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Send us Fan Mail Special Commentary that was inspired by recent events in the nation of Ukraine. How did we come to this, an invasion by Russia. It is simply because we look weak to the world. The reason for that is for the past two decades we have conducted foreign policy with no strategic vision we would stick to at all. Four United States Presidents, Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden have conducted...

Send us Fan Mail SUMMIT IN MOSCOW.  On May 22, 1972 Richard Nixon was the first American President to set foot inside the Kremlin as he and Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev would hold the first Summit meeting. It would lead to various treaties and the start of a thaw in Cold War relations between the two world Super Powers. It was there in Moscow that the two nations signed the SALT 1 agreement, the...

Send us Fan Mail After President Richard Nixon returned from China he would have to catch up on all he missed as the Democratic Party began its campaign to challenge him in earnest.  It would be a race that would feature one of the great come from nowhere candidates in all of American history, South Dakota Senator George McGovern.  He would be up against Senator Edmund Muskie, the presumed frontru...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we witness President Richard Nixon's triumphant return to the United States. But it was not without real worry about how the trip and the Shanghai Communique would be received by millions of Americans who had spent a lifetime fearing the Chinese.  It went better than Nixon could have imagined and though Watergate would derail the effort for a while by 1979, th...

Send us Fan Mail While China represented mystery, exotic locales, and an entirely different cultural experience for Americans watching back home on television.  There was still a lot of work being done on the trip itself. There was a lot at stake for both countries and for allies around the world who were watching and worrying about what it all would mean for peace and world order.  This was espec...

Send us Fan Mail To mark the actual 50th anniversary of the start of the week that changed the world. The week Richard Nixon landed in Peking , China and reestablished a relationship with Mainland China. We thought it appropriate to look to the other man who made this trip and the events within that week such a dramatic success. He was the man on the other side of the field, a man often in the sha...

Send us Fan Mail During the week that President and Mrs. Nixon were in China there were several staged tours arraigned for the party and at those events there were often staged people too.  This is the story of the wandering adventures of the party and the press corp as they traveled around China all the while President Nixon and Zhou Enlai were busy negotiating out the Communique from the trip. ...

Send us Fan Mail Somethings never change, and one of those things that will never change is the troublesome issues the press can create by trying to get into mischief and question everything they see. This was very true with the traveling press corp as they were bused around China.  The Chinese tried to contain them but it was to no avail and they managed to find a good story or two while they wer...

Send us Fan Mail In a trip planned and choreographed to the minute, an enormous surprise happened with in hours of the President's arrival.  Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai showed up at the guest house where President Nixon was staying and whisked him away with only Henry Kissinger, his aid Winston Lord, and one Secret Service Agent in tow.  Bob Haldeman recorded in his diary his worry at having t...

Send us Fan Mail "One story about the famous meeting with Richard Nixon remained a secret for many years, until Nixon’s memoirs appeared. The story began in the mid-50’s, when America and China had no diplomatic relations, and there was great hostility between the two nations. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, at a meeting in Geneva, deliberately snubbed Zhou Enlai, refusing to shake his...

Send us Fan Mail Finally the door has been opened to China. President Nixon would send a group of young men under the supervision of 34 year old Ron Walker to China to lay the groundwork for the historic visit. They would find it immensely rewarding but not without many frustrations as they entered a world that was totally foreign to the one they left.  A world where technology was behind, a world...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look backwards at how the China initiative came together. Richard Nixon had envisioned reaching out to China long before he became President of the United States. He wrote an article for Foreign Affairs magazine in 1967 where he talked briefly about Asia after Vietnam and the importance of reaching out to China. There were hints in his inaugural Address about bu...

Send us Fan Mail The opening of our Season 5 look at the Administration of Richard Nixon begins with the signature event of his time in office., the opening to China.  It marks the beginning of a season of triumph for America and for Richard Nixon. It begins with a journey into the unknown because China and the United States had had no diplomatic ties for a quarter of a century. In fact, China had...

Send us Fan Mail Destruction, devastation,  and disaster all describe the South Carolina Coast on the 23rd of September 1989.  Hurricane Hugo had torn its way through the State of South Carolina, plowing into Sullivan's Island S.C. and drowning McClellenville S.C. , a small shrimping town, under a massive surge of water.  In Georgetown S.C. , Atalaya , a Spanish style castle villa once owned...

Send us Fan Mail   We start season 5 with a bonus two part series far from the topic of politics, Government or Richard Nixon. Though President Nixon did start NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration which began the National Weather Service and Hurricane Tracking. A service that has saved thousands of lives and improved weather tracking  and predicting immensely since the 1970&ap...

Send us Fan Mail In our Season 4 finale we look at several of the initiatives that Richard Nixon began at the end of 1971 that we are still benefitting from or are impacted by today.  In 1971 Richard Nixon changed the monetary system for the United States ending the Breton Woods system and taking the United States off the Gold Standard. It was a dramatic economic move that is still debated. It cer...

Send us Fan Mail On January 6, 2021 a riot broke out in Washington D.C. at the United States Capitol. It was an angering sight to see and brought the functioning of the Capitol to a total standstill. The national media and the Democratic Party have tried very hard to put the blame on one man, Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States. But I think I speak for millions of Americans wh...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we cover two of President Nixon's major accomplishments; giving 18 year old citizens the right to vote and initiating the opening to China.  First, we listen as Richard Nixon signs the 26th Amendment into law in front of a White House full of young people.  Then we listen in on a call between Henry Kissinger and President Nixon on a wide range of subjects inv...

Send us Fan Mail It was the best of times and it was the worst of times.  On June 12, 1971, the daughter of President and Mrs. Nixon, Tricia Nixon married Edward Cox at a White House ceremony in the Rose Garden. It was a wedding celebrated by not only the Nixon and Cox families but by the entire nation. President Nixon said of the day "It was a day we were all just very happy" It was a t...

Send us Fan Mail HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022!!! In this episode we look back at 2021, a year of success here at "Bridging the Political Gap" and a year of sad farewells as we said good by to so many inspirational figures in our life from former Senator Bob Dole, to former Secretary of State George Shultz ,  to Former Senator John Warner, to the Mayor I served with through most of my time as a My...

Send us Fan Mail This episode begins just after President Nixon delivers his powerful speech going through the campaign in Laos and the advancements our side is making in extricating ourselves from the Vietnam War. It was a powerful moment for President Nixon.  Recently, another documentary titled "Nixon at War" , attempted to smear President Nixon for his conduct of the operation,  that...

Send us Fan Mail Our Host Randal Wallace appeared on the Radio show "Up With America with Tom Heron" in November of 2021 and the segment is here. This interview stresses the importance of history in learning how to deal with today's divisions in our land. We hope you enjoy the interview.  Questions or comments at  , Randalrgw1@aol.com ,  https://twitter.com/randal_wallace    , and h...

Send us Fan Mail One of the low moments of the Vietnam War is covered in this episode. It was the moment in the plans to Vietnamize the Vietnam War that we conducted an operation with only South Vietnamese troops on the ground and we provided air support. In the end, our side got walloped.  This happened in an operation in which our side went over the border into neighboring Laos to finally stop t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we are finally  at the moment that the taping system was installed. It was a fateful decision, and it would eventually lead to the fall of the Nixon Administration. The tapes have been used to attack the President and portray him as an awful person. For the most part, only the worst of the worst of these tapes have been promoted to the public.  President Nixon all...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk about the contents of the historic tapes of the Nixon Administration. We address the negative parts that are so familiar to the public. Nixon's remarks about Women, Gays, Jews, African Americans, his rages, and his intemperate remarks, all caught on a voice activated tape recorder that caught his every word every time he entered a room.  We will also d...