President Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States; the following day Searle Chairman Donald Rumsfeld took the steps to re-apply aspartame’s approval for use by the FDA, which originally was rejected again, but FDA Commissioner Hull stacked the commission with a ‘yes’ man to tie the vote 3-3, then Hull cast the deciding vote himself to approve the carcenogenic sugar alternative. CIA Director William Casey: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
Two months after his inauguration, an assassination attempt takes place on President Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley, Jr, a family friends of VP George Bush. MTV is launched and begins corrupting youth to a culture of drugs, sex, and rebellion. Nine of the Wujek coal miners who were on strike in Poland are killed by Comminist security police.
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