Alternate History 🇺🇸 November 2, 1976: President Nelson Rockefeller wins election to full 4-year term and the aftermath

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*September 7, 1977: In the first judicial recall election in Wisconsin history, Dane County Judge Archie E. Simmonson was voted out of office by outraged citizens who refused to accept his contention that rape is a "moral" male reaction to provocative female dress and modern sexual tension premise attitude toward sex. Simmonson's comments were meant to explain why he had sentenced a 15-year-old boy to jail for one year of probation in the custody of his parents for the rape of a modestly-dressed 16-year-old girl.

*September 8, 1977: US President Nelson Rockefeller and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced an agreement on the construction of a pipeline to carry Alaskan natural gas across Canada to the lower 48 states.

*September 20, 1977: At the opening of the 32nd annual session of the UN General Assembly, Vietnam and Djibouti were admitted to membership.

*October 14, 1977: Federal grand jury indicted former US Rep. Richard T. Hanna (D-CA) on 40 felony charges which included conspiracy to manipulating the policies of the US government and Congress in favor of the Republic of Korea and attempts to securing bribes for his illegal activities. This was in relation to the explosive Koreangate influence buying scandal.

*October 18, 1977: During the six-day Silver Jubilee visit to Canada, Queen Elizabeth II opened a new session of Parliament with a speech from the throne where she spoke alternatively in English and French, the Queen referred to the current crisis of unity in the country and acknowledged that at present French Canadians were not provided with "the opportunity to fulfill their reasonable appropriations."

*October 29, 1977: Pope Paul VI concluded the four-week-long fifth synod of Roman Catholic bishops with an appeal to government leaders to protect and promoting the human rights of individuals and grant them true freedom of religion. The snyod, which discussed ways to make religious intersections of adults and children more effective, concluded with Asian and especially African prelates that religious instruction should be adapted to specific cultures.

 

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GOODBYE 22ND AMENDMENT? THAT'S WHAT ANTI-TERM LIMITS ADVOCATES WANT IF THEY GET THEIR WAY

In the midst of legislative backlog, there's talk of filing legislation about abolishing the 22nd Amendment forever in a bid to allow future Presidents to seek reelection indefinitely.

US Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez (D-TX) did just that by filing HR#29 "Stability of American Government Act". Gonzalez believes that by abolishing term limits, it'll give future Presidents more time to enact policy objectives and guiding America into the future.

 

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Coming up this week: Election Night Coverage of 1977 campaigns in Virginia, New Jersey, etc.,

 

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KOCH ELECTED NEW YORK CITY MAYOR IN HARSH, NEGATIVE CAMPAIGN

*Tuesday, November 8, 1977: US Rep. Ed Koch (D-NY St), who easily ran a hardcore conservative "Law and Order" platform during the campaign by highlighting the ugly rioting from the NYC Blackouts during the summer including his message of restoring public safety, catapulted him to front-runner status resulted in winning the Democratic primary and the subsequent runoff, was easily elected Mayor of New York City defeating fellow Democrat and current New York State Secretary of State Mario Cuomo (D) by a margin of 49.99% to Cuomo's 40.97%.

KUCINICH WINS MAYORALTY IN CLEVELAND; MAKES HISTORY AS YOUNGEST ELECTED MAYOR OF MAJOR AMERICAN CITY

*Tuesday, November 8, 1977: Cleveland City Councilman Dennis Kucinich (D) was narrowly elected in the nonpartisan race for Cleveland Mayor, having defeated State Rep. Ed Feighan (D-Cleveland) in the general election. Kucinich makes history, at the age of 31 years old, becoming one of the youngest elected Mayors of a major American city.

JACKSON REELECTED ATLANTA MAYOR IN LANDSLIDE MARGIN

*Tuesday, November 8, 1977: Incumbent Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson (D) has been reelected to a second four-year term leading the Hollywood of the South in a massive landslide victory with 64% of the citywide vote, easily avoiding a runoff.

STAUNCH CONSERVATIVE GRIFFIN WINS THREE-WAY RACE FOR BUFFALO MAYOR IN LANDSLIDE

*Tuesday, November 8, 1977: In one of the most intriguing, but racially-polarizing incidents during the campaign, staunch conservative State Senator James D. Griffin (Conservative) was easily elected Buffalo's 60th Mayor in a three-way race, defeating State Assemblyman Arthur Eve (D-Buffalo) and John J. Phelan (R): Griffin won the Mayoral election with 41.97% of the citywide vote.

CONWAY ELECTED ST. LOUIS MAYOR

*April 5, 1977: State Senator James F. Conway (D-St. Louis) defeated James Stemmler (R) and US Rep. Bill Lacy (D-MO) in a three-way race, garnering 67.01% of the vote in a massive landslide.

CALIGUIRI WINS PITTSBURGH MAYORAL ELECTION

*Tuesday, November 1, 1977: Pittsburgh City Council President Richard Caliguiri (I), who renounced his political party affiliation of the Democratic Party by running as an Independent, wins a full four-year term defeating Allegheny County Commissioner Tom Foerster (D) and Joe Cosetti (R), garnering 47.9% while Foerster got 43.7% and Cosetti got 8.5%.

DIMAURO ELECTED SPRINGFIELD MAYOR IN LANDSLIDE DEFEATING GRIMALDI

*Tuesday, November 8, 1977: Springfield City Council President Theodore E. Dimauro was elected to the open seat of the Mayoralty of Springfield, Massachusetts., defeating State Rep. James E. Grimaldi.

STANTON REELECTED MANCHESTER MAYOR

*Tuesday, November 8, 1977: Incumbent Manchester Mayor Charles R. Stanton (D) won reelection by a margin of 3-to-1 over Republican challenger Richard Jacobs (R).

BILANDIC WINS SPECIAL ELECTION TO FINISH OUT DALEY'S SIXTH TERM AS CHICAGO MAYOR

*June 7, 1977: Chicago Mayor Michael A. Bilandic (D), who ascended to the Mayoralty upon the death of longtime six-term Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley (D) on December 20, 1976, easily defeated Chicago City 47th District Alderman Dennis H. Block (R) by a landslide margin of 56 percentage points (77.3% to 21.3%) in a special election to completing the unexpired term of then-Mayor Daley, who died in office.

BRADLEY REELECTED LOS ANGELES MAYOR TO SECOND TERM

*April 5, 1977: Incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Thomas Bradley (D) easily won reelection to a second term in office, easily trouncing State Senator Alan Robbins (D-Los Angeles) and Howard Jarvis (R) in a multi-field list of candidates. Bradley garnered 59% of the vote and easily avoided the runoff.

MORIAL ELECTED NEW ORLEANS MAYOR; MAKES HISTORY AS FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO HOLD THE OFFICE

*Saturday, November 12, 1977: Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal Judge Ernest Morial (D) narrowly won the runoff election in a battle to succeed outgoing New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu (D), who was prohibited by the City Charter from succeeding himself of seeking a third consecutive term.

Morial makes history by becoming the Crescent City's first African American Mayor. He will take office as New Orleans' 57th Mayor on May 1, 1978.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

The Rising Star of the Democratic Party
5:56 PM CST, December 16, 1977
Little Rock, Arkansas

Arkansas State Attorney General Bill Clinton with his wife, Hillary during campaign tour across the Natural State having launched his campaign for the Governorship in the 1978 elections.
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The death of longtime, but controversial United States Senator John McClellan (D-AR) on November 28th changed the political calculus in the Natural State. Arkansas Governor David Pryor (D) appointed Kanester Hodges, Jr. (who was serving on the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission) to McClellan's US Senate and under Arkansas state law, Hodges wasn't allowed to seek a full six-year term in the upcoming 1978 elections, but political observers viewed it as quite obvious Pryor was gunning for the United States Senate, which would open up the Governorship for a free-fall.

Waiting in the wings was one-term Arkansas State Attorney General William Jefferson Clinton (D), nicknamed "Bill."

Following his shocking upset victory in the 1974 midterm elections where he narrowly defeated four-term incumbent then-US Rep. John Paul Hammerschmidt (R-AR) becoming the youngest member of Congress at the age of 28 representing Arkansas' 3rd Congressional District: where he learned to pick his political battles quite carefully, he had a quite moderate voting record: Liberal on social issues, but fiscally conservative on fiscal economic issues, somewhat in the middle of the road on foreign policy (where he learned the ropes of foreign policy) and staunchly conservative on public safety due to his staunch support of the death penalty, anti-crime measures, etc.,

Clinton was easily elected as Arkansas State Attorney General virtually unopposed with 100% of the statewide vote, carrying all 77 counties and was sworn into office as the Natural State's 50th Chief Law Enforcement Officer on January 3, 1977 succeeding fellow Democrat Jim Guy Tucker, who relinquished the position after two two-year terms to win a seat in the US House of Representatives representing Arkansas' 2nd Congressional District. Together with his wife, Hillary, whom he married almost immediately after being sworn into office as a Congressman in 1975, the duo almost immediately became an inseparable and rising political force in Washington. Their influence continued once they returned to Arkansas following Bill's landslide election as Arkansas State Attorney General in 1976: Bill served on the National Association of Attorneys General and also served on the Democratic Attorneys General Association and the Southern Attorneys General Association.

Upon Pryor's official declaration of running for the United States Senate, Clinton quickly announced his campaign for the Arkansas Governor's Mansion, where he and Hillary engaged in a statewide tour visiting all 77 counties.

During the 1976 Presidential campaign, Bill was being courted by many Democratic presidential candidates for his endorsement ranging from Wallace, Brown, Jackson, etc., he attended the 1976 DNC Convention in NYC during the Summer and spoke during one of the daytime seconding speeches. It felt intriguing to be considered as one of the influential young Southern Democratic politicians with such strong political influence, endorsement power because majority of the candidates he had endorsed won. As Bill's political career was taking off, Hillary remained in Little Rock and worked at a private law firm. However, most things aren't always a typical Norman Rockwell portrait 😎.

Back in Little Rock, Bill was inside his office "reading the paper" while there were a group of female staffers as well as interns working at the Arkansas State Attorney General's office. The majority of the young women working at Bill's office was quite unusual according to some folks, but other than that nobody seemed to mind since young people needed to participate in public service in state government. Speaking of Bill, he was "reading the paper" skimming at the Arkansas Democratic Gazette newspaper; but in reality, he was really looking at gazing hard at naked pictures of women. The Southern giggling and snickering that he was doing was quite unusual too since the main doors were shut....until Hillary barged in....

Hillary nagged about the following: "How in the Hell did the Democrats nominate that jackass Wallace in 1976? Nominating him for the Presidency pretty much handed Rockefeller a full four-year term." Bill lifted his head up from the newspaper, saying "What else is new?" Hillary continued nagging: "Bill. While you're campaigning for the Governor's Mansion, you need to talk about the vision for Arkansas in the next two years. You'll also have to balance one of the..." Of course, Bill busted out laughing. Noticing her husband gripping the newspaper, she asked "What's so funny about the gasoline tax?" He responded, "Nothing. Just something Senator Eastland told me about an on intelligence briefing during my time in Congress."

Hillary obviously didn't find the die-hard segregationist United States Senator James Eastland (D-MS) a laughing matter for obvious reasons. She continued nagging about her husband's campaign strategies and other developments.

While she was talking, Bill tried to contain his laughter while attempting to breathe slowly. It was just too much when Bill busted out laughing so hard, the grip of the newspaper gave out when the pictures in question fell right on the floor in front of Hillary.

Almost immediately, Bill's body language screamed "Oh no!" as the color drained off of his face as he cleared his throat when Hillary picked up the pictures in question. Pissed off, she asked "What the fuck is this necrophilia SHIT?"

Bill tried to use the typical Southern version of "Aww shucks" when he said "C'mon Hill. It's classified information only for me!" Unfortunately for Bill, Hillary was no damn fool.

One of the female secretaries working across the hall heard a book being thrown at a window hearing Hillary's infuriating angered comments.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

COMING SOON IN THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC
Ronald Wilson Reagan makes his big comeback and gets his ultimate prize: the Presidency

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COMING SOON IN THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC
Mark Wells White, Jr., and his rise to the Texas Governor's Mansion

 

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In the upcoming Chapters, I'll be working on the following installments of the international front:
1.) ROK President Park Chung-hee
2.) Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Sr.,
3.) Chilean President Augusto Pinochet
4.) French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing
5.) Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau

 

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DALTON WINS VIRGINIA GOVERNORSHIP VERY HANDILY DEFEATING HOWELL; KEEPS CONTROL OF THE VIRGINIA EXECUTIVE MANSION IN REPUBLICAN HANDS FOR THIRD CONSECUTIVE TERM

*Tuesday, November 8, 1977: In the hotly-contested campaign for the Virginia Governorship, Virginia Lieutenant Governor John N. Dalton (R) easily defeated former Virginia Lieutenant Governor Henry Howell (D) by double digits: Nichols garnered 699,302 votes (55.90%) to Howell's 541,319 votes (43.27%).

In the race for Lieutenant Governor: Chuck Robb (D), the son-in-law of the late former US President Lyndon B. Johnson, defeated State Senator A. Joe Canada, Jr., (R-Virginia Beach) for the Commonwealth's second most powerful statewide office. Robb garnered 652,084 votes (54.24%) to Canada's 550,116 votes (45.76%). Robb's victory made him the only Democrat to emerge victorious despite Republicans winning two out of three top statewide offices tonight; political observers expect Robb to become one of the contenders for the Governorship in 1981.

In the race for State Attorney General: State Senator J. Marshall Coleman (R-Staunton) defeated State Del. Edward E. Lane (D-Richmond) after Coleman noted Lane's role in the Massive Resistance Movement which caused many African Americans to refuse to vote for Lane. Coleman garnered 617,628 votes (53.57%) to Lane's 535,338 votes (46.43%); political observers and experts also expect Coleman to be gunning for the Governorship in 1981, setting up a potential showdown with incoming Lieutenant Governor Chuck Robb (D).

COMING UP: Election results in New Jersey gubernatorial election.

 

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Beginning this week: 1977 New Jersey gubernatorial election.

 

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BYRNE COMPLETES COMEBACK, WINS REELECTION IN LANDSLIDE VICTORY AS NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR

*Tuesday, November 8, 1977: In what many viewed as one of the most amazing political comebacks in American politics, New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne (D), who was reviled as "One Term Byrne" due to the unpopularity of the state income tax which was enacted by Byrne, managed to pull off one of the biggest comebacks by roaring from behind by double digits and winning reelection in a landslide victory defeating State Senator Raymond H. Bateman (R) with a plurality of nearly 300,000 votes.

Byrne had captured 57% of the statewide vote while Bateman garnered 42% of the statewide vote. In his victory speech, Byrne declared "I think the tax problem is behind us." he said to a roaring crowd of supporters. He said he wants New Jerseyans to look forward and not backwards; "We have a broad agenda for the future," he said. "You out there helped me win tonight and you've got to help me fulfill that agenda. Let's face the problem of a better education in New Jersey," he said. "Let's go on to facing the problems of rebuilding our cities. Let's go on to face the problems of better housing. Let's go on to assure the commitment that this state is not a good state for anybody unless it's a good state for everybody."

 

[Sergeant Foley]

COMING UP IN CHAPTER 5 OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC
Final Farewell to the Happy Warrior

 

[Sergeant Foley]

*Tuesday, November 1, 1977: 2060 Chiron, first out of the outer Solar System asteroids known as Centaurs, is discovered by Charlie Kowal.

*Sunday, November 6, 1977: The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails which results in the deaths of 39 people.

*Tuesday, November 8, 1977: Harvey Milk, becomes the first openly LGBTQ elected official in the City of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors.

*Wednesday, November 9, 1977: Bolivian President General Hugo Banzer announced that the constitutional democracy will be restored in 1978 instead of 1980 as previously announced.

*Saturday, November 19, 1977: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader making an official visit to Israel, where he meets face-to-face with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

*Tuesday, November 22, 1977: The TCP/IP test is successful by connecting 3 ARPANET nodes (of 111), in what eventually becomes the Internet protocol.

*Wednesday, November 30, 1977: The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is founded as specialized agency of the United Nations.

*December 1, 1977: Lockheed's top-secret stealth aircraft project, designated Have Blue and precursor to the US Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, making its first flight.

*December 4, 1977: Jean-Bedel Bokassa, President of the Central African Republic, crowns himself as the country's Emperor.

*December 16, 1977: Saturday Night Fever is released in theaters and becomes the biggest dancing movie of all-time. This movie launches the career of John Travolta and catapults the Bee Gees, who performed several songs on the soundtrack, to newfound success.

*December 20, 1977: Dijbouti and Vietnam join the United Nations.

*December 22, 1977: Grain elevator explodes in Westwego, Louisiana, killing 36 people.

 

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*January 4, 1978: Chilean President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte called upon voters to approve or reject a single statement which read: "In the face of the international aggression unleashed against the government of the homeland. I support President Pinochet in his defense of the dignity of Chile, and I reaffirm the legitmacy of the republic to conduct in a sovereign way the process of the institutionaliziation of the country." Voters approved the plebiscite with an overwhelming 75% of the nationwide vote.

*January 6, 1978: US President Nelson Rockefeller returned to Washington, DC following a nine-day tour that began on December 29, 1977. After visits to Poland and Iran: he arrived in Saudi Arabia and made a brief trip to Aswaen, Egypt to discuss Middle East problems with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Rockefeller delivered the second major address of his tour in France before government and business leaders and traveled with French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing to Normandy, where they visited the site of the Allies' D-Day landing during World War II. In Belgium, his last stop, Rockefeller talked with both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Community.

*US Secretary of State Malcolm Wilson during a solemn ceremony in Budapest, Hungary, turned over to Hungarian government officials the jeweled Crown of St. Stephen.

PRESIDENT ROCKEFELLER'S 1978 STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS

President Rockefeller delivering his third State of the Union Address before Joint Session of Congress.

*Thursday, January 19, 1978: President Rockefeller delivered the third State of the Union Address of his Presidency when addressing a Joint Session of Congress. The speech was broadcast on CBS News, NBC News and ABC News. While highlighting his administration's accomplishments such as signing the Puerto Rico Statehood Act of 1977 into law, Health Care Reform Act of 1975, he also called for everyone including those in attendance to come to grips of facing the difficult and hard question facing the American people and society in general, "we need to realize that there is a limit to the role and function of government. Government cannot solve all of our problems, it cannot set our main goals we wanted to get done, it also cannot define the vision of our nation, we cannot eliminate poverty or even provide a bountiful economy or reducing inflation or even save our cities and states. And let's get to the cold honest truth of the situation facing us: Government cannot and must not mandate goodness. It is ONLY the partnership between government and the people is where we can reach our truest potential and reaching as well as accomplishing our lofty goals."

Rockefeller also discussed barriers facing most Americans during his speech: "One of the major, top priorities of our great Nation is the final elimination of the barriers restricting opportunities available to women, African Americans, Hispanics and other minorities. We've come a long way toward this goal. But there's so much more to do in removing these final barriers because we as Americans, have a responsibility to elimination of all forms of discrimination across the board. What we've inherited from the past must not shackle us in the future as we head toward the 21st Century in just 22 years away."

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY RESPONSE

San Francisco Mayor George Moscone (D) was given the honor of being the first sitting US City Mayor to deliver the Democratic Party Response to President Rockefeller's 1978 State of the Union Address. Moscone, who was elected San Francisco Mayor in 1975, begun by giving the Rockefeller administration credit on enforcing federal civil rights laws (also gave credit to US Attorney General Edward W. Brooke for his aggressive enforcement efforts) including crediting the President's Good Neighbor Policy initiative on fostering closer diplomatic relations with countries in the Caribbean, Latin America, Asian Pacific, etc., but said that Congress should've been better informed on issues such as dismantling the Detente Policy between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China (in reference to Rockefeller's dismantling of the policy upon ascending to the Presidency on September 5, 1975). Turning to domestic policy, the Mayor blasted the President for "caving to the demands of the right-wing nutjobs of his party" and suggesting there is "lack of leadership" on areas such as alternatives in combating violent crime, while understanding the reasoning of the Rockefeller administration's tough-on-crime approach.

He also put the President on full-blast for being complicit in the violent, heinous deadly human rights violations of the controversial military dictatorship of Argentine Republic President Lieutenant General Jorge Rafael Videla, even questioning "Why did President Rockefeller so happily greet a murderous dictator during the State Dinner at the White House last fall, whose main goal is complete extermination of anyone who opposes him? This so-called Dirty War was obviously given the green-light by this administration and what's happening in Argentina right now is God awful: innocent men, women, children even those with disabilities are being wiped out for no reason." At the end of his speech, Moscone called on Congress to pass legislation and executive action in advancing women in the workplace as well as passing legislation to protect women from physical and sexual abuse.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

COMING UP IN CHAPTER 5 OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC
March 29-31, 1978: President Rockefeller visits Brazil

 

[Sergeant Foley]

BREAKING NEWS ALERT: UNITED STATES SENATOR AND FORMER US VICE PRESIDENT HUBERT HUMPHREY (D-MN) DEAD AT 66 FROM BLADDER CANCER
Friday, January 13, 1978

Regularly scheduled programming was interrupted by CBS, NBC and ABC when breaking news alerts broke out confirming that former US Vice President and United States Senator Hubert Horatio Humphrey (D-MN) had lost his battle with bladder cancer surrounded by his family at the Humphrey residence in Waverly, Minnesota at the age of 66.

Condolences came from both sides of the political aisle: President Nelson Rockefeller, Vice President Linwood Holton, US House Speaker Tip O'Neill (D-MA), US Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd (D-WV), US Attorney General Edward Brooke, United States Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI) and countless others.

Humphrey, who had originally planned on seeking the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination but abandoned those plans following the assassination of then-President Gerald Rudolph Ford on September 5, 1975. He explained "The country cannot afford to have a fourth consecutive President within two years" and successfully ran for reelection to a fifth term in 1976. Publicly, Humphrey also explained that another presidential campaign was too costly, too straining and physically draining....

However upon finding out from doctors during a medical checkup that he was diagnosed with terminal bladder cancer, Humphrey realized the inevitable end was near and decided to fight with breath and fiber in beating the disease. Many noticed at the shocking gaunt-like appearance of Humphrey during a speech at the 1976 Democratic Party National Convention in New York City during the Summer of 1976.

He publicly revealed his terminal illness on August 16, 1977. On October 25th of that same year, Humphrey addressed the full US Senate floor and on November 3rd, became the first sitting United States Senator to address the US House of Representatives in session. President Rockefeller honored him by giving him full command of Air Force One for his final trip to Washington, DC.

In his one of his final speeches, it contained the lines of the following: "It was once said that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life; the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."

State Funeral Services for former Vice President Humphrey

*On January 14th-15th, the body of the late former 38th Vice President of the United States laid in state inside the US Capitol Rotunda, where among those delivering remarks: President Nelson Rockefeller, Vice President Linwood Holton, United States Senators Jimmy Carter (D-GA) and Walter Mondale (D-MN). Former President Richard Nixon was in attendance at the State Funeral including several of his colleagues on Capitol Hill. Humphrey also laid in repose inside the Minnesota State Capitol Rotunda before a dignified funeral service was held at the House of Hope Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis on January 16th before he was finally laid to rest at the Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis.

 

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*Saturday, January 14, 1978: John Nichols Dalton (R) was inaugurated as Virginia's 63rd Governor at the Virginia State Capitol grounds in downtown Richmond. Chuck Robb (D) was sworn in as Lieutenant Governor and J. Marshall Coleman (R) was sworn into office as State Attorney General.

*Sunday, January 15, 1978: The Dallas Cowboys (NFC) win their second Super Bowl Championship easily defeating Denver Broncos (AFC) by a score of 27-10. The game was played at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana before a capacity crowd of 76,000. An estimated 86 million Americans watched the game on television.

*February 8, 1978: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat ended a six-day visit to the United States during which he urged US President Nelson Rockefeller and other government officials to exert pressure on Israel to intervene on negotiations of a possible peace settlement in the Middle East and to respond positively to Egypt's request for additional arms.

*February 15, 1978: Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and three of the country's black leaders announced general agreement on specific plan that would eventually establish black-majority rule in Rhodesia.

*March 9, 1978: Yugoslavian President Josip Tito concluded a four-day visit to the United States during which he exchanged views with US President Nelson Rockefeller on many international problems and expressed desire to purchasing US arms.

*March 13, 1978: After determining that none of the presidential candidates had won a majority of the popular votes in the March 5th general election. The Guatemalan National Congress voted 35-0 to name 53-year-old General Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia aa the President-elect. Lucas will replace outgoing Guatemalan President General Kjell Laugerud Garcia in July; both were members of the Partido Institucional Democratico.

*March 16, 1978: Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro was kidnapped in Rome by left-wing terrorists as he was being driven to a special session of Parliament. All five of Moro's bodyguards were killed by the 12 terrorists, who fired an estimated 70 rounds of ammunition.

*March 17, 1978: The Bolivian government severed diplomatic ties with Chile, when negotiations aimed at giving Bolivia an outlet to the Pacific Ocean "had come to a standstill." All proposals to date had been rejected as unacceptable by either Chile, Bolivia or Peru. The Peruvians got involved in the dispute because they feared Chile would cede to Bolivia land taken from Peru in the 1879-84 War of the Pacific. Though Bolivia dispatched troops to the Chilean border, Chile announced willingness to continue negotiations.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

1978 TEXAS STATEWIDE ELECTIONS: PRIMARY NIGHT
DEMOCRATIC GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY BETWEEN HILL, BRISCOE HEADING TO RUNOFF ELECTION; CLEMENTS WINS REPUBLICAN PRIMARY OVERWHELMINGLY

Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe (D) addressing supporters in Uvalde during Primary Night.

Texas State Attorney General John L. Hill (D) addressing supporters in Houston.

*Tuesday, May 6, 1978: In the hotly-contested battle for the Texas Governor's Mansion, the most intriguing race to watch was in the crowded Democratic Gubernatorial Primary where incumbent Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe (D) and his rival, Texas State Attorney General John Hill (D) advanced to a runoff election set for June 3rd. The returns coming in statewide showed Hill leading 792,627 votes (45.91%) to Briscoe's 503,773 votes (28.59%) while former Texas Governor Preston Smith only garnered 92,202 votes (5.19%) which resulted in a runoff between Hill and Briscoe.

CLEMENTS TROUNCES THE COMPETITION IN THE REPUBLICAN GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY; AWAITS WINNER OF BRISCOE-HILL DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY RUNOFF

Party time at Clements Campaign Headquarters in Dallas on Primary Night.

Meanwhile it was all quiet on the Republican Party side, because former US Defense Secretary William P. Clements, Jr., easily dispatched the competition in the Republican Party Gubernatorial Primary election defeating former State Rep. Ray Hutchison (R-Dallas) and Clarence Thompson (R): Clements garnered 115,345 votes (72.82%) to Hutchison's 38,268 votes (24.16%) and Thompson's 4.790 votes (3.02%).

Clements also gained the endorsement of US Rep. James M. Collins (R-TX), who withdrew from the gubernatorial race due to poor fundraising and poor polling numbers. Collins is considered as a potential contender for the United States Senate in 1982 as Republicans will be aggressively recruiting anyone to challenge United States Senator Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX) in four years from now.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

COMING SOON IN CHAPTER 5 OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC
Public Relations Campaign of Argentine Republic President
Lieutenant General Jorge Rafael Videla

Videla speaking with United States Senator Jimmy Carter (D-GA). ​

 

[Sergeant Foley]

9 IN 10 AMERICANS VOICE OPTIMISM IN DIRECTION OF THE COUNTRY

With the 1978 Midterm elections around the corner in several months, Gallup revealed in their polling surveys 9 in 10 Americans expressed optimism in the direction of the country.

They also strongly approved the job performance of President Rockefeller with 72% approval while 6% disapprove.