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On Presidents and Politics, the Director of the American Center for Political Leadership, former Congressman Dennis Ross, and SEU Professor Caleb McGee come together to dive deep into the history of politics and the early presidents of the United States. They discuss who they were as people, the challenges they faced and much more.
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Randal Wallace Presents : "George H. W. Bush" a five 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. In our 14th Season , we will look back at one of the most exciting election years in history. It should have been easier, George Bush had freed the world of Communism and managed the fall of a superpower without having the world fall into violent chaos. A truly re ...
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History might be written by the winners, but in presidential politics the story is often shaped by the Long Shots. Journalist Conor Powell profiles eight presidential candidates who lost the race for the White House but dramatically changed America’s political landscape - right up to today. Long Shots is the story of America’s presidential battles – the contentious contest for the most powerful office in the world - and how knowing where we've been can help us choose a better tomorrow. With ...
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Send us a text This might be the most fun episode we ever produced. As we look back at George H. W. Bush , Pro wrestling fan. With the help of Charleston Post and Courier articles written by their star reporter Mike Mooneyham, we will examine the Bush connection to the world of Professional wrestling and especially his fondness for wrestling's grea…
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Send us a text In this special edition of our podcast we will be looking at the highly acclaimed best selling book written by former Ronald Reagan Speech writer Ken Khachigian. The book offers an insiders view of not one President but two Presidents, both giants in our long long struggle against the forces of Communism in the Cold War. The two Pres…
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Send us a text The day after the Presidential debate, Hillary and Bill Clinton had a rally in Richmond , Virginia. The feeling of momentum shifting in their direction was certainly evident but the race would prove to be far from over. This is that rally in its entirety as the Clinton campaign kicks off its run toward the finish line. George Bush wo…
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Send us a text This is the famous Vice Presidential Debate. It would feature a fiery set of exchanges between Vice President Dan Quayle and Senator Al Gore. The two men served in the Senate together and knew each other quite well. The gloves will come off and as that happens the third man on the stage , retired Admiral James Stockdale, was often re…
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Send us a text In this first of several episodes where we will be looking at the Presidential Debates, both in this series in 1992, and the coming Dole series in 1996, we will look back on the first Townhall debate held in a Presidential election year. This was playing to Bill Clinton's strength. It would also play to George Bush's weakness. Bush a…
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Send us a text He's Back!!!! After a nearly three month absence in the 1992 Presidential race, Ross Perot decides to jump back in to the race. The truth is he probably never really ever left it. All I can say about whomever's tactical decision it was to have him withdraw in the first place needed to have their head examined. It ranks, in my opinion…
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Send us a text As September draws to a close, we listen in on two rallies, and an introduction from a political rising star who will go on to be a big player in the next three decades. At Governor Bill Clinton's rally in San Francisco we introduce you to the former Mayor and the 1992 candidate for the U. S. Senate, Dianne Feinstein. Then Bill Clint…
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Send us a text In this episode we tune in to two different rallies as both candidates are barnstorming the nation to make their case to as many people as they can get in front of in 1992. President Bush is campaigning in the heartland of Missouri while Governor Bill Clinton is on the west coast in Oregon. We will tune in to the local coverage in bo…
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Send us a text Here is a chance for you to hear Governor Bill Clinton doing what he does best. It is a campaign rally at Montgomery College in Rockville Maryland. This episode allows you to hear him on the stump as he delivers his campaign speech in its entirety. Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , a…
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Send us a text The SS United States once sailed mightily across the Atlantic. She set the transatlantic sailing speed record , which still stands today, only using 2/3 of her power. She was once majestic, powerful, and one of the most luxurious vessels of its time. But time has passed. The jet airplane cut transatlantic travel from days to hours. T…
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Send us a text To start off the fall campaign in early September 1992, Bill Clinton arrives at the Detroit Economic Club to talk about his economic plan and how it will affect Michigan. He will take a few jabs at the incumbent President in the process too. Here you can hear Bill Clinton doing what he does best, give a detailed policy speech and mak…
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Send us a text We start in this episode the look at late August and all of September as the two major figures in the race battle it out for the only time all alone. Starting with this episode we will feature rallies of both President Bush and Governor Bill Clinton. This episode will look back at President Bush as he starts out in Connecticut and th…
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Send us a text It is time to kick off the fall campaign. In this first month of campaigning we get the only time the two principles in the race faced each other head to head. Ross Perot would rejoin the fray in October. So, in the next few episodes we let you watch the 1992 campaign unfold between President George H. W. Bush and Governor Bill Clint…
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Send us a text In this special edition we honor two very different but very special people, Stuart Spencer and Bob Ueker. Stuart Spencer was an advisor to Ronald Reagan going back to his earliest days in politics. He helped guide Reagan to the California Governor’s Mansion and then on to the White House. In the time between, he also ended up workin…
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Send us a text The tension is in the air on the final night of the Republican National Convention in 1992. The speech is do or die for President George H.W. Bush. It occurs just a week after he has brought back in his top advisor James Baker. He needs to show focus and the will to win. He does what he had to do and comes out of the Convention havin…
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Send us a text In this episode we take you through the events of three of the days of the Republican National Convention as George Bush prepares to take the stage and address the nation. He is greeted by hecklers at a Houston event who snuck in as reporters from an AIDS activist group. But the President and the crowd handle it fairly well. Despite …
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Send us a text This is a speech delivered just barely in Primetime that slipped into the 11pm hour. Arguably the single biggest mistake ever made by schedulers in the history of prime time political conventions. It is from day 1 of the 1992 Republican National Convention. It was a convention that had a lot of political battles in it between the con…
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Send us a text In this episode we tune in to the first days of the 1992 Republican National Convention. We will go first to the morning session and hear from a list of Republican candidates for Congress as they try to "Bounce the House" after the Democrats get themselves in gulfed in a house banking scandal where several of the members bounced hund…
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Send us a text This special Edition of our podcast , is a look back at two of our favorite motion pictures, "Casablanca" , and "Havana", just in time for "Casablanca" to be making its reappearance on the Silver Screen over the next week at theaters all across the nation. The Flashback Theater Series will be featuring the picture at various theaters…
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Send us a text It is just days before the Republican National Convention and the campaign of George H. W. Bush is losing, badly. It appears unfocused and seems to be reacting to events instead of controlling them or leading them. The worsening economy has the argument for change being made by Bill Clinton stronger with each passing day. Finally, Ro…
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Send us a text In our second episode in our final installment in our special series, Farewells and Welcomebacks, we follow Donald Trump during the rest of his historic first day back in office. We will hear from the Vice President and President as they address supporters in the Capitol Welcome Center. Then we will head over to the Capitol One Cente…
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Send us a text This begins our final two episodes in our Farewell and Welcome back special series. We were invited to come up for the Inauguration of Donald Trump and had planned to do a Facebook Live broadcast and interviews live from Washington D.C. Unfortunately, it got seriously cold. I am a southerner, I mean seriously cold. That changed every…
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Send us a text This is the final night of the 1992 Democratic National Convention and there is only one star of this show. We start out with the CNN Documentary "The Road to the White House 1992" as it fills you in on the events of that day and then we listen in on one of the best films ever produced for a Presidential nominee. "The Man from Hope" …
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Send us a text As we take off into a new era of American History , I thought it might be interesting to look back at a few of the highlights from a historic week in Washington and look back at the three Presidents this week centered on. 1. Jimmy Carter - We pay tribute to a great man in former President Jimmy Carter, who passed away at age 100 at t…
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Send us a text We ran out of time in our last episode but felt that both of these segments were worthy of being chronicled in our series looking back at the 1992 election. The first is the full press conference of Ross Perot as he withdrew from the 1992 election. It was a move that to this day makes no sense to me as to why he did it. He had been i…
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Send us a text In this episode we listen in on one of the great public speakers of the Democratic Party, New York Governor Mario Cuomo. He will deliver the nominating speech for Governor Bill Clinton and he will electrify the crowd as only he can do. In fact, what stands out is that most of the delegates in the hall, who are way more liberal than y…
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Send us a text On this final day of the administration of the 46th President of the United States, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr, we will look back at his Life and Career, and his final week as President of the United States. It began in 1972, when our Host Randal Wallace, was only a year and a half old, and it would continue unabated for the next 52 …
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Send us a text We have an announcement. We are heading to Washington D.C. to cover the Inauguration of Donald Trump. Tune in to our Facebook Live videos on our "Randal Wallace Presents" podcast Facebook page and then we will have the show ready to go when we get back. Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallac…
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Send us a text In our second installment of "Farewells and Welcome Backs" we begin our farewell to Joe Biden, the 46th President of the United States. In this episode we share a few thoughts on the man and his entire career and we listen in on three of his final speeches in his own farewell tour of sorts. 1. His Lifetime Achievement Award from the …
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Send us a text In this episode we look back at a triumphant week for President Donald Trump as he held a pre Inaugural press conference on the transition and his plans for a second Trump term. In this episode we will listen in on all the various themes and issues he touched on in his hour and 20 minute press conference and then delve into the histo…
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Send us a text This is a second part we added to our tribute to President Jimmy Carter that ran yesterday. The episode we put together to start with was already 1 hour and 47 minutes long after editing it down, so we had to decide what to cut from the program. After making the edits we came to the conclusion that we had another episode that really …
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Send us a text This is our tribute to the 39th President of the United States. This episode features highlights from the State Funeral last week of the former President , interspersed with segments of his life in his own words, or from the coverage of the day, with music from the State funeral in the background. This is truly the end of an era for …
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Send us a text In our first of several special editions in January, we shall bid farewell to two United States Senators who have spent their times in office reaching across the aisle in order find solutions to issues plaguing our nation. While that is commendable, it does come with a price and can hurt you in the base of your own party. One of the …
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Send us a text In this episode we take you to the Democratic National Convention to hear some of the greatest public speakers of the 1990s. 1. Jerry Brown, former Governor of California (and future Governor of California and future Mayor of Oakland) he was a 1992 Presidential candidate who near the end emerged to give Bill Clinton a little challeng…
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Send us a text In this episode we look back at the remarkable life of Jimmy Carter through the eyes of several who knew him. Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States died at age 100 on December 29, 2024. As we head into a national week of mourning we have compiled a few stories about his life from old friends like Former Congressman Jo…
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Send us a text This episode will lay out a series of special episodes looking back at the departure of a couple of important Senators, the outgoing President Joe Biden, the incoming President Donald Trump and our episodes honoring the former President who just passed away at age 100, Jimmy Carter. We will also feature a segment in honor of former A…
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Send us a text The opening night of the Democratic National Convention in 1992 had the misfortune of having to compete with Major League Baseball All Star Game. To counteract that programming they decided to put the ladies of the party our front on this first night, that will feature a keynote address by Representative Barbara Jordan, Then the 39th…
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Send us a text Happy New Year 2025!!! What an amazing year 2024 was for us at this podcast. For 18 weeks we were the number 1 American History Podcast on Feedspot, and for just a little while we had our sister podcast "The Richard Nixon Experience" ranked at number 7 at the same time. We had two podcasts in the top 10. I am proud of that!! It was a…
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Send us a text In this special edition we look back at the remarkable life of former 5th District of South Carolina Congressman John Spratt. Spratt was in Congress for nearly 3 decades and rose to be chairman of the House Budget Committee. From that post he would become the master of the Federal Budget working throughout the 1990’s to balance the F…
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Send us a text In this episode, we look at three major stories that all happened in the early summer of 1992. 1. H. Ross Perot decides to enter the race for President after getting over 200,000 signatures to get him on the ballot in Texas. When he decides to enter the race he is polling in first place ahead of both President George Bush and the Dem…
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Send us a text In this special edition we will hear President Bush speak to the American Legislative Exchange Council, which is a group of State elected officials that help form conservative policy for the Federal Government. In this speech you will hear the President as he discusses the various policy intiatives he was pressing in the spring of 19…
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Send us a text Rodney King was stopped for speeding in California the year before and savagely beaten after he resisted arrest. It was all caught on video by a bystander and the police were charged for excessive brutality while trying to subdue King. When the police were acquitted by an all white jury in another neighboring county from where the cr…
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Send us a text The 1992 New York Democratic Primary was a knock down drag out affair between Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and his one remaining challenger Former California Governor Jerry Brown. The two men pulled no punches as they fought over the delegates in this state , that was no stranger to rowdy politics. Brown would accuse Clinton of sha…
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Send us a text In this episode we will listen in as Pat Buchanan begins to fade away after it is discovered he drives a Mercedes Benz and the Bush campaign pounces on it. On the other side, Paul Tsongas, Tom Harkin, and John Kerry also fade away but Bill Clinton will still find himself with one very stubborn opponent left to lock horns with before …
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Send us a text Here is Ross Perot in all his blunt, direct, glory. In this episode we hear him give the 1992 graduating class of Oklahoma University commencement address. It is a speech full of truly useful advice. It will leave you impressed and you will understand better after you listen to it as to why he came very close to actually winning the …
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