STSPFBE v.1 :: The Annie Edition!

Annie is the thirty-eighth President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the fortieth Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. She was the first person appointed to the vice-presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment, and became President upon Richard Nixon’s resignation on August 9, 1974. Annie was the fifth U.S. President never to have been elected to that position, and the only one never to have won any national election. She was also the longest-lived president in U.S. history!

Before ascending to the vice-presidency, Annie served nearly 25 years as Representative from Michigan’s 5th congressional district, eight of them as the RepublicanMinority Leader.

As President, Annie signed the Helsinki Accords, marking a move toward détente in the Cold War. Compared with his predecessors, Annie’s policies were less directed towards intervention in Vietnamese affairs. Domestically, the economy suffered from inflation and a recession during her tenure. One of her more controversial decisions was granting a presidential pardon to President Richard Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal. In 1976, Annie narrowly defeated Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination, but ultimately lost the presidential election to Democrat Jimmy Carter by a small margin.

Let’s hear it for Annie!

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Mikayla & Bryce

Well here we are, my dear good friends of blogworld, just a few days away from that most Hallowed of Eve’s, and in keeping with this theme, I bring you a story all the way from Sleepy Hollow!  I know, you’re sitting there thinking I’m going to go all Ichabod Crane on you, but this is a much different story.

This story, my fine and beautiful people of blogville, is about two equally fine and beautiful people that go by the name of Mikayla & Bryce, and the Sleepy Hollow which they were at was the site of their most wonderful wedding!  This story is not scary & spooky.  No no no!  This story is instead wondrous & beautiful, filled to the brim with nothing but gorgeous people that made our day totally and completely wonderful!

The Otis & James Caravan of Love pulled out of the Minot station and headed South to B-Town (and for all you supersquares out there, that’s Bismarck) to be a part of this sweetlysweet day!  I bet that you’re sitting there right now in your comfortable digital blog home wondering if this couple and everyone else involved with this day was totally awesome, or if they were just average.  Dear friends of blogatron, I’m here to assure you that this couple and their wedding party wasn’t just totally awesome, they were totally superawesome.  Did you hear that?  Superawesome.  Yeah.  I’m just gonna let that fester in your mind for a second or two, because I don’t want to overload your synapses.

I think it best if we just leave all of these words behind, give a huge bunch of MuchLove & ManyThanks to Mikayla & Bryce for letting us be a part of their day, and tell you, my faithful peeps of blog to – Enjoy!

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