Ron & Dick: A Collaborative TL

Why was Udall beaten? If anything, he'd do better than Carter, to be honest, since he was better with interviews ("lusted for other women in my heart and all") and Reagan was not what the country wanted in '76. He was far too extreme.
 
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April 16, 1977: Reagan authorizes the U.S. Armed Forces to strike two P.F.L.P. training camps in Lebanon
 
Why was Udall beaten? If anything, he'd do better than Carter, to be honest, since he was better with interviews ("lusted for other women in my heart and all") and Reagan was not what the country wanted in '76. He was far too extreme.

The nomination was stolen from Carter to Udall, which led to Carter not endorsing anyone. Reagan's charisma helped him a lot as well. The choice of Church didn't help with Southern and Moderate Democrats
 
The nomination was stolen from Carter to Udall, which led to Carter not endorsing anyone. Reagan's charisma helped him a lot as well. The choice of Church didn't help with Southern and Moderate Democrats

Reagan wouldn't inspire the minority support Ford did, plus Reagan doesn't seem as honest as Ford.

And, if anything, choosing Frank Church, a guy well known for his role in the Church Committee, would help Udall.
 
Reagan wouldn't inspire the minority support Ford did, plus Reagan doesn't seem as honest as Ford.

And, if anything, choosing Frank Church, a guy well known for his role in the Church Committee, would help Udall.

Yeah, an Udall/Church ticket's not too balanced, but for a post-Wategate one devoted to clarity in government, it's perfect.
 
January 11th, 1977: Actor Mark Hamill is killed in a car accident. At the time, he was working on a science fiction film with American Graffiti director George Lucas. The film scheduled release date in May is delayed several months for reshoots following Hamill's death.

December 14th, 1977: Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta, is released in the US. A critical and financial success, it, and its award winning soundtrack by pop group the Bee Gees, propels the new trend of "disco" into the popular consciousness.
 
April 22, 1977: TWA Flight 456, flying from Boston to Paris with 364 passengers and crew onboard including actress Teri Garr crashes mysteriously 15 minutes into the flight. Due to Teri Garr's role in a science fiction movie with Stephen Spielberg, said movie would be delayed to March 1978 for reshoots.

April 23, 1977: The CIA in a classified report blames North Korea for sending the lone gunman who assassinated the South Korean President in Pusan

May 2, 1977: A group of young military officers launch a coup against Tunisian President-for-life Habib Bourguiba and overthrows his government.
 

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Interested to see how Reagan handles the plant closings. 1977-78 were what killed the post WW2 economy and the job losses in the Old Northwest were catastrophic. It was a national crisis that came at the same time as stagflation. Carter did not handle this well OTL, but its hard to say that anyone would have. Reagan might have wanted to whip inflation, but he couldn't do anything about US industry getting killed by foreign competition.
 
April 26, 1977: Soviet General-Secretary Leonid Brezhnev gives a response to Ronald Reagan's speech in which Reagan referred to the USSR as part of the "Axis of Evil" where he points out that the USSR has no connection with the PFLP and condemned their acts of terror and that the Soviet Union does not desire to start World War III and seeks peace in the world.

April 28, 1977: Wreckage from Flight 456 along with autopsies of 26 bodies found from the wreckage indicate that it broke into two pieces but that the plane didn't ignite into a fireball
 
May 1st 1977: Guy Vander Jagy gives a proposal in the House to abolish the 22nd admendment saying, "If America doesn't want a dictoator, then they won't elect one."
 
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May 3, 1977: The head of the Tunisian junta which took over the country a day earlier announces that his new government would form an alliance with Gadhafi's Libya with the aim of eventually bringing about a union of the two countries

May 6, 1977: Bangladeshi President Ziaur Rahman is assassinated after only 16 days in office by unknown gunmen.
 
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