Alternate History November 13, 1983: The Day That Shocked The World

[Sergeant Foley]

BREAKING NEWS ALERT: MISSISSIPPI GOVERNOR WILLIAM F. WINTER (D) ANNOUNCING PLANS TO SEEK REELECTION IN 1987; WOULD BECOME LONGEST-SERVING MISSISSIPPI GOVERNOR WITH 12 YEARS.

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*Thursday, December 29, 1983: Fresh off of a hard-fought reelection campaign, Mississippi Governor William F. Winter (D) confirmed reports he will indeed be seeking reelection to a historic third term as Governor in 1987, which if completed by January 14, 1992, will make him the longest-serving Mississippi Governor with 12 years of service. United States Senator Ray Mabus (D-MS) had been mentioned as a possible contender for the Governorship if Winter chose to retire, but has decided to remain in the United States Senate. "I plan on supporting Governor Winter's reelection campaign in 1987, the people of Mississippi should all unite behind the best Governor in Mississippi history," Mabus said during a press conference preferring to stay in his current job.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

@The Immortal Watch Dog @bintananth @49ersfootball @Ibanez @Atarlost
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Coming up this month: Chapter 4 will focus on the opening installments:
*1983 College Football Bowl Games.
*1983 NFL Playoffs
*Spring 1984
*President George HW Bush delivers State of the Union Address before Joint Session of Congress.
*Personal PoV's: National and International.
*National and International Headlines (Spring 1984).

 

[Sergeant Foley]

Chapter 4: George
3:29 PM CST, Sunday, January 1, 1984

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President George HW Bush being interviewed at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas (December 1983).

"......We are currently in the half-point phase on reshaping the culture and fabric of this great Republic for the betterment of future generations. Other seem to say with caution: "What other potential challenges your administration will be facing?" I confidently say in response: "The American people want us to continuing staying the course."
------President George HW Bush special exclusive interview (Spring 1984).

The country was slowly moving on and focusing on other things, such as Thanksgiving and Christmas during the latter part of Fall 1983. Americans voiced strong approval of President Bush's job performance with approval ratings of 61%, the sixth-highest of any President. Although the record-highest was that of the late Nelson Rockefeller , who had 83% approval rating days before his sudden death of a heart attack on January 26, 1979. Americans voiced approval of the direction of the country with 99% due to stability in leadership during difficult circumstances including the improving economy and unemployment was declining. Divided government in both houses of Congress: Democrats controlling the US House of Representatives and Republicans controlling the United States Senate, Bush took the opportunity to working with O'Neill and Baker on mutual bipartisan priorities. There was lots of legislative productivity: Foreign Policy and International Affairs were going to become the main top priorities of the Bush administration; President Bush also continued the formation of two special task forces: Deregulation and International Drug Smuggling, both of which began under the Reagan administration (these two task forces chaired by Bush when he was Vice President); Deregulation and International Drug Smuggling Task Forces were both popular by Conservatives.

With a likely reelection campaign for his first full four-year term in 1984 coming up, Bush began courting the conservatives through his work and hardworking efforts. The deregulation push by the Bush administration had a resounding impact on the following: Finance, Resource Extraction, Broadcasting. The Bush administration also aggressively cut the massive red-tape by eliminating thousands of massive government positions.

Like Reagan, Bush staunchly supported anti-communist regimes of Guatemala and El Salvador including the Contra Rebels in Nicaragua. Bush also enthusiastically supported the peaceful democratic transition in the Argentine Republic with the inauguration of Raul Alfonsin as the South American country's 43rd President on December 10, 1983. The Bush administration also supported the anti-communist regime of flamboyant and controversial Mexican President General Oscar Robles, whose campaign for a fourth term in a fourth indirect presidential election Electoral College system set for 1984 for the new twelve-year term and simply tolerated the Robles government despite international controversy. The Bush Doctrine (more on this later in the timeline) began to slowly take shape as more of the Bush disciples began to make major roles on domestic policy, economic policy and foreign policy.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

WINTER INAUGURATED FOR SECOND TERM AS MISSISSIPPI GOVERNOR

Mississippi Governor William F. Winter (D) during his second inauguration.
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*Tuesday, January 10, 1984: Following an outdoor swearing-in ceremony on the grounds of the Mississippi State Capitol Building in downtown Jackson, Mississippi which included the resounding thundering 19 Cannon Salute fired by the Mississippi Army National Guard and the flyover by the Mississippi Air National Guard. Mississippi Governor William F. Winter (D) was inaugurated for a second term inside the Mississippi House of Representatives chambers, making history as the first Mississippi Governor in decades to succeed himself. It was a packed ceremony indoors because of the thunderstorms outside.

FULL DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN UNITED STATES AND HOLY SEE ESTABLISHED

*US President George HW Bush announced the establishment of full diplomatic relations and he appointed William A. Wilson, who had served as the Special Envoy to the Holy See under then-President Ronald Reagan, as the first United States Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenioptentiary to the Holy See. Bush overcame strong opposition from the US State Department to establishing full diplomatic relations between the United States and the Holy See; Wilson would be easily confirmed by the full United States Senate in a vote of 83-19. Previous Presidents had difficulties in establishing full diplomatic relations because of the controversial 1868 law, which had prohibited expenditure of funds for the US Embassy to the Vatican being established, completing a major foreign policy initiative that had begun under the late President Reagan in 1981.

Upon Senate confirmation, Ambassador Wilson flew to Vatican City and presented his credentials to Pope Carlos I at the Vatican.

VICTORIA AGREEMENT SIGNED
*The Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) linking African nations: Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion (region of the French Republic) and Seychelles was institutionalized by the Victoria Agreement.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

LONGHORNS WIN FOURTH NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP, DEFEATING GEORGIA BULLDOGS BY DOUBLE DIGITS

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*January 2, 1984: The undefeated #2 Texas Longhorns, the Southwestern Conference Champions defeated #7 Georgia Bulldogs by a score of 59-13; After overcoming a muffed fumbled punt by Texas defensive back Craig Curry late in the 1st Quarter, which allowed Georgia quarterback John Lastinger running 17 yards for the Bulldogs' first and only touchdown of the game which occurred at the 3:29 mark left in the opening quarter leading 10-9. However, soon afterwards, the Longhorns offense exploded in the 2nd Quarter outscoring the Bulldogs 28-3 resulting in the Longhorns leading 37-13 at halftime. In the 3rd and 4th Quarters, the Longhorns continued scoring non-stop with the final score being 59-13. The Most Valuable Player of the Game Award was given to Texas Longhorns quarterback Rick McIvor, who finished the game with 37-73 passes, 573 yards and five touchdowns.

COMING SOON IN CHAPTER 4 OF THE 11.13.83 INCIDENT: PART II OF THE 1983 COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL GAMES

 

[Sergeant Foley]

The Democrats
11:00 AM CST, Monday, January 2, 1984
Somewhere in Iowa
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While the Republicans were overwhelmingly and solidly united behind President Bush's reelection campaign, the Democrats, on the other hand, were in complete and total disarray as they sought a candidate who might win the White House in the upcoming 1984 presidential election.

Among the contenders running for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1984: United States Senators John Glenn (D-OH), Fritz Hollings (D-SC), and Gary Hart (D-CO); Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson (D-IL), who was the first African American to campaign for a major party presidential nomination.

The early front-runner for the Democratic Party presidential nomination: former US Ambassador to Canada Walter "Fritz" Mondale, who previously served 12 years in the United States Senate representing Minnesota and served four years as Minnesota State Attorney General. Mondale had the backing of labor unions and by most Democratic officeholders. While Senator Hart was supported by younger members of the Democratic Party and advocates of a "nuclear freeze" in armaments. Political observers strongly and accurately predicted whoever won the Democratic Party presidential nomination was doomed to lose big in the upcoming November general election.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

Being His Own Man
9:00 PM EST, Wednesday, January 25, 1984
US House of Representatives Chambers, US Capitol
Washington, DC.

President George HW Bush delivering his first State of the Union Address before Joint Session of Congress.
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It had been two months since the Carnage in Seoul on 13 November 1983 resulted in his ascension as the 42nd President of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush had been busy working following the emotional State Funeral festivities of the late President Ronald Reagan on 21 November 1983. But Reagan's shocking and violent assassination, however brought new challenges for the Bush administration both domestically and on the international front with potential foreign policy hotspots itching to explode (more on those hot-spots later in the timeline).

Of course, the political chatter among political campaign experts and pundits began to ask whether President Bush would announce a nominee for the vacant Vice Presidency. Bush chose to follow the model of the 36th President and fellow Texan Lyndon Baines Johnson in running the country without a Vice President in the current term: Johnson ran the country for an entire year before choosing then-United States Senator Hubert Horatio Humphrey (D-MN) as his Vice President in the 1964 presidential election (which LBJ won in a massive landslide that year). Many questioned what was taking Bush so long to name a Vice President and with the mood of the nation SLOWLY moving on following Reagan's assassination, there was no need to rush. And why wouldn't he? Because he didn't have any names of potential nominees for the second highest elected office, with the 1984 elections around the corner, Bush knew he had to name a Vice President at some point, preferably before the beginning of Summer 1984.

Previous Presidents had no problems running the country without their second-in-command such as then-President Harry S. Truman, who served a full four-year term without one from 1945 to 1949, ultimately naming then-United States Senator Allen Barkley (D-KY) for the 1948 Presidential election.

January 25th was the day, many would call it as "The Day Bush Became His Own Man". President Bush entered the US House of Representatives chambers as the 42nd President of the United States, to deliver his first State of the Union Address before a Joint Session of Congress. He delivered the speech in an excited, fiery and fierce but jubilant tone and spoke about every specific topic which mattered a lot to him: National Defense, building up the US Armed Forces, deregulation in boosting the American economy, cutting government spending, foreign policy and basically everything that millions of Americans wanted addressed.

The speech 43 minutes and 16 seconds and contained 4,937 words. President Bush's speech was broadcast on both radio and television. The Democratic Party Response was delivered by the following:
*United States Senators (and future 48th President) Joe Biden (D-DE); David Boren (D-OK); Max Baucus (D-MT); Carl Levin (D-MI); Claiborne Pell (D-RI); Walter Huddleston (D-KY); Robert Byrd (D-WV).
*US Reps. Dante B. Fascell (D-FL); Tom Harkin (D-IA); William Gray (D-PA); Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and US House Speaker Tip O'Neill (D-MA).
Harkin and Boxer would both go onto winning elections to the United States Senate in 1984 and 1992 respectively.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

BREAKING NEWS ALERT: NATIONAL COMMISSION INVESTIGATING REAGAN ASSASSINATION FORMED
*Thursday, January 26, 1984: ABC News reported that President Bush announced the formation of a bipartisan national commission investigating the assassination of then-President Ronald Reagan on 13 November 1983 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Leading the commission will be US Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger.

Job Approval for President George HW Bush: Gallup Polling Survey (January 26, 1984):
Approve: 71%
Disapprove: 16%

 

[Sergeant Foley]

BREAKING NEWS ALERT: EXPLOSIVE SEX SCANDAL BLOWS UP DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES
*Pressure on United States Senator Gary Hart (D-CO) to drop out after revelations about female staffer coming forward about extramarital affair.
*Tabloid publishing company, The Informer leaks pictures of Senator Hart and his mistress from fishing trip.
*Hart denies allegations.

*Sunday, January 29, 1984: The controversial tabloid publishing company, The Informer exposed a controversial expose on United States Senator Gary Hart (D-CO) with incriminating evidence including documentation as well as pictures of the two-term Democratic United States Senator from Colorado and a female staff member from his Senate office during a fishing trip.

The female staffer in question, known as Donna Rice held a press conference in Springfield, Illinois, where she detailed how long the extramarital affair had been going on as well as reading love letters.
When asked about the allegations, Senator Hart released a statement strongly denying the allegations against him and vowed to continuing his presidential campaign for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. "These allegations are absolutely and categorically false!"

The Informer is infamously known for exposing the secret lifestyle of then-United States Senator William Allain (D-MS) ,who resigned in disgrace in Spring 1981 after his controversial arrest in a prostitution sting by FBI agents exploded the American political scene. Allain, however, went on to win statewide office as Mississippi State Attorney General in 1983, but political observers strongly consider Allain's political career damaged goods politically because of the explosive bombshell allegations against him.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

COMING SOON IN CHAPTER 4 OF THE 11.13.83 INCIDENT
Former US Ambassador to Canada Walter Mondale and his road to getting the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1984.

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[Sergeant Foley]

AUTHOR'S NOTE ON CHAPTER 4: Here's a detailed outlined sketch on the upcoming installments for Chapter 4 (Spring 1984):
*Personal PoV's on the Democratic Party presidential primaries.
*National and International Headlines (Spring 1984: Part IV)
*Profile on United States Senator Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX).
*Eyewitness accounts: Personal PoV's.
*Personal PoV's.
*Entertainment Headlines.
*Part II of the 1983 College Football Bowl Games.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

COMING SOON IN THE 11.13.83 INCIDENT
The exile years of former Mexican President General Oscar Robles

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[Sergeant Foley]

BREAKING NEWS ALERT: INTELLIGENCE REPORTS DETAIL MASS TROOP DEVELOPMENTS ALONG DMZ
*ROK President Chun Doo-hwan orders aggressive military build-up during emergency National Security meeting at the Blue House.
*US Forces Korea and UN Forces Command military personnel troops being deployed with additional reinforcements.
*Japanese military personnel troops also being deployed with F-16 fighter jets encircling around North Korea
*Potential invasion of North Korea imminent?

*Monday, January 30, 1984: MBC News in Seoul, Republic of Korea reported that mass troops are being deployed along the DMZ amid speculation an invasion of North Korea appears imminent. US President George HW Bush is expected to address the nation later this week about the speculation following closed door meetings with the NSC including discussions with ROK President Chun Doo-hwan and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone via telephone.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

BREAKING NEWS ALERT: NORTH KOREAN DICTATOR KIM II SUNG AND FAMILY MISSING; AIRSTRIKES LAUNCHED INTO SURROUNDING AREAS OF PYONGYANG
*Intelligence reports detail US, ROK, Japanese military personnel troops including large Allied countries assisting in Operation Payback.
*Unconfirmed reports of North Korean dictator killed in violent carnage as tanks roll into Pyongyang.
*Moscow and Beijing threatening vicious response to secret airstrikes against North Korea.

*Thursday, February 2, 1984: ABC News broke into regular programming to deliver an ABC News Special Report as US President George HW Bush delivered a nationwide address from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC; Bush confirmed that he gave the green-light to start a military operation coordinating with the Republic of Korea, Japan, United Kingdom, France and other Allied nations including many others in assistance.

Unnamed sources reported that the death toll of the barrage of violent airstrikes have taken out nearly all of North Korea's infrastructure, water supply, bridges, roads and several key government buildings.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

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AUTHOR'S NOTE ON CHAPTER 4 FOR THIS WEEK: Afternoon folks, hoping some of y'all are enjoying Spring Break, etc; Just started an intriguing installment on Operation Payback as the violent airstrikes appear to have taken out North Korean dictator Kim II Sung and some members of his family (Unconfirmed reports 😎).

Meanwhile Bush, Sr., getting the massive Rally Around the Flag Effect which has continued since the aftermath of Reagan's shocking assassination.

Here's an outlined sketch for this week:
*Personal PoV's on the fallout over Operation Payback.
*Political ramifications of the 1984 Presidential election.
*Secret diaries about the military operation.
*Rallying Around the Flag Effect continues for President George HW Bush as his approval ratings continue to soar very high while Democrats are quietly and grudgingly give him credit.
*Eyewitness testimony and accounts of the 11.13.83 Incident in Seoul.
*Reaction from Moscow and Beijing as rumors of retaliation cause large alarm bells to ring in Republic of Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, etc.,

 

[Sergeant Foley]

BREAKING NEWS ALERT: PRESIDENTIAL PALACE IN PYONGYANG FIREBOMBED BY THREE CRUISE MISSILES

*Friday, February 3, 1984: "This is Ted Koppel of ABC News and we are interrupting your regularly scheduled programming because we're getting more news developments coming out of Pyongyang, North Korea as what you are seeing is the Presidential Palace, which has been firebombed by three cruise missiles and possibly more as several other government buildings have been struck by additional airstrikes. I believe, I believe that is an extra-large fire, huge balls of fire with smoke covering the air over there. As many of those watching already know since late last night, we have been reporting following President Bush's Address to the Nation on Operation Payback and according to the Associated Press and other foreign news media outlets, there has been rumblings of a potential forced regime change over inside the isolated communist country for awhile, but we cannot know for sure what's going to be the endgame of this just yet.

ASSOCIATED PRESS: MOSCOW AND BEIJING BLAST OPERATION PAYBACK AS MEDDLING IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, VOW RETALIATION
*Official statements from the Foreign Affairs Ministries of the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union both attacked the controversial Operation Payback military operation as meddling in the political and international affairs of another country. The Kremlin also issued a statement accusing an unknown Jihad group of being involved in the attack of North Korea, saying "The responsible party is that of a Jihad Group and we are strongly condemning this illegal military operation."

US INFLICTING HEAVY DAMAGE IN OVERNIGHT BOMBING RAIDS
ABC News reported that the F-18 Hornet aircraft, which was deployed from the aircraft carriers of the USS Gerald Ford and Nimitz and inflicted severe damage by destroying all of North Korea's air defense facilities. Now we're getting reports that Republic of Korea and Japanese Naval warship aircraft carriers were deploying F-16 aircraft, which inflicted damage on several of the North Korean military operation bases, etc.,

 

[Sergeant Foley]

ROK NATIONAL DEFENSE MINISTER YOON SUNG-MIN, JAPANESE DEFENSE MINISTER KURIHARA YOSHIYUKI, US DEFENSE SECRETARY CASPAR WEINBERGER HOLDING JOINT PRESS CONFERENCE IN SEOUL TOMORROW

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*Friday, February 3, 1984: Official confirmation of news reports detailed that an upcoming joint press conference between US Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger; Japanese Defense Minister Kurihara Yoshiyuki and Republic of Korea National Defense Minister General Yoon Sung-min will be holding a joint press conference at the Republic of Korea National Defense Ministry Headquarters in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea, where they will be reporting on the updating developments of Operation Payback.

Weinberger, who was in the Republic of Korea visiting the personnel military troops of US Forces Korea, was taken out of Camp Liberty Bell when special agents of the US Army Criminal Investigation Command grabbed Secretary Weinberger and shoved him into the limousine and drove him to safety at an undisclosed location.

Republic of Korea President Chun Doo-hwan delivered a prime-time Presidential Address to the Nation from the Blue House, announcing that Martial Law will be enforced across the Republic of Korea during the duration of Operation Payback until further notice.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

BREAKING NEWS ALERTS: NORTH KOREAN DICTATOR KIM II SUNG AND SEVERAL FAMILY MEMBERS DEAD
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*Saturday, February 4, 1984: MBC News, Associated Press, INA-24 France, BBC and other foreign news organizations reported including getting official confirmation that North Korean dictator Kim II Sung and several members of his family are dead following the violent barrage of attacks when the Presidential Palace in Pyongyang was firebombed by three cruise missiles including airstrikes which wiped out the capital city of the isolated communist country following the aggressive shocking military operation of Operation Payback.

Details are still being worked out in getting more information as well as new developments on the explosive situation due to the possibility of World War III.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

......"The bombings had been wiping out nearly all of the infrastructure, roads, water supply, apartments, etc., since Operation Payback got started. We originally planned some airstrikes hitting main key areas, but some in the meeting wanted harsher aggressive measures: that meant the complete eradication of the regime in North Korea even if it meant alienating both China and the Soviet Union, both of whom were staunch allies of the isolated communist country over there.

Once official confirmation that North Korean dictator Kim II Sung was dead, we wondered who would take his place considering nearly half of the North Korean military bases, defenses, etc had been wiped out due to vicious airstrikes, drone attacks, barrel-bombings which continues to ratcheting up non-stop.

Good thing is that the Psycho Nutjob was no longer a problem and half of that dictator's family members got killed in the attack when the Presidential Palace got bombed by cruise missiles. However, the big unknown is whether someone would take over and become more crazier....."
Excerpt from "The Unknown of Foreign Policy's Dark Impulses"

 

[Sergeant Foley]

COMING SOON IN CHAPTER 6 OF THE 11.13.83 INCIDENT
"These Popes keep dying on me!"
-Hot mic from US President George HW Bush

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