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 52 RICHARD NIXON : The Remarkable Run ( Part 2)
October 25, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 44.2 MBThis 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 cornered for an impromptu d...
Episode 51 RICHARD NIXON : The Remarkable Run (Part 1)
October 21, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 51.8 MBSend us a Text Message. The opening episode of Season 1 of "Bridging the Political Gap" is a particular thing of excitement for me. Richard Nixon is one of my political heroes and most responsible for my interest in public service. I have been a fan since I discovered a scrapbook saved by my Mother from a class she was student teaching in 1960. A full decade before I was born. I have long felt that no full length , in-depth, look at the life of Richard Nixon has ever been done that did ...
Episode 51 RICHARD NIXON : The Remarkable Run (Part 1)
October 21, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 51.8 MBThe opening episode of Season 4 of Bridging the Political Gap is a particular thing of excitement for me. Richard Nixon is one of my political heroes and most responsible for my interest in public service. I have been a fan since I discovered a scrapbook saved by my Mother from a class she was student teaching in 1960. A full decade before I was born. I have long felt that no full length , in-depth, look at the life of Richard Nixon has ever been done that did not attempt to paint the l...
Echoes from the Past: Preview of "RICHARD NIXON, The Man who Saved the Union"
October 13, 2021 09:00 - 7 minutes - 5.54 MBSend us a Text Message. Eerie similarities mark our world today with the one Richard Nixon faced a half century ago. As we begin our Landmark Podcast Documentary Series on Richard Nixon we look at the world Richard Nixon faced as he stepped into office and how he had changed that world by the time he began his second term. By January 29th, 1973, Richard Nixon stood with Abraham Lincoln as one of the two men who had saved the Union, and then...... Join us starting on October 21, 2021, fo...
Echoes from the Past: Preview of "RICHARD NIXON, The Man who Saved the Union"
October 13, 2021 09:00 - 7 minutes - 5.54 MBEerie similarities mark our world today with the one Richard Nixon faced a half century ago. As we begin our Landmark Podcast Documentary Series on Richard Nixon we look at the world Richard Nixon faced as he stepped into office and how he had changed that world by the time he began his second term. By January 29th, 1973, Richard Nixon stood with Abraham Lincoln as one of the two men who had saved the Union, and then...... Join us starting on October 21, 2021, for RICHARD NIXON, The Man...
Episode 50 UPHEAVAL!! ( Part 9 ) 1968 The Transition, taking it all in, & Looking back at Lyndon
October 07, 2021 09:00 - 59 minutes - 41.2 MBSend us a Text Message. In our 50th, and final episode of our third season, we watch the winding down of the Lyndon Johnson Administration. It is truly an end to an era, as few men have ever dominated the public stage as Lyndon Johnson did our country for over two decades, even before he wound up in the White House. Joe Califano, an aid to President Johnson, is correct when he says the United States today is more a reflection of the hopes and dreams of President Lyndon Johnson than of any...
Episode 49 UPHEAVAL!! ( Part 8 ) The Finish Line & the Un-Smoking Gun
October 04, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBThis episode opens in the final two days of the 1968 campaign as the election polls have tightened to an even race. Vice President Hubert Humphrey has made up enormous ground and with the announced bombing halt of North Vietnam it looks like all the momentum is with him. Here you see both Humphrey and former Vice President Richard Nixon out on the stump working overtime trying to get the race won. In a last day rally in Texas at the Houston Astrodome President Lyndon Johnson comes out to sw...
Episode 49 UPHEAVAL!! ( Part 8 ) The Finish Line & the Un-Smoking Gun
October 04, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBSend us a Text Message. This episode opens in the final two days of the 1968 campaign as the election polls have tightened to an even race. Vice President Hubert Humphrey has made up enormous ground and with the announced bombing halt of North Vietnam it looks like all the momentum is with him. Here you see both Humphrey and former Vice President Richard Nixon out on the stump working overtime trying to get the race won. In a last day rally in Texas at the Houston Astrodome President Lyndo...
Episode 48 (Special Edition) Why Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon? .. COMPETENCY
September 30, 2021 09:00 - 11 minutes - 8.31 MBSend us a Text Message. Why has our podcast "Bridging the Political Gap" dedicated two seasons, this one and the next one, to the Presidencies of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon? It is a good and valid question. After all, they presided over the most divisive time in our history other than the American Civil War. The answer is simple, they may have been flawed men, but they were great men, striving always to leave the United States better than when they arrived. They may have made gra...
Episode 48 (Special Edition) Why Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon? .. COMPETENCY
September 30, 2021 09:00 - 11 minutes - 8.31 MBWhy has our podcast "Bridging the Political Gap" dedicated two seasons, this one and the next one, to the Presidencies of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon? It is a good and valid question. After all, they presided over the most divisive time in our history other than the American Civil War. The answer is simple, they may have been flawed men, but they were great men, striving always to leave the United States better than when they arrived. They may have made grave misjudgments in certai...
Episode 47: UPHEAVAL (Part 7) 1968 The Chennault Affair 4, The LBJ Calls 2
September 27, 2021 09:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBSend us a Text Message. This is the second episode examining the phone calls so often cited as proof of the Chennault Affair and Lyndon Johnson's acknowledgement of Richard Nixon's "treason". When you listen to them all it will often leave you wondering if there is any there, there. Or is it the hope of a man, prone to paranoia, looking for an excuse as to why something he hoped so totally would come to pass, peace in Vietnam under his watch, would come true. Here you will hear them all...
Episode 46: UPHEAVAL (Part 6) 1968 The Chennault Affair 3, The LBJ Calls 1
September 20, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBSend us a Text Message. This is not as complicated as it looks, but we start with these two episodes to have a subset of a subset of our series on 1968. These are a collection of phone calls, in their entirety of President Lyndon Johnson talking to the three Presidential candidates, Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace, Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, Democratic Senator Richard Russell, and cabinet members Dean Rusk and Clark Clifford. In it you will hear Lyndon Johnson ta...
Episode 45: UPHEAVAL (Part 5) The Chennault Affair 2, Responding to MSNBC and LBJ's Mental State
September 13, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 54.5 MBSend us a Text Message. During the investigation of Former President Donald Trump over whether he had been colluding with the Russian Government in attempts to sway the 2016 Presidential election, television host Rachel Maddow and her host network MSNBC decided they would be cute and put on a television special designed to use the example of Richard Nixon committing treason to somehow allude to President Trump as guilty of the same. It was a true gift to the memory of President Richard Ni...
Episode 44: UPHEAVAL (Part 4) 1968 The Chennault Affair 1, The Historians Talk
September 07, 2021 09:00 - 56 minutes - 38.8 MBSend us a Text Message. As part of our series on the 1968 election , we are going to take 4 episodes and create a sub series to examine thoroughly the accusation of treason that has been promulgated for years against then Vice President Richard Nixon. It is a subject that has divided the public and historians for decades. Richard Nixon always denied it. Anna Chennault never talked about it until every one else was dead and gone. The Nixon haters, which made up a huge number of the liberal...
Episode 43: UPHEAVAL (Part 3) 1968 The Conventions to the Bombing Halt
September 03, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 50.6 MBSend us a Text Message. The assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy shocks the world and causes the Democratic Party to descend into chaos. This episode opens with messages from Senator Eugene McCarthy and Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the rivals of Robert Kennedy for the Democratic Presidential Nomination. Kennedy had just won the California Primary and seemed headed for a victory at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Instead, Robert Kennedy would be buried not far from his brother...
Episode 43: UPHEAVAL (Part 3) 1968 The Conventions to the Bombing Halt
September 03, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 50.6 MBThe assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy shocks the world and causes the Democratic Party to descend into chaos. This episode opens with messages from Senator Eugene McCarthy and Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the rivals of Robert Kennedy for the Democratic Presidential Nomination. Kennedy had just won the California Primary and seemed headed for a victory at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Instead, Robert Kennedy would be buried not far from his brother at Arlington National Ce...
Episode 42: Earth-Rise the Story of 1968's Apollo 8 (Special Edition)
September 01, 2021 09:00 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBSend us a Text Message. As we cover so much of the tumultuous year of 1968, we thought we would add one of its brightest moments too. As the country struggled with Civil Rights, assassinations, civil unrest, and a war in Vietnam we also moved closer to a dream that stretched back to the beginning of life itself. As long as man has been capable of looking into the heavens we have dreamed of walking on the moon. By December of 1968, we were in reach of that dream becoming a reality at las...
Episode 41: UPHEAVAL (Part 2) 1968 Riots to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
August 25, 2021 09:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBSend us a Text Message. This episode opens with the country ablaze after riots break out in the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The country struggles with how to cope with the loss of the leader who had preached nonviolent resistance, and who had died such a violent death. The one city that did not have a riot the night of the assassination was Indianapolis, Indiana. It was there that Senator Robert Kennedy had planned to address a crowd about his campaign fo...
Episode 41: UPHEAVAL (Part 2) 1968 Riots to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
August 25, 2021 09:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBThis episode opens with the country ablaze after riots break out in the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The country struggles with how to cope with the loss of the leader who had preached nonviolent resistance, and who had died such a violent death. The one city that did not have a riot the night of the assassination was Indianapolis, Indiana. It was there that Senator Robert Kennedy had planned to address a crowd about his campaign for President. Instead he ...
Episode 40: UPHEAVAL!! (Part 1) 1968 Tet Offensive to the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
August 19, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 42.8 MBSend us a Text Message. Not since the Civil War had America been this divided. The decisions to both go to war in Vietnam and to pass several Civil Rights Bills that changed how America interacted socially led to an explosive Presidential Election year. Never had their been a campaign with more extreme lows as this one had. First came a major offensive by the enemy in Vietnam during the Vietnamese New Year known as Tet. The offensive was actually a military failure but you would never co...
Episode 39: The Johnson Treatment (Part 7) A Full Scale Land War in Asia
August 15, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 50.7 MBSend us a Text Message. This episode unfolds in two parts. In the mid 1990's, Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara wrote a book in which he describes what he called the mistakes his generation of leadership had made in Vietnam and his thoughts on how future generations could avoid them. He admits they were wrong. McNamara has often been criticized by historians, even in our series we used one interview with Michael Beschloss where he described McNamara's representations critically ...
Preview for Season 4: Richard Nixon , The Man that Saved the Union
August 09, 2021 16:00 - 7 minutes - 5.14 MBAt the end of 1968 the United States was a country at war abroad and in chaos at home. The American people were asking the same question that movie star Lauren Bacall expressed to the country on "The Dick Cavett Show", "What has become of our country, is our country worth saving? " In January 1969, a new President, but a leader many had written off as a failure years before returned to the national stage to prove to the nation that it was not only a country worth saving but it was still ...
Preview for Season 4: Richard Nixon , The Man that Saved the Union
August 09, 2021 16:00 - 7 minutes - 5.14 MBSend us a Text Message. At the end of 1968 the United States was a country at war abroad and in chaos at home. The American people were asking the same question that movie star Lauren Bacall expressed to the country on "The Dick Cavett Show", "What has become of our country, is our country worth saving? " In January 1969, a new President, but a leader many had written off as a failure years before returned to the national stage to prove to the nation that it was not only a country worth...
Episode 38: The Johnson Treatment (Part 6) Rolling Thunder
August 08, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBSend us a Text Message. In this episode we see events start moving fast. You see a divide start to show between members of the Johnson Administration as to what to do about the problems of Vietnam. The enemy starts bombing American targets including the Brinks Hotel during the Christmas season, maximizing the number of deaths in the hotel. Still Lyndon Johnson refuses to retaliate. He still has to be convinced that a war in Vietnam would be worth it. He listens as his advisor George Ball u...
Episode 38: The Johnson Treatment (Part 6) Rolling Thunder
August 08, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBIn this episode we see events start moving fast. You see a divide start to show between members of the Johnson Administration as to what to do about the problems of Vietnam. The enemy starts bombing American targets including the Brinks Hotel during the Christmas season, maximizing the number of deaths in the hotel. Still Lyndon Johnson refuses to retaliate. He still has to be convinced that a war in Vietnam would be worth it. He listens as his advisor George Ball urges him to walk away an...
Episode 37: The Johnson Treatment (Part 5) The Gulf of Tonkin
August 04, 2021 14:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MBSend us a Text Message. Even though we were already involved, this was the event that really started us down the long road to a full scale land war in Asia. Strangely, to this day no one knows exactly for sure what happened in the middle of the night on the other side of the world. Most likely, nothing. But the supposed attack on the U.S.S. Maddox and U. S. S. C. Turner Joy led to a retaliatory strike against North Vietnam and then the Johnson Administration seeking a resolution from Con...
Episode 37: The Johnson Treatment (Part 5) The Gulf of Tonkin
August 04, 2021 14:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MBEven though we were already involved, this was the event that really started us down the long road to a full scale land war in Asia. Strangely, to this day no one knows exactly for sure what happened in the middle of the night on the other side of the world. Most likely, nothing. But the supposed attack on the U.S.S. Maddox and U. S. S. C. Turner Joy led to a retaliatory strike against North Vietnam and then the Johnson Administration seeking a resolution from Congress that would unshack...
The Importance of Organ Donation: The story of my brother Keith Wallace (Special Edition)
August 02, 2021 23:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBSend us a Text Message. On August 1, 2012, My brother Keith Wallace collapsed after he had a brain aneurysm burst in Manning S. C. He died on August 2, 2012. In Memory of him on this the 9th anniversary, I thought we would rebroadcast the ABC News "Carolina This Week with Tim McGinnis" show from 2013 in which I discussed his situation and the importance of organ donation. Thousands of people desperately wait on lists for kidneys, hearts, livers, lungs, and other needed life giving organ...
Episode 36: The Wizard of Ooze, Senator Everett Dirksen, the forgotten champion of Civil Rights (Special Edition)
July 30, 2021 15:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MBHe was known as the Wizard of Ooze, a disheveled, elderly man with a distinctive voice and a great sense of humor and a thoughtful, cautious style. He was the leader of the Republican Minority in the United States Senate. He often had only 36 members in his caucus. But that was often enough votes to break a filibuster and deliver enough votes to pass major legislation that would not happen with the majority party divided. Senator Everett Dirksen was a powerful figure in the country in the...
Episode 36: The Wizard of Ooze, Senator Everett Dirksen, the forgotten champion of Civil Rights (Special Edition)
July 30, 2021 15:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MBSend us a Text Message. He was known as the Wizard of Ooze, a disheveled, elderly man with a distinctive voice and a great sense of humor and a thoughtful, cautious style. He was the leader of the Republican Minority in the United States Senate. He often had only 36 members in his caucus. But that was often enough votes to break a filibuster and deliver enough votes to pass major legislation that would not happen with the majority party divided. Senator Everett Dirksen was a powerful fig...
Episode 35: The Johnson Treatment (Part 4) Selma, Alabama and the Voter Rights Act of 1965
July 25, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 47.7 MBSend us a Text Message. If President Lyndon B. Johnson has a real claim to greatness it is for his work to pass the Voter's Rights Act of 1965. It was the act that guaranteed every citizen in this country the right to vote. It came after a horrifying Sunday in the Alabama town of Selma. It was there that a contingent of Alabama State Troopers attacked a group of protesters as they marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The entire country watched it all on television, including the Presid...
Episode 34: The Johnson Treatment (Part 3) The Vice Presidential Problem
July 21, 2021 14:00 - 50 minutes - 35.1 MBFew relationships in the history of our country were as important as the one between President Lyndon Johnson and his Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and fewer still, were as bad. The two men could not stand one another and it was like that from the start. In 1960, Bobby Kennedy had tried to get Lyndon Johnson to back out of his acceptance of the Vice Presidential slot on the Democratic Ticket. It was a slight that had never been forgiven. Through out the Kennedy Administration Robert Kenn...
Episode 34: The Johnson Treatment (Part 3) The Vice Presidential Problem
July 21, 2021 14:00 - 50 minutes - 35.1 MBSend us a Text Message. Few relationships in the history of our country were as important as the one between President Lyndon Johnson and his Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and fewer still, were as bad. The two men could not stand one another and it was like that from the start. In 1960, Bobby Kennedy had tried to get Lyndon Johnson to back out of his acceptance of the Vice Presidential slot on the Democratic Ticket. It was a slight that had never been forgiven. Through out the Kennedy A...
Episode 33: The Johnson Treatment (Part 2) The Great Society, the murder of 3 Civil Rights Workers, and the 1964 Civil Rights Act
July 18, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 48.7 MBThis episode opens as Lyndon Johnson declares War on Poverty in America. LBJ had a vision of the America he wanted to create and unlike many of our Presidents this man was the quintessential legislator. Johnson's ability to get legislation passed was an area of his job in which there has been no equal, whether you like what he passed or not. Johnson's Great Society changed America in fundamental ways and redefined what many Americans looked for in their Federal Government. One of the cent...
Episode 33: The Johnson Treatment (Part 2) The Great Society, the murder of 3 Civil Rights Workers, and the 1964 Civil Rights Act
July 18, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 48.7 MBSend us a Text Message. This episode opens as Lyndon Johnson declares War on Poverty in America. LBJ had a vision of the America he wanted to create and unlike many of our Presidents this man was the quintessential legislator. Johnson's ability to get legislation passed was an area of his job in which there has been no equal, whether you like what he passed or not. Johnson's Great Society changed America in fundamental ways and redefined what many Americans looked for in their Federal Gove...
Episode 32: The Johnson Treatment (Part 1) HELLO LYNDON!!
July 15, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 43.1 MBSend us a Text Message. The start of Season 3, begins on the Tarmac of Andrews Air Force Base on November 22, 1963. A new President addresses reporters and the American people after the assassination of a young and vigorous President. The New President was an old hand in Washington, with a larger than life persona and an ego as large as the State he had represented in the United States Senate, the state of Texas. This show will introduce you to the man , Lyndon Johnson. He would preside o...
Episode 31: A Eulogy for a Dog (A very Special Farewell to a member of our team, Cooper Wallace)
July 15, 2021 14:00 - 18 minutes - 13.1 MBWhile we were in production for season 3 we lost a very special and important part of our production team, my dog Cooper. He was 11 years old and was a special member of my family. The two of us have weathered some very significant storms together and it warranted a special send off. Cooper's cancer diagnosis came as a surprise and he lived a brief four weeks after the major surgery to remove his spleen and two tumors, which were all together as big as a softball. If greatness is measured...
Episode 31: A Eulogy for a Dog (A very Special Farewell to a member of our team, Cooper Wallace)
July 15, 2021 14:00 - 18 minutes - 13.1 MBSend us a Text Message. While we were in production for season 3 we lost a very special and important part of our production team, my dog Cooper. He was 11 years old and was a special member of my family. The two of us have weathered some very significant storms together and it warranted a special send off. Cooper's cancer diagnosis came as a surprise and he lived a brief four weeks after the major surgery to remove his spleen and two tumors, which were all together as big as a softball. ...
Episode 30: THE GIANTS OF THE SENATE and Joe Biden (Part 4 Special Edition) A Tribute to Senator John Warner R-Virginia
July 02, 2021 17:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MBSend us a Text Message. Senator John Warner, the second longest serving Senator from Virginia , was one of the last World War 2 and Korean War Veterans serving in the Congress when he retired in 2009. He passed away on May 25, 2021 at the age of 94. He was a class act and a man who knew how to get things done. He knew how to work with people and how to reach across the aisle and find bi-partisan solutions to issues. He was also not afraid to buck his own party which he did on several occas...
Preview For Season 3 : LBJ, The Great Society, Civil Rights, Vietnam, the Upheaval of 1968, and the Return of Richard Nixon
July 01, 2021 14:00 - 8 minutes - 6.24 MBSend us a Text Message. Season 3 of "Bridging the Political Gap " takes us through the most controversial period in our history other than the Civil War. In this season we will cover one of the most controversial an arguably most consequential Presidencies in the entire history of our nation. The Administration of Lyndon B. Johnson. Here is a preview of what promises to be a long, hot, summer.... Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and ...
Episode 29: NOVEMBER 1963: The End of the Age of Innocence ( Assassinations of Ngo Dinh Diem & John F. Kennedy)
June 29, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBSend us a Text Message. November 1963, was a month that changed the trajectory of American History. During the summer of 1963, President John F. Kennedy and the Kennedy Administration grew increasingly frustrated with the South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and his increasingly dictatorial ways in running the government. When Ambassador , and Republican, Henry Cabot Lodge pushed Diem to remove his brother General Ngo from command of the Army, and Diem refused, a coup by the other Gene...
Special Edition: This Week with Tim McGinnis, Interview with Randal Wallace, Host of Bridging The Political Gap an author of "Always Vote Your Conscience"
June 25, 2021 14:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBSend us a Text Message. In this special edition of "Bridging the Political Gap" , our host Randal Wallace sat down earlier in the month (June 2021) with This week with Tim McGinnis, a current South Carolina State House Member and former television anchorman for WPDE TV-15, the local ABC affiliate here in Myrtle Beach. Tim McGinnis is also the owner of "The Famous Toastery" in Carolina Forrest. Tim McGinnis now hosts a weekly radio broadcast on WTKM 94.5 Radio in Myrtle Beach - Murrells ...
Episode 28 : A Celebration of the Iife of George Shultz (Part 3) Reagan at Reykjavík
June 22, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 49.2 MBIn Part 3 of the celebration of the life of George Shultz, we look back at one of the singular, major events of the Cold War in which George Shultz was a major participant. For a couple of days in October of 1986, four men met and changed the direction of the world. The two leaders President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and their two chief diplomatic aids Eduard Shevardnadze and George Shultz met to have discussion about Arms Control. It was hastily called ...
Episode 28 : A Celebration of the Iife of George Shultz (Part 3) Reagan at Reykjavík
June 22, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 49.2 MBSend us a Text Message. In Part 3 of the celebration of the life of George Shultz, we look back at one of the singular, major events of the Cold War in which George Shultz was a major participant. For a couple of days in October of 1986, four men met and changed the direction of the world. The two leaders President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and their two chief diplomatic aids Eduard Shevardnadze and George Shultz met to have discussion about Arms Contro...
Episode 27 : A Celebration of the life of George Shultz (Part 2) The Wisdom of the Man
June 15, 2021 14:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBSend us a Text Message. In this second part in our celebration of the life of George Shultz, we look at his many wise thoughts on the problems our country and world face today, and how he felt they needed to be addressed. He tells stories from his time in public office as both a cabinet member, an education leader, and his career in the private sector. There is a lot to learn and a lot we can all be thankful he shared with us through his writings and interviews. This is George Shultz u...
Episode 26 : A Celebration of the life of George Shultz (Part 1) Working for Nixon and Reagan
June 08, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 48.4 MBSend us a Text Message. "He was a gentleman of honor and ideas, dedicated to public service and respectful debate, even into his 100th year on Earth. That’s why multiple presidents, of both political parties, sought his counsel. I regret that, as president, I will not be able to benefit from his wisdom, as have so many of my predecessors." - President Joe Biden George Shultz died on February 6, 2021 at the age of 100. He lived an extraordinary life, advising many Presidents and political f...
Episode 26 : A Celebration of the life of George Shultz (Part 1) Working for Nixon and Reagan
June 08, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 48.4 MB"He was a gentleman of honor and ideas, dedicated to public service and respectful debate, even into his 100th year on Earth. That’s why multiple presidents, of both political parties, sought his counsel. I regret that, as president, I will not be able to benefit from his wisdom, as have so many of my predecessors." - President Joe Biden George Shultz died on February 6, 2021 at the age of 100. He lived an extraordinary life, advising many Presidents and political figures and serving in fou...
Episode 25 : The Importance of the Filibuster
June 02, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MBSend us a Text Message. "Madison did not design government to be easy, he designed it to be difficult, for unrelenting process and debate" - Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan D- New York There is no more important tool in the arsenal of the minority party when it comes to maintaining some sway with legislation in the United States Senate than the legislative Filibuster. It is a tool with a very interesting history. That history is often used whenever the majority is trying to figure out a wa...
Episode 25 : The Importance of the Filibuster
June 02, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MB"Madison did not design government to be easy, he designed it to be difficult, for unrelenting process and debate" - Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan D- New York There is no more important tool in the arsenal of the minority party when it comes to maintaining some sway with legislation in the United States Senate than the legislative Filibuster. It is a tool with a very interesting history. That history is often used whenever the majority is trying to figure out a way to take it away from th...
Memorial Day Special Edition: Randal Wallace's 2012 Speech to the Memorial Day Gathering in Myrtle Beach S.C.
May 31, 2021 14:00 - 17 minutes - 12.4 MBOne of the truly most heartfelt and memorable things I was able to do as an elected official and candidate for Congress was speak at this event honoring those who had lost their lives in Military Service in 2012. This speech was very special to me because it involves three people I admired tremendously. I was able to talk about my political hero Bob Dole, My Great Uncle J.B. Crowley (two heroic World War 2 veterans) and I shared the stage that day with my friend and the Mayor I served with...