The Cursed American Presidency

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NSFW SEGMENT DISCLAIMER: The following segment will be extremely grisly graphic, gory & erotic. Viewer discretion is strongly advised & NOT for the squeamish folks!

August 17th, 1978:
Irene Evanggeliou: Secret Personal Diary (Part I)

"It was 8:00 PM in the evening HRS of August 7th, 1978. I was hired by one of the senior level higher-ups of the Vatican, who requested my personal services.

Being an island girl from Greece, I was amazed and honored by this job and I was given full access to this secret job. Upon arriving in Italy during the evening HRS of August 11th, I set up my underground secret lab at an undisclosed location including making wax copy of the late Pontiff when I heard about some incompetent medical expert named Marco Saltinetti, whose botched embalming attempt was so disastrous, it caused well awful results.

The official story publicly was that the late Pontiff was entombed in a private ceremony inside St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City following the Papal Funeral on August 12th.

However, what really happened was that my team of assistants and I secretly placed the wax copy look-alike into the new casket and lowered it into the tomb and had concrete poured on top of the vault forever, while we placed the casket containing the late real Pontiff into a large hearse covered with large curtains before driving away to our secret undisclosed location.

While my team of assistants carefully placed the casket on a stand by wheeling it into the large underground tunnels, I began to prepare for the long deep thorough and eccentric process of perfecting the masterpiece."

 

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August 17th, 1978
10:00 PM
Somewhere in an undisclosed location in Italy

Irene Evanggeliou: Secret Personal Diary (Part II)

"Once the group of assistants left to go to bed, I was wearing an all-green medical surgery gear from head to toe inside my extra large secret lab. The time was 10:00 PM and I was wearing a mask including gloves while I slowly opened the coffin, which took at least five minutes or so.

After I removed all of the clothing off of the "Secret Project" which I referred to him from head to toe, I applied some of my secretive formula by injecting it on the right lower side of his hip, which didn't take too long. Lathered him up from head to toe, he looked completely bloated and greenish all over the place, so it was time to do more adjustments.

The time was 10:29 PM when I used a special shining incision knife across the entire backside: then carefully slowly thoroughly removed the entire skin off of "The Special Project" from head to toe, revealing him completely skinless.

I then removed all of the following organs: the entire brain; cerebellum; brain stem; thyroid; Adam's apple; larynx; thymus; heart; lungs; kidneys; pancreas; stomach; intestines: placing them into a large trash bag, which I tied t up and put into a furnace which burned it into ashes across the hall.

Once that was done, I sewed up "The Special Project" from head to toe and used another lathering up all over his naked body including massaging his feet and legs including everywhere else. Typing up his hands, I then lifted him off of the cold steel-slab table, I placed "The Special Project" into an extra large glass container pool which had bright reflecting yellow lights inside before pressing the button to eradicate further foul smells altogether as this special tub began its work.

After cleaning up the floor inside the large secret lab, I checked to see how "The Special Project" was doing as I watched the last remaining purges of gas leaving his entire body (he was face down in the glass container pool).

Soon afterwards, I went across the hall and removed all of my clothes from head to toe: completely naked and barefoot as I went into the bathroom to take a long shower which lasted 37 minutes before I left, but went back to the secret lab to check on my special masterpiece. Once I did that, I turned out the lights of the lab and went all the way to my bedroom, where I went to sleep, methodically planning the next steps of my eccentric process of perfecting the masterpiece."

 

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August 22nd, 1978:
ABC NEWS BULLETIN: SANDINISTA REBELS SEIZE NATIONAL PALACE IN MANAGUA
*Growing unrest with the Somoza family's 42-year control of the Central American country seriously escalates to point of no return.
*Backlash grows due to possible government involvement in the assassination of Pedro Joaquin Chamorrow Cardenal, most prominent critic of Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle on January 10th.

Nicaraguan President General Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza Debayle, the son of the late Anastasio Somoza Garcia & brother of then-Nicaraguan President Luis Somoza, came from a wealthy family who had been controlling Nicaragua since 1936, where the Somoza family had enjoyed considerably strong support from the US including then-Presidents Franklin Roosevelt (1933-1945), Harry Truman (1945-1953), Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961), John F. Kennedy (1961-1963), Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969), Richard Nixon (1969-1974), Gerald Ford (1974-1975) & Nelson Rockefeller (1975-1977).

Somoza, who graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point & his son, also named Anastasio, attended Harvard University; took over the Presidency in 1967 that included a 2-year period when he temporarily gave up the Presidency but continued running Nicaragua through a three-man Military Junta.

However, things weren't always what they seemed because signs pointed to trouble for some time according to foreign policy experts & Latin American analysts.

Upon his inauguration as the 40th President of the United States on January 20th, 1977, US President Jerry Brown strongly criticized the Somoza government for the human rights violations & threatened to cut off US economic & military aid if the Nicaraguan President didn't make moves to democracy.

Following the shocking assassination of Chamorro on January 10th & plus a lacking non-conclusive investigation into the murder, Chamorro's supporters retaliated by leading general strikes which lasted for 2 weeks & instigating anti-government demonstrations, which led to armed ugly clashes between the demonstrators & government forces.

Suddenly, things came to a head when on August 22nd, heavily armed Sandinista rebels (disguising themselves as National Guard members) raided the National Palace in Managua, the capital city. It resulted in the deaths of 6 National Guardsmen, who tried to push back the rebels.

The Sandinistas held more than 1,000 hostages: government officials, members of the Chamber of Deputies & government workers until the Somoza government met their demands of freeing 59 political prisoners; plus providing safe passage to leave the country for them & for the insurgents including paying large cash ransoms.

The Somoza government retaliated with vicious precision: violently putting down attempted uprisings in Matagalpa, Masaya, Leon, Chinandega, Diriamba & Esteli. Estimation of civilian deaths ranged from 1,500 to doubling that number in major increase.

Thousands of Nicaraguans left the country altogether & with them, the flight of capital & to other countries was estimated to have amounted more than $100 million.

The US tried unsuccessfully calling for motion that the Organization of American States mediate the ongoing conflict. This proposal was rejected by the foreign ministers of the OAS countries during a meeting that had been called by Venezuela in September. In response, the Somoza government agreed to accept friendly cooperation of outside countries & the OAS sponsored a visit to the troubled Central American country by team composing of representatives of the Dominican Republic, Guatemala & the United States.

US Secretary of State Walter Mondale recommended a nationwide plebiscite be held to determining the desires of the Nicaraguan people on the resignation of President Somoza, who refused to leave office saying his term expires in 1981. Somoza did agree only to a referendum that would determine whether opposition members will be included in serving as Cabinet members of his government. In response, the opposition rejected any considerations of a plebiscite.

By adhering to the Brown administration's policy conditioning economic aid upon acceptable human rights performances, the United States severely reduced Nicaragua's share of its foreign aid budget severely to small amount earmarked for non-military purposes. By November 17th, the Human Rights Commission of the Organization of American States reported that the Nicaraguan National Guard committed widespread atrocities during the August-September fighting. Once again, Somoza strongly denied these allegations.

 

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August 26th, 1978:

NEWS FROM THE VATICAN: LUCIANI ELECTED NEW POPE
*Albino Cardinal Luciani elected Pope of the Roman Catholic Church by Sacred College of Cardinals.
*Luciani succeeds the late Pope Paul VI, who died on August 6th.

News coming out of Vatican City as Albino Cardinal Luciani, the Patriarch of Venice, was elected as the 263rd Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church by Sacred College of Cardinals. Observers & experts viewed the choice of the 65-year-old Italian prelate surprised many Vatican observers because this occurred on the 2nd day of the secret conclave & Luciani wasn't even considered a contender for the Papacy to succeed the late Pope Paul VI, who died 20 days ago. He chose the papal name John Paul I.

 

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COMING UP IN THE CURSED AMERICAN PRESIDENCY
The assassination of Chilean President General Augusto Pinochet
& the ugly ramifications as the Argentinean-Chilean War escalates into full-blown chaos!

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August 29th, 1978
BREAKING: PRESIDENT JERRY BROWN INVITES SADAT & BEGIN TO CAMP DAVID
*President Brown's biggest foreign policy gamble: working aggressively to have peace treaty between Egypt & Israel.
*US Secretary of State Walter Mondale has been working behind the scenes of making this diplomatic coup happen.

President Jerry Brown, Vice President Jimmy Carter, US Secretary of State Walter Mondale & White House Chief of Staff Gray Davis at Camp David.

One of the biggest foreign policy challenges facing the Brown administration was achieving peace in the Middle East between neighboring countries Egypt & Israel. Despite a 1974 truce, both sides continued arming for future conflicts. To make matters worse, the Arab nations refused to recognize Israel's right to exist as an independent nation or even negotiating with Israeli diplomats on working out lasting peace.

This was one of the top foreign policy priorities of the Brown administration.

When Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat, the largest of Israel's Arab neighbors, visited Washington DC in April 1977 to visit President Brown, the two Heads of State found the basis for mutual respect & friendship during their private discussions. In the following months, Brown & Sadat kept in touch with each other in private letters that Sadat later credited with influencing dramatic turnaround in his thinking. In November 1977, Sadat announced he would be willing to visit the State of Israel if it would help bring peace & Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin immediately issued an official formal invitation.

On November 19th-21st, 1977, Sadat visited Israel; addressing the Israeli Parliament & meeting privately with Prime Minister Begin in their first face-to-face talks between Arab & Israeli leaders.

Formal peace conference began in Cairo on December 14th, 1977 with Israeli, Egyptian & American representatives in attendance. However, other Arab nations refused to send their diplomats by denouncing Sadat as a traitor to the Arab world, calling it "Slap in the face" for even talking to the Israelis. Begin flew to the United States in mid-December 1977 to discuss his bargaining position with President Brown at the White House & then flew to Egypt on Christmas Day 1977 for another meeting with Sadat, but the talks didn't bring specific results.

Finding a way of breaking the ongoing deadlock, President Brown personally invited both Sadat & Begin to join him at the Presidential retreat, Camp David in MD.

September 25th, 1978:
TRIUMPHANT CAMP DAVID SUMMIT
*Major foreign policy accomplishment of the Brown administration.
*Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat & Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin sign peace treaty at the White House on live television.
*More details to be worked out on later date.

Completely sealed off from the entire world by massive walls of secrecy for nearly 13 days: US President Jerry Brown, Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat & Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin bargained with each other while the world had anxiously were waiting the outcome of the Camp David Summit.

Finally on September 25th, 1978, the three leaders emerged from seclusion at Camp David announcing the successful conclusion of their negotiations. Due to the specific prerequisites, Sadat had given up his adamant demands of an independent Palestinian state while Begin agreed to return the Sinai Peninsula to the Egyptians, which the Israelis had captured from the Third Arab-Israeli War of 1967.

After flying on Marine One to the White House, Brown, Sadat & Begin appeared on live television to sign two agreements, which established frameworks for final conclusion of a peace treaty between the Egyptians & Israelis including principles for general peace in the Middle East.

Final agreements will be detailed at a later date.

ABC News Poll: September 25th, 1978
(Job Approval of President Jerry Brown)
Approve: 53%
Disapprove: 42%

 

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 Chapter X: The Announcement with Ramifications

October 1st, 1978:
BREAKING: Speculation brewing that President Jerry Brown will NOT be seeking reelection in 1980.
*Sources caution President Brown hasn't made final decision.
*White House Press Secretary Jody Powell confirms President will hold press briefing in a few days.
*VP Jimmy Carter notified of the President's decision during daily lunch at the White House.
*Political observers view Carter as front-runner for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1980.
*GOPers ecstatic that Brown isn't seeking reelection; vow to win back the Presidency in 1980 & flip control of Congress.

With the 1978 Midterm elections less than a month away, Americans woke up to one of the major political bombshells in American politics when President Jerry Brown released a statement that read the following: "I'm excited about the future that America has to offer and the challenges ahead. However, in order to keep the Presidency from being hamstrung by partisanship. I believe it's time to pass the torch to a new generation of leaders in the new decade.

Today, I am announcing that I will not be seeking reelection as President of the United States. I pledge to spend the next twenty-seven months left in my term working on balancing the federal budget with zero-based budgeting, improving our economy with job creation for all Americans in all 51 States, pushing for Health Care Reform, getting our government working for the American people and so much more to get done.

Serving as the 40th President of the United States has been the honor of my life. I want to thank you, the American people for the honor of serving you. New leaders by January 20, 1981 will pick up the torch and lead this great nation of ours into the new decade with more optimism and integrity."

Sam Donaldson of ABC News reported that President Brown's bombshell changing retirement announcement came completely out of nowhere considering Brown had several key foreign policy victories such as the Camp David Summit, which resulted in the signing of major agreements by Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat & Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, that will set up the framework of potential peace treaty between Egypt & Israel.

The political ramifications of Brown's retirement announcement has both political parties jockeying for the Presidency. Among Dems: VP Jimmy Carter is likely viewed as the heavy favorite for the Democratic Party presidential nomination & United States Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) appears likely to run as well.

For the GOP: Expect a heavy crowded field running for the Republican Party presidential nomination such as former CA Governor Ronald Reagan (R), former CIA Director George HW Bush, US Reps. John B. Anderson (R-IL) & Phil Crane (R-IL), United States Senators Bob Dole (R-KS), Howard Baker (R-TN) & Lowell Weicker (R-CT) including former US Treasury Secretary John B. Connally (R-TX).

To Be Continued: President Brown holds press briefing.

 

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October 5th, 1978:
ABC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: OFFICIAL MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT BY PRESIDENT JERRY BROWN NOT SEEKING RE-ELECTION IN 1980

President Jerry Brown officially announcing he will not seek reelection in 1980 during press conference in the White House.

Less than 4 days after releasing a statement with his shocking retirement announcement, President Jerry Brown held a press conference inside the Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC. He discussed several of the daily topics of the day: Ongoing War between Argentina & Chile; Inflation Crisis; ongoing battles with Congress over the Federal Budget, etc.,

President Brown: "Good afternoon my fellow Americans. Just about four days ago, I released a statement announcing that I won't be seeking reelection to another term as your President in 1980. Now I want to explain to many of you why...

First, America is facing lots of challenges both at home and also abroad. As I elevated my decision on the future with my wife and your First Lady, Linda Ronstadt Brown, we prayed, elevated and discussed the future going forward; even members of my family have been involved in the evaluation process about the path forward for our nation. However, over the course of the last few months, I have been debating about whether to undergo another exhausting political campaign, which is making things very difficult for me in fulfilling my duties as the 40th President of the United States. And while I am very grateful to all of your passionate support throughout the years including those supporting our administration's efforts, it's becoming more evident that with hyper political partisanship, I cannot let the Presidency go under vicious partisan attacks with the international and foreign policy challenges we're tackling right now. Now therefore, I am deciding to NOT seek reelection as President of the United States. Neither did I make this decision lightly, nor did I shrink from it because this was an extremely difficult decision to make.

I carefully weighed the options available over the course of the past few months, especially during the Summer as the world is watching a horrific deadly onslaught and an illegal invasion into Chile by the Argentinians, which has taken hundreds to thousands of lives. Now isn't the appropriate time for the Presidency being pigeon-holed by hyper partisanship especially at a time when the international community is watching what's happening in Chile including other foreign policy hot-spots.

I will continue doing the people's business, serving as a full-time President every day and every night. Until January 20th, 1981, when a new chief executive will be taking the solemn Oath of Office.

The Brown-Carter years have been a time of renewal and incredible progress of changing the political discourse that had infected our nation's trust in government. America is more respected in the world more than ever before. And still, there is a lot of business which remains to be finished, to forming a more perfect Union. Every single day, step by step and minute by minute. With the next twenty-seven months left in my term, that's exactly what I intend on doing and beyond my presidency. I shall always be forever grateful to you, the American people, for giving me the chance to serve. Thank you very much."

As President Brown left the Briefing Room, several questions were being pestered & thrown out, to which he didn't respond. However, White House internal sources said that Brown made the final decision of not seeking re-election late last week following vacation with his wife, First Lady Linda Ronstadt Brown at Camp David. Sources also confirmed that the President reportedly informed VP Jimmy Carter on the morning of September 29th during their daily White House lunch. Accordingly, Carter was shocked, as neither he nor the Presidential Cabinet actually expected the shocking move & already began preparations for a whirlwind campaign swing in several key states for the 1978 Midterms. It was based on the assumption of a Brown re-election in two years, that Carter would have a cleared field for 1984, the prospect of re-election in 1980 was Brown's. However, following the controversial withdrawal of US military personnel troops out of Thailand including nuclear troops from West Germany, Brown began bleeding political support from all sides during his first year in office which continued throughout his second year with the Midterms around the corner. While Carter was seen as less liberal than Brown, he was always seen as a loyal VP for the past two years.

According to White House circles, Brown plans to make an official endorsement of Carter following the 1978 Midterms, sometime in the late Fall. With his shocking retirement announcement, Brown faces the prospect of being the first sitting President not to seek re-election since Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880. So far, it's quite unclear what Brown intends on doing after leaving office on January 20th, 1981. Confidants expect him to do either of the following: pursue construction of a presidential library (location not announced at this time); writing memoirs & possibly plot a campaign for the United States Senate in his home state of CA either in 1982 or 1986 in the future. It's unknown what Brown intends on doing as guessing game of his future endeavors will be quite intriguing.

 

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November 7th, 1978:
MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTS: DEMOCRATS MAINTAIN MAJORITIES IN CONGRESS
*Republicans pick up 15 seats in the US House of Representatives; 3 seats in the United States Senate; 6 Governorships.
*Democrats win popular vote in the US House by margin of 8.9 percentage points.
*Rising stars Bill Clinton elected Governor of Arkansas; Newt Gingrich flips Georgia's 6th Congressional District.

The 1978 Midterm elections resulted in the Democratic Party keeping both houses of Congress; maintaining their majorities in both the US House of Representatives & United States Senate including US State & Territory Governorships in 51 States including several of the US Territories, which occurred during the middle of President Jerry Brown's term in office.

US House of Representatives: DEM HOLD
Seats Before: 294 Dems
143 GOPers
Seats After: 279 Dems
157 GOPers

United States Senate: DEM HOLD
Seats Before: 63 Dems
39 GOPers
Seats After: 60 Dems
42 GOPers

US State-Territory Governorships
In 37 States & 2 Territories, the GOPers gained 6 seats in NV, Guam, OR, SD, NE, MN, WI, PA, TN & TX. Dems flipped ME, NH, SC & KS.
Seats Before: 38 Dems
12 GOPers
1 Independent
1 ICM
Seats After: 33 Dems (ME, KS, SC, NH)
19 GOPers (NV, SD, Guam, PA, MN, WI, NE, OR, TN, TX)
1 ICM

 

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November 27th, 1978: New Gallup Polling Survey:
President Jerry Brown Job Approval
Approve: 57%
Disapprove: 38%

December 4th, 1978: Carter announces exploratory committee in preparation of launching campaign for the Presidency in 1980

Vice President Jimmy Carter during press conference at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, confirming he's forming exploratory committee in launching campaign for the White House in 1980.

On December 4th, Vice President Jimmy Carter held a press conference that lasted more than 2 HRS inside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where the Vice President confirmed he is indeed forming an exploratory committee with the likely launching of announcing his presidential campaign sometime in the next few weeks before the end of the year. Carter, who served in the United States Naval Reserves from 1946 to 1953, also served in the GA State Senate representing the 14th District from 1963 to 1967; before venturing an unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination in 1966 losing to the infamous segregationist Lester Maddox (who won the Governorship that year). In 1970, Carter made a successful second attempt at the GA Governor's Mansion defeating Hal Suit (R) in a landslide carrying 151 out of 159 counties garnering 620,419 votes (59.3 percent of the statewide vote) while Suit garnered 424,983 votes (40.6 percent); Carter served as GA's 76th Governor from January 12th, 1971 to January 14th, 1975, but was prevented from succeeding himself due to the one-term rule at the time. Carter ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1976 despite winning majority of the Southern states & Caucuses in other parts of the country, ultimately falling short in the primaries.

Observers & political analysts weren't surprised when then-CA Governor Jerry Brown tapped Carter to serve as Vice President: boosting the Democratic Party into victory that November 1976. Carter is expected to have overwhelming support from majority of national Democrats including several Democratic Governors, United States Senators & the like. When asked about Carter's likely presidential campaign launch, United States Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) had no comment, preferring to wait until after the holidays to making a decision on possible presidential campaign of his own.

 

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December 5th, 1978
BREAKING: UNITED STATES SENATOR JOHN TOWER (R-TX) KILLED IN PLANE CRASH
*Details still being worked out & investigation into the plane crash underway.
*Reports circulate no survivors aboard the twin commuter plane.
*Eyewitnesses confirm the plane hit nose first.
*TX Governor Dolph Briscoe (D) increasingly likely appointing US Rep. Bob Krueger (D-TX) to Tower's US Senate seat sometime next week.
*Special election to occur in April 1979 with runoff election in May 1979.
*Flags across TX & at the US Capitol at half-mast.
*Arrangements on funeral services to be detailed later in a few days.
*Condolences from colleagues in the United States Senate; TX congressional delegation.

Texans woke up to the shocking news when word came from Brunswick, GA that United States Senator John G. Tower (R-TX), who was recently reelected to his 3rd full 6-year term (4th term overall) on November 7th defeating US Rep. Bob Krueger (D-TX), was killed in a plane crash while the Senator along with 21 others were en route to Brunswick.

The twin-engine turboprop plane was en-route from Atlanta to Brunswick when it crashed and burned while on its destination to the Glenco Jetport.

"I saw the plane when it was in trouble. It started it on its nose and I knew it was in trouble," said James Griner, who lives a quarter of a mile from the Glenco Jetport.

"I went completely around the plane looking for people, but I couldn't find anyone," Griner said. "I went to the place but I couldn't get to it because of the fire. When I got to it, it looked compacted, it was a mess. I looked for survivors around the plane and I couldn't find a soul."

The plane crashed into a thicket of trees narrowly missing a mobile home park about a mile away. Researchers had to bulldoze 160-yard path in order to reach the site.

Leslie Konnet of WSBG-TV said the plane crashed landed nose first.

"It looks like it went right straight in," said Frank Manning, a pilot who flew over the crash site. By the time firefighters could run hoses off the nearest road & extinguish the fire, little was left of the plane.

 

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December 4th, 1978: Dianne Feinstein (D) succeeds the late San Francisco Mayor George Moscone (D), who was assassinated on November 27th, to become the 38th Mayor of San Francisco; Feinstein would win full 4-year terms in 1979 & 1983, serving until January 8th, 1988.

December 6th, 1978: The Spanish Constitution officially restores the country's democratic government.

December 11th, 1978: During the Lufthansa Heist, 6 men robbed a Lufthansa cargo facility in NYC, NY St's JFK International Airport.
2 million Iranians protesting against the authoritarian rule of the Shah in Iran, which has escalated tension with international ramifications.

December 16th, 1978: "The Mystery of Mamo" is released in cinemas in Japan.

December 22nd, 1978: Operation Soberania is launched by Argentina against Chile.

December 25th, 1978: Vietnam launches major offensive attack against the Khmer Rouge dictatorship of Cambodia.

December 27th, 1978: The Constitution of Spain gets approved in voter-referendum, which officially ended 40 years of military dictatorship.

 

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January 1st, 1979: Marion Barry, Jr., is sworn in as the 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia; he was sworn into office by US Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall.

*Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, made his first public appearance in more than 2 months & during an interview, "I have no intention of leaving the country," but the Shah did say he would be taking a vacation following the formation of a new civilian government.

January 2nd, 1979: NFL running back Earl Campbell of the Houston Oilers, is chosen as the Rookie of the Year & MVP in the American Football Conference (AFC) by the Sporting News.

January 3rd, 1979: Nancy Lopez, who had earned $189,813 as a rookie on the LPGA Tour, is tapped by the Associated Press as their Female Athlete of the Year Award.

January 5th, 1979:
FORMER CIA DIRECTOR GEORGE H.W. BUSH FILES PAPERS, DECLARING HIMSELF A CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY IN 1980
Former CIA Director George H.W. Bush has filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission by declaring himself a candidate for the 1980 GOP Presidential nomination. He will be joining a crowded field of candidates on the GOP side that will include US Reps. John B. Anderson (R-IL) & Phillip Crane (R-IL); United States Senators Bob Dole (R-KS), Howard Baker (R-TN); former US Treasury Secretary John Connally & former CA Governor Ronald Reagan (R).

 

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January 16th, 1979

BREAKING: REVOLUTION IN IRAN; SHAH FLEES INTO EXILE
*Rising number of riots, strikes & demonstrations have been escalating in recent years.
*Secret talks between the Brown administration & members of Khomeini's staff.
*Brown administration bans the Shah from coming to the US.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi & his wife, Farah Diba Pahlavi including members of the Iranian Royal Family fleeing Iran during the afternoon HRS of January 16th, 1979.

During 1978, rising numbers of riots, demonstrations & strikes have been directed against the regime of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran.

Ever since the Central Intelligence Agency helped the Shah regain his throne in 1953, Pahlavi had been a very important ally of the United States, purchasing billions of dollars worth of American arms & supplying much of the nation's imports. He also was holding close relations with US Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961); John F. Kennedy (1961-1963); Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969); Richard Nixon (1969-1974); Gerald Ford (1974-1975) & Nelson Rockefeller (1975-1977).

When President Brown into office in 1977, the relationship began to quickly sour due to the Brown administration's worldwide human rights campaign, Brown viewed the Shah as nothing more than an embarrassment because of his usage of secret police, torture, & harsh punishment to quelling opposition.

The revolutionary campaign to overthrowing the Shah had been orchestrated from France by the controversial exiled Islamic leader Ayatollah Khomeini, who strongly regarded the US as an enemy & openly vowed cutting off oil exports to the US if he was successful in gaining control of the Iranian government.

During this period in the aftermath of the 1978 Midterm elections, there were secret talks between members of Khomeini's staff & officials from the Brown administration, who assumed there would be accommodations being reached between the nations if the revolution was successful. Not long afterwards, the growing uprising against the Shah reached a major critical crescendo in early January 1979, when the Brown administration made the strategic decision of cutting the Shah loose altogether.

On the afternoon of January 16th, the Shah & his family fled Iran into exile, first to Egypt & later to Mexico (more on that later in Chapter XI). He was also explicitly strongly dissuaded by the Brown administration from coming to the US, for fears of antagonizing Khomeini in giving him a pretext for cutting off oil shipments to the US.

Khomeini returned to Iran in February & seized full control of the Iranian government. Almost immediately, hundreds of the deposed Shah's officials & military officers were executed. This resulted in thousands of Americans who had been working in Iran, were being permitted to leave, many in hastily arranged flights.

Just when people assumed what else could go wrong, it would......

To Be Continued: Segment on the disastrous deadly Iranian Hostage Crisis

January 23rd, 1979
PRESIDENT BROWN DELIVERS 1979 STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS BEFORE JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS

President Brown delivering his 2nd State of the Union Address before a Joint Session of Congress.

Seven days following the fall of the Pahlavi family in Iran, US President Jerry Brown delivered his second State of the Union Address before a Joint Session of Congress.

Majority of the speech focused on Domestic Policies:
*Reducing government interference into private businesses.
*Sponsoring measures passed by Congress in cutting back powers of agencies regulating the airlines, trucking & railroad industries.
*Reorganizing the Federal Government in order to make it more responsive to the American people. President Brown discussed cutting down the White House staff by 25%, abolishing several agencies directly to him & transferring these fuctions of other White House agencies to the executive departments.
*Applauding Congress for approving the Civil Service Reform Act, which he had signed into law on October 13th, 1978, ending automatic job promotions based on length of service, making promotions & salary increases for federal employees dependent upon job performance. The measure also made it easier for supervisors to firing incompetent employees.
*Part of a program in stimulating the economy & reducing unemployment, President Brown highlighted the passage of cuts in income taxes via legislation, which reduced income taxes by about $35 billion over a 3-year period largely for low-income families.
*Highlighting the Tax Reduction Act of 1978, which President Brown signed on November 6th, 1978; he explained this second income tax cut of $25 billion was necessary, believing most of the tax relief goes to the middle & low income families.
*In presenting the program, President Brown called for a wide range of measures that included 50% gallon tax on gasoline to reduce consumption, a "windfall profits" tax on oil companies, the development of synthetic fuels.

Foreign Policy was in the later part of the speech, where President Brown highlighted the following:
*Detente Policy with Cuba including the normalizing of diplomatic relations with the communist island nation.
*Obtained the agreement of 14 other countries including the Soviet Union to a special code that would prevent the exporting of materials & equipment that could be used to make atomic weapons.
*Fostering closer relations with black-ruled nations of Africa south of the Sahara, Nigeria & Liberia during his historic state visits in April 1978.
*Coordinating stronger focus in the Caribbean, Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Europe & Asian Pacific.
*Successful Camp David Summit Conference between Israel & Egypt.
*Negotiations ongoing between the US & Soviet Union on the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty between the two nuclear powers.
*Defended the controversial decision of transferring control of the Panama Canal over to Panama despite strong political opposition.

GOP Reponses to President Brown's 1979 State of the Union Address

Following President Brown's speech, the GOP Reponse was delivered respectively by US Rep. John J. Rhodes (R-AZ), the House Minority Leader & TN Governor Lamar Alexander (R), where they strongly blasted the Brown administration's policies from mismanaging the Inflation Crisis, disastrous foreign policy blunders such as the Iranian revolution by throwing the Pahlavi family under the bus; weakness on the international stage which emboldened America's enemies including the ongoing deadly conflict between Argentina vs Chile, which resulted in thousands dead.

 

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February 14th, 1979

ABC NEWS BULLETIN: US EMBASSY IN TEHRAN ATTACKED BY MILITANTS
*Situation being monitored by the White House & US State Department.
*US Ambassador to Iran William H. Sullivan among those held under siege by militants.
*Associated Press reporting Khomeini's troops intervened by rescuing Sullivan & about 100 Americans.
*50+ other Americans unaccounted for according to Sullivan.

Voice-Over: "Regularly scheduled programming has been interrupted for a special report by ABC News......"

Frank Reynolds: "Good afternoon. This is Frank Reynolds from ABC News headquarters in Washington, DC to report on a major development coming out of Iran.

According to our ABC News Foreign Affairs Correspondent, we're getting reports that Iranian militants have attacked the US Embassy in Tehran, Iran and have been holding the Embassy under siege for the past several hours. Of course, the situation has been escalating in recent weeks since the overthrow of the Shah on January 16, 1979 when he was forced to flee the country.

The attack on the US Embassy started at 10:15 AM when gunmen came over the walls and gates of the compound in several places under supporting fire from rooftop snipers. As they continued dropping inside the US Embassy compound, they opened fire with everything from G3 rifles to machine-guns, spraying the main Embassy building and other offices with bullets.

The Embassy US Marine guards returned fire with bird-shot to give officials time to destroying secret documents and coding equipment, but were then told by someone in Ambassador Sullivan's staff to unload and discard their weapons instead.

Despite attempts of escaping, the Embassy personnel employees and staff were taken by gunpoint to the communications room, where the gunmen smashed the East Room of the building including destroy computers and other communication equipment, which resulted in leaving no running water or air conditioning.

Ambassador Sullivan, we're being told, was among the 100-150 Americans being held under siege by the Iranian militants for hours. Sullivan made contact with members of Ayatollah Khomeini's committee and requested assistance to ending the crisis. However, it took more than an hour following the Embassy attack to begin because more gunmen sent by the committee arrived.

Following hours of uncertainty, Ambassador Sullivan and about 100 Americans were rescued by the intervention of Khomeini's troops."

 

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February 17th, 1979
INTELLIGENCE REPORTS: MYSTERIOUS MILITARY-STYLE EXERCISES IN PANAMA
*Rumors swirling around possible coup attempt against Panamanian President William Alvarez.
*US Embassy in Panama City on extreme high alert.
*French news agency reported Torrijos plotting return to power with assistance from Cuban & Soviet assets.

While everyone was distracted by the brewing diplomatic crisis in Iran, there was something suspicious happening over in the Central American country of the Republic of Panama.

French News Agency ITA reported former Panamanian military strongman General Omar Torrijos is plotting to retake power again, this time scheming to take the Presidency for himself. "It's time that we show to the world that Panama is nobody's puppet!" Torrijos said during an interview at a small retreat in the outskirts of Havana, Cuba: where Torrijos & his family have been staying since the 1977 revolt following the disastrous violent attack on the Panama Canal.

The US State Department has issued severe travel warnings to Americans, warning NOT to travel to Panama due to the rumored coup attempt plots against the US-backed Panamanian government of Panamanian President William Alvarez, who has been in office since 1976 & vowed to stop any coup attempt from any rogue elements inside the country.

Reports also mentioned that the US Embassy in Panama City including the US Consulate General compounds are on extreme high alert; the 26,000 US military personnel troops who have been stationed there since the successful ouster against Torrijos have also been on high alert.

It's unknown whether Panama might fall to an Iran-esque revolt or not, it remains to be seen.

US President Jerry Brown issued a statement condemning the coup attempt against President Alvarez, calling Torrijos "a very desperate person trying to whitewash his hands filled with blood due to the deadly attack on the Panama Canal two years ago." US Secretary of State Walter Mondale during a press conference from the US State Department, mentioned the situation in Panama is being watched very closely & vowed to protect the interests of the United States by any means necessary.

 

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Mid-February 1979: Full-blown protests, demonstrations about to take place in Panama

All of the Brown administration's diplomacy efforts have resulted in causing little results of easing the constant tensions inside Panama over the preceding weeks. Upon his arrival in Panama City in early February, General Omar Torrijos & several loyalists of the Panamanian National Guard, the deposed military leader, who ruled with an iron fist from 1968 until a revolt caused him to flee the country in 1977 following the disastrous attack on the Panama Canal, declared the current government of Panamanian President William Alvarez "illegitimate". However, at the same time, several key Panamanian military & government leaders were paralyzed by the ongoing recent demonstrations & Torrijos, who was buyoed by support of the Cuban & Soviet governments, called on soldiers of the Panamanian Armed Forces to defect to the opposition & therefore support his return to power. With protests escalating non-stop, the Brown administration publicly vowed not to intervene in Panamanian domestic affairs in any form. Sources inside the US State Department, detailed that officials of the Brown administration have yet to find any of talking to Torrijos inner circle. On February 24th, report from the Associated Press became public that US Secretary of State Walter Mondale, who was strongly concerned about ongoing street rioting & demonstrations, issued orders bolstering major security precautions for US diplomatic facilities in Panama City. Other than this situation, Brown administration officials have remained quite cautious on further commenting on the situation in Panama.

February 28th, 1979: Brooke NOT running for the Presidency again

Former Vice President Edward Brooke, who was the 1976 GOP Presidential nominee, took himself out of consideration for the 1980 presidential campaign, preferring to support whoever the GOP nominee for President is next summer; Brooke, who has been working in the private sector since leaving office on January 20th, 1977, has been coordinating with GOPers in campaign efforts such as winning back control of the United States Senate, including winning several Governorships, etc.,

Other contenders who are already campaigning for 1980 right now: former CA Governor Ronald Reagan (R), US Reps. Phil Crane (R-IL) & John B. Anderson (R-IL), United States Senators Bob Dole (R-KS) & Howard Baker (R-TN), former US Treasury Secretary John Connally & former CIA Director George H.W. Bush.

February 28th, 1979: Newest Gallup Polling Survey
President Jerry Brown job approval rating
Approve: 57%
Disapprove: 37%

 

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March 13th, 1979: VP Carter announces presidential campaign

The first major contender on the Dem side for the 1980 Presidential campaign is officially in: Vice President Jimmy Carter, who had recently announced an exploratory committee on December 4th, 1978, ending four months of speculation, made it official: he is running for the Democratic Party presidential nomination (his 2nd attempt at the nomination: having lost the nomination back in 1976 to then-CA Governor Jerry Brown, who went on to win the Presidency that year). The 54-year-old VP has been considered the favorite to win the nomination during the midpoint of the 1978 Midterms especially since President Brown's bombshell announcement that he wasn't seeking reelection back on October 5th, 1978. Carter explained that he made his decision to run for the Presidency during an interview with ABC News inside the Number One Observatory Circle (Residence of the Vice President of the United States); Carter also held a large campaign kick-off rally on March 15th, 1979 in his hometown of Plains, GA. "We will bring the dignified Southern values of hardworking Georgians to the Oval Office," he said during his campaign announcement speech, "for me, it's been an honor serving as the 43rd Vice President of the United States fighting for American workers and hardworking efforts in achieving diplomacy on resolving longstanding conflicts across the world. Diplomacy always works because it's the measure of balancing out in preventing catastrophic nuclear war. If elected President, I will never tell you a lie and I will be honest with the American people!"

Oddsmakers strongly expect Carter to be the heavy favorite to winning the Democratic Party presidential nomination next Summer. There's also the possibility of United States Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) could launch a campaign for the nomination, setting up a bruising primary battle between the conservative Carter & liberal Kennedy going forward.

March 17th, 1979: Rockefeller attends dedication ceremony in Albany; analysts think it could be the site of his future Presidential Library

US Ambassador to Spain & former President Nelson Rockefeller attended the dedication festivities on proposed site of the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Presidential Museum on the grounds of Empire State Plaza in Albany, NY St. Rockefeller, who is currently serving as US Ambassador to Spain since 1977, has maintained a low but hardworking profile coordinating stronger relations between the United States & the Kingdom of Spain.

Rockefeller hasn't said whether he will be making a political comeback, which he strongly ruled out altogether preferring to serve in his current position. Foreign Affairs experts on US-Spain relations strongly expect Rockefeller to remain as Ambassador in Madrid regardless under a future President Carter assuming Dems keep the White House next fall or even under future Presidents Bush or Reagan, if the GOP wins back the Presidency.

March 21st, 1979: Infrastructure Investment in America Act signed by President Brown

During the 1979 State of the Union Address on January 23rd, President Brown called upon the enactments of $6.37 billion dollar infrastructure legislation on building new waterways including the modernization of existing infrastructure which has been worked out by bipartisan groups of House & Senate members. The Infrastructure Investment in America Act quickly passed the House by overwhelming margin of votes, before being sent (following about a month of negotiations), passed the Senate with 83 votes in favor of the legislation. President Brown signed it into law on March 21st. This is considered by presidential historians one of the largest infrastructure bills in the Brown administration.

 

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April 30th, 1979: Unemployment hitting new low
The economic boom, despite some fits & rough patches along the way, referred to as Brownomics by several Dems, continued its somewhat surprising recovery into the year: The April Jobs Report showed unemployment down to 4.7 percent, which was surprisingly the lowest reached in the decade of the 1970s. There's reason to be optimistic, as economists expect this trend to continue into the summer.

April 30th, 1979: Gallup Polling Survey
President Jerry Brown job approval rating
Approve: 62%
Disapprove: 25%

May 16th, 1979: BREAKING: Pope John Paul I found dead in bedroom of Apostolic Palace in Vatican City

The world woke up to shocking news coming out of Vatican City, where officials at the Vatican officially confirmed that Pope John Paul II, who had been serving as Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church since August 26th, 1978, had been known as the Smiling Pope. In the 10 months of his Papacy, the late Pontiff had entered the houses & hearts of the millions of Italian including non-Italians across the world; especially non-Catholics thanks to news media & newspapers including TV, made him known for his optimistic & happy personality. According to eyewitnesses, the Pontiff was notified about neo-Fascist youth opening fire on group of youngsters, who were reading a controversial newspaper called L'Unita, which caused the death of one kid & injuries of others; the last words of the late Pontiff was "Even the young are killing each other" before retiring to his private chambers at about 10:00 PM.

The next day, when it became clear that the Pontiff never appeared for a private mass in his chapel, one of the Pontiff's secretaries Father Magee of Ireland, went to the Pontiff's bedroom door & knocked, never hearing any answer. Upon entering the room, he found the Pontiff deceased & immediately called for medical assistance. According to doctors at the Vatican, they believed the Pontiff likely died somewhere around 11:00 PM on the evening HRS of May 15th.

 

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NSFW DISCLAIMER: The following segment will be quite erotic. Viewer discretion strongly advised!

May 24th, 1979 10:00 PM CEST
Secret Diary: The Secret Escapade in the outskirts of Madrid, Spain
Somewhere in Alcala, Spain

Ysabelle in the middle of a steamy sex escapade with her secret lover.

"It was nearing 8:57 PM Central European Summer Time when we engaged in a steamy sexual escapade. I was yearning for this moment with my secret lover for so long because it had been more than three years since he was last in Spain; We managed to get away from the official residence in Madrid and drove all the way to the outskirts of Madrid where we finally arrived at our super secret hideout.

It was in the middle of nowhere in a secluded location in Alcala and it was just the way we liked it. After taking some drinks, he came close to my lips and kissed me. I was at first startled, "Baby. Are we're sure this is right?" I asked him and he replied "Let's make some love sweetie!" when we started making out on the couch of the living room before we headed upstairs to the bedroom and began taking off all of our clothes and began to have sex.

Both of us were naked and barefoot, I was lying on my back on the floor with my legs spread wide open while I felt his super large penis thoroughly penetrating me non-stop stretching my vagina wide as I moaned loudly, "Fuck me baby. Right there in that special spot ohhhhhh!" We engaged non-stop fucking all night long during this lovely evening and it was very beautiful; I remained on my back lying on the floor while our secret sex escapade continued.

It was somewhere around 10:00 PM Central European Summer Time when my secret lover began sweating profusely when all of a sudden, he collapsed on top of me. I exhaled and was completely drenched, "Baby. You're awake?" I carefully lifted his head up to see him not breathing and was scared to death, "Please don't die on me baby. Please don't die on me baby," I kept saying non-stop while I was struggling to get out underneath him because we were on the floor inside the bedroom; After about 25 minutes, I finally got off of the floor, running out of there naked and barefoot, calling my cousin, Nicolette Munoz, who arrived at 10:57 PM when she found my secret lover unconscious and figured out what we were really doing once she found out who he was.

"How long has he been out?" Nicolette asked. I responded, "About 25 minutes I think..." Nicolette began doing CPR on my secret lover which lasted about 25-37 minutes. While that was going on, Nicolette's brother, Army Staff Sergeant Esteban Munoz figured out our belongings were there, he decided to call an ambulance including one of his close friends, who was a member of the Spanish Security Service and helped clean up the secret resort including picking up our belongings, placing them into his van before driving off. My secret lover was driven in an ambulance and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Nicolette then informed one of her close friends, who was working at the US Embassy Compound in Madrid about what happened."
Ysabelle Al-Fayheed
Secret Diary: Alcala, Spain

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