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Randal Wallace Presents : "George H. W. Bush" a four season look back at his extraordinary life, career, and his single term as President of the United States. A term that saw the high point of American Leadership around the world as he steered the world through the fall of the Communist superpower, the former Soviet Union. It also saw the United States lead a worldwide coalition against aggression by the Middle Eastern Dictator Saddam Hussein, and setting the example on how to fight such a ...
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It has been 50 years since the Administration of Richard Nixon. In that time, the left has waged a war on history to define Richard Nixon as a failure as President. For much of the half century Richard Nixon's name was synonymous with corruption and Government overreach. Podcasts, Documentaries, Cable Network specials have all controlled a narrative that cast Richard Nixon as the 20th centuries great American Villain. But all of that has changed. First in 2013, Geoff Shepard, Richard Nixon's ...
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Send us a Text Message. 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 me…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 sh…
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Send us a Text Message. This episode opens with the new President Gerald R. Ford addressing a joint session of Congress. He is there laying out his agenda for his new administration. The problems that he felt needed immediate addressing and where he intended to continue the policies of the man he had just replaced as President. Unfortunately for Fo…
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Send us a Text Message. 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…
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Send us a Text Message. This episode is a preview of our final series on Richard Nixon. Here we begin with Gerald Ford becoming President of the United States and former President Richard Nixon heading off into exile and most likely into oblivion. It appeared he was to be sidelined and treated as a failure. With Richard Nixon gone South Vietnam was…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 t…
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Send us a Text Message. This episode covers the last day of the administration of Richard Nixon. It begins with the arrogant Special Prosecutors as they reminisce about their plans to figure out a way to get Richard Nixon indicted knowing they had him at his weakest moment. Host Randal Wallace will discuss the fairness of that attempt, the stealing…
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Send us a Text Message. 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@ao…
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Send us a Text Message. If you have never read the book "In the Arena" by President Richard Nixon let me assure you that it is a must read book. It was the most personal of his books and it is written farther down the road from his Presidency than his Memoirs were and therefore provides a lot more perspective on the events that ended his Presidency…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we examine the Legacy of Watergate. It was the one question everyone was asked by historian Timothy Naftali and the answers were fascinating. This is a study of what each person thought the lesson of Watergate is for history. The one that caught the most interest from me was that of Bernard Nussbaum, who was …
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we simply relive this unfathomable moment in history. Not only the resignation of an elected President of the United States, but the resignation of arguably one of the greatest in the history of the country. In this episode we tune in to the live coverage of the time from the three networks then in existence,…
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Send us a Text Message. 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…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, the Smoking Gun Tape has pulled the rug out from under President Nixon and now he is being urged to resign by even his most loyal defenders. However, his family unanimously urged him to fight on. It is in this final emotional week that President Nixon goes back and forth about what to do. The President himse…
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Send us a Text Message. Finally, the United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee cast its vote on the Articles of Impeachment. It is an emotional vote for the congressmen who were thrust into history and totally unprepared for the experience. They did their best they felt, and cast the vote they had to cast. It was strangely an unemo…
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Send us a Text Message. This episode opens with President Richard Nixon's March 1974 visit to the Grand Ole Opry. Nixon was there to open the brand new Opry House on its first night after moving from downtown Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. It is a symbol of the one section of the country that never wavered, as President Nixon's problems mounted. In …
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Send us a Text Message. Here is a preview of an extraordinary week of shows that will bring us to the end of the Administration of Richard Nixon. Over this five days we will relive the emotional week between the the time the Smoking Gun becomes public and the President's resignation. You will be able to relive through news coverage and oral histori…
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Send us a Text Message. This episode is an in-depth look at the House Judiciary committee itself as they went through the work of deciding whether or not they should impeach a President of the United States for high crimes and misdemeanors for the first time in 106 years. In this show you will hear the memories of each of the members and staffers o…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 …
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Send us a Text Message. In this second edition of our look at the relationship Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon had with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin , we take a little detour to listen to some of the current thoughts of Dr. Henry Kissinger, who is now 99 years old and out with yet another book. This time a book that chronicles the great exa…
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Send us a Text Message. From Wikipedia: " Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin (Russian: Анато́лий Фёдорович Добры́нин, 16 November 1919 – 6 April 2010) was a Soviet statesman, diplomat, and politician. He was the Soviet ambassador to the United States for more than two decades, from 1962 to 1986. He attracted notoriety among the American public during and…
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Send us a Text Message. 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…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we travel the world with Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon. Here we see one last triumph for the President who brought peace to millions. He first visits France to restore good relations in Europe which had felt long neglected by its American ally as we had been bogged down in Vietnam for over a decade. While…
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Send us a Text Message. Fritz Kraemer, was a mysterious figure, here described in Wikipedia "He was always flamboyant and eccentric. Kraemer wore a monocle and it became his trademark" " Kraemer was described as the father of the neo-conservative movement in US foreign policy.[6] Kraemer was unswerving in his contempt for “provocative weakness,” wa…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 ra…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to the fourth edition of our podcast presentation of the entire arguments in front of the Supreme Court in the case of the United States vs Richard Nixon. This episode will conclude the arguments by both sides to the Supreme Court in the historic case of Watergate.By Randal Wallace
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to the third edition of our podcast presentation of the entire arguments in front of the Supreme Court in the case of the United States vs Richard Nixon. This episode will conclude President Nixon's attorney James St. Clair's presentation and include the Special Prosecutor's Office Counsel Phil Lacavara's presentatio…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to the second edition of our podcast presentation of the entire arguments in front of the Supreme Court in the case of the United States vs Richard Nixon. This episode will conclude Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's presentation and begin most of President Nixon's attorney James St. Clair's presentation.…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to the first of four episodes that will make up our podcast rebroadcast of the entire oral arguments of the case of The United States of America vs Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America. When people usually see the Youtube video of these arguments the first thing they notice is that they are three …
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Send us a Text Message. 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 wha…
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Send us a Text Message. This is a brief introduction to our format for the next two weeks of podcast episodes. We had a storytelling issue because the events covered were things that occurred simultaneously on opposite sides of the world. We broke them apart in order to not leave you confused as these events unfolded. We also decided to change the …
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we examine the events that led to the Supreme Court Case of The United States of America vs Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America. We examine the wrangling over just how many tapes the Special Prosecutor would ask for and his attempt to blackmail the President into backing off of his claim …
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Send us a Text Message. 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…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we cover the opening day of the Impeachment Hearing of the House Judiciary Committee. We listen to staffers of the committee and a couple of the committee members as they discuss the way the committee operated and the issues they faced as they moved forward to really look at the events. You will also hear fro…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 fa…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we listen as the House Judiciary Committee sets up shop to start their look into the impeachment of Richard Nixon. You will hear from Bernard Nussbaum as he talks about the decision by John Doar not to aggressively investigate the facts of the case instead deciding they would collate the evidence already gath…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 w…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we are going to introduce you to a new set of players in the saga of the fall of Richard Nixon. These are the members of the House Judiciary Committee and its staff. We chose five of them. Representatives Elizabeth Holtzman D-New York and Trent Lott R-Mississippi, two people at the very start of their long an…
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Send us a Text Message. In this , the season premier or our final season on "Richard Nixon and Watergate 1974 - 1994 The Fall and Re-Rise of Richard Nixon" we take a thorough examination of the actual crime that our President had been accused of by the Watergate Special Prosecution Force. It was that he authorized the payment of $75,000 in hush mon…
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Send us a Text Message. I told you it was a barn burner of a debate didn't I, and it lived up to the billing!! Now if you have not seen it here is the link: https://www.c-span.org/video/?521064-5/washington-journal-jill-wine-banks-geoff-shepard-discuss-watergate-50th-anniversary In this episode we go through many of the exchanges and provide you wi…
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Send us a Text Message. WELCOME TO OUR FIRST EVER SPECIAL EVENT!!!!! We are so excited to put this event together to kick off the final season of our look back at, not only Watergate, but at our five season look back at the most controversial period in American History, the Vietnam War Era . This episode is an attempt to introduce you to the two hi…
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Send us a Text Message. Here are the instructions to fully enjoy our Podcast Special Event tomorrow night. Our first post of the pre debate show will post at 8 PM (Sorry for saying in the broadcast 8:30 but it won't let me post in the half hour) Our second post for the post Debate show will post at 10 pm Both shows will be shared on Facebook and Tw…
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Send us a Text Message. Get Ready for an event like no other in the past half century. Finally Richard Nixon will get his day. It is a podcast event that we guarantee you will change everything you thought you knew about Richard Nixon and the Watergate Scandal. As Finally, The Special Prosecutors, Jill Wine Banks, have to face the Nixon Defense tea…
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Send us a Text Message. Finally, we have arrived at the end of the Richard Nixon and Watergate story. Here we prepare you for the final chapters of the story of Richard Nixon's fall. His futile fight to save his Presidency in these final 5 months of his tenure. But we will fast forward a half Century for a special event of monumental proportions pr…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 insid…
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Send us a Text Message. In our Richard Nixon and Watergate, 1974 Through the Fire , season 7 finale, all the plotting and planning bares fruit as the Special Prosecutor's get both their indictments and they are able to assist their favorite Judge John J. Sirica into maneuvering himself in as the presiding Judge for most of the big cases on Watergat…
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Send us a Text Message. The House Judiciary Committee is about to take center stage. In February 1974, the House votes to start the inquiry on Impeachment in ernest. They assign the task to the House Judiciary Committee under its new Chairman Peter Rodino, a little known New Jersey Democrat from Jersey City. He had assumed the position out of senio…
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Send us a Text Message. 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…
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Send us a Text Message. This is our fifth in our series of shows based on the tapes. This one is a taped conversation between President Richard Nixon and one of his top political advisors Harry Dent Sr, of my home state of South Carolina. Mr. Dent is revered here in my state for all the work he did to build the Republican Party of South Carolina. W…
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Send us a Text Message. Over the years there have been countless stories of the out of control Nixon. That as the pressure mounted President Nixon was not in control of his mental facilities nor his Administration. One such fanciful claim has been repeated about Richard Nixon's decision making during the Yom Kippur War, a full 5 months prior to the…
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Send us a Text Message. Arguably, the most famous story of Watergate, save Richard Nixon's resignation itself, is that of the famous Washington Post secret source, My Friend, Mr. X, or better known thanks to the movie and book "All the President's Men" as Deep Throat. He turned out to be the number 2 man at the FBI, W. Mark Felt. Felt denied it for…
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