The Cursed American Presidency

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COMING SOON IN THE CURSED AMERICAN PRESIDENCY
William Allain & the explosive scandals surrounding his personal life.

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January 16th, 1978: State Funeral of United States Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D-MN)

January 15th, 1978: Flag-draped casket of United States Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D-MN) carried out of the Rotunda of the US Capitol.

*January 14th-16th, 1978: In the late morning HRS of January 14th, the flag-draped casket of former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey was boarded into Air Force One & flown to Andrews AFB in Prince Georges County, MD. Upon arriving, the Honor Guard Personnel carried Senator Humphrey's casket out of the plane, where it was received full Arrival Honors including the 19 Cannon Salute as well as the Vice Presidential anthem "Hail Columbia". Among those in attendance at the festivities: US Secretary of State Walter Mondale including several of Humphrey's former Senate colleagues. Following the Arrival Honors, the procession via motorcade then drove all the way to the US Capitol East Front Grounds, where arrival honors were rendered including the 19 Cannon Salute.

On the morning of January 15th, a special ceremony was held inside the Rotunda of the US Capitol. Among those in attendance: President Jerry Brown & First Lady Linda Ronstadt Brown; Vice President Jimmy Carter & Second Lady Rosalynn Carter; US Secretary of State Walter Mondale; former Presidents Richard Nixon & Nelson Rockefeller; former Vice President Edward Brooke; former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; Former US First Ladies Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, Betty Ford, & Happy Rockefeller were also in attendance. Following the emotional special ceremony, the Senator's flag-draped casket was taken out of the US Capitol Rotunda, where it was driven back to Andrews AFB, where Departure Honors were rendered before the casket was placed aboard of Air Force One for the final trip back home to the Land of 10,000 Lakes.

An estimated crowd of 40,000 waited in the icy cold weather to passing by the legendary United States Senator's flag-draped casket inside the Rotunda of the MN State Capitol Building in downtown Saint Paul including during the early morning HRS of January 16th. 3,000 crowded into the House of Hope Presbyterian Church in the afternoon HRS for the State Funeral. Eulogies were delivered by President Brown, Vice President Carter, Secretary Mondale. Hundreds of people, thousands lined up the streets to say a final goodbye to their native son during a final procession, which arrived at the main gates of Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis. During the private graveside ceremony, which included a final 19 Cannon Salute, short prayer & the playing of Taps, from the hillside of Lakewood Cemetery, where the Happy Warrior was finally laid to rest.

 

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January 23rd, 1978:
BREAKING: MS GOVERNOR CLIFF FINCH (D) CONVICTED BY MS STATE SENATE IN IMPEACHMENT TRIAL; REMOVED FROM OFFICE.

The full MS State Senate voted by a vote of 52-0 to convict embattled MS Governor Cliff Finch (D) on all six counts of obstruction of justice; bribery; mail fraud; wire fraud; ethics violations; multiple other violations.

Finch wasn't in Jackson when the MS State Senate deliberated for the past week; instead he was secluded in Batesville & only returned to Jackson the day before by packing up his belongings & personal effects out of his Capitol office inside the MS State Capitol Building & also the MS Governor's Mansion.

MS Lieutenant Governor Evelyn Gandy (D) was sworn into office as the 58th Governor of MS, making history becoming the Magnolia State's first female chief executive.

 

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BREAKING: Howdy from the Alamo City Sietch family. Due to learning about today's sad news of Jimmy Carter entering hospice care, please keep your thoughts & prayers for the Carter family.

 

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January 25, 1978: White House announcing Vice President Carter tapped to serve as Mideast Peace Czar.

White House Press Secretary Jody Powell confirmed during a daily White House press briefing that Vice President Jimmy Carter will be tapped to serve as the White House's main point-person overseeing the Mideast Peace Initiative between Egypt & Israel with likely visits to both countries following President Brown's State of the Union Address set for February 16th.

Carter's foreign policy portfolio has been increasing lately: coordinating the administration's foreign policy agenda along with US Secretary of State Walter Mondale while visiting at least the following countries last year: Great Britain, France, Belgium, West Germany, Italy, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Jamaica, Barbados, Brazil, Japan.

According to media reports, Carter will reportedly visit Chile & Argentina in an effort to pursuing diplomatic solutions in resolving the ongoing dispute between both countries over the Picton, Lennox & Nueva Islands.

 

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February 16th, 1978: President Brown delivers 1st State of the Union Address before Joint Session of Congress

President Brown delivering his 1st State of the Union Address before Joint Session of Congress.


President Jerry Brown delivered his 1st State of the Union Address before a Joint Session of Congress, the 95th US Congress. Majority of the speech focused on domestic policy & the economic recovery: "Now we know what we all must do and that is increasing production of oil right here in the United States of America. We must be realistic in cutting down on waste. And we must use more of these fuels which are quite plentiful and more permanent. We must be fair to the people, who sent us here to getting the job done, and we must not be disrupting our national economy including the federal budget. I understand the specific circumstances in getting Congress to taking action. The main fact remains that on the energy legislation we have failed to living up to the expectations of the American people. Five years earlier following the oil embargo crisis, which dramatized the problem for all of us, yet we still don't have a national energy program. We cannot any longer tolerate this long dragged out stalemate. It undermines not only our economy, but also the national interest both here at home and abroad. We must succeed and I am confident we'll overcome these challenges and defeat this roadblock emerging victorious."

During the speech, President Brown called for the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Labor Act including pushing for a major infrastructure bill justifying the previous Economic Recovery Act of 1977 which passed last year, wasn't large enough. According to the President's plan, large significant sums of the proposal would be spent specifically on railway construction, ports, bridges, roads, & scientific biological research.

President Brown highlighted the fight over Healthcare Reform, where he provided lengthy praise of CO's recently passed healthcare law. "My fellow governor and good friend, Governor Dick Lamm of Colorado has managed to accomplish something quite amazing in the Centennial State. Now it's quite important that we can follow Colorado's example on the federal level by sitting down, working together and I do mean, both parties need to find common ground on the issues were majority of Americans find strong agreement and do this for all of the American people. Wouldn't that be great?" he asked.

Towards, the end of the speech, President Brown turned to foreign policy in the remaining 20 minutes of the 45-minute speech. Brown again defending his administration's controversial decision of backing Argentina's right to claim the disputed Falklands as Argentinian sovereignty & reported on Secretary Mondale's efforts of the Middle East Peace Process between ending the long decades war between Israel & Egypt. The President also pledged to work with both Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin & Egyptian President Anwar Al-Sadat in finding a permanent peaceful solution of finally ending the conflict between both Middle Eastern countries, with a likely Camp David Summit with Begin & Sadat this fall.

Closing out the speech, President Brown said "I can once again report to the American people tonight, that the State of our Union is improving despite setbacks along the way. The worst days of the economic recession is over. But how fast are we're getting out is in our own hands. The hands of us, the elected representatives of the American people, who sent us here. Here in this sacred chamber. This is the time of seizing the moment and getting it done. Thank you very much!"

The GOP Response from United States Senator Howard Baker (R-TN): President Brown failed addressing international issues; weak on national defense.

United States Senator Howard Baker (R-TN) delivering the GOP Response.

United States Senator Howard Baker (R-TN) was chosen to deliver the GOP Response to President Brown's State of the Union Address. This came following some controversy with SC Governor James Edwards (R), who wanted to deliver the speech & got under hot water in November, after telling The State newspaper in Columbia that he was already chosen for the role. However, after receiving strong backlash in some GOP circles from moderates & conservatives, Edwards backed down.

Main theme from Senator Baker's theme was focused on foreign policy, aggressively criticizing the Brown administration's foreign policy agenda as "very naive and full of wishful thinking which invites weakness on the international stage." "With Argentina conniving with the Soviet Union in launching a violent bloody war in South America, where is President Brown as the Soviets used their violent attacks into overthrowing the Afghan government? Where is the President, when it comes to countering an explosive Middle East with enemies plotting to undermining the United States and their allies in the region? Where is the President, when it comes to preventing communist movements from spreading all over Latin America as he has no specific end-game strategy as Panama is undergoing total chaos?" Baker continued. "Where is the President, when it comes to national defense?" "The President's so-called budget is pathetically small and awfully inadequate with one of the smallest increase in defense spending since we got out of the Vietnam three years ago. While the Soviets and others are aggressively building up and waging war, the President of the United States is missing in action. Nowhere to be found! Instead, he's too busy punishing Americans, who create millions of jobs and have been successful here at home. The President continues to perpetrating a failed and weak-kneed ideology of a one-size fits all mentality under a so-called mantle of helping the poor and workers."

Instead, Senator Baker proposed cutting more corporate taxes by at least a third & phasing-in second tax cuts for individuals including large spending cuts on number of domestic spending programs which he didn't mention by name.

February 16th, 1978: Gallup Polling Survey
President Jerry Brown Job Approval Rating:
Approve: 41%
Disapprove: 57%

 

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February 17th-24th, 1978: President Brown makes history: visits Cuba in controversial state visit, opening up of diplomatic relations with Cuba.

(Headlines of The Surprise Visit)
*Brown shocks the world by using Detente Policy with Cuba.
*Backlash from Cuban Americans, strongly disapprove of the President's controversial state visit to the island country.
*Bipartisan criticism from Congress: Senator Goldwater blasts the President's Detente Policy with Cuba calling it "Caving to the demands of the Castro thugs".
*President Jerry Brown & First Lady Linda Ronstadt Brown meet with Cuban President Fidel Castro in red carpet welcoming honors ceremony.
*Castro hosts grand State Dinner at the Palacio Nacional in Brown's honor.

Following policy that the United States should have diplomatic relations with countries regardless of their ideologies, American emissaries began secret talks with the Cuban government in March 1977. That same month, President Brown lifted all of the restrictions on American tourism in the Caribbean island nation. In the following month, American & Cuban diplomats held their first formal discussions in 16 years, by reaching agreement on the rights of fishermen in the overlapping fishing zones of the US & Cuba.

Six months later, on September 1st, 1977, the US & Cuba exchanged diplomatic representatives below the rank of Ambassador. As part of his plan to bringing about "generation of peace and stability in the world" , President Brown culminated a period of careful diplomatic preparation by flying to communist Cuba in February 1978 for a seven-day visit to opening up the way toward normalizing of full diplomatic relations, cultural exchanges, & trade with the Caribbean island nation.

To make sure that all the drama of the first journey in history of an American President to Cuba would be brought into the homes of the American public, a special TV communications satellite was launched to hovering 23,000 miles over the Caribbean. An American advance party set up portable TV station in Cuba to beam instant coverage of the United States. An estimated 57 million Americans watched the pomp & ceremony of the historic State Visit, most getting their first look behind the Carribbean island.

Upon his return to the US on February 24th, the President could state with strong conviction that the trip had an amazing success: "I can strongly say with confidence that we're entering a new era of relations between the United States and the Republic of Cuba. We entered into agreements to expand cultural, educational and journalistic contacts between the Cuban and the American people. We agreed to work to begin and broaden trade between our two countries. We have agreed that the communications that have now been reestablished between our Governments will be further strengthened and expanded. Most important, we have agreed on some rules of international conduct which will reduce the risk of confrontation and war in Latin America.

We agreed that we are opposed to domination of the Western Hemisphere by any one power. We agreed that international disputes br settled without the use of the threat of force, and we agreed that we are prepared to apply this principle to our mutual relations...... We've agreed that we will not negotiate the fate of other nations behind their back and we did not do so in Havana. There were no secret deals of any kind whatsoever."

 

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COMING SOON IN CHAPTER IX OF THE CURSED AMERICAN PRESIDENCY
Snap, Crackle, POP: The botched embalming attempt of Pope Paul VI
******Spoiler Alert: This segment will be quite graphic & NOT for the queasy folks!

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March 11th-14th, 1978: President Brown visits Argentina
President Jerry Brown arrived on the afternoon HRS of March 11th at the Newberry International Airport, where he met with Argentine President Isabel Peron. The playing of the respective national anthems of the United States & Argentina were played; followed by an inspection of the Argentine Armed Forces Command.

President Brown & President Peron held a bilateral meeting inside the Casa Rosada (Government Office), where they discussed improving diplomatic relations between Washington & Buenos Aires, which had been strained over the years.

Later that night, there was a State Dinner held inside the Quinta da Olivos (Residence of the Argentine President).

On March 12th, President Brown addressed a Joint Session of the Argentinean National Congress.

March 28th-April 4th, 1978: President Brown visits Venezuela, Brazil, Nigeria, Liberia

From March 28th to March 29th, President Brown met with Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez; addressed the Venezuelan National Assembly & signed a maritime boundary agreement. Later from March 29th to March 31st, the next trip of President Brown included the Federative Republic of Brazil, where he met with Brazilian President Ernesto Giesel; relations between Washington & Brasilia had been in a rough patch since Geisel dismantled the military alliance treaty last year because of the US State Department's report on human rights violations. Brown later addressed a Joint Session of the National Congress.

President Brown made history becoming the first US President to visit Africa with historical trips to Nigeria (March 31st to April 3rd) & Liberia (April 3rd to April 4th), where he met with Nigerian President Olussegun Obansanjo & Liberian President William R. Tolbert, Jr., respectively.

 

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Beginning sometime this weekend: I'll be working on the following segments:
1.) The ruling that led to the Beagle Conflict between Argentina vs Chile.

2.) The Bloodthirsty War between Argentina vs Chile.

3.) International fallout.

4.) Foreign Policy test for the Brown administration.

5.) National Segments.

6.) International Segments.

7.) Mideast Peace Accords between Egypt & Israel.

 

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April 6th, 1978: President Brown signs mandatory retirement age legislation into law.
President Jerry Brown signed into law legislation, which gives most employees of state & city governments including those in private industries the option of retiring at age 70 rather than 65, which is currently the mandatory age. This provision would take effect on January 1st, 1979.

The law also stipulated certain classes of workers in strenuous occupations, such as fire fighters & police officers, could be made to retire before hitting 70.

April 7th, 1978: Brown defers neutron bomb production
President Brown announced he was deferring production of the controversial neutron bomb until circumstances warranted an "ultimate decision". Brown explained that US production of these enhanced radiation weapons would depend on the degree of restraint exercised by the Soviet Union.

April 17th, 1978: New York Stock Exchange sets record.
The New York Stock Exchange set a new volume record when 63.5 million shares exchanged hands in hectic Monday trading. On the previous business day, a Friday, volume reached 52,280,000 shares, which far surpassed the previous all-time high of 44,510,000 shares traded on February 20th, 1976. The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened at 775.21 on Friday & closed at 810.12 on Monday for a gain of 34.91 points.

April 18th, 1978: President Brown hosts Panamanian President William Alvarez at the White House.
In his third visit to the United States, Panamanian President William Alvarez was greeted by US President Jerry Brown & US First Lady Linda Ronstadt Brown. It was a historic moment for both countries since the US-backed revolution that toppled Panamanian military strongman Omar Torrijos in the Fall of 1977.

Alvarez & Brown discussed the progress of US-Panama diplomatic relations including progress of the stalled negotiations of the Panama Canal Treaty, which both Heads of State pledged to restart as soon as possible.

April 20th, 1978: Republic of Korea jet downed by USSR
A Republic of Korea Boeing 707 carrying 110 people on a flight from Paris to Seoul, Republic of Korea, strayed off course & into Soviet territory on its way to a refueling stop in Anchorage, AK. Two people had been killed & 13 injured by the time the plane crash landed on or near a frozen lake about 450 km (281 mi) from Murmansk. Survivors, strongly contradicting an official Soviet version of events, said the Korean Airlines aircraft was fired upon by a Soviet interceptor jet & had to dive before landing.

 

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May 13th, 1978: Relations between Argentina & Chile deteriorate further; Civil War appears all but imminent

The long dispute over the Beagle Channel between Argentina & Chile continued to sour diplomatic relations between the two neighboring South American nations. On January 25th, a ruling from the International Court of Arbitration ruled in favor of Chile, which granted them the three disputed islands in the Beagle Channel: Picton, Lennox & Nueva. In reaction to the ruling by the ICOA, the Argentinean government rejected the ruling. Soon afterwards, a 180-day negotiations period was established on February 3rd, which was originally scheduled to end on November 3rd & although the fourth round of negotiation talks began on May 7th in Santiago, little progress was made. On May 13th, the situation had reached an epic crisis proportions with armed forces of both South American nations put on extreme high alert.

Another key question was about the control of the Antartic & Cape Horn, & also over potential supplies of fish, krill, materials & petroleum. To make things intriguing, Bolivia suddenly broke off diplomatic relations with Chile on March 17th over the problem of accessing to the Pacific Ocean.

In the meantime, Argentina had been having ongoing diplomatic disputes with Great Britain over the Falklands (which US President Jerry Brown controversially backed Argentina's right of the Falklands) exacerbated by the continuing occupation of uninhabited Southern Thule Island in Britain's South Sandwich Islands by Argentinean scientists.

During a televised address from the Casa Rosada (Government Office) in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentine President Isabel Peron discussed the ongoing crisis over the Beagle Channel Crisis including justifying using any possible military options in reclaiming the rights of the Picton, Lennox & Nueva Islands by any means necessary: "The Picton, Lennox and Nueva Islands all belong to the Argentine Republic and as President, I will do everything in my power to ensure that the islands in question belong to the indefinite sovereignty of Argentina! To those, who accuse us of being ignorant of this so-called court ruling, there will be consequences for those including many in the Chilean government, who want to stir things up by meddling in Argentinean international affairs. You will face severe consequences that you've never seen before. This is NOT a bluff whatsoever!"

 

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Chapter IX: The Invasion....

May 16th, 1978

BREAKING NEWS: AIR STRIKES LAUNCHED IN VALPARAISO
*Argentine President Isabel Peron gives the Argentine High Forces Command the green-light to begin the invasion of Chile.
*Reports of casualties rising in aftermath of airstrikes hitting main key areas of Valparaiso.
*Chilean President Captain General Augusto Pinochet breaks off diplomatic relations with Argentina.
*Eyes of the World turn to South America.

During the late evening HRS of May 16th, 1978, loud sirens began ringing in Valparaiso & Santiago, Chile as hundreds, possibly thousands of Chileans ran for cover due to seeing missiles being launched into several buildings in Valparaiso, where the Chilean National Congress Building was located including other government agencies, local law enforcement agencies, etc.,

Reports indicate that at least 13,000 Chileans have been killed by airstrikes launched by the Argentinean Air Force F-16 fighter jets & sources on the ground indicate according to eyewitnesses of seeing 29,000 Argentinean military personnel troops rolling into the southern part of Chile with large tanks & opening fire at everyone in sight as people tried to flee the carnage.

ABC News broke into regular programming to deliver an ABC News Special Report about the Argentinean invasion of Chile. Over at the White House, US President Jerry Brown was alerted by White House Chief of Staff Gray Davis about the invasion & immediately held a closed-door meeting of the National Security Council.

ABC NEWS: ARGENTINEAN TROOPS HAVE GAINED TOTAL CONTROL OF PUNTA ARENAS; FORCIBLY REMOVE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS FROM OFFICE

Argentinean military personnel troops have gained full control of the city of Punta Arenas in southern Chile & have forcibly removed all of the local government officials from office altogether. Eyewitness accounts revealed an absolute horror of proportions: Argentinean soldiers kidnapping, torturing & killing men, women & children, then dumping their bodies in mass graves.

Reports indicate that the Argentine Navy warships have encircled at least the majority of the southern part of Chile with large tanks of fuel, gas, etc.,

Allegations have surfaced that some Argentinian soldiers have raped the dead bodies of young Chilean women ages 17-29 routinely, even more heinous that some of the soldiers kept the bodies in secret labs at undisclosed locations.

 

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Reflection: A Look Back......
....."The situation regarding the Argentinian invasion of Chile had been escalating for less than two years since it was revealed that Pinochet had backed the unsuccessful coup attempt against Mrs. Peron's government. Following a long dragged-out bloodbath between the Peronist government and rebel forces which were led by Videla, etc., the Peronist government not only crushed the coup plotters and their rebel troops, but the government forces launched airstrikes and the like: killing Videla, Massera in the process while Galiteri, Viola and Bignone were arrested and imprisoned for their insurrection plots against the Argentinian government.

It was then once those eager-beaver idiots in the Associated Press included those bozos in the Washington Post leaked out that the Rockefeller administration and the Central Intelligence Agency was also involved in the botched coup attempt, these revelations enraged Mrs. Peron, who vowed vengeance against those who plotted to undermine her government and she was going to name names. Rumor was that a rogue element of the Argentinian government systematically rigged the 1976 US Presidential election in favor of then-California Governor Jerry Brown, whom many considered a novice on foreign policy and someone to exploit. I strongly disagreed with these allegations because I NEVER thought these allegations were anything but distractions because the election was fair and Jerry Brown won the presidential election fair and square. They wanted to aggressively undermine then-Vice President Edward W. Brooke's presidential campaign, so the Peronist government hired former Nazi intelligence officials to use derogatory coded messages and other vicious methods sabotaging Brooke's campaign in the critical swing battleground states, which proved successful, especially once Texas decided the 1976 Presidential election in Brown's favor very narrowly.

Now the events which led to the Invasion of Chile had been about the disputed islands consisting of Lennox, Picton and Nueva. I believe what that crazy astrologer freak Lopez Rega, the man who was running the Peronist government from Madrid, Spain in the first place, was to undermine the Chilean government with the goal of toppling it altogether. Once Mrs. Peron aggressively and viciously scrubbed the Argentine High Forces Command and replaced opponents with Peronist allies including cronies in all branches: Navy, Marine Corps, Army and Air Force, she ordered a deployment of somewhere between 29,000-57,000 military personnel troops toward the Chilean border in what the Argentinian Foreign Affairs Ministry described as "military exercise drills", but the Chileans and everyone knew better.

With the Brown administration proposing diplomacy efforts in attempts of resolving an escalating situation from spiraling out of control between the two rival South American nations, neither Chile or Argentina were interested in diplomacy or any peace agreements regarding the disputed islands because any alternative approaches were considered hopeless. What was also odd was that Bolivia abruptly cut diplomatic ties with Chile just days before the onset of the Invasion. I found that one quite disturbing and to this day, couldn't grasp why the Bolivians did that.

In the meantime in Buenos Aires, Mrs. Peron had her eyes set on Chile and she was very much in tune with what was being said about her in other countries, and the ongoing debate in Brazil, where Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel referred to her as "That Nightclud Dancing Bitch" outraged her, to the point she finally gave the green-light for the Argentinian High Forces Command to invade Chile------while we were all asleep here in the States at that------she also opened her arms to Bolivian, Cuban and Soviet volunteers, anyone who wanted to cleanse Chile of what she called "That CIA Puppet Jackass" in reference to Pinochet, who was backed by the Nixon, Ford and Rockefeller administrations. In her view, she was hell-bent to getting rid of Pinochet and anyone who supported him. No matter what we tried to do, the Argentinian Foreign Affairs Minister told Secretary Mondale that "Argentina will do whatever is necessary to taking what is ours and doing everything in our power to defending ourselves by any means necessary!" I just couldn't believe we were caught flat-footed like this and almost immediately, the criticism ranging upon us from both sides of the political aisle was like a sneak attack. Sadly whatever favorable ratings that the Brown administration was hoping for regard to the Cuban State Visit, Argentina State Visit and the trips to Venezuela, Brazil, Nigeria and Liberia, pretty much evaporated overnight once Mrs. Peron launched the invasion into Chile. It was all downhill for the Brown administration afterwards which pretty much killed any chance of President Brown getting reelected in 1980."
-Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew J. Young (D-GA)
*Interview with ABC News; April 8th, 2004
Member, US House of Representatives from GA's 5th Congressional District (Janaury 3rd, 1973-March 3rd, 1977)
14th US Ambassador to the United Nations (March 3rd, 1977-September 23rd, 1979)
55th Mayor of Atlanta, GA (January 4th, 1982 to January 2nd, 1990)

 

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May 23rd, 1978:

ABC NEWS BULLETIN: Intelligence reports confirm Soviet military personnel troops assist Argentina in the Invasion of Chile.
*Unconfirmed reports from Associated Press about Soviet Air Force fighter jets encircling around Chile for potential air raid bombing campaign.
*Argentinean Foreign Affairs Ministry justify the invasion as "defending the homeland by any means necessary"
*US President Jerry Brown & National Security Council monitoring the situation.

"Weakness on the world stage: Jerry Brown's Detente foreign policy gambit blows up in his face"
Newsweek: May 24th, 1978

"America needs new leadership in 1980: Reagan signaling political comeback as foreign policy crises engulf the Brown administration."
Washington Post: May 25th, 1978

"Bipartisan group of Senators demand meeting with US Secretary of State, US Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff."
New York Times: May 27th, 1978

"Chilean Army ground forces make progress in pushing back Argentinean Army personnel troops during the Battle of Southern Chile; Pinochet calls on the international community to support Chile."
The Santiago Informer: May 29th, 1978

BREAKING: GALTIERI ESCAPES FROM PRISON; WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN

May 30th, 1978: Former Argentinean Army Lieutenant General Leopoldo Galtieri, who had been serving a long prison sentence due to his involvement in the failed 1976 coup attempt against the Peronist government, reportedly escaped from prison in the middle of the night. Sources state his whereabouts are unknown at the moment.

Speculation has swirled that Galtieri & several close loyalists hatched an escape plan while everyone was distracted by the Peronist government launching a full-scale invasion of Chile.

Details & more developments about this escape will come in later as more information, according to Argentinean TV news stations, the Argentinean Federal Police & federal law enforcement agencies are searching for capture Galtieri & his co-conspirators.

 

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE LONGEST-SERVING CA GOVERNOR 🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂

Howdy from the Alamo City folks. I want to personally give a Happy Birthday message to the longest-serving CA Governor Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr., (D) for his 4 terms in the CA Governor's Mansion in Sacramento.

Celebrating his 85th birthday! What an amazing life & long decades of public service.

 

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June 18th, 1978:
BREAKING: FORMER ARGENTINIAN ARMY LIEUTENANT GENERAL LEOPOLDO GALTIERI, 24 OTHERS CAPTURED BY ARGENTINIAN FEDERAL POLICE OFFICERS
*Unknown witness informs federal law enforcement agencies of Galtieri's location near the Uruguayan border.
*Manhunt ends after long dragged-out search for disgraced Argentinean Army Lieutenant General & several of his close fellow Army officers, etc.,

"Ladies and Gentlemen, we've got him!" boasted Argentinean Federal Police General Fausto Tacher during a press conference at the Federal Police Headquarters in Buenos Aires. It was almost nearly three weeks since disgraced former Argentinean Army Lieutenant General Leopoldo Galtieri & 24 others escaped prison during the late evening HRS of May 29th.

Eyewitness accounts confirmed one courageous person called law enforcement to alert them Galtieri & his cohorts were attempting to crosd the border with Uruguay; allegations detail he was attempting to plot an overthrow of the Peronist government, which is currently in the midst of the Invasion of Chile.

Galtieri & 24 of his Army loyalists were given the public perpwalk before the cameras & on live TV across Argentina; it's reported Galtieri will be sent to a heavily-armored maximum security prison somewhere in the outskirts of the country town called Peron City; sources confirm he might get the death penalty for an attempted insurrection.

 

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June 29th, 1978
Will President Brown seek reelection in 1980 ? Numerous signs are pointing toward absolutely NOT!
*Dreadful approval ratings following recent foreign policy debacles damaged the President's popularity.
*VP Carter seen as Brown's potential handpicked successor due to recent campaign stops in FL, SC, IA, NH, IL, MI, MN, WI, NC & PA.
*President Brown's recent trip to West Germany seen by foreign policy analysts & political observers as "saving face".

During June 16th-19th, President Jerry Brown traveled to Panama, where he was greeted by Panamanian President William Alvarez Guardia at the Panama City International Airport before traveling to the Presidential Palace, where he & his wife, First Lady Linda Ronstadt Brown spent the night.

On the 17th, Brown & Alvarez signed protocol confirming exchange of documents ratifying the Panama Canal Treaty; Brown hailed it as one of the landmark foreign policy successes of his administration including commending the Panamian people for their guidance of democratic values following the revolution that toppled former military strongman Omar Torrijos in the Fall of 1977 in a US-backed coup d'etat.

Brown also met with Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez; Colombian President Alfonso Lopez Michelson; Mexican President General Oscar Robles; Costa Rican President Rodrigo Carazo Odio & Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley, who invited Brown to visit the Caribbean nation which Brown confirmed he'll be visiting in the Spring of 1979.

July 14th-17th, 1978
President Brown visits West Germany
*Snubbed by West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, President Brown meets with West German President Walter Scheel instead.
*Visit comes less than a year following Brown's controversial decision to withdrawal of all nuclear forces military personnel troops out of West Germany.

Next on the agenda included the biggest international trip of all: West Germany.

President Brown arrived in Frankfurt, where he was greeted by West German President Walter Scheel & was given full state honours including the Honor Guard inspection on July 14th. Due to poor relations with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who blasted the Brown administration's incompetence on foreign policy, Schmidt blatantly snubbed the President of the United States openly & defiantly by not showing up at all for the remainder of the time that Brown is visiting West Germany.

Despite some snubs along the way, President Brown addressed both US & German military personnel troops; he also visited Bonn, Wiesbaden-Erbenheim, Frankfurt, West Berlin. On July 16th-17th, Brown attended the 4th G7 Summit conference in Bonn, where President Scheel stood in for Schmidt at the annual conference.

President Brown addressed the 4th G7 Summit by strongly pushing them to find diplomatic solutions including prospects of a peace plan in ending the ongoing deadly conflict between Argentina & Chile, which is now in the month of July with no signs of stopping anytime soon.

July 17th-21st, 1978
President Brown visits Spain
*Meets with King Juan Carlos I & Queen Sofia.
*Addresses Joint Session of the Spanish Parliament.
*Meets with Spanish Prime Minister Rodolfo Suarez.

The final international trip was in the Kingdom of Spain, where President Jerry Brown & First Lady Linda Ronstadt Brown met with King Juan Carlos I & Queen Sofia at the Royal Palace, where a State Dinner was held in President Brown's honor during the evening HRS of July 17th; President Brown thanked King Juan Carlos I for his gracious hospitality & the people of Spain for overcoming dictatorship & seeing the return of democracy.

On July 18th, President Brown delivered a special address before Joint Session of the Spanish Parliament.

 

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August 6th, 1978:

BREAKING: POPE PAUL VI DIES OF CARDIAC ARREST AT THE AGE OF 80
*Pontiff was leader of the Roman Catholic Church for 15 years.
*Failing health for some time according to media reports.
*Condolences from all over the world.

Pope Paul VI died following suffering a heart attack at his Summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome. He was 80 years old. The frail & ailing 80-year-old Pontiff was stricken with what had been described as a mild heart attack while he was listening to Mass being said by his personal secretary inside the Papal apartment. Less than 4 HRS later at 9:40 PM, the Pontiff was pronounced dead.

Condolences have come from all over the world ranging from US President Jerry Brown, who said "Meeting Pope Paul VI during my visit to the Vatican last year and getting to listen to great spiritual advice will be one of the most cherished memories I will carry with me forever. My deepest condolences to the fairhful of the Roman Catholic Church and alll over the world."

Mexican President General Oscar Robles, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, British Prime Minister James Callaghan, Panamanian President William Alvarez Guardia, Brazilian President Ernesto Giesel, Chilean President General Augusto Pinochet, Argentine President Isabel Peron also gave condolences.

 

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NFSW DISCLAIMER: This is Part I of the Segment Series of how a botched embalming of the late Pontiff resulted in gruesome results. Plus it'll include grisly & graphic, gory methods from one particular embalming expert. Viewer discretion is strongly advised & NOT for the squeamish folks!

Personal Diary: Victoria Gallego
*SNAP, CRACKLE & POP: The gruesome smell inside the halls of St. Peter's Basilica!

August 7th, 1978:

"It was quite late on the evening of August 6th in the outskirts of Rome when the bells began tolling, I turned on the television at 10:25 PM to discover that Pope Paul VI had died at his Summer residence at Castel Gandolfo following a long illness. I prayed on my knees before going to bed.

The early next morning, I was busy with putting together some last minute documents in place before deciding on planning to attend an early viewing of the late Pontiff in the coming days because I knew that lots of the faithful were converging into Rome for the upcoming Papal funeral service and according to local news reports, many of the attendees were foreign dignitaries such as Mexican President General Oscar Robles and his beautiful wife, Mexican First Lady Fernanda Arizmendi, Argentine President Isabel Peron (who was likely to get the side eyes from certain people for obvious reasons) among countless others.

But something told me to get over to the Summer residence at Castel Gandolfo for some strange reason. It was a very uneasy feeling because some incompetent medical expert stupidly was chosen as the main embalmer of the late Pontiff. Keep in mind, I was only a year old when Puis XII died in 1958 and the disgusting botched embalming of his body from an infamous fellow, who should remain nameless botched the embalming that it well.....caused some people to get sick during public viewing.

Fast forward to 20 years later, I had naively assumed whoever was tasked with embalming the late Pontiff had learned some lessons to avoid similar mistakes. When my cousin, Antionette and I arrived to pay our respects inside the Summer residence at Castel Gandolfo......I was rudely mistaken.

The incompetent medical expert I am referring to was none other than Marco Saltinetti, whose methods of embalming Pope Paul VI included a very weird novel process of his version of embalming: Saltinetti used the same system of oils, wrapping the body in some weird light gold plastic wrapping thing or something and to top it all, he didn't even try to remove the organs: which is the main rule of embalming.

When I viewed the Pontiff's body, I was repulsed by what I saw: Pope Paul VI looked like he was sweating somewhat due to some perspiration on the upper lip plus I noticed two fans blowing hard, I was curious why did they need to have fans blowing inside. Antoinette also found it unusual, she asked "I see there's two fans blowing hard here, when the procession to the Vatican begins, what could possibly go wrong?"

Auugust 9th, 1978: Snap, Crackle & Pops: The foul smell that caused faithful & others getting sick.

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Fast forward to August 9th, 1978: During the public viewing inside the halls of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, where the late Pontiff was lying in state: the sweltering heat inside the halls were so strong, it caused chemical reactions which required the idiot jackass Saltinetti to attempt another embalming job sometime during the night of August 9th. He assumed it would get rid of the smell...... NOPE!

The next day, August 10th: Mexican President General Oscar Robles and his beautiful wife, Mexican First Lady Fernanda Arizmendi, US Vice President Jimmy Carter and his wife, US Second Lady Rosalynn Carter including King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia of Spain were paying their respects to the late Pontiff when loud, disturbing and thundering popping sounds occurred: POP! POP! POP!

According to eyewitnesses, the ugly decomposition of the late Pontiff was happening before their very eyes including some of the foreign dignitaries in attendance; some of the audience quietly whispered "What's those loud popping sounds?" And one young teenage girl was so repulsed by the awful smell, she vomited on the floor.

Inevitably autoplysic plus putrefaction caused by the gut bacteria were soon gathering which included large amounts of gas inside the body to release foul odor. At this instance, Arizmendi fainted by collasping into the arms of her husband, President Robles who carried her out of the Basilica while the Carter's and the Spanish King and Queen were rushed out of there. Effective immediately, the public viewing inside the halls of the St. Peter's Basilica was officially terminiated. It didn't help that some of the Swiss Guards guarding the Pontiff's body also fainted."