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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 in first place and while he had slipped in the polls he was still in a stronger position than he would ever see again prior to this early withdrawal from the race. You will listen in at his reasoning at the time in his Press conference announcing his withdrawal.
Then we will return to the convention hall on that final day and during a break in the action on the convention floor we will listen to a panel discussion that will feature every unsuccessful Democratic nominee over the past 22 years up to that point. It is a fascinating discussion featuring reporters and commentators Robert McNeil, Jim Lehrer, Mark Shields, David Gergen and former Democratic Presidential nominees, Senator George McGovern from 1972, Former Vice President Walter Mondale who was on the national ticket as VP in 1976, 1980- and the nominee in 1984, and Massachusetts former Governor and 1988 Nominee Michael Dukakis. It is a must listen to panel discussion from a set of true history makers.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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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 your average Democrat, really would have preferred Cuomo as the nominee.
Cuomo had toyed with the idea of running for President back in 1991 but at that time George H. W. Bush was at 91% favorables in the polls and Cuomo decided to not make the race. That left the field wide open for Bill Clinton. So, on this third night of the 1992 Democratic Convention it would be Mario Cuomo speaking in nomination of Bill Clinton. Clinton having gambled and won by challenging a President who seemed so strong just 12 months before that he had scared out the heavyweights that could have challenged him.
There is a political lesson in that scenario because it cannot be lost on you that Clinton would go on to win and Mario Cuomo would never again have the opportunity to run for President in his own right. Such, is the wheel of fate in politics.
Then a surprise will occur that will change the race and turn it completely upside down, just after Bill Clinton broke with tradition and came down to the hall himself to thank the delegates in person.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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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 years. A remarkable run for any political figure in either party.
We start the episode with a phone call from President Richard Nixon on a tragic day in the life of Joe Biden, just after his wife and daughter are killed, and his two other sons, are injured in a horrific automobile accident in December of 1972, and we end the episode with his farewell address on January 15, 2025. In between, our nation saw Vietnam come to an end, Watergate, the Iranian Hostage crisis, the height of the Cold War, the fall of communism, the Gulf War, the dot com boom, the second Gulf War , the War on Terror, a war in Afghanistan, the first African American President, the passage of Universal Healthcare, the rise of Donald Trump, three impeachments and one near impeachment, and Joe Biden's own election as President.
It is a remarkable and long career. Joe Biden was there through an amazingly long consequential period of American History. We try to capture some of that while also chronicling his final week in the White House. Plus near the end of the episode, our Host, Randal Wallace, a lifelong Republican, will share with you his own experiences dealing directly with the President and share his final thoughts on the man, that in the ultimate irony of life, is the only President of the United States our Host has ever worked directly with on one occasion, Joe Biden, a Democrat.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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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.
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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 Clinton Foundation given to him by Former President Bill Clinton in New York, thanking him for his lifetime of service to the nation.
2. President Biden's final address to the United Nations as he talks about the sweep of History he has been a witness to in his roles as a Senator, Vice President and President. What he thinks the priorities should be for the United Nations in the coming years as he prepares to leave center stage.
3. Then we share with you his press announcement of the ceasefire agreement ironed out between his Administration and the two warring factions in the Middle East of Israel and the terrorist organization Hezbollah that operates out of Lebanon but is financed by the Iranian Government.
This is an interesting look at the final moments of the Biden Administration,Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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In this episode we look back at a triumphant week for President Donald Trump as he held a pre Inaugural press conference on the transition and his plans for a second Trump term.
In this episode we will listen in on all the various themes and issues he touched on in his hour and 20 minute press conference and then delve into the historic legal proceeding in New York State. In our opinion, that action by the New York State Court was exactly the type of overreach that we hope the President will remember as he takes office on January 20th. Our podcast, has dove in deeply into our examples of how lawfare has created a rift on our national body politic for over a half century and how desperately we believe this evil needs to be stopped.
History, fate, or circumstance, has given Donald Trump an unparalleled opportunity to destroy this evil political ploy that no one in our history has ever been handed. The use of lawfare destroyed the Presidency of Richard Nixon, helped end the career of George H. W. Bush, crippled the remainder of the Presidency of Bill Clinton, and while Senator Ted Stevens would be eventually totally exonerated that all occurred when he wasn't a Senator any more. Donald Trump has been afforded the opportunity to right this wrong after being its victim for the entire time he was out of office between January of 2020 and literally, last week.
This episode is also dedicated to President Donald Trump's biggest fan here in Horry County, a woman instrumental in his success in our State of South Carolina. Gerri McDaniel was a force of nature who exploded onto the local political scene almost 18 years ago as a leader in the Tea Party movement, she would go on to help engineer Newt Gingrich's victory in South Carolina's Primary in 2012, and was the early leader here for President Donald Trump throughout his time in politics. She passed away suddenly this week and we thought it only fitting she share in this moment of triumph for President Trump. This show is dedicated to Gerri McDaniel's memory.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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This is our tribute to the 39th President of the United States. This episode features highlights from the State Funeral last week of the former President , interspersed with segments of his life in his own words, or from the coverage of the day, with music from the State funeral in the background.
This is truly the end of an era for our host Randal Wallace as Jimmy Carter has been a central figure in his political life from the very start. Wallace stood on the side of the road campaigning for two of Jimmy Carter's opponents as a nine year old in 1980.
Wallace became a Republican as result of that election campaign and for much of his early years was not a fan of President Carter. But time changes everything and Wallace grew to admire President Carter's honesty, integrity, and countless good works around the world.
However, it was in the production of this podcast that Our Host, as he explains, came to learn so much more about the President he had written off as a failure so many decades ago. By his own admission, our host looked at those six years from the fall of Saigon to the 1980 election as his great black hole of his history knowledge and it was through putting together these episodes that he learned how much more there was to the role Jimmy Carter has played in American History than he ever got credit for in his time.
Wallace has stated that this segment of episodes put together in out 10th season that he learned the most about a subject matter he had not known about until then. He grew to admire President and Mrs. Carter far more than he had, and hopes if you do get a chance you will take a look at our back catalogue of episodes looking at both Former Congressman John Jenrette and former President Jimmy Carter.
Farewell to President Carter, a true and faithful servant of his Lord, Jesus Christ, certainly he will be rewarded for a job well done.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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This is a second part we added to our tribute to President Jimmy Carter that ran yesterday. The episode we put together to start with was already 1 hour and 47 minutes long after editing it down, so we had to decide what to cut from the program. After making the edits we came to the conclusion that we had another episode that really needed to be shared.
This is that episode and that material. We will begin with some extra things we found including a speech by President Carter introducing his Grandson at the college in Sumter County, Georgia when his grandson, Jason Carter, spoke to the graduates. It is in that speech you will see just how effective and inspiring a speaker the younger Carter actually is, as we had already learned watching the State Funeral last week. We include that eulogy in this episode as well.
We will also let you hear from President Jimmy Carter as he delivers a eulogy for former President Gerald Ford. The two men had become very close friends and both agreed that they would deliver a eulogy for whichever one survived the other. Ford wrote his eulogy for Carter and had it filed away for the possibility that one day he would deliver it. His son, Steven Ford, did so last week, 18 years after President Ford had passed away. We thought you might find it interesting to hear President Carter deliver the eulogy that he gave at President Ford's funeral in Michigan on the heels of hearing President Ford's read so many years later.
Finally, we end where the State Funeral ended, with the eulogy delivered by President Carter's great friend, the former Mayor of Atlanta, the Carter Administration's United Nations Ambassador, and great civil rights leader, Andrew Young, who is now 92 years old and who, in order to deliver his powerful remarks about President Carter, had to do so while sitting down. It was a moment that held everyone spellbound as the Ambassador talked about his nearly 7 decade friendship that would take both of them from the rural southwest Georgia backroads, to the White House and beyond.
Former President Jimmy Carter was 100 years old.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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In our first of several special editions in January, we shall bid farewell to two United States Senators who have spent their times in office reaching across the aisle in order find solutions to issues plaguing our nation. While that is commendable, it does come with a price and can hurt you in the base of your own party. One of the reasons both men stepped down from the Senate is that they had alienated large swaths of their own party faithful.
The two Senators were Mitt Romney, a Republican of Utah and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a Democrat. We will hear from them in their farewell addresses to the United States Senate and we will hear from several other Senators, Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, Cory Booker, Thom Tillis and John Tester, as they look back at Senator Romney in this day of farewell addresses by retiring Senators.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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In this episode we take you to the Democratic National Convention to hear some of the greatest public speakers of the 1990s.
1. Jerry Brown, former Governor of California (and future Governor of California and future Mayor of Oakland) he was a 1992 Presidential candidate who near the end emerged to give Bill Clinton a little challenge at the end of the primary. He hit on economic inequities in the system and slammed both parties over campaign finance reform. He is a fiery speaker and knew how to stir up a crowd. the speech however was remembered for what he did not do, which was mention Bill Clinton, at all.
2. Zell Miller, Governor of Georgia, delivers the 1992 Convention Keynote address, and he does it with all the fire of Southern stump meeting, attacking Bush on his economic record, and Ross Perot on his positioning as a political outsider. He feeds the crowd plenty of red meat. Later, he would turn his fire on his own party in 2004, and famously challenge Chris Matthews to a duel on national television.
3. Reverend Jesse Jackson, civil rights pioneer and political activist, he always speaks to the downtrodden, ran a powerful campaign for President in his own right in 1988, but finds himself in a much diminished role after he made comments that offended Jewish people and found himself at odds with the party nominee, Bill Clinton, over comments Clinton made about rap lyrics.
4. Ted Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts, he is the Liberal Lion of the Senate, former Presidential candidate in 1980 that helped rip apart the Democratic support of Jimmy Carter, and he had a long history of undermining both Presidents he disliked of both parties. He was still a formidable speaker and this speech lives up to the billing as he endorses Bill Clinton and attacks the record of the Reagan-Bush years.
This is a great show if you like great speakers even if you don't agree with much of anything they actually say. But, alas, I am a Republican so take that for what it is worth. Still, I love a great speaker and raw meat politics of both sides.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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In this episode we look back at the remarkable life of Jimmy Carter through the eyes of several who knew him.
Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States died at age 100 on December 29, 2024. As we head into a national week of mourning we have compiled a few stories about his life from old friends like Former Congressman John Jenrette, Advisor Stu Eisenstadt, Reporter Susan Zelensky and former aid Chris Matthews from various news outlets as they looked back, over the past few days, at his life.
We also invite you to look back at our 10th season of this broadcast when we produced a joint biography of former President Jimmy Carter and our former Congressman John Jenrette. Sadly, both men have now passed away, but they left a huge mark on our times and even in our local community.
Then we also look back at another figure who passed away this week former newsman Aaron Brown who hosted one of our favorite news hours nightly on CNN in the 2000s, he won an award for his coverage of the 9-11 attacks, coverage he provided to CNN even before he was contracted to start at the network. He was a dynamic, interesting, and great reporter and we send our condolences out to his family and his former colleagues at both CNN and ABC News.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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This episode will lay out a series of special episodes looking back at the departure of a couple of important Senators, the outgoing President Joe Biden, the incoming President Donald Trump and our episodes honoring the former President who just passed away at age 100, Jimmy Carter. We will also feature a segment in honor of former ABC and CNN reporter and host Aaron Brown.
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The opening night of the Democratic National Convention in 1992 had the misfortune of having to compete with Major League Baseball All Star Game. To counteract that programming they decided to put the ladies of the party our front on this first night, that will feature a keynote address by Representative Barbara Jordan,
Then the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter will take the stage for his first prime time address in 12 years at the convention. It would prove to be an interesting evening, the first of several in a convention that would feature some high drama.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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Happy New Year 2025!!!
What an amazing year 2024 was for us at this podcast. For 18 weeks we were the number 1 American History Podcast on Feedspot, and for just a little while we had our sister podcast "The Richard Nixon Experience" ranked at number 7 at the same time. We had two podcasts in the top 10. I am proud of that!!
It was a year in which we said goodbye to a lot of legendary figures and in this episode we spend sometime looking back at their remarkable contributions to America and the World, in both politics and journalism.
We will also preview two of the coming seasons for 2025, though one of the previews comes from our friends at CNN, as they were reviewing the 1996 election in real time.
Finally, we want to get on your radar for not one, but two books, that our host Randal Wallace wrote in 2024, they will be hitting bookshelves (and Amazon) in the coming year. "The Leadership Lessons from the Cold War" should be out in the spring or early summer of 2025 and our novel, should be out in the fall. We are excited at the prospects for both in the new year.
But, most of all, we want to say a simple thank you to all of you for tuning in to our podcast for another year. We hope you are enjoying the episodes as much as we enjoy bringing them to you.
Thank you so much for tuning in,
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In this special edition we look back at the remarkable life of former 5th District of South Carolina Congressman John Spratt. Spratt was in Congress for nearly 3 decades and rose to be chairman of the House Budget Committee.
From that post he would become the master of the Federal Budget working throughout the 1990’s to balance the Federal Budget and manage the nation’s ever growing debt. He was constantly at odds with the George W Bush administration. We will look back at his many challenges to the Bush Administration, his role as a budget hawk, and his final campaign in the 5th Congressional District.
Finally, we will hear from the Congressman’s exit interview about his career in Congress just as he was leaving office.
Spratt died on December 14, 2024 at age 82. He lived a remarkable life.
Also, this episode is dedicated to the memory of KOLD tv 13 anchor woman Ana Orsini in Tuscan, Arizona. She died suddenly of a brain aneurysm at the age of 28. This was the same thing our host’s brother , Keith Wallace, died of 12 years ago at age 26. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and her coworkers at this time.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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In this episode, we look at three major stories that all happened in the early summer of 1992.
1. H. Ross Perot decides to enter the race for President after getting over 200,000 signatures to get him on the ballot in Texas. When he decides to enter the race he is polling in first place ahead of both President George Bush and the Democratic presumptive nominee Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton. It is a story that shakes the political class to its core as it heads into the Convention season
2. Boris Yeltsin comes to Washington D.C. and meets with President Bush and they begin negotiating an Arms reduction deal that would see the Nuclear arsenal of both countries not cut by a third but to a third of what they had at that moment just after the Cold War had ended. It was a major achievement for George Bush that is lost often in the retelling of the 1992 election. Plus this segment will also give you a feel for a State Dinner if you have never witnessed one.
3. Senator Al Gore of Tennessee is selected by Bill Clinton to be his Vice Presidential running mate. It would be a ticket made up of youth and it will signal a sea change in the generational leadership of the country. Both men are in their mid forties, Gore 44, and Clinton 45, and both men are from the South and that will help undercut President Bush in what had been his strongest geographical base of support in the country. It is a big moment in the 1992 campaign, just as we head into the conventions for the two major political parties in America.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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In this special edition we will hear President Bush speak to the American Legislative Exchange Council, which is a group of State elected officials that help form conservative policy for the Federal Government.
In this speech you will hear the President as he discusses the various policy intiatives he was pressing in the spring of 1992. It gives you a sense for where he was headed domestically and how he wanted to direct Federal Policy.
This was an interesting speech, and I am sharing it to give you a feel for President Bush's domestic policy agenda.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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Rodney King was stopped for speeding in California the year before and savagely beaten after he resisted arrest. It was all caught on video by a bystander and the police were charged for excessive brutality while trying to subdue King.
When the police were acquitted by an all white jury in another neighboring county from where the crime had occurred the city of Los Angeles exploded. There were riots , looting, and fires all over the downtown area, and after the death of a rioter in Koreatown, the tensions mounted as the riot moved over into the Korean section.
In this episode, we will relive the riots both in real time, and thanks to the L.A. TV Station KCAL, through the eyes of some of the people 25 years later in their series reliving the L.A. Riots. We will hear from Mayor Tom Bradley, Governor Pete Wilson and at the end of the episode we will hear President George H. W. Bush as he addresses the nation in an attempt to bring calm to the disorder he was facing, all of which is occurring just six months before the 1992 Presidential Election.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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The 1992 New York Democratic Primary was a knock down drag out affair between Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and his one remaining challenger Former California Governor Jerry Brown. The two men pulled no punches as they fought over the delegates in this state , that was no stranger to rowdy politics.
Brown would accuse Clinton of shaking down the Arkansas poultry industry for thousands of dollars in legal fees for his wife's law firm in Little Rock. Clinton would return the fire going after Brown's constant reinventing of himself, and the fact that he had been known for his shaking down of California business interests for years.
They both went straight for the jugular and it left hard feelings that did not end after the primary was over. But Bill Clinton would win it, and Jerry Brown would lose not only to Bill Clinton but also to Paul Tsongas, who had suspended his campaign a couple of weeks earlier. That would seal the fate of Jerry Brown and finally give Bill Clinton his party's nomination for President.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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In this episode we will listen in as Pat Buchanan begins to fade away after it is discovered he drives a Mercedes Benz and the Bush campaign pounces on it.
On the other side, Paul Tsongas, Tom Harkin, and John Kerry also fade away but Bill Clinton will still find himself with one very stubborn opponent left to lock horns with before he can lay claim to the Democratic Nomination.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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