquets in the United States
of Presidents of the United States (I)
Summer 1983

Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (R-NY St)
39th President of the United States
5 September 1975 to 26 January 1979
*Died in office

25 September 1975: Colombian President Alfonso Lopez Michelsen
2 October 1975: Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako
27 October 1975: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
12 November 1975: Luxembourg Prime Minister Gaston Thorn
27 January 1976: Israeli Prime Miniser Yitzhak Rabin
17 March 1976: Irish Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave
30 March 1976: King Hussein of Jordan
17 May 1976: French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing
2 June 1976: King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain
7 July 1976: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh of the United Kingdom
15 July 1976: West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt
27 July 1976: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser
3 August 1976: Finnish President Urho Kekkonen
21 September 1976: Liberian President William Tolbert
6 December 1976: Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti
14 February 1977: Mexican President General Oscar Robles
21 February 1977: Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
7 March 1977: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
10 March 1977: British Prime Minister James Callaghan
21 March 1977: Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda
4 April 1977: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
25 April 1977: King Hussein of Jordan
24 May 1977: King Fahd of Saudi Arabia
22 June 1977: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser
28 June 1977: Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez
13 July 1977: West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt
19 July 1977: Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin
26 July 1977: Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti
4 August 1977: Tanzanian President Julius Neyere
7 September 1977: Paraguayan President General Alfredo Stroessner
Dominican Republic President Joaquin Balaguer
Bolivian President General Hugo Banzer Suarez
Chilean President Captain General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte
Costa Rican President Daniel Oduber Quiros
Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez
Guatemalan President General Kjell Eugenio Laugerud Garcia
Colombian President Major General Seymour Quintero
Honduran President General Juan Alberto Melgar Castro
Peruvian President General Francisco Morales Bermudez
Ecuadorian President Admiral Alfredo Poveda Burbano
Argentine Republic President Lieutenant General Jorge Rafael Videla
Uruguayan President Aparicio Mendez
Salvadoran President General Carlos Humberto Romero
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Panamanian President William Alvarez
General Omar Torrijos, Commander of the Panamanian National Guard
Military Leader of Panama
Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley
Bahamanian Prime Minister Lynden Pindling
Grenadan Prime Minister Sir Eric Gairy
Brazilian Vice President General Adalberto Pereira dos Santos
Guyanese Prime Minister Ptolemy Reid
Haitian Foreign Minister Edner Brutus
Nicaraguan Chamber of Deputies President Cornelio Hueck

COMING UP IN CHAPTER 14 OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC: Part II of the State Banquets in the United States
by Presidents of the United States​