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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 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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Send us a text It is one thing to work with a President from the other party and be the loyal opposition that is often getting in the news for being opposed to the President. It is another to be your President's leader on the House floor pushing through his agenda, especially when you are in the minority. That is the position that Gerald Ford will …
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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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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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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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Send us a text In Former President Richard Nixon's final book "Beyond Peace" he often wrote like a psychic of some kind. He wrote: “The United States must lead. We must lead to open the eyes of those still blinded by despotism, to emboldened those who remain oppressed, and bring out from the dungeons of tyranny those who still live in darkness. The…
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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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Send us a text In this episode we look back on President Nixon's relationships with three world leaders who were very important to the United States during his administration. No world leader in history was as well traveled as President Richard Nixon and few if any knew the world better. During President Nixon's retirement years Nixon was often cal…
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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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Send us a text This is the first episode in our series of bonus materials. This is a listen at the news coverage from President Nixon's last day in office. During our regular series I chose to use the coverage from CBS News because it is more recognizable to the public. The familiar voices of Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather are what I chose to put i…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Send us a text This episode is one of final thoughts on Richard Nixon. They range from subjects like the shameful treatment he received from the national news media and how they have actively worked to keep the public in the dark on the facts of Watergate. This was a problem both when it occurred and even today as an enormous amount of easily verif…
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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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Send us a text This is the finale of our look at Richard Nixon, and our 145 episode look back at the most divisive era in American history other than the American Civil War, the Vietnam war and Watergate. It all began with the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, the President of South Vietnam , followed three weeks later by the assassination of Preside…
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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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Send us a text In this episode, we listen to Richard Nixon's thoughts on the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union may be gone but the nation that succeeded it, Russia, is now under the leadership of an old KGB Agent, Vladimir Putin. A Russian strongman, leading a resurgence of Russian Nationalism and Russian despotism just as President Nixon had predicte…
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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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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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Send us a text In this episode we listen to Richard Nixon's thoughts on a wide variety of issues that still exist today, plus his advice at how to deal with problems in our lives that apply to everyone. He tells stories from his time in public office as a Congressman, Senator, Vice-President and President. You will hear some of the legendary journa…
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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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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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Send us a text This was an extraordinary moment. It marks the beginning of Richard Nixon's long, and remarkable journey to the status of beloved elder statesman. Richard Nixon walked into the room a hated, disgraced, much maligned, but still historic figure, and he walked out having won the respect of everyone who witnessed his performance. As he s…
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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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Send us a text Finally the end of the Vietnam War. Richard Nixon had negotiated an honorable peace with the assurances that we would continue to help the South Vietnamese to be able to defend themselves from any aggression from the North. When that aggression came President Gerald Ford did all he could to honor that pledge but the Congress cut off …
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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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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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Send us a text 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 Ford every …
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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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Send us a text 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 cast asi…
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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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Send us a text 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 of the P…
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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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Send us a text 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. Late in…
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Send us a text 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 the secon…
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Send us a text 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, CBS News…
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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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Send us a text 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 himself seems …
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Send us a text 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 unemotional mo…
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Send us a text 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 the South…
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