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January 7, 1967: Richard Nixon meets with family and friends to discuss the possibility of running for President. Ultimately he decides against doing so.

February 7, 1967: Tanzanian President Julius Nyere formally adopts the Arusha Declaration for Tanzania, despite misgivings from Oscar Kambona.

February 11, 1967: A Gall-up poll suggests that in a direct match up Richard Nixon leads George Romney 52% to 40% in opinion polls for Republican Primary voters.

February 15, 1967: In an interview with the Saturday Evening Post, Nixon flatly denies that he is running for President.

March 9, 1967: Tanzanian President Julius Nyere falls down a flight of stairs less than a month after adopting the Arusha Declaration. While he survives, the injuries have made him unable to talk or move his legs so he is succeeded as President by Rashid Kawawa.

July 11, 1967: As the ujamaa villages in Tanzania largely begin to fail and cause trouble for local farmers, Oscar Kambona declares that there should be a new election against Rashid Kawawa, who was not "chosen by the people of Tanzania". While the more charismatic Julius Nyere might've been able to play off the failure of the ujamaa, President Kawawa is little more than a pawn who accidentally ended up playing king.

August 31, 1967: George Romney states, "When I came back from Viet Nam [in November 1965], I'd just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get."

September 25, 1967: Charles Percy begins organizing his campaign in the states of New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Oregon.

November 18, 1967: George Romney announces his campaign for POTUS.

December 11, 1967: Charles Percy formally announces that he will be running for President of the United States.

January 5, 1968: Antonin Novotny is replaced by Ota Sik as First Secretary of Czechoslovakia.

February 1, 1968: Ronald Reagan announces his candidacy for President of the United States

February 11, 1968: Sun Weishi dies after months of torture and imprisonment at the hands of Maoist Red Guards. She is the adopted daughter of Zhou Enlai.

February 15, 1968: Oscar Kambona officially ascends to the Presidency of Tanzania, with a desire to roll back certain elements of the Arusha Declaration and enhance relationships with the West and the United States.

March 12, 1968: Ronald Reagan beats Charles Percy and George Romney in the New Hampshire primary.

March 13, 1968: Lin Biao has a tense disagreement with Jiang Qing and is later asked by Chairman Mao to self-criticize.

March 17, 1968: George Romney formally announces his withdrawal from the race for POTUS as he falls to third place in the polls. Nelson Rockefeller endorses Charles Percy for POTUS.

March 22, 1968: Antonin Novotny resigns as President of Czechoslovakia and is replaced by Alexander Dubchek.

April 11, 1968:
Chen Boda, an acolyte of Lin Biao, begins meeting with Zhou Enlai in secret about "Project 571".

June 4, 1968:
Ronald Reagan wins the California primary, this being the only other primary besides New Hampshire that he's won with all of the others going to Charles Percy.

June 11, 1968:
The Ugandan People's Congress formalize various agreements known as the Common Man's Charter, apart of a move to push Uganda into the Soviet sphere of influence.

August 6, 1968: On the third ballot, Charles Percy wins the Republican nomination for President, narrowly defeated Ronald Reagan who entered the convention with a plurality of the votes.

November 1, 1968: Leonid Brezhnev is formally replaced by Alexei Kosygin for the position of First Secretary, while Nikolai Podgorny replaces Kosygin as Premier.

November 4, 1968: Chairman Mao dies of asphyxiation after apparently choking on a pretzel while at a conference with Zhou Enlai.

November 5, 1968: The Charles Percy / George Romney ticket beats the Hubert Humphrey / Edmund Muskie ticket, making Charles Percy the 37th President of the United States.

November 9, 1968: Lin Biao formally ascends to the position of Chairman in China. The position of President is reconstituted and awarded to Zhou Enlai. Both make speeches declaring the loss of Mao a tragedy and proclaiming a national holiday for the lost leader.

November 16, 1968: The Gang of Four are for the most part removed from all positions of influence in the Chinese government.

December 6, 1969: Daniel arap Moi of the Kenya Africa Democratic Union is elected President of Kenya, while Vice President Tom Mboya of Kenya People's Union is elected to the newly created position of Prime Minister as apart of a combined effort to oust the increasingly erratic President Jomo Kenyatta.

December 15, 1969: Presidents Daniel Moi and Oscar Kambona (of Kenya and Tanzania) meet with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson to discuss concerns over growing Soviet influence in Uganda. Wilson suggests Idi Amin as a potential pro-Western successor to Obote, but an aid suggests Muwenda Mutebi II, a young Ugandan prince in exile who had been attending a British university.

January 20, 1969: Charles Percy is formally inaugurated as the 37th President of the United States.

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