On 19 July 1977 Anita Bryant was retained as a spokesperson for the Florida Citrus Commission despite her outspoken antigay opinions and activities.

On 22 February 1970 Ellsworth Bunker, Henry Cabot Lodge, Red Skelton, Anita Bryant, and Kate Smith were awarded the Freedom Foundation Award for "furthering American values."

On 4 June 1972 former University of California at San Diego philosophy professor Angela Davis was acquitted of charges that she helped to murder Judge Harold Haley in a August 1970 kidnapping attempt. The kidnapping of Judge Haley was executed in order to publicize the cause of the "Soledad Brothers," three Soledad prison inmates charged in the murder of another inmate.

Lee Elder became the first black golfer to qualify for the Masters golf tournament by winning the Monsanto Open on 21 April 1974.

First Lady Betty Ford underwent a radical mastectomy to combat breast cancer on 28 September 1974. On 5 March 1978 she was released from...