Best George Bush Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 321 GEORGE H. W. BUSH : 1992 The Changing of the Guard (Part 3) The Contenders (Section B) - Pat Buchanan 53:35

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Send us a text Pat Buchanan, the tough talking, former speechwriter and aid to Richard Nixon, and former Communications Director for Ronald Reagan, steps up and challenges the President and leader of his own party in New Hampshire. His campaign will sound very familiar to you if you have followed the last three Republican Presidential Campaigns. Fo…

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Episode 320 GEORGE H. W. BUSH: 1992 The Changing of the Guard (Part 2) The Contenders (Section A) , and the Economy 44:10

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Send us a text In this episode we look at the daunting economic tasks George H. W. Bush has in front of him over the next year. The economy, Unemployment, Healthcare, and the ever present issues on the World Stage, are all piling up and Bush is busy putting his plans together to tackle them. We will see him in this episode start putting those plans…

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Episode 319 GEORGE H. W. BUSH: 1992 The Changing of the Guard (Part 1) The State of the Union 1:04:17

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Send us a text In our first episode of our fourteenth season, we open with arguably one of the high points of the George H. W. Bush years. When he opened the 1992 State of the Union address he could legitimately say"The State of our Union is strong", for in the past year, he had vanquished a dictator in the Middle East, and he had managed the colla…

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Tom Jarrell A Tribute to the great ABC Newsman 1935 - 2024 12:22

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Send us a text In this brief bonus episode we take just a few minutes to remember the career of the great ABC News reporter Tom Jarrell who passed away in October 2024. Jarrell covered some of the biggest stories of the last half of the 20th century. He most notably was in Memphis covering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr when King was assassinated in 196…

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GEORGE H. W. BUSH 1992 The Changing of the Guard Preview 12:24

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Send us a text In 1992, as the Cold War had come to an end, George H. W. Bush was up for re-election. It should have been a cake walk. Bush had accomplished more in three years than many Presidents accomplish in 8 years. He had presided over the end of the Cold War, victory in the Gulf War, and in Panama, he had bailed out the Savings and Loans, pa…

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Episode 318 GEORGE H. W. BUSH The Fall of the Soviet Union (Part 4) The Soviet Union Ends 49:50

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Send us a text In our Season finale of the historic year that was 1991, we look at the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Soviet Union itself. It began in a bloody revolution that saw the execution of not only Czar Nicholas the second but also his entire family including his young daughters. In the 69 years it officially existed and in the five y…

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Episode 317 GEORGE H. W. BUSH The Fall of the Soviet Union (Part 3) A look at Boris Yeltsin 45:19

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Send us a text In over a thousand years of Russian history only one man can lay claim as having been elected directly from the people. His name was Boris Yeltsin. He is the man who pushed the Soviet Union over the cliff and then became the leader of the fledgling Russian Federation. He stood on a tank in defiance of a coup that was trying to seize …

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Episode 316 GEORGE H.W. BUSH The Fall of the Soviet Union (Part 2) A look at Mikhail Gorbachev Part B 45:27

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Send us a text In our second part of our look at both the fall of the Soviet Union and of its final leader Mikhail Gorbachev, we look back at his life and his career. we listen to the man himself and hear his thoughts after the dissolution of the Soviet Union had occurred. We will also examine one of the ultimate of ironies for this historic figure…

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Episode 315 GEORGE H. W. BUSH The Fall of the Soviet Union (part 1) A look at Mikhail Gorbachev Part A 56:49

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Send us a text As we begin our four part look back at the fall of the Soviet Union, we begin by looking back at the man who presided over it, Mikhail Gorbachev. He was reformer, a charismatic leader, and a committed Communist. It is that latter part of the description that is the key to understanding his own downfall. He stayed married to the Commu…

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Episode 314 A Speech by Strom Thurmond with a Questions an Answers segment ( Special Edition) the Kennedy Political Union at American University October 21, 1991 1:04:03

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Send us a text On the 33rd anniversary of the address to the Kennedy Political Union at American University by Senator Strom Thurmond, we thought we would rebroadcast it here for you. In this address, Senator Thurmond will talk about various issues of the day from the recently concluded Clarence Thomas Hearing, to military preparedness, to politics…

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Episode 313 GEORGE H.W. BUSH The Clarence Thomas Hearings (Part 8) The Swearing in Ceremony 32:56

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Send us a text In this episode we will watch the United States Senate cast its vote on the confirmation of Clarence Thomas as an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court. We will hear his mother's reaction as he wins the fight . Then we will travel to the confirmation ceremony itself and hear from both President George H. W. Bush and th…

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Episode 312 GEORGE H.W. BUSH The Clarence Thomas Hearings (Part 7) The Senate Debate 1:26:14

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Send us a text In this episode we listen in on a number of the giant figures of the era in the United States Senate as they debate the confirmation of Judge Clarence Thomas. It is a whose who of some of the the towering political figures of the era. They will debate Clarence Thomas's political positions, their concerns about his Judical rulings, an…

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Episode 311 GEORGE H.W. BUSH The Clarence Thomas Hearings (Part 6) Asking question of both Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas 59:39

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Send us a text In this episode we hear the Senators ask questions of both Clarence Thomas and his accuser, Anita Hill. The questions and the answers can be at times graphic, deeply personal, and revealing. The Senators often were portrayed as sexist for the grilling they put to Anita Hill. However, some questions needed to be asked, like why did sh…

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Episode 310 GEORGE H.W. BUSH The Clarence Thomas Hearings (Part 5) Opening Statements 1:03:47

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Send us a text In this episode we hear directly from the accuser and the accused just as if it happened yesterday. This episode will also have both of the people involved give addresses and opening comments from both the Chairman , Joe Biden, and the ranking member, Strom Thurmond. It is a fascinating look back at tumultuous times and you will get …

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Episode 309 GEORGE H.W. BUSH The Clarence Thomas Hearings (Part 4) The Anita Hill Accusations 51:08

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Send us a text The accusations against Clarence Thomas explode on to the scene just the day before he was going to be voted on for placement of the Space Court. The news was a bombshell in the hearings and the two sides were aimed for a fight. In this episode we listen to the man that had originally employed Clarence Thomas as he worked his way up …

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Episode 308 GEORGE H.W. BUSH The Clarence Thomas Hearings (Part 3) The Senators Ask Questions 1:01:09

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Send us a text In this episode we get to listen in on various panels both in favor of Judge Clarence Thomas and opposed to Clarence Thomas testify in front of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee. You will hear the senators raise issues from Affirmative Action, to Civil Rights, to the Judges opinion on the South African Government. You will…

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Episode 307 GEORGE H. W. BUSH The Clarence Thomas Hearings (Part 2) Clarence Thomas arrives on Capitol Hill 46:27

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Send us a text In this episode we see the Senators as they discuss this appointment of Clarence Thomas to Supreme Court. We begin with a meeting of three of the most powerful Republican Senators on Capitol Hill , John Danforth, Bob Dole, and Strom Thurmond. They will discuss the qualifications of Judge Thomas and the strategy for getting him throug…

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Episode 306 GEORGE H.W. BUSH The Clarence Thomas Hearings (Part 1) Thurgood Marshall Retires 36:21

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Send us a text In July of 1991, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall announced his retirement as a Supreme Court Justice. That would set off the second ugliest fight to date to fill a Supreme Court seat. Only the fight over the nomination of Robert Bork was tougher and Bork lost. Clarence Thomas was a conservative justice, he was young at age 43…

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Happy 100th Birthday to President JIMMY CARTER !!!!!! 34:41

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Send us a text Happy 100th Birthday to former President Jimmy Carter.!!! He is the first President to live to be 100 years old and he has done a tremendous amount of good over those 100 years. In our 10th season we did a dual biography of his Presidency alongside our look at our former Congressman John Jenrette. It was an enormous educational exper…

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Episode 305 GEORGE H. W. BUSH The Soviet Coup (Part 5) The Post Soviet Coup , an Address by James Baker to Princeton University 56:44

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Send us a text In this episode we let you listen to one of the most impressive statemen of the century, Secretary of State James Baker. He was a graduate of Princeton University and after the Soviet Union Coup attempt finally calms down he returned to his Alma Mater to talk about the future he hoped would occur in the Soviet Union. We will be cover…

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Episode 304 GEORGE H.W. BUSH The Soviet Coup (Part 4) The Kennebunkport Press Conference 26:40

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Send us a text In this episode we get the President and Secretary of State's views on the events over the past few days in the Soviet Union. In the press conference you will see how the management of this historic event in the Soviet Union is indictive of how the fall of Communism was managed by these two wise leaders. Questions or comments at , Ra…

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Episode 303 GEORGE H.W. BUSH The Soviet Coup (Part 3) The Collapse 43:13

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Send us a text On the third day the Coup collapses. This is that story. From the moment the three people perish the coup becomes a trainwreck. At one point they go back to work out a deal with Gorbachev and nothing works. By the end of this day, Yeltsin has emerged as the man who saved the Soviet Union, for the moment anyway, and Gorbachev is on hi…

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Episode 302 GEORGE H. W. BUSH The Soviet Coup (Part 2) Blood in the Street 42:11

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Send us a text In this episode we see the beginning of the end of the Coup as three people are killed by tanks running over them as the Army is moving in Moscow toward the White House, their home of the Russian Parliament. It is a day full of drama as Boris Yeltsin fights back defiantly. He eludes the Coup leaders by 40 minutes at his house and hea…

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Episode 301 GEORGE H. W. BUSH The Soviet Coup (Part 1) Caught by Surprise 47:21

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Send us a text On August 19, 1991, George H. W. Bush was woken up just after midnight to be told that Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned suddenly for health reasons as the President of the Soviet Union. That did not sound right to anyone. What unfolded for the next three days was the entire world watching the unraveling of one of the two Super Powers o…

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Episode 300 GEORGE H. W. BUSH 1991 The Start 1 Treaty 57:10

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Send us a text In this episode we look back at several important situations developing all at once. The Soviet Union is in trouble. Economically the situation is getting dire as Gorbachev comes to the economic summit to ask for help. As the G-7 includes the Soviets for the very first time. This is just after a fairly small, and not so celebratory M…

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Episode 299 GEORGE H.W, BUSH The Gulf War (Part 14) Building Coalitions, An Address by James Baker, Former Secretary of State 1:05:19

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Send us a text Coalition Building in the Gulf War President Bush introduces former Secretary of State James Baker. Mr. Baker then spoke about diplomatic efforts to build an international coalition to fight Iraq and liberate Kuwait. Following his remarks he answered questions from the audience. We decided that this event was too important not to fea…

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Episode 298 GEORGE H.W. BUSH: The Gulf War - The President Bush Post War addresses Collection 32:52

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Send us a text In this episode we follow President Bush during the period just after the Gulf War has ended. In this period he makes several speeches thanking the State Department, the soldiers, speaking to the future soldiers at the West Point Graduation and trying to inspire their future service to the nation. Finally, he addresses the service re…

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Episode 297 GEORGE H. W. BUSH : The Gulf War - The War Ends with Bush addressing Congress 53:35

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Send us a text On March 6, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed a joint session of Congress to report back that the war in the Gulf was over. That Iraq had been repulsed and Kuwait had been restored. It was an impressive moment for a President who had once been called a wimp on the front page of Newsweek. This military operation had not only…

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George H.W. BUSH The Gulf War : A Clear , Clean Victory in the Persian Gulf, An Address by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Colin Powell, March 4, 1991 (Special Edition) 37:03

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Send us a text In this episode we look back at the end of the war and then tune in to a speech by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the Veterans of Foreign Wars. General Colin Powell emerged from this war a national hero. He would go on to look seriously at his own run for President in 1996. After you listen in on this speech you underst…

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Episode 296 GEORGE H.W. BUSH : The Gulf War - The Norman Schwarzkopf Mother of All Press Conferences (Special Edition) 53:40

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Send us a text In this episode we take a look back at General Norman Schwarzkopf the man as remembered by one of his colleagues. Then we tune in to the press conference known in Gulf War lore as "The Mother of all Press Conferences" In this press Conference Schwarzkopf goes through what had been happening on the ground and offers his own assessment…

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Episode 295 GEORGE H.W. BUSH: The Gulf War - The Norman Schwarzkopf January 27, 1991 Press Briefing 33:08

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Send us a text We had planned to do a series of Press Conference shows as we told the story of the Gulf War. These are those shows. They are, as we earlier explained on our Housekeeping episode, out of chronological order. This Press Cnference is from Janaury 27, 1992 and it was held on the same day as the Super Bowl, In this briefing Gernaral Shwa…

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What IF Nixon had been able to serve the remainder of his term as President (with Special Guest Star Robert M. Bostock) A SPECIAL EDITION courtesy of The Richard Nixon Experience 49:31

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Send us a text In this special edition of The Richard Nixon Experience, we let you tune back in to that final day at the White House for President Nixon. You will hear excerpts from his resignation speech, his speech to his staff and reminiscences from several different people about those events including President Nixon and President Ford. All of …

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IN MEMORIAM : James Wiles, Legal Advisor to our show, CBS News Correspondent Phil Jones, and Legendary T.V. Talk Show Host Phil Donahue (and his amazing love affair with Marlo Thomas) 1:01:31

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Send us a text In this special edition of our podcast we look back in Memoriam to three people who passed away in August of 2024. They are our podcasts legal advisor, James Wiles, a retired lawyer who lived here in Myrtle Beach and was active in Republican Party Politics, working on several campaigns for Horry County Council, Myrtle Beach City Coun…

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A Housekeeping Show about issues with our timeline for the next few episodes 5:15

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Send us a text Due to the death of our legal advisor, James Wiles, here at "The Randal Wallace Presents" Podcast we were caught in a situation on August 1, 2024, that led to some episodes we had produced not being aired in the order they were supposed to be aired on. They are episodes that deal with General Norman Schwarzkopf. We will be airing the…

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Episode 294 GEORGE H. W. BUSH The Gulf War (Part 9) - The Ground War B 39:45

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Send us a text In this episode we see the War wrap up as the Iraqi's flee Kuwait and the United Nations Forces take control of the nation. In this episode you will hear President Bush address the nation as the ground war comes to an end. Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallac…

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Episode 293 GEORGE H. W. BUSH The Gulf War (part 8) - The Ground War A 53:48

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Send us a text The Ground War begins. In this episode we will listen in as the press struggles to get a full story as to what is happening on the ground in Kuwait and Iraq. We will hear President Bush address the nation and that will be followed up by Defense Secretary Dick Cheney holding a press conference at the Pentagon with a simple message tha…

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Episode 292 GEORGE H. W. BUSH The Gulf War (Part 7) - Air Supremacy 50:09

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Send us a text In this episode we look at the dominating ability of the Coalition Air Forces led by the United States. Saddam Hussein finds himself out gunned, out technologized, and on the brink of losing badly. The United States forces are gearing up to begin the Ground War after basically demolishing the Iraqi Air Force. We will also show you so…

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Episode 291 GEORGE H. W. BUSH : The Gulf War (Part 6) - The second Schwarzkopf Press Conference. 45:23

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Send us a text The second in a series of Norman Shwartzkoft press briefings. His briefings were a work of art. He lays out the situation and keeps the public informed. He does it with an amazing sense of humor and focus all at the sametime. Enjoy listening to the General on the ground running the war in a way we had never been able to hear a comman…

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Episode 290 GEORGE H. W. BUSH : The Gulf War (Part 5) - The Battle of Khafgi 48:57

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Send us a text This episode we will examine the battle of Khafgi. It was Saddam Hussein's attempt to make America bleed. He had not been able to engage any American troops at all and therefore had few if any bargaining chips as the War had been mostly an air campaign to this point. His thought was to invade this tiny Saudi Arabian border town and f…

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GEORGE H.W. BUSH : The Gulf War - The 1991 State of the Union Address (January 31, 1991) Special Edition 44:34

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Send us a text This episode we hear from President George Bush as he reports back to the country the State of the Union as we are poised for a land war in the Middle East. It is a strong speech from a commanding President who at this point was one of the most popular Presidents' in American History. Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , h…

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Episode 289 GEORGE H. W. BUSH : The Gulf War Part 4 - The Super Bowl 1:03:53

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Send us a text The Gulf War heats up just in time for one of America's biggest annual events, the Super Bowl. In this episode we tune in as the issues in the Middle East take front and center in the second week of the air war. We listen in as the United States and the Coalition forces dominate the Iraqi military. But fear here at home also grows as…

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The Joe Biden Presidential Withdrawal Address (Special Edition) Two Speeches Part 2 (with Special guest clip from Lyndon Johnson.) 24:14

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Send us a text In our second edition on the two speeches from July 24, 2024, we have the address to the nation of President Joe Biden. This is the speech that was a follow up to his letter to the American People announcing his withdrawal from the Presidential race this coming fall. In this episode we discuss our personal good feelings for the curre…

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The Benjamin Netanyahu Address to Congress (Special Edition) Two speeches part 1 57:37

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Send us a text This is a special edition of our podcast looking at the first of two very important speeches delivered on July 24, 2024. This first one was by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel was attacked on October 7, 2023 by surprise by Hamas. The atrocities committed by Hamas and its terrorist friends against the Israeli people h…

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Episode 288 GEORGE H.W. Bush : The Gulf War (part 3) 1:10:50

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Send us a text Day 2 of the Gulf War starts out with Iraq having been decimated by the Coalition air campaign. The military action began at night and exploited all the Iraqi regimes known military weaknesses. The Iraqi Air Force was basically grounded at night and the Army was unable to counter in any way. It was in the first 24 hours a rather lops…

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Episode 287 GEORGE H.W. BUSH : The Gulf War (Part 2) 58:04

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Send us a text In this episode, we will listen in as the news covers the events in real time. CNN has its crew literally on the ground in Bagdad as events unfold and they continue to cover it all live. We will listen to a full interview with CNN star reporter Peter Arnette in his interview with the Academy of Television as he describes what it was …

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Episode 286 GEORGE H.W. BUSH : The Gulf War (Part 1) 1:04:56

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Send us a text In this our 13th Season Premiere, we begin our look back at the Gulf War, Desert Storm, as President Bush leads a united World to push back the dictator, Saddam Hussein, from Kuwait. This season will be broken apart into little mini-series of historic events in and incredibly consequential year in the history of not only the United S…

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Jim Inhofe A Snowball of a Tribute 1:02:24

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Send us a text James Mountain Inhofe , was an interesting man. He was Oklahoma's longest serving Senator, a pilot, and a man who served in office on every level of Government. He was Mayor of Tulsa, a Congressman and a Senator. He was a conservative advocate and a man who fought the Climate change movement every step of the way. He even famously on…

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GEORGE H.W. BUSH vs Joe Biden On the War on Drugs, (Special Edition) 43:55

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Send us a text In this episode we look on as two Presidents spar on the subject of how to handle drugs in America. George H. W. Bush would address the nation to talk about how to fight the scourge of drugs in America. He would lay out his plan for dealing with the issue. When he is done talking we will hear the Democratic response and it will featu…

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Orangeburg, S.C. (Special Edition) The Massacre 1:20:29

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Send us a text In this episode we look back at one of the major moments of the American Civil Rights movement, the Orangeburg Massacre . You will hear about the situation that developed in Orangeburg , South Carolina when the AllStar Bowling Alley refused to allow African American students from SC State and Claflin Universities to go inside and bow…

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A South Carolina Hall of Fame Special Presentation 51:43

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Send us a text Welcome to our look at the South Carolina Hall of Fame. Our host Randal Wallace is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the South Carolina Hall of Fame. It is a title he is very proud to claim. He recently traveled to the Landmark Conference for the Confederation of Historical Societies in South Carolina held in Orangebu…

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