No. 7: Bill Walton’s nearly perfect game

NCAA Championship game, March 26, 1973 — The box score of UCLA’s 87-66 victory over Memphis seems like a misprint. Bill Walton, 21-of-22 from the field, 13 rebounds, 44 points. He shrugged off foul trouble and Tiger triple-teams to turn in a game for the ages. “We tried everything on him – we had players double-teaming him, we even put players in front and in back of him,” said Memphis coach Gene Bartow. “But somehow they always found a way to get the ball to him.”

(Picture from the Ronald Reagan Library)

Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan aboard a boat in California. (August 1964)

1980 Presidential Debate Carter v Reagan

Governor Reagan.

GOVERNOR REAGAN

Yes. Mr. President, once again, I happen to be against the amendment, because I think the amendment will take this problem out of the hands of elected legislators and put it in the hands of unelected judges. I am for equal rights, and while you have been in office for 4 years, and not one single State — and most of them have a majority of Democratic legislators — has added to the ratification or voted to ratify the equal rights amendment.

While I was Governor, more than 8 years ago, I found 14 separate instances where women were discriminated against in the body of California law, and I had passed and signed into law 14 statutes that eliminated those discriminations, including the economic ones that you have just mentioned, equal pay and so forth. I believe that if in all these years that we’ve spent trying to get the amendment, that we’d spent as much time correcting these laws, as we did in California — and we were the first to do it.

If I were President, I would also now take a look at the hundreds of Federal regulations which discriminate against women and which go right on while everyone is looking for an amendment. I would have someone ride herd on those regulations, and we’d start eliminating those discriminations in the Federal Government against women.

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It has been 150 years since the beginning of the Civil War that started in April of 1861 at Ft Sumter.