Central
Coast Chapter Minutes for June 20, 2015
Meeting to Order: 1:11 PM
Attendance: 9 members
Pledges of Allegiance &
SAR
Secretary’s Report: May
minutes read. Motion to accept the minutes as read (Tissue), seconded (E.
Rader). Motion carried. Treasurer’s Report unavailable.
Sunshine Report: Jerry Evans has
passed away. Gary Cooper and Roger Koeninger were ill.
Motion to make September dark
(no meeting) and to resume in October (Tissue), seconded (E. Reader). Motion
carried.
Speaker: John Siler was again
kind enough to step in and he chose to speak on the presidential election of
1968. In terms of the trust factor, JFK was the last president to have the
trust of the majority of Americans.
In 1968, Lyndon Johnson
pledged not to run and threw the Democratic nomination into chaos. Hubert
Humphrey was the likely favorite but he couldn’t distance himself from LBJ and
the Viet Nam war. Anti-war candidates like Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy emerged. Senator McCarthy
won the Oregon primary but the momentum shifted to Kennedy who won in Nebraska
and California. RFK was assassinated following his CA victory. George Wallace
mounted the strongest 3rd party candidacy since 1912.
In the end, GOP candidate
Richard Nixon outdistanced Humphrey in a tight contest. Nixon carried CA, OH
and IL, each by less than 3% and had Humphrey carried just one of them it might
have enabled George Wallace’s electors to prevent a Nixon victory in the
Electoral College. The rest is History.
Old Business: None
New Business: None
Closing Pledge
Benediction
Adjournment: 2:20 PM
Respectfully Submitted,
Chris Scrimiger
Chapter Secretary
