George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History
594 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsRandal 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 war with textbook accuracy, overwhelming force, with a clear set of objectives, and leaving after those objectives were met. A lesson sadly we did not seem to learn in subsequent foreign entanglements. Then we will watch the changing of the guard as the Vietnam Generation leads a campaign in 1992 to transfer power from the generation of leadership that won the Cold War.
In this our 12th and 13 Seasons, we will look back at the Bush Administration and the historic sweep of freedom that changed the world from 1990 through Christmas 1991. It was a historic time. We saw the Gulf War begin as Bush led a multinational coalition to beat back the Iraqi Dictator, Saddam Hussein, after he invaded Kuwait. In August of 1991, hard liners in Moscow would attempt a coup to bring down Mikhail Gorbachev and his many reforms that were changing the Soviet Union. The coup would fail but it would help launch the career of the Moscow Mayor, Boris Yeltsin. That would, by Christmas Day, 1991, lead to what had been unthinkable for the past 70 years, the end of the Soviet Union. We would also see President Bush lead the way to reunify Germany, and a fight for the future of the United States Supreme Court would erupt after the nomination of Clarence Thomas was made to replace Thurgood Marshall. It all happened without firing a shot, which is an enormous success story for the ages.
We invite you to come along with us on a wild ride through the high points and low moments of modern American History, in an effort to show the citizens of today that we are an amazing and resilient nation.
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Episode 69 : HURRICANE HUGO A Night Like No Other (Part Two) Special Edition
January 24, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 46.6 MBDestruction, devastation, and disaster all describe the South Carolina Coast on the 23rd of September 1989. Hurricane Hugo had torn its way through the State of South Carolina, plowing into Sullivan's Island S.C. and drowning McClellenville S.C. , a small shrimping town, under a massive surge of water. In Georgetown S.C. , Atalaya , a Spanish style castle villa once owned by Anna Hyatt Huntington, was nearly pulled from its foundations by the power of the Oceans undertow. In Pawley's Isl...
Episode 68: HURRICANE HUGO : A Night Like No Other (Part 1) Special Edition
January 20, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBSend us a Text Message. We start season 5 with a bonus two part series far from the topic of politics, Government or Richard Nixon. Though President Nixon did start NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration which began the National Weather Service and Hurricane Tracking. A service that has saved thousands of lives and improved weather tracking and predicting immensely since the 1970's. So in a way this show and the storm it covers, and the lives saved at the time in 1989,...
Episode 68: HURRICANE HUGO : A Night Like No Other (Part 1) Special Edition
January 20, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBWe start season 5 with a bonus two part series far from the topic of politics, Government or Richard Nixon. Though President Nixon did start NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration which began the National Weather Service and Hurricane Tracking. A service that has saved thousands of lives and improved weather tracking and predicting immensely since the 1970's. So in a way this show and the storm it covers, and the lives saved at the time in 1989, were a direct result of ...
Episode 67 : RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 13) The Christmas Present to the Nation; Bretton Woods, Drugs, Wars, Spies and the National Cancer Act of 1971
January 11, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBSend us a Text Message. In our Season 4 finale we look at several of the initiatives that Richard Nixon began at the end of 1971 that we are still benefitting from or are impacted by today. In 1971 Richard Nixon changed the monetary system for the United States ending the Breton Woods system and taking the United States off the Gold Standard. It was a dramatic economic move that is still debated. It certainly unleashed the amount of money flowing into the economy but it has led to ever in...
Episode 66: Sow the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind Redux; The Anniversary of the Riot at the United States Capitol (Special Edition)
January 06, 2022 10:00 - 2 hours - 89.9 MBSend us a Text Message. On January 6, 2021 a riot broke out in Washington D.C. at the United States Capitol. It was an angering sight to see and brought the functioning of the Capitol to a total standstill. The national media and the Democratic Party have tried very hard to put the blame on one man, Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States. But I think I speak for millions of Americans when I say bluntly, there is plenty of blame to go around. While Donald Trump certainly ha...
Episode 65: RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 12) The China Strategy Begins
January 04, 2022 10:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBSend us a Text Message. In this episode, we cover two of President Nixon's major accomplishments; giving 18 year old citizens the right to vote and initiating the opening to China. First, we listen as Richard Nixon signs the 26th Amendment into law in front of a White House full of young people. Then we listen in on a call between Henry Kissinger and President Nixon on a wide range of subjects involving South East Asia and the end game of the negotiations with China. We get to listen to...
Episode 65: RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 12) The China Strategy Begins
January 04, 2022 10:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBIn this episode, we cover two of President Nixon's major accomplishments; giving 18 year old citizens the right to vote and initiating the opening to China. First, we listen as Richard Nixon signs the 26th Amendment into law in front of a White House full of young people. Then we listen in on a call between Henry Kissinger and President Nixon on a wide range of subjects involving South East Asia and the end game of the negotiations with China. We get to listen to a retrospective on the ...
Episode 64: RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 11) The Best of Times and the Worst of Times (The Wedding of Tricia and Ed Cox and the Pentagon Papers)
January 01, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBIt was the best of times and it was the worst of times. On June 12, 1971, the daughter of President and Mrs. Nixon, Tricia Nixon married Edward Cox at a White House ceremony in the Rose Garden. It was a wedding celebrated by not only the Nixon and Cox families but by the entire nation. President Nixon said of the day "It was a day we were all just very happy" It was a truly magical event and one of five such weddings at the White House in the 20th Century. The next day in a small articl...
Episode 64: RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 11) The Best of Times and the Worst of Times (The Wedding of Tricia and Ed Cox and the Pentagon Papers)
January 01, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBSend us a Text Message. It was the best of times and it was the worst of times. On June 12, 1971, the daughter of President and Mrs. Nixon, Tricia Nixon married Edward Cox at a White House ceremony in the Rose Garden. It was a wedding celebrated by not only the Nixon and Cox families but by the entire nation. President Nixon said of the day "It was a day we were all just very happy" It was a truly magical event and one of five such weddings at the White House in the 20th Century. The ne...
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! 2022, A Look back at our first year of 2021 and forward to next year
December 31, 2021 19:00 - 13 minutes - 9.52 MBSend us a Text Message. HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022!!! In this episode we look back at 2021, a year of success here at "Bridging the Political Gap" and a year of sad farewells as we said good by to so many inspirational figures in our life from former Senator Bob Dole, to former Secretary of State George Shultz , to Former Senator John Warner, to the Mayor I served with through most of my time as a Myrtle Beach City Councilman, John Rhodes, and an Horry County pioneer who served as the first woma...
Episode 63: RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 10) Eavesdropping on History, After the speech on Laos, response to "Nixon at War"
December 29, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 54 MBSend us a Text Message. This episode begins just after President Nixon delivers his powerful speech going through the campaign in Laos and the advancements our side is making in extricating ourselves from the Vietnam War. It was a powerful moment for President Nixon. Recently, another documentary titled "Nixon at War" , attempted to smear President Nixon for his conduct of the operation, that he lied in his speech, and they besmirched his character using only tidbits of the calls he made...
Episode 63: RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 10) Ease Dropping on History, After the speech on Laos, response to "Nixon at War"
December 29, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 54 MBThis episode begins just after President Nixon delivers his powerful speech going through the campaign in Laos and the advancements our side is making in extricating ourselves from the Vietnam War. It was a powerful moment for President Nixon. Recently, another documentary titled "Nixon at War" , attempted to smear President Nixon for his conduct of the operation, that he lied in his speech, and they besmirched his character using only tidbits of the calls he made and received after the ...
Up With America with Tom Herron with guest Randal Wallace , Host of Bridging the Political Gap (Special Edition)
December 25, 2021 10:00 - 16 minutes - 11.2 MBSend us a Text Message. Our Host Randal Wallace appeared on the Radio show "Up With America with Tom Heron" in November of 2021 and the segment is here. This interview stresses the importance of history in learning how to deal with today's divisions in our land. We hope you enjoy the interview. Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/ Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcasts Thanks for listeni...
Up With America with Tom Herron with guest Randal Wallace , Host of Bridging the Political Gap (Special Edition)
December 25, 2021 10:00 - 16 minutes - 11.2 MBOur Host Randal Wallace appeared on the Radio show "Up With America with Tom Heron" in November of 2021 and the segment is here. This interview stresses the importance of history in learning how to deal with today's divisions in our land. We hope you enjoy the interview. Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/ Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcasts Thanks for listening!!
Episode 62 : RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 9) Operation Lam Son 914 Laos
December 23, 2021 10:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBSend us a Text Message. One of the low moments of the Vietnam War is covered in this episode. It was the moment in the plans to Vietnamize the Vietnam War that we conducted an operation with only South Vietnamese troops on the ground and we provided air support. In the end, our side got walloped. This happened in an operation in which our side went over the border into neighboring Laos to finally stop the Communist forces from moving supplies an ammunition down that portion of the Ho Chi ...
Episode 62 : RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 9) Operation Lam Son 914 Laos
December 23, 2021 10:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBOne of the low moments of the Vietnam War is covered in this episode. It was the moment in the plans to Vietnamize the Vietnam War that we conducted an operation with only South Vietnamese troops on the ground and we provided air support. In the end, our side got walloped. This happened in an operation in which our side went over the border into neighboring Laos to finally stop the Communist forces from moving supplies an ammunition down that portion of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Despite the ...
Episode 61: RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 8) The Taping System
December 20, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 63 MBSend us a Text Message. In this episode, we are finally at the moment that the taping system was installed. It was a fateful decision, and it would eventually lead to the fall of the Nixon Administration. The tapes have been used to attack the President and portray him as an awful person. For the most part, only the worst of the worst of these tapes have been promoted to the public. President Nixon allowed the taping system to be set up in such a way that it taped his every utterance on ...
Episode 61: RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 8) The Taping System
December 20, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 63 MBIn this episode, we are finally at the moment that the taping system was installed. It was a fateful decision, and it would eventually lead to the fall of the Nixon Administration. The tapes have been used to attack the President and portray him as an awful person. For the most part, only the worst of the worst of these tapes have been promoted to the public. President Nixon allowed the taping system to be set up in such a way that it taped his every utterance on a voice activated system...
An Introduction to the Richard Nixon White House Tapes (Special Edition)
December 19, 2021 10:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBSend us a Text Message. In this episode we talk about the contents of the historic tapes of the Nixon Administration. We address the negative parts that are so familiar to the public. Nixon's remarks about Women, Gays, Jews, African Americans, his rages, and his intemperate remarks, all caught on a voice activated tape recorder that caught his every word every time he entered a room. We will also discuss the quality of some of the tapes, or the lack there of, as we learn that many of thes...
An Introduction to the Richard Nixon White House Tapes (Special Edition)
December 19, 2021 10:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBIn this episode we talk about the contents of the historic tapes of the Nixon Administration. We address the negative parts that are so familiar to the public. Nixon's remarks about Women, Gays, Jews, African Americans, his rages, and his intemperate remarks, all caught on a voice activated tape recorder that caught his every word every time he entered a room. We will also discuss the quality of some of the tapes, or the lack there of, as we learn that many of these tapes are either inaud...
BOB DOLE : A Tribute (Part 6) To the Stars through Difficulties, Two Historic Days in Washington D.C.
December 17, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBSend us a Text Message. To the stars through difficulties, the motto of the state of Kansas and a theme for the life of Bob Dole. In this final episode in our week long tribute to Senator Bob Dole we look back on two historic days in which the Senator laid in state in the rotunda of the Capitol of the United States of America. Here you will hear the President of the United States, Joseph R. Biden, speak about Dole's enormous impact on the nation and of their nearly 50 year friendship....
BOB DOLE : A Tribute (Part 6) To the Stars through Difficulties, Two Historic Days in Washington D.C.
December 17, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBTo the stars through difficulties, the motto of the state of Kansas and a theme for the life of Bob Dole. In this final episode in our week long tribute to Senator Bob Dole we look back on two historic days in which the Senator laid in state in the rotunda of the Capitol of the United States of America. Here you will hear the President of the United States, Joseph R. Biden, speak about Dole's enormous impact on the nation and of their nearly 50 year friendship. You will hear from his ...
BOB DOLE : A Tribute (Part 5) The World War 2 Memorial , Farewell old Friend (Special Edition)
December 16, 2021 10:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBSend us a Text Message. In part 5 of our tribute to Bob Dole we look back at the war injury that left him disabled. We hear from him and from his close friend and fellow Senator, Dan Inouye, about his hard scrabble fight back to health. Dole spent 39 months in Army hospitals regaining his health after his act of heroism trying to save his radio man, Corporal Simms. We then hear Bob Dole talk about his efforts to build the World War 2 Memorial and how proud he was of the Memorial that now...
BOB DOLE : A Tribute (Part 5) The World War 2 Memorial , Farewell old Friend (Special Edition)
December 16, 2021 10:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBIn part 5 of our tribute to Bob Dole we look back at the war injury that left him disabled. We hear from him and from his close friend and fellow Senator, Dan Inouye, about his hard scrabble fight back to health. Dole spent 39 months in Army hospitals regaining his health after his act of heroism trying to save his radio man, Corporal Simms. We then hear Bob Dole talk about his efforts to build the World War 2 Memorial and how proud he was of the Memorial that now stands on the National ...
BOB DOLE : A Tribute (Part 4) The Presidential Medal of Freedom and the fun retirement years with Bob and Elizabeth Dole (Special Edition)
December 15, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBBob Dole lost the 1996 Presidential Election. On that night he came to the podium and said something I know for him had to be a little scary. "For the first time in my life when I get up tomorrow I won't have anything to do" - Bob Dole Boy did that turn out not to be true. In three days he would be invited to come be a guest on the CBS show "Late Show with David Letterman" and before you know it Bob Dole had a brand new career. He was selling Pepsi Cola and Viagra, he was writing books ...
BOB DOLE : A Tribute (Part 4) The Presidential Medal of Freedom and the fun retirement years with Bob and Elizabeth Dole (Special Edition)
December 15, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBSend us a Text Message. Bob Dole lost the 1996 Presidential Election. On that night he came to the podium and said something I know for him had to be a little scary. "For the first time in my life when I get up tomorrow I won't have anything to do" - Bob Dole Boy did that turn out not to be true. In three days he would be invited to come be a guest on the CBS show "Late Show with David Letterman" and before you know it Bob Dole had a brand new career. He was selling Pepsi Cola and Viag...
BOB DOLE : A Tribute (Part 3) The Apex, June 11, 1996 (Special Edition)
December 14, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBOn June 11, 1996, Senate Majority Leader and the 1996 Republican Nominee for President got to do something few if any politicians ever get to do. He left office on his own terms. Bob Dole resigned so he could focus all his energy and effort on winning the 1996 election. He was behind in the polls but on Capitol Hill he was given a heroes send off. It was truly a day for the history books. Senators filled the chamber to listen to Bob Dole give his farewell address to the chamber. In it he t...
BOB DOLE : A Tribute (Part 3) The Apex, June 11, 1996
December 14, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 43.2 MBOn June 11, 1996, Senate Majority Leader and the 1996 Republican Nominee for President got to do something few if any politicians ever get to do. He left office on his own terms. Bob Dole resigned so he could focus all his energy and effort on winning the 1996 election. He was behind in the polls but on Capitol Hill he was given a heroes send off. It was truly a day for the history books. Senators filled the chamber to listen to Bob Dole give his farewell address to the chamber. In it he t...
BOB DOLE : A Tribute (Part 3) The Apex, June 11, 1996 (Special Edition)
December 14, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 43.8 MBSend us a Text Message. On June 11, 1996, Senate Majority Leader and the 1996 Republican Nominee for President got to do something few if any politicians ever get to do. He left office on his own terms. Bob Dole resigned so he could focus all his energy and effort on winning the 1996 election. He was behind in the polls but on Capitol Hill he was given a heroes send off. It was truly a day for the history books. Senators filled the chamber to listen to Bob Dole give his farewell address t...
BOB DOLE : A Tribute (Part 2) The Campaign of a Lifetime 1996 (Special Edition)
December 13, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBIt was the campaign of my lifetime. A chance to work for not one but three of my heroes in one year, Bob and Elizabeth Dole and Strom Thurmond. 1996 was a great year. Some people have been critical of the campaign Bob Dole ran in 1996, but I doubt anyone could have done any better. The economy was booming and Bill Clinton was the master of campaigning. But Bob Dole gave him a run for his money and did something very impressive, in a year clearly trending toward a popular President, he ke...
BOB DOLE : A Tribute (Part 2) The Campaign of a Lifetime 1996 (Special Edition)
December 13, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBSend us a Text Message. It was the campaign of my lifetime. A chance to work for not one but three of my heroes in one year, Bob and Elizabeth Dole and Strom Thurmond. 1996 was a great year. Some people have been critical of the campaign Bob Dole ran in 1996, but I doubt anyone could have done any better. The economy was booming and Bill Clinton was the master of campaigning. But Bob Dole gave him a run for his money and did something very impressive, in a year clearly trending toward a...
BOB DOLE : A Tribute ( Part 1) A Life Well Lived (Special Edition)
December 13, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBWelcome to Bob Dole Week!!! Everyday this week we will look back at the life and career of one of the 20th century's greatest Americans. In this episode we look back at his entire life with his Presidential Concession speech, and two videos of his life from his 1988 Presidential campaign and from the Bi-Partisan Policy Center. Then we will step back in time to the moment he was the last man standing after the 1992 Presidential election cycle when the Democrats swept everything. Then we...
BOB DOLE : A Tribute ( Part 1) A Life Well Lived (Special Edition)
December 13, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBSend us a Text Message. Welcome to Bob Dole Week!!! Everyday this week we will look back at the life and career of one of the 20th century's greatest Americans. In this episode we look back at his entire life with his Presidential Concession speech, and two videos of his life from his 1988 Presidential campaign and from the Bi-Partisan Policy Center. Then we will step back in time to the moment he was the last man standing after the 1992 Presidential election cycle when the Democrats sw...
Episode 60: RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 7 ) Starlight, A Celebration of Patricia Ryan Nixon and the initiative to open doors for women in Government
December 06, 2021 10:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBSend us a Text Message. Starlight, the Secret Service Codename for First Lady Pat Nixon, was absolutely perfect as a way to describe Mrs. Nixon. She lit up every room that she entered. She was a First Lady who quietly went about accomplishing things in ways often unseen and under appreciated. Yet, despite her reluctance to be in the spotlight the American people still responded to her spirit and to her many contributions to our nation. She was voted one of the most admired women in the Worl...
Episode 59 RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 6) Burning Love (Civil Rights, Nixon the Strategist, Vietnam and Elvis)
November 29, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 53.3 MBSend us a Text Message. People don't seem to realize that Richard Nixon was actually one of our five great Civil Rights Presidents. Brown vs the Board of Education was decided in 1954 but it was left up to Richard Nixon to make the decision to desegregate the public school systems a reality. He did it and he did it with no violence. He did it by sitting down with state and community leaders, treating them like he respected them, and having them have a hand in making it happen. It is a trul...
Episode 58 RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 5) Apollo 13 Our Finest Hour SPECIAL EDITION
November 23, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 46.4 MBSend us a Text Message. Apollo 13, one of the most remembered moments in the history of NASA. By April of 1970 going to the moon had become almost "ho hum". The television networks did not even bother to show the inflight special broadcast from the spaceflight. Then when the Astronauts were preparing their ship for the long voyage to the moon, BAM!! An explosion, followed by the calm immortal words of mission Captain Jim Lovell back to the Mission Control Center... "Houston, We have a pro...
Episode 58 RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 5) Apollo 13 Our Finest Hour SPECIAL EDITION
November 23, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 46.4 MBApollo 13, one of the most remembered moments in the history of NASA. By April of 1970 going to the moon had become almost "ho hum". The television networks did not even bother to show the inflight special broadcast from the spaceflight. Then when the Astronauts were preparing their ship for the long voyage to the moon, BAM!! An explosion, followed by the calm immortal words of mission Captain Jim Lovell back to the Mission Control Center... "Houston, We have a problem." If you have seen...
Lois Eargle A Giant Among Men (Special Edition) A Tribute to the Former Horry County Auditor
November 16, 2021 21:00 - 59 minutes - 40.8 MBOn November 14, 2021, on a Sunday, Horry County, South Carolina, lost a towering giant in the history of the region. Lois Eargle was a trailblazer, never politically correct, and never afraid to speak her mind. She was an unabashedly proud public servant for the people of Horry County and most of all a servant of her Lord, Jesus Christ. She opened doors for young people, an especially women in politics, as the first woman elected to the South Carolina State House from Horry County and t...
Lois Eargle A Giant Among Men (Special Edition) A Tribute to the Former Horry County Auditor
November 16, 2021 21:00 - 59 minutes - 40.8 MBSend us a Text Message. On November 14, 2021, on a Sunday, Horry County, South Carolina, lost a towering giant in the history of the region. Lois Eargle was a trailblazer, never politically correct, and never afraid to speak her mind. She was an unabashedly proud public servant for the people of Horry County and most of all a servant of her Lord, Jesus Christ. She opened doors for young people, an especially women in politics, as the first woman elected to the South Carolina State House...
Episode 57 RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 4) Kent State and the Lincoln Memorial
November 16, 2021 10:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBAfter President Nixon announced he would cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail and take military action in Cambodia, college campuses across the nation exploded. Riots and demonstrations shut down several colleges and led to a nightmare scenario at Kent State in Ohio. It was there that four young people would lose their lives when National Guardsman, themselves very young, fired on protesters at a demonstration against the actions in Cambodia and in opposition to the war in Vietnam. The country looke...
Episode 57 RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 4) Kent State and the Lincoln Memorial
November 16, 2021 10:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBSend us a Text Message. After President Nixon announced he would cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail and take military action in Cambodia, college campuses across the nation exploded. Riots and demonstrations shut down several colleges and led to a nightmare scenario at Kent State in Ohio. It was there that four young people would lose their lives when National Guardsman, themselves very young, fired on protesters at a demonstration against the actions in Cambodia and in opposition to the war in Vi...
Episode 56 RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 3) A Fire, The Court, and Cambodia
November 09, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBSend us a Text Message. This episode opens at the dawn of the environmental movement in America. It may come as a surprise to you that Richard Nixon is considered second only to Theodore Roosevelt as the greenest of all our Presidents. Several historians consider Nixon's environmental record his second biggest achievement. Nixon's secret to success was pretty simple. He found good people and then let them run the ball down the field. As they have often noted he had little interest in the ...
Episode 56 RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 3) A Fire, The Court, and Cambodia
November 09, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBThis episode opens at the dawn of the environmental movement in America. It may come as a surprise to you that Richard Nixon is considered second only to Theodore Roosevelt as the greenest of all our Presidents. Several historians consider Nixon's environmental record his second biggest achievement. Nixon's secret to success was pretty simple. He found good people and then let them run the ball down the field. As they have often noted he had little interest in the issue, and was not an ex...
The Entire Silent Majority Speech, November 3, 1969 (Special Edition)
November 05, 2021 09:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBSend us a Text Message. On November 3, 1969, President Richard Nixon asked to address the nation to talk about Vietnam. He then laid out his strategy for bringing the War to an end. He also asked for the great silent majority of Americans to support his efforts. They did in record numbers. To piggyback on our episode on the Silent Majority speech which has a featurette with former Nixon aid Dwight Chapin, I thought I would include the Silent Majority speech alone for those of you who ha...
Episode 55 RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 2) The Silent Majority
November 04, 2021 09:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBThis episode opens as the Apollo 11 Astronauts have returned from their mission to the moon. It was a moment in which the United States had finally found something to rally around as one united country. But that sense of national unity won't last, not because of events in the heavens, but due to a war here on Earth. In this look at the final 6 months of Richard Nixon's first year, we will listen to him answer questions about his thoughts on the war he inherited and why he thought it impor...
Episode 55 RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 2) The Silent Majority
November 04, 2021 09:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBSend us a Text Message. This episode opens as the Apollo 11 Astronauts have returned from their mission to the moon. It was a moment in which the United States had finally found something to rally around as one united country. But that sense of national unity won't last, not because of events in the heavens, but due to a war here on Earth. In this look at the final 6 months of Richard Nixon's first year, we will listen to him answer questions about his thoughts on the war he inherited and...
Episode 54 HERBERT HOOVER: A Forgotten Gem (The Other Quaker President) SPECIAL EDITION
November 01, 2021 09:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MBSend us a Text Message. While researching the material for our podcast documentary we are currently presenting now on President Richard Nixon, I had one of those random thoughts cross my mind. Had we had any other Quakers serve as President? That led me into looking at a story that is featured on this show by CBS Sunday Morning titled "The Real Herbert Hoover", and I was fascinated by all I did not know about President Herbert Hoover's life. The more I looked at the life of this often m...
Episode 53 RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union : (Part 1 ) Magnificent Desolation
October 28, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBOn January 20, 1969, Richard Millhouse Nixon was Inaugurated the 37th President of the United States. He faced a country and a World in upheaval. It was as historian Jim Prado points out "A more complicated set of circumstances than had faced any of his predecessors, at least in the modern era." That is in my opinion an understatement. Our country was divided and under siege here at home, at war abroad, and involved in a dangerous dance with the other super power, the Soviet Union, all over...
Episode 53 RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union : (Part 1 ) Magnificent Desolation
October 28, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBSend us a Text Message. On January 20, 1969, Richard Millhouse Nixon was Inaugurated the 37th President of the United States. He faced a country and a World in upheaval. It was as historian Jim Prado points out "A more complicated set of circumstances than had faced any of his predecessors, at least in the modern era." That is in my opinion an understatement. Our country was divided and under siege here at home, at war abroad, and involved in a dangerous dance with the other super power, th...
Episode 52 RICHARD NIXON : The Remarkable Run ( Part 2)
October 25, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 44.2 MBSend us a Text Message. This episode starts as Richard Nixon, at age 39, is taking the oath of the Vice President of the United States. On this episode we take you through his remarkable Vice Presidency, where he has to step in through two major illnesses of the President, a heart attack and then stroke. Then he is attacked by a violent, rock throwing mob as he travels by motorcade through the streets of Caracas , Venezuela, then has to hold his own at a trade show in Moscow when he is co...