Montana values prevail over Six Million Dollar Man

In 1978 Max Baucus was elected to the U.S. Senate starting a record 35 years of representing Montana. In 1978, Pat Williams was elected to the first of a record nine consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. Also in 1978, something happened in New York City that foreshadowed a political event in Montana 38 years later. In 1978 the ABC television network canceled the prime time show “The Six Million Dollar Man.”

“The Six Million Dollar Man” was a successful science fiction television series starring Lee Majors who portrayed a former astronaut who had acquired superhum...