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Episode 279 GEORGE H W BUSH The Sweep of History (Part 20) The United Nations Deadline
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - May 23, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 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 superpo...
Episode 278 GEORGE H W BUSH The Sweep of History (part 19) A Look at the Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher (B)
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - May 20, 2024 09:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In our second episode looking back at the life of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher we will hear from the leaders themselves. We will listen to the raw footage from a BBC interview with Ronald Reagan about Margaret Thatcher and her contribution to World politics. ...
Episode 277 GEORGE H W BUSH The Sweep of History (Part 18) A Look at The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher (A)
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - May 16, 2024 14:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In this episode we look back at the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher. We listen in on stories about the relationship she had with United States President Ronald Reagan, complete with a private call between the two after the Grenada Invasion. They were two conservative icons...
Episode 276 GEORGE H. W. BUSH The Sweep of History (Part 17) Thanksgiving and the Fall of the Iron Lady
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - May 13, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Thanksgiving arrives in Saudi Arabia, as President Bush travels there with Mrs Bush, Senate Leaders George Mitchell and Bob Dole, House Speaker Tom Foley, and several other congressional people. They will speak to the troops and spend the holiday with them. As they get...
Episode 275 George H.W. Bush The Sweep of History (Part 15) The November 8, 1990 Press Conference
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - May 09, 2024 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Here is one of the press conferences from the month of November. Here the President will talk of his desire for peace as he has the region prepared for War. It is at this point that the United states can say they are prepared for any actions the Iraqi's may take. As we ...
Episode 274 GEORGE H.W. BUSH The Sweep of History (Part 15) Tensions Build
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - May 06, 2024 09:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In this episode we take you through the tension building period in late October and Early November of 1990. You will listen in to news reports from ABC News and the News from New Zealand as the Middle East moves closer to War. We will also listen to letters from George ...
Episode 273 GEORGE H W BUSH The Sweep of History (Part 14) The United Nations Address
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - April 29, 2024 09:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. This episode is a rare chance to listen in on a speech at the United Nations. The video, and therefore, the audio quality is not the best but the speech is rare and very important to the storyline. In it the President makes his case to the world of just how important i...
Episode 272 GEORGE H W BUSH 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History (Part 13) Germany Reunified B
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - April 22, 2024 09:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In this follow up episode on the reunification of Germany we arrive at the White House for German - American Day about three weeks after the reunification had occurred. At this White House Event, the President will celebrate the contributions to America made by the milli...
Episode 271 GEORGE H W BUSH 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History (Part 12) The Reunification of Germany A
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - April 18, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Here is one of the great stories of the Bush Administration and of World History. After 4 decades of separation the people of Germany would be one country again. Though the Berlin Wall had come crashing down just 11 months before, this was the big moment for the German ...
Episode 270 George H W Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History (Part 11) Coming Together, Coming Apart
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - April 15, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In this episode, we look back at the coming together of the Military coalition on the ground and the man who would command it, General Norman Schwarzkopf. It would be a coalition made up of 42 countries, and troops from around the world. They would all come together on ...
Listen in as Senator Joe Lieberman commentates the entrance of Governor Bill Clinton at the 1992 Democratic Convention (Special Edition)
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - April 11, 2024 09:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In this short episode we will listen in on PBS as Governor Bill Clinton comes to the hall at the Democratic National Convention in 1992 a night early. Clinton will say just a few words of thank you for the Democrats nominating him. The interesting part of the segment is ...
Joe Lieberman, An Extraordinary Man (Special Edition)
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - April 10, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Senator Joe Lieberman, a Democrat from Connecticut, died unexpectedly in April from complication from a fall. He was 82 years old and his loss from the scene will be incalculable. For Joe Lieberman was one of those rare public figures who was not just respected, but belo...
Episode 269 GEORGE H W BUSH 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History ( Part 10) Addressing America and Iraq
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - April 08, 2024 09:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In this episode we will listen in on two addresses by President George H. W. Bush. One is to a joint session of the United States Congress as he reports back to the nation the situation in the Persian Gulf. He will also address the growing issues of division at home on t...
Episode 268 GEORGE H W BUSH 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History ( Part 9) Bush and Gorbachev in Helsinki
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - April 04, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In this episode we watch as the Cold War comes quietly to an end. The United States and the Soviet Union actually work together to handle a crisis that involves a client Soviet state, Iraq. We will tune in as the situation in the Gulf continues to move close to war. T...
Episode 267 GEORGE H. W. BUSH 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History ( Part 8 ) Bringing the World Together
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - March 27, 2024 09:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In this episode we hear from Saddam Hussein himself in an exclusive interview by ABC News and Diane Sawyer. In it he denies he has ever murdered his opponents, claims he is not an admirer of Josef Stalin, and tries to justify his actions in Kuwait. Then we listen in as...
Episode 266 GEORGE H.W. BUSH 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History (Part 7) A United Arab Front
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - March 21, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. As we approach the eve of the August 10, 1990, Arab League Summit; I thought this a good time for us to go back, with the help of the PBS Documentary series "Frontline", to the summer of circumstances that led to the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. So, we will relive the su...
A Trip Across CANADA (Special Edition in Honor of my Step-Father Larry Bulmer & Brian Mulroney)
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - March 19, 2024 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. After we put together our tribute episode in memory of Former Canadian Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney, that had included a short tribute honoring my Step Father, Larry Bulmer, I thought about the World Heritage site I had visited and Larry talked about in the short segme...
BRIAN MULRONEY, A TRIBUTE to Our Great Friend and to Canada (Special Edition featuring my stepfather Larry Bulmer)
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - March 18, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Brian Mulroney was a great friend to American Presidents, and one of the big four leaders who helped bring down Communism in the 1980s. He helped George Bush in the Gulf War and was the leader who pushed for the freeing of Nelson Mandela in South Africa. He was a man who...
Episode 265 GEORGE H.W. BUSH 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History (Part 6) With Brian Mulroney and Canada by our side
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - March 14, 2024 09:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. One of the United States' closest allies is the nation of Canada and during this period it had one of its greatest statesman at the helm of Government, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. He stood with Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul 2 as they worked to en...
Episode 264 GEORGE H.W. BUSH 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History (Part 5) The August 9, 1990 Press Conference
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - March 11, 2024 09:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In this episode we sit in on the President's press Conference on August 9, 1990. At this point he has been busy assembling the World LEaders that he will need to begin the process of forcing Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. This press conference is an interesting look at ho...
Episode 263 GEORGE H. W. BUSH 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History (Part 4) Iraq invades Kuwait
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - March 07, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. It is the day after the invasion of Kuwait by the Iraqi Army under the orders of it's dictator Saddam Hussein. We will listen in to the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw as they recount the events of the 24 hours after the initial invasion for the public. We will hear fro...
Mitch McConnell : The Senator of the Century (Part 3, Special Edition) A Giant Retires
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - March 04, 2024 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In this Special Edition of our show we are adding a third installment to the special series we ran in January looking back at the life and career of Senator Mitch McConnell, the longest serving Republican Leader in the history of the Senate. In our special series in Janu...
Episode 262 GEORGE H.W. BUSH 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History , (Part 3) The Americans with Disabilities Act
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - February 28, 2024 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In this episode, we will examine one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation passed since the 1960s. It was the Americans with Disabilities Act, and it insured for all Americans the basic right to equal access to all of American Life. It is hard to belie...
Grand Strand Politics Show 10: Donald Trump Wins the 2024 South Carolina Presidential Primary
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - February 27, 2024 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In this episode we close out our podcast coverage of the 2024 South Carolina Presidential Primary. We will listen in to the concession speech of former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and the victory address from former President Donald Trump. We will also hear remar...
THANK YOU!!! We are now Ranked Number 1 , by FEEDSPOT, As one of the 70 Best American History Podcasts of 2024!!! How About That!!
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - February 27, 2024 09:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Feedspot released yesterday, February 26, 2024, our ranking at number 1 of the 70 Best American History Podcasts of 2024. https://podcasts.feedspot.com/american_history_podcasts/ Here is the List We are enormously proud to have been listed in that position and we th...
Grand Strand Politics Show 9: The Weaponization of Justice, A History & an Endorsement
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - February 23, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In our final show to air before the South Carolina Presidential Primary election, our Host Randal Wallace , will discuss what he believes is the root cause of much of the division our country faces today. It is the criminalization of politics and the weaponization of Jus...
Grand Strand Politics Show 8: The Colorado Access Case Supreme Court Arguments (Part 2)
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - February 22, 2024 10:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In this episode , we will let you listen in on the Colorado Ballot Access case against President Donald Trump. This case rests on accusing Former President Donald Trump of being an insurrectionist, a charge of which has not been made in ANY of the 91 indictments so far b...
Episode 261 GEORGE H.W. BUSH 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History , (Part 2) Read My Lips No New Taxes
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - February 21, 2024 10:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. "Read My Lips , No New Taxes!!" , the most famous words George H. W. Bush ever uttered. He said it at the 1988 Republican National Convention as he struggled to unite his party for the coming race for President against a surging Michael Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts...
Episode 261 GEORGE H.W. BUSH 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History , Read My Lips No New Taxes
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - February 21, 2024 10:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings"Read My Lips , No New Taxes!!" , the most famous words George H. W. Bush ever uttered. He said it at the 1988 Republican National Convention as he struggled to unite his party for the coming race for President against a surging Michael Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts. Dukakis was a whoppin...
Grand Strand Politics Show 7: The Colorado Ballot Access Case Supreme Court Arguments (part 1)
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - February 20, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In this episode , we will let you listen in on the Colorado Ballot Access case against President Donald Trump. This case rests on accusing Former President Donald Trump of being an insurrectionist, a charge of which has not been made in ANY of the 91 indictments so far b...
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