![September 1978 calendar](http://billemory.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ric162f5-calendar-1978-hand.jpg)
President: Jimmy Carter (D-Georgia)
Vice President: Walter Mondale (D-Minnesota)
Chief Justice: Warren E. Burger (Minnesota)
Speaker of the House of Representatives: Tip O’Neill (D-Massachusetts)
Senate Majority Leader: Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia)
September 17 – Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin the peace process at Camp David, Maryland.