MAY 21 — ELECTIONS: Grant becomes nominee for 1868 Republican ticket; 2017 Space engineer William Tompkins speaks out on UFOs in San Diego; 1952 Happy Birthday Mr. T
MAY 21
1868 Grant becomes the nominee for the 1868 Presidential campaign.
General Ulysses Grant, or Sam to some of his friends, was on good terms with President Andrew Johnson until the Tenure of Office Act restricted the president to remove members without Senate approval. Johnson tried to veto it, and I go into more detail on my March 2nd ep.
Pals no more.
The Republican Party weren’t happy with Johnson’s handling of post-Civil War Reconstruction, and let him know by not nominating him for the upcoming election. House Representative Schuyler Colfax of Indiana would be Grant’s running mate. The Tennessee Tailor Johnson would have to turn to the Democratic Party, and they wouldn’t have him either.
Instead, they chose 2-time New York Governor Horatio Seymour, who wanted reparations from the south to be repaid in greenbacks, and former Civil War Major General and Missouri Senator and House Rep F R an N C I S Preston Blair Jr. By the time November came around, three states still had not ratified the 14th amendment, Texas, Mississippi and Virginia.
It was the first election during the Reconstruction. Imagine General Grant running for president! He was extremely effective in ending the Civil War, which in of itself made him popular with almost everyone in the north and even many states in the south who had rejoined the Union.
Lyss Grant, who waved the bloody shirt during the war, was now getting more love than he ever knew; free housing in Illinois and Philly, and money contributions from New York. The Democrats accused Grant of being a drunk and Negro Lover, and the Republicans attacked Seymour for his role in the high-interest greenback deal. In an alternate universe, Ohio Democrat George Pendleton would beat this day’s RNC choice, but that’s a whole different path to what happened in this corner of the multiverse.
Fear not boys and girls, Team Grant and Colfax soundly would wind up defeating Seymour and Blair Jr, though Seymour was pretty close in the popular, winning his home state of New York, where voter fraud became an issue according to city-journalist.org, where voters were being very push u and voting twice.
Anyway it could be argued we’re not really sure if Seymour actually won New York, but gave Lyss a run notwithstanding. 3.1M and 214 electoral to Seymour’s 2.7 and 80 Electoral.
1881 – Happy birthday America Red Cross!
…The humanitarian organization was formed on May 21 1881 by Clara Barton and Adolph’s Solomon’s to provide emergency assistance, disaster relief and education inside the US. Clara Barton, born in Massachusetts in 1821, worked with the sick and wounded during the American Civil War and became known as the Angel of the Battlefield for her unending compassion.
She went to Germany in 1870 during the Franco-Profusion war to work for the International Red Cross, and in 1873 returned home and organized an American branch of the International Red Cross. She headed the organization into her 80s and died in 1912. Like a boss!
These days in addition to domestic disaster relief, the American Red Cross offers services in five other areas: community services that help the needy; communication services and comfort for military members and their family members, the collection, processing and distribution of blood and blood products; educational programs on preparedness, health, and safety, and international relief and development programs.
It’s maintained by a group of volunteers and supported by community donations, income from health and safety training and products, and income from blood products. The American Red Cross is headquartered in Washington DC, and the current Chairman of the Board of Governors serving her second three year term, is Bonny McElveen-Hunter. The current President and CEO is Gail J. McGovern.
2017 Tompkins speaks in San Diego about UFOs.
Former US Navy intelligence operative and aerospace engineer William Tompkins has talked before about how Nordic aliens and Reptilians assisted Nazis Germany during WWII
. Nordics are named so because they resemble actual Scandinavians but they’re actually from the Taurus constellation. According to Wiki, cultural historian David Skal mentioned that the Nordics may have been inspired by the 1951 movie The Day the Earth Stood Still. From 2015-2017, Tompkins came out quite a bit with various classified information regarding Reptilians and Nazis, how his own secretary was a Nordic alien, and my favorite, Secrets of the Secret Space Program, in which unusual craft that has been seen on earth and out space. It’s not even interesting. I’ve seen Scooby-Doo cartoons with more imagination than that.
But Tompkins really believes it, so if you want more on that exopolitics.org has a lot more information on Mr. Tompkins and links to his interviews and articles. I’m gonna move on to something real now.
1969—Hamburger Hill is explained.
… In 1969 US troops began Operation Apache Snow with the goal of clearing the People’s Army of Vietnam from the A Shau Valley in South Vietnam near the border with Laos. This was the second phase of a three-part operation and included Colonel John Conmey’s 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne.
When it began on May 10th, fighting was light but quickly grew fierce in these jungles of the Ap Bia mountain. Lt. Col. Weldon Honeycutt commanded the 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry and ordered Bravo and Charlie companies to move towards the mountain summit by different routes. The fighting was fierce and initially the 3/187th retreated into defensive positions for the night.
For the next two days 3/187th and the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry commanded by Lt. Colonel John Bowers led a dismal fight in the thick jungles of the mountain with heavy casualties. On May 18, the commander of the 101st Airborne, Major General Melvin Zais, arrived and committed three addition battalions to the battle as well as ordered that the 3/187th, which had suffered 60% casualties, be relieved. Honeycutt protested but was able to keep his men in the field for the final assault.
Attacking from the north and south in an all-out assault on the hill finally overwhelmed the PAVN, and by 5:00 on May 20, the mountain was secured. The US and ARVN forces suffered 70 killed and 372 wounded. Total PAVN casualties are unknown, but 630 bodies were found on the hill after the battle.
The press gave this lots of coverage, and the purpose of the battle was questioned in Washington, leading tocontroversy. Things got worse when the 101st abandoned the hill and the PRVN took it back, leading America to wonder why the battle took place to begin with, and hence, the name Hamburger Hill due to the meat-grinding nature of the battle.
1952 – Happy birthday Mr. T! He made an awesome B.A. Baracus, as well as a great Clubber Lang.