Best Joe Hackman Podcasts (2025)

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BOB CAUDLE 1930 - 2025 The Voice of Our Childhood A Tribute , and a tribute to the Pro Wrestling greats that made Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling, great fun!!! 1:19:01

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Send us a text On Sunday, November 15, 2025, I woke up to the news that legendary Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling Host Bob Caudle had died , peacefully, in his sleep at the age of 95. I can’t explain it but this one was like losing a lifelong friend because in a way it was. Bob Caudle’s voice is as familiar to me as any on Earth, he has been a …

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The Great American Authors Special Season Preview 22:13

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Send us a text Join us starting November 25, 2025 for a Christmas Holidays Special 16th Season as we venture into new territory. Over the end of November and through out December we will spend 16 episodes looking at the Great American Authors, From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Stephen King and all points in between. We hope you will join us as we take a …

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HULK HOGAN (1953 - 2025) , JIM LOVELL (1928 - 2025) , and ROBERT REDFORD (1936 - 2025) : Tributes B 1:13:36

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Send us a text In this episode we look back at three people it is almost hard to imagine not being around. Hulk Hogan, if you are kid in my age range, middle 50s, was as big a star as ever roamed the Earth. He was the catalyst for Professional Wrestling's leap into mainstream society taking it from a cable television novelty, to starring in, what i…

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POPE FRANCIS (1936 - 2025) , An American Pope, Leo 14th, Charlie Kirk (1993 - 2025) , and Connie Francis (1937 - 2025) TRIBUTES A 1:11:47

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Send us a text In this episode , we look back at three men who worked tirelessly for their religious beliefs and trying to make this world a better place in their own way, Pope Francis, Pope Leo 14th, and Political Activist Charlie Kirk, plus a rock star from the 1950s and 60s, Connie Francis. Pope Francis became the first Jesuit Priest to rise to …

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DAVID GERGEN : An Eye Witness to Power (1942 - 2025) A Tribute 43:49

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Send us a text For decades the one thing that never seemed to change in Washington D.C. was constant presence of David Gergen. He was an aid to Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. He was a political analyst for PBS and CNN. David Gergen seemed as permanent a fixture as the Washington Monument in Washington …

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VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY, 1941 - 2025 : A Tribute 1:12:16

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Send us a text Last week, former Vice President Dick Cheney passed away, he was 84 years old. There has been no more powerful a figure in the history of politics in the modern era. He transformed the Vice Presidency into a power center all its own. In this episode, we will look back at his life, his love of the outdoors, his life after the White Ho…

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THE REST OF 2025 : A Housekeeping an Announcement Show 5:33

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Send us a text In this brief update we want to fill you in on our special non-political season to carry our show through the holidays, and some tribute episodes we have planned to look back at some of those we lost this year but have not had a chance to look back at as the season progressed. We look forward to 2026 for the return of Bob Dole in our…

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Episode 402 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 39) The Announcement for President (B) Season Finale 1:03:16

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Send us a text In our season finale we zoom in on the fight over a Balanced budget Amendment on the 1995 Congressional agenda. You will hear Senators go round and round , from Pete Domenici, to Bob Dole, to Paul Simon, to even South Carolina’s own Senator Ernest Hollings. All this debate rages as Bob Dole inches closer and closer to filing for Pres…

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Episode 401 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 38) The Announcement for President (A) 1:12:29

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Send us a text In this episode we start to move you through the big moments of 1995 as we get closer to the kick off of the 1996 Presidential Election. Bob Dole has not totally made his mind up yet and its clear to his wife and staf he needs to make the definitive move. We will relive these moments as Bob Dole makes up his mind to run for a third t…

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Episode 400 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (part 37) A Look at Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole too 1:03:05

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Send us a text In this episode we set the stage for 1995 as Newt Gingrich becomes the biggest star in politics as he becomes the first Republican Speaker in 40 years. We will look back at his rise and watch him consolidate his position. Plus this also marks the move by Bob Dole to seriously look at his own run for the Presidency. Questions or comme…

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Episode 399 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 36) Under New Management (D) A New Whip 49:24

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Send us a text As we open this episode , we will see Bob Dole truly become the last man standing from an era of political figures who had dominated the scene for over two decades. There would be two Senate leadership races as George Mitchell retired as the Democratic Leader and Alan Simpson faced a challenge in his position as Bob Dole's number two…

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Episode 398 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 35) Under New Management (C) Speaker Elect Gingrich 48:39

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Send us a text All eyes were trained on one man as the lame duck session began. It was the soon to be new Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich. In this episode we introduce you to him and watch those first moves from the new star of politics in 1994. Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace…

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Episode 397 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 34) Under New Management (B) The Shelby Switch 59:18

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Send us a text The power switch was swift as all eyes fell on the Republican leadership in the hours after the Republicans swept to to power in both houses of Congress. There was a push for moving the Contract with America's agenda to the forefront, talk of downsizing the staffs in Washington, and both leaders were busy ironing out what exactly the…

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Episode 396 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 33) Under New Management (A) The President is relevant Here 1:10:58

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Send us a text When the sun rose on November 9, 1994, Washington D.C. had had a seismic shift in the politics it had known for nearly a half century. Even the House Speaker Tom Foley, of Washington State, had lost his seat in Congress. There is hardly words that can describe how brutal the night before had been for the Democratic Party and its Pres…

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Episode 395 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 32) Election Night 1994 1:10:09

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Send us a text It is election day 1994 at last, and this is the coverage of that historic night. For the first time in 40 years the Republicans will take control of Congress. It is a clean sweep too, the Republicans would win in every category and level of government. They would win the control of the House, the Senate, the Governors Mansions, and …

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Episode 394 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 31) The Mid Term Elections (C) Clinton VS Dole 1:21:14

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Send us a text As we close in on election day in 1994, both President Bill Clinton and Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, hit the campaign trail as the de-facto heads of each party to try and pull their candidates through all across the country. We will look at them both as they have rallies across the country from Seattle, to Denver, to two national…

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Episode 393 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 30) Lindsey Graham for Congress 1994, A National Leader Emerges 1:21:22

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Episode 392 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 29) The Mid Term Elections (B) A Big Names in a Big Year 53:10

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Send us a text In this episode, we will give you a taste of the dramatic races from all across the nation. Two Bush brothers were on the ballot, we had a barn burner for Governor in South Carolina, and the House and Senate had close races too. It was a dramatic campaign in an historic year at the polls. Questions or comments at , [email protected]…

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Episode 391 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 28) The 1994 Mid-Term Elections (A) A Team 53:34

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Send us a text In this episode we kick of the 1994 Midterm elections. As we look at Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole and Senate Republican Campaign Committee Chairman Phil Gramm, begin their march to the majority in the United States Senate. We will listen in as Bob Dole deftly answers questions about the year's most controversial Senate race in Vir…

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Episode 390 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 27) A Farewell to the Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell D - Maine with Speeches from both Dole and Clinton 47:04

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Send us a text In this episode, we look back with a great deal of respect to a very formidable adversary for most Republicans like me, in Senator George Mitchell of Maine. He was the Senate Majority Leader for most of the Bush Administration and the first two years of the Clinton Administration. He was most likely the single biggest factor in makin…

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Episode 389 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 26) The Contract with America 1:12:57

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Send us a text The Contract with America would change everything in Washington D.C. For four decades the United States House of Representatives had been controlled by one party. The Republicans had settled into a life of being a permanent minority. That total control of the Federal Government had led to decades of entrenchment for democrats everywh…

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Bill Clinton on the phone dealing with the 1994 California Wildfires (Special Edition) 22:57

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Send us a text In 1994 wildfires swept across California and the Emergency Management people steeped in to help fight them. Bill Clinton was briefed on the issues and in this episode we hear his call in to check on what was happening and to show his support for the efforts. It is a rare window in on the inner workings of the Presidency during a cri…

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Strom Thurmond and Bob Dole at the Graduation of the Citadel in Charleston S.C. May 14, 1994 (Special Edition) 40:29

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Send us a text South Carolina has always been enormously proud of its military Collegiate institution, the Citadel, in Charleston S.C. Senator Ernest Hollings was a proud graduate of the University as was so many very prominent people throughout the state. Graduates include Governor Justin Hagood, Pat Conroy, Charles Tew, Greg Davis, State Senator …

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Episode 388 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 25) The 1994 Crime Bill 1:01:02

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Send us a text In this episode we look back at one of the most controversial pieces of legislation in the entire history of the country, the 1994 Crime Bill. It has been the source of many misconceptions and misinformation, even some of which has been spread by me. I had actually forgotten that this piece of legislation actually wasn't a bipartisan…

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A Lecture by Robert Fiske, The Honest Special Prosecutor. (Special Edition) 1:05:05

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Send us a text I may not agree with his every conclusion about the history of the Special Prosecutor and Special Counsel office and the people who have held it. But I can say that I could find no fault with how this one man handled the job. The Special Counsel and Special Prosecutors Office, begun in 1974, as a way to investigate the sitting Presid…

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Episode 387 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 24) The Appointment of the Whitewater Special Prosecutor and Overview 1:33:12

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Send us a text The Whitewater investigation takes a giant leap as Attorney General Janet Reno appoints a Special Prosecutor to look into the case coming out of Arkansas. Former Watergate House Judiciary Committee staffer Bernard Nussbaum is now the assistant legal counsel to the President and his advice is not "No but Hell No!1 Mr. President, don't…

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Bob Dole's State of the Union Response of 1994 and his interview on the Republican Agenda of 1994 (Special Edition) 37:48

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Send us a text It has been described as the hardest assignment in Washington D.C. It is the response to the sitting President after the State of the Union Address by a member of the opposition party. The President, speaking to a Joint Session of Congress, has a packed House chamber to talk with and a national audience tuning in. The person given th…

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Episode 386 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 23) The Dole - Packwood Healthcare Alternative 1:06:41

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Send us a text The Republicans did offer up an alternative to the Clinton Healthcare proposal. It was the Dole/Packwood Republican Alternative plan. In this press conference you will hear Bob Dole discuss the proposal and have Senator Bob Packwood lay the plan out for the press corp. Here are two Republican leaders trying to get their ideas on the …

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Episode 385 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 22) Hillary and Healthcare 1:31:06

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Send us a text In this episode we take a look back at Hillary Clinton when she first burst onto the national scene in the early days of the Clinton Administration. She was a lady busy redefining the role of the First Lady. She was an active serious advisor to her husband. An accomplished career woman in her own right she had been the single person …

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Billy Graham The President's Preacher and his role in American History (Special Edition) 1:16:37

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Send us a text In this episode we look back at the other man who alongside, Bob Dole and Pete Wilson, spoke at both funerals for Pat and Richard Nixon. The Reverend Billy Graham was a giant figure in the second half of the 20th Century. His influence on the spiritual lives of people around the globe is rivaled only by the various Pope's who served …

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Episode 384 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 21) The Passing of Pat and Richard Nixon 1:25:10

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Send us a text In this episode we cover the deaths of both Former First Lady Pat Nixon and former President Richard Nixon who both passed away within 10 months of one another in 1993 and 1994. As anyone who has been listening to our podcast on a long term basis knows, the life and career of Richard Nixon is a central focus of our show. We even have…

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Episode 383 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 20) The Brady Bill 53:39

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Send us a text Jim Brady was a popular member of the Reagan campaign , and briefly the Reagan Administration. He was gunned down in 1981 in the attempt to assassinate Ronald Reagan. He lived, but suffered permanent brain damage, leaving him paralyzed and slow to speak for the rest of his life. His wife, Sarah Brady, would go on to lead a lifelong c…

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Episode 382 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 19) NAFTA 1:30:36

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Send us a text The North American Free Trade Agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, opened up the largest free trading block in the world. It was supported by every living former President in 1993, and Bill Clinton worked very hard to make it happen. He got support from an unlikely source. Bob Dole. In fact, he had bipartisan supp…

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The Bob Dole Oral History Collection Introduction (Special Edition) 42:46

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Send us a text As this series has unfolded I am sure that most people have listened in and thought it was more about President Bill Clinton than Senator Bob Dole. That will begin to change with this episode. This is where we will begin to use an absolute treasure of a find from the Dole Archives collection at the Robert J. Dole School for Politics …

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A Trip Through Georgia (Part 2) Franklin Roosevelt's Little White House & The Carter's Hometown of Plains (Special Edition) 1:13:49

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Send us a text In this our second episode of our tour through Georgia, we head out into rural south west Georgia to visit the community of Warm Springs. It was there in a small little resort town that Franklin Roosevelt discovered a treatment for his polio. It never cured him but it certainly revitalized him. The warm 88 degree water full of minera…

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A Trip Through Georgia (Part 1) The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and the Martin Luther King Jr National Historic Site (Special Edition) 57:02

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Send us a text In this special, two part travelogue, we take you along with our host through Atlanta and south west Georgia as we visit several of the most historic spots in the nation. In this first episode we head into Atlanta and visit the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library. We will look back on some of the major accomplishments of the Carter yea…

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Episode 381 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 18) Somalia - Black Hawk Down (B) The U.S. Senate Debate 1:43:04

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Send us a text In the second episode on the Black Hawk Down incident we will listen in on the Senate as it debates two seperate amendments concerning the operations in Somalia. The McCain Amendment that would have cut off all funding to the operation immediately and the Byrd Amendment that gave the President a six month time table to bring the oper…

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Episode 380 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 17) Somalia - Black Hawk Down (A) 1:06:12

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Send us a text This is the first of two episodes looking back on the situation in Somalia. In this episode we will hear from both President Bill Clinton and Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole , and we will directly from the pilot, Michael Durant, himself as he relives his experience in Mogadishu in several interviews. This is the story of Black Hawk…

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Episode 379 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 16) The Oslo Accords 50:56

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Send us a text I went on line and looked up the Oslo Accords signed by President Bill Clinton, PLO Leader Yasir Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin. It was an important moment that has faded now in its importance as the Israeli conflict with Hamas has taken centerstage. I thought it interesting to read what Artificial Intelligence wrote …

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Bob Dole's first foray into New Hampshire in 1993 ( Special Edition ) 36:55

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Send us a text We travel up to New Hampshire in this special edition episode to hear Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole , in his first foray into the state this cycle, as he helps fundraise for Congressman Bill Zepher. At the time Dole had not yet fully committed to running in 1996 himself but he was clearly the Republican Leader in America. This is B…

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Episode 378 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 15) The Budget Battle Ends 56:00

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Send us a text In this episode, we look at what is arguably an impressive achievement by both President Bill Clinton and Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole. The 1993 Budget Bill accomplished several goals of the new Clinton Administration including a tax increase on the middle class. That money funded up several programs Clinton had wanted to see impl…

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Episode 377 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 14) Vince Foster's Suicide 37:50

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Send us a text This is one of , if not, the saddest stories of all my time in politics. It is the story of Vince Foster, the longtime friend, and aid to President Bill Clinton. He had once shared back lawns with Bill Clinton in childhood. He had worked alongside Hillary Clinton at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, and he had moved with th…

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Episode 376 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 13) The Bombing of Baghdad 51:48

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Send us a text The bombs fell again on downtown Baghdad. This time in retaliation for the Iraqi Intelligence Agency's attempt to kill former President George H. W. Bush. Bush had gone to Kuwait to celebrate the anniversary of the victory by the United States of liberating the tiny Arab Nation. The Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein thought it was the perf…

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Episode 375 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 12) The Clinton first 100 Days : Bob Dole Replies B 28:09

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Send us a text This is part two of the dueling press conferences on April 23, 1993 to celebrate the first 100 days of the Clinton Administration. This time its Bob Dole's turn to speak to the public and talk about all that had occured in the early Clinton days. It was the first of many sparring matches that would occur from 1993 to 1996. Questions …

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Episode 374 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 11) The Clinton first 100 Days , Bill Clinton's Press Conference A 50:45

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Send us a text This is the first of a special two part podcast story. This is the end of the first 100 days of the administration of Bill Clinton. He topped it off with a press conference touting the many different things he felt that had been accomplished during those first 100 days. It is Bill Clinton at his finest, singing his own praises, and g…

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Episode 373 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 10) Janet Reno and Waco, Texas 1:11:22

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Send us a text Janet Reno would serve as Attorney General for the entire term of Bill Clinton's Presidency. It proved the third time was the charm. In this episode, we look back at Janet Reno the person and we will examine some of her tougher decisions that happened throughout her nearly 8 years as the Attorney General. Even though I am a Republica…

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Episode 372 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 9) Hillary Clinton and the White House Travel Office Scandal 1:09:44

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Send us a text In this episode, we look at the former First Lady and her impact on the Clinton Administration. I don't think there is any debate on the powerful role Hillary Rodham Clinton had on the administration of her husband, for good and for bad. She was his tip advisor and a full partner throughout his entire political career. She would lead…

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Episode 371 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 8) Bill Clinton's Economic Plan Town hall in Ohio (Special Edition) 1:07:24

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Send us a text Bill Clinton will have a town hall in Chillicothe , Ohio, to answer questions and roll out his economic plan to the nation. We are presenting it to you here in its entirety. You will get the chance to see Bill Clinton do what he does best, connect with people. He puts on his full salesman pitch to try and sell this plan to the Americ…

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A Tribute to BILL MOYERS (Part 3) From LBJ aide to Journalism Great (TAPE SERIES 21) LBJ calls to Bill Moyers 1964 - 1967 1:05:20

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Send us a text In this episode, we will listen to the efforts by Bill Moyers to aid his President to build both a Great Society here at home all while protecting the civil rights of its citizens at the same time. You will hear Lyndon Johnson talk about what he expects in his anti poverty programs, his education programs, and how he intends to deal …

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A Tribute to BILL MOYERS (Part 2) From LBJ aide to Journalism Great , (TAPE SERIES 20), LBJ calls to Bill Moyers in 1964 and the Vietnam War 1:01:58

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Send us a text In this episode, we concentrate mostly on the Vietnam War and watch the decisions unfold that led us into a full scale land war in Asia. Bill Moyers was there and honestly offers both his opinions in real time to the President and gives historians an ear full of why he thinks things happened the way they did. This is an extraordinary…