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Randal Wallace Presents : "George H. W. Bush" a five season look back at his extraordinary life, career, and his single term as President of the United States. A term that saw the high point of American Leadership around the world. In our 14th Season , we will look back at one of the most exciting election years in history. It should have been easier, George Bush had freed the world of Communism and managed the fall of a superpower without having the world fall into violent chaos. A truly re ...
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Send us a text On June 11, 2025, our podcast will embark on the final story in the original thesis we intended to tell when we started this podcast nearly five years ago. On June 11, 1996, exactly 29 years ago, we saw Bob Dole resign his Senate seat, giving one of the most important speeches we ever heard, to pursue full time his bid for the White …
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Send us a text Keith C. Hinson was the Founder of Waccamaw Land and Timber Company where our Host Randal Wallace has sold Real Estate for the past 22 years. He is a giant figure in the history of Horry County S.C. where this podcast is produced. No matter where you turn in or around the Myrtle Beach area you will see the mark he has left for the be…
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Send us a text In this final episode of our 14th Season, we watch one era begin and another end. We will tune into the beginning of the Inaugural Ceremony, hearing the great Senator Wendell Ford greet the crowd and introduce the players, which will include, the Reverend Billy Graham who will give the invocation. Then we will listen in as Governor W…
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Send us a text In our middle episode on the Inauguration of Bill Clinton, we take you from the President - Elect Bill Clinton's departure from Blair House over to the meeting with President George H. W. Bush. We will let historians talk about how these rides have gone between Presidents who liked each other and Presidents who didn't. Plus, we will …
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Send us a text It is finally the last 24 hours of the Bush Administration. It is the end of an era. Those 24 hours will be crammed with activity, with President Bush preparing to leave office, with President -Elect Clinton making the rounds in Washington D.C. as he prepares to take the reigns of power, and with our military conducting air strikes o…
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Send us a text In this episode we jump around a bit in our timeline in this final episode that looks back at George H. W. Bush’s presidency. We will look at the one request Bush made to his successor of what he hoped would continue after he left office. Bush wanted the Points of Light initiative to outlive him. It did. President Clinton not only ho…
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Send us a text As the transition moves forward, George Bush begins to wrap up his administration and honor those who helped him throughout his career. In this episode, President Bush travels to West Point to speak to the cadets who were about to embark on their military careers. As a veteran, it is clear, George H. W. Bush, is most at home with the…
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Send us a text It is the next morning and the dust is settling. For the first time in 12 years the country has a Democratic President-Elect. It is also the first time since December 7, 1941 that the nation has a leader at the helm who did not serve in some capacity in World War 2. It was a sea change election. The country knew it was about to see a…
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Send us a text In the second installment of the Election Night from 1992, we see the official changing of the guard. It is at this moment, on election night, that one generation of leadership gives way to another. The World War 2 Presidents, that had served from two generations, those who ran the war : Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Dwight E…
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Send us a text On April 26, 2025, a shooting occurred in Myrtle Beach S.C. on Ocean Boulevard in the city's downtown area. There were 11 people injured and one person, the alleged gunman, was killed by an officer of the Myrtle Beach Police Department. This podcast is produced in Myrtle Beach, and it just so happened that our host, Randal Wallace, w…
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Send us a text In this special edition we remember one of the most influential people in the history of South Carolina politics. He was also one of the most colorful characters too. He was a leader in changing our State with a strong vocational education system, developing a strong nutrition program for young children in poverty, and during the civ…
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Send us a text It is election Night 1992. We will be using the coverage I collected that night , mainly, from ABC News, but it will also feature segments from CNN, NBC, and CBS News. We saved some interesting interviews with political figures like South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell, and Texas Governor Ann Richards, you will get insights from …
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Send us a text We have finally arrived to the final day on the trail for George H. W. Bush , Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot. It had been an election for the history books, as hard a fought battle as I had ever witnessed in my then short lifetime. You could not have asked for more formidable candidates to face each other than the three men who had sha…
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Send us a text Few offices in the history of our government have produced more harm, to more people, more often, and more efficiently that the office created in 1973 to investigate the Watergate Scandal. The Special Prosecutor's statute stayed on the books the rest of the 20th century and was used to wound the reelection campaign of George H. W. Bu…
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Send us a text In this episode I really want to give you the feeling that George H. W. Bush had finally turned the corner because that was what was really happening at the end of the 1992 campaign. After a tough primary challenge from a surprisingly strong Pat Buchanan, an upstart billionaire in Ross Perot jumping in who had a personal ax to grind …
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Send us a text In this episode we will tune in to a Ross Perot Rally in Missouri. It will give you a chance to hear the upstart billionaire as he leads his revolutionary campaign through the heartland of America. "Hi, I'm Ross and you're the Boss" became his tag line and he hit it over and over again, telling the enthusiastic crowds that they final…
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Send us a text Judy Rodman was a towering figure in the history of the city of Myrtle Beach. Starting as the Horry County Co-Chair for the Bob Dole for President campaign in 1988, then serving three terms, in two different eras, on the Myrtle Beach City Council, and then serving as a member of the City owned Myrtle Beach Sheraton Hotel Board, and t…
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Send us a text It is time to hit the trail in the final couple of weeks of the 1992 campaign. I figured we would take off with the three Vice Presidential candidates in this episode. They were Vice President Dan Quayle, Senator Al Gore, and Admiral James Stockdale. We will start out spending the the day with Dan Quayle. You will hear him interactin…
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Send us a text Welcome to the South Carolina United States Senate Debate in 1992. It was a barn burner of a debate between two very formidable figures: Senator Ernest Hollings and Former Congressman Tommy Hartnett. So sit back, pop up the popcorn, and find the southern native friend you have who may be able to help you understand these two combatan…
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Send us a text In 1992, South Carolina featured a heated Senate race that featured two very experienced and respected political figures in incumbent senator Ernest Hollings and his challenger former Congressman Tommy Hartnett. It would be the toughest challenge for Hollings in decades because not only was Hartnett a formidable challenger but the po…
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Send us a text In this special edition episode of our podcast we take a look back at a very special man, former Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming. He passed away in March at age 93. He had been the Senate Republican Whip under Bob Dole for a decade and together they made the institution work. Alan Simpson had one of the best wits in the Senate, or ev…
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Send us a text This might be the most fun episode we ever produced. As we look back at George H. W. Bush , Pro wrestling fan. With the help of Charleston Post and Courier articles written by their star reporter Mike Mooneyham, we will examine the Bush connection to the world of Professional wrestling and especially his fondness for wrestling's grea…
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Send us a text In this special edition of our podcast we will be looking at the highly acclaimed best selling book written by former Ronald Reagan Speech writer Ken Khachigian. The book offers an insiders view of not one President but two Presidents, both giants in our long long struggle against the forces of Communism in the Cold War. The two Pres…
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Send us a text The day after the Presidential debate, Hillary and Bill Clinton had a rally in Richmond , Virginia. The feeling of momentum shifting in their direction was certainly evident but the race would prove to be far from over. This is that rally in its entirety as the Clinton campaign kicks off its run toward the finish line. George Bush wo…
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Send us a text This is the famous Vice Presidential Debate. It would feature a fiery set of exchanges between Vice President Dan Quayle and Senator Al Gore. The two men served in the Senate together and knew each other quite well. The gloves will come off and as that happens the third man on the stage , retired Admiral James Stockdale, was often re…
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Send us a text In this first of several episodes where we will be looking at the Presidential Debates, both in this series in 1992, and the coming Dole series in 1996, we will look back on the first Townhall debate held in a Presidential election year. This was playing to Bill Clinton's strength. It would also play to George Bush's weakness. Bush a…
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Send us a text He's Back!!!! After a nearly three month absence in the 1992 Presidential race, Ross Perot decides to jump back in to the race. The truth is he probably never really ever left it. All I can say about whomever's tactical decision it was to have him withdraw in the first place needed to have their head examined. It ranks, in my opinion…
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Send us a text As September draws to a close, we listen in on two rallies, and an introduction from a political rising star who will go on to be a big player in the next three decades. At Governor Bill Clinton's rally in San Francisco we introduce you to the former Mayor and the 1992 candidate for the U. S. Senate, Dianne Feinstein. Then Bill Clint…
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Send us a text In this episode we tune in to two different rallies as both candidates are barnstorming the nation to make their case to as many people as they can get in front of in 1992. President Bush is campaigning in the heartland of Missouri while Governor Bill Clinton is on the west coast in Oregon. We will tune in to the local coverage in bo…
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Send us a text Here is a chance for you to hear Governor Bill Clinton doing what he does best. It is a campaign rally at Montgomery College in Rockville Maryland. This episode allows you to hear him on the stump as he delivers his campaign speech in its entirety. Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , a…
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Send us a text The SS United States once sailed mightily across the Atlantic. She set the transatlantic sailing speed record , which still stands today, only using 2/3 of her power. She was once majestic, powerful, and one of the most luxurious vessels of its time. But time has passed. The jet airplane cut transatlantic travel from days to hours. T…
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Send us a text To start off the fall campaign in early September 1992, Bill Clinton arrives at the Detroit Economic Club to talk about his economic plan and how it will affect Michigan. He will take a few jabs at the incumbent President in the process too. Here you can hear Bill Clinton doing what he does best, give a detailed policy speech and mak…
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Send us a text We start in this episode the look at late August and all of September as the two major figures in the race battle it out for the only time all alone. Starting with this episode we will feature rallies of both President Bush and Governor Bill Clinton. This episode will look back at President Bush as he starts out in Connecticut and th…
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Send us a text It is time to kick off the fall campaign. In this first month of campaigning we get the only time the two principles in the race faced each other head to head. Ross Perot would rejoin the fray in October. So, in the next few episodes we let you watch the 1992 campaign unfold between President George H. W. Bush and Governor Bill Clint…
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Send us a text In this special edition we honor two very different but very special people, Stuart Spencer and Bob Ueker. Stuart Spencer was an advisor to Ronald Reagan going back to his earliest days in politics. He helped guide Reagan to the California Governor’s Mansion and then on to the White House. In the time between, he also ended up workin…
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Send us a text The tension is in the air on the final night of the Republican National Convention in 1992. The speech is do or die for President George H.W. Bush. It occurs just a week after he has brought back in his top advisor James Baker. He needs to show focus and the will to win. He does what he had to do and comes out of the Convention havin…
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Send us a text In this episode we take you through the events of three of the days of the Republican National Convention as George Bush prepares to take the stage and address the nation. He is greeted by hecklers at a Houston event who snuck in as reporters from an AIDS activist group. But the President and the crowd handle it fairly well. Despite …
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Send us a text This is a speech delivered just barely in Primetime that slipped into the 11pm hour. Arguably the single biggest mistake ever made by schedulers in the history of prime time political conventions. It is from day 1 of the 1992 Republican National Convention. It was a convention that had a lot of political battles in it between the con…
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Send us a text In this episode we tune in to the first days of the 1992 Republican National Convention. We will go first to the morning session and hear from a list of Republican candidates for Congress as they try to "Bounce the House" after the Democrats get themselves in gulfed in a house banking scandal where several of the members bounced hund…
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Send us a text This special Edition of our podcast , is a look back at two of our favorite motion pictures, "Casablanca" , and "Havana", just in time for "Casablanca" to be making its reappearance on the Silver Screen over the next week at theaters all across the nation. The Flashback Theater Series will be featuring the picture at various theaters…
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Send us a text It is just days before the Republican National Convention and the campaign of George H. W. Bush is losing, badly. It appears unfocused and seems to be reacting to events instead of controlling them or leading them. The worsening economy has the argument for change being made by Bill Clinton stronger with each passing day. Finally, Ro…
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Send us a text In our second episode in our final installment in our special series, Farewells and Welcomebacks, we follow Donald Trump during the rest of his historic first day back in office. We will hear from the Vice President and President as they address supporters in the Capitol Welcome Center. Then we will head over to the Capitol One Cente…
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Send us a text This begins our final two episodes in our Farewell and Welcome back special series. We were invited to come up for the Inauguration of Donald Trump and had planned to do a Facebook Live broadcast and interviews live from Washington D.C. Unfortunately, it got seriously cold. I am a southerner, I mean seriously cold. That changed every…
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Send us a text This is the final night of the 1992 Democratic National Convention and there is only one star of this show. We start out with the CNN Documentary "The Road to the White House 1992" as it fills you in on the events of that day and then we listen in on one of the best films ever produced for a Presidential nominee. "The Man from Hope" …
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Send us a text As we take off into a new era of American History , I thought it might be interesting to look back at a few of the highlights from a historic week in Washington and look back at the three Presidents this week centered on. 1. Jimmy Carter - We pay tribute to a great man in former President Jimmy Carter, who passed away at age 100 at t…
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Send us a text We ran out of time in our last episode but felt that both of these segments were worthy of being chronicled in our series looking back at the 1992 election. The first is the full press conference of Ross Perot as he withdrew from the 1992 election. It was a move that to this day makes no sense to me as to why he did it. He had been i…
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Send us a text In this episode we listen in on one of the great public speakers of the Democratic Party, New York Governor Mario Cuomo. He will deliver the nominating speech for Governor Bill Clinton and he will electrify the crowd as only he can do. In fact, what stands out is that most of the delegates in the hall, who are way more liberal than y…
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Send us a text On this final day of the administration of the 46th President of the United States, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr, we will look back at his Life and Career, and his final week as President of the United States. It began in 1972, when our Host Randal Wallace, was only a year and a half old, and it would continue unabated for the next 52 …
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Send us a text We have an announcement. We are heading to Washington D.C. to cover the Inauguration of Donald Trump. Tune in to our Facebook Live videos on our "Randal Wallace Presents" podcast Facebook page and then we will have the show ready to go when we get back. Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallac…
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Send us a text In our second installment of "Farewells and Welcome Backs" we begin our farewell to Joe Biden, the 46th President of the United States. In this episode we share a few thoughts on the man and his entire career and we listen in on three of his final speeches in his own farewell tour of sorts. 1. His Lifetime Achievement Award from the …
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