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Send us Fan Mail One of my columns from my days in College. This particular column points out something that was just beginning to really show at the the time. It was that moderates in both arties were leaving the Congress. Today that is wing that is barely if not nonexistent in both parties.  Questions or comments at  , Randalrgw1@aol.com ,  https://twitter.com/randal_wallace    , and http://www....

Send us Fan Mail Here is the political column that started it all for our host Randal Wallace. It was his guest column to the Lander Forum Student Newspaper in defense of Bob Packwood in the edition that came out just after his resignation.  This column got him added to the student newspaper regular staff and began his rather brief journalism career. It was a lot of fun and one of the happiest tim...

Send us Fan Mail In part two of the best oral history I have ever heard on any subject Bob Packwood continues to give listeners a tour through how the United Senate works and the issues Senators face from raising money to dealing with national issues and his assessments of the people he worked with from fellow Senators and House members to campaign aids, Labor and business leaders, to the Presiden...

Send us Fan Mail This is the first of our shows allowing you to hear the oral history for the Dole Institute in Kansas.  In the following two episodes you will hear Bob Packwood discuss his working relationship with Bob Dole. In the process, he will tell great stories from his long career in the Senate, the fights from Vietnam to the budget battles of the Clinton Years. He will asses the various S...

Send us Fan Mail This is the most recent of our bonus speeches given by Senator Packwood in our series looking back at his career and fall from power. It is another tour of the Federal Budget and assessments of the leaders the country had near the end of the Barak Obama Presidency.  It is an amazing speech and again shows off his sharp and penetrating mind.  Questions or comments at  , Randalrgw1@...

Send us Fan Mail This is our second bonus speech given by now former Senator Bob Packwood to the Portland City Club.  The Portland City Club has been an Oregon institution for political speeches and debates and it famously hosted his debate with then Senator Wayne Morse who he defeated in one of the bigger upsets of the 1968 election cycle.  He had not been back since his fall from grace as a Unit...

Send us Fan Mail This is our 1000th episode , counting all three podcasts we produce.  In this episode we look back at a speech given at Iowa State University in 1972, during Senator Bob Packwood's first term where he talks about the landscape of the 1972 Presidential Election and the issues facing Congress and President Nixon.  It's a great speech capturing Senator Packwood early in his...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we tune in as the entire world pays tribute and grieves together at the loss of this American Original, Dolly Parton.  Country Music singers, the American Media, the common fans and political figures of both parties grieve in a way we don't see very often in this very divided political atmosphere and world. It is a testament to just how beloved Dolly Parton ha...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we listen as Dolly Parton talks about her life with Asphalt Contractor  Carl Dean. A man so private that even though he was married to one of the single most recognizable figures on Earth, almost no one had ever seen a picture of him. It was , from all accounts, a very happy and successful 60 year marriage.  Then we learn about her many business and philanthropic a...

Send us Fan Mail This is the first of our three part tribute set of episodes looking back at America's National Treasure, the one and only, Dolly Parton.  In this we step back at some of her funniest moments, a lot of which popped back up on our newsfeeds over these past few days. As we look back fondly at this iconic figure whose death has hit so many Americans like  the death of a member of...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we give Senator Bob Packwood the final word on his quick and tragic fall.  Amazingly, he agreed to sit down interviews with CBS News, Dan Rather, ABC News Barbara Walters, and an extended interview with CBS News “Face the Nation” with Bob Schieffer.  All over a three day period after he was forced to resign from the Senate.  He is very open about his struggles and...

Send us Fan Mail In the aftermath of the resignation we take you to the cable news and network newscasts that covered the dramatic fall of the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. We hear from journalist, Senators, and Senate Staffers alike as they pile on after the fall but we also hear from the public and amazingly there is the feeling of scapegoating in the air and it seems Senator Bob Pac...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we take you tot he Senate floor when Senator Bob Packwood announces, finally, that he will resign from the Senate.  Then we will hear the speeches given on that day from his collegues all of whom had held him in high regard before the scandal that took him down roared over Washington.  We will hear from Mark Hatfield, his fellow Senator from Oregon, then Majority L...

Send us Fan Mail With his back against the wall Senator Bob Packwood vowed to fight on. Here is the coverage of that 24 hours when all of Washington held its collective breath while Bob Packwood tried to find a way to defend himself from the overwhelming vote for expulsion, 6-0 by the Senate Ethics committee.  the committee kept up the pressure by information dumping 40lbs of material from their i...

Send us Fan Mail Our first column of our new publication on Substack.  Questions or comments at  , Randalrgw1@aol.com ,  https://twitter.com/randal_wallace    , and http://www.randalwallace.com/ Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcasts Thanks for listening!!

Send us Fan Mail Our first episode of our new feature complimenting our 1995 and 1996 retrospective seasons of our show where we share the political columns from our time at the Lander University Student Newspaper where we commented on the national issues we are now covering with our podcast. This is real time commentary and we hope you enjoy this first edition of our column Politically Speaking -...

Send us Fan Mail An introduction to a new feature for our podcast  and publication on Substack.  Please come over to Substack and The Randal Wallace Journal and join our email list for future updates on the journal, the podcasts and the coming books over the next year and beyond.  Questions or comments at  , Randalrgw1@aol.com ,  https://twitter.com/randal_wallace    , and http://www.randalwallace...

Send us Fan Mail No one saw it coming. There had been no public hearings, the story had died down, the Ethics Committee had been predicted to censure Senator Packwood, and most likely strip him of his Chairmanship of the powerful Senate Budget Committee.  Then it announced that in a 6 - 0 vote, it would recommend expulsion to the full Senate.  As the old saying goes, that is when it hit the fan. ...

Send us Fan Mail In this special short episode, we are introducing our new publication on Substack and new short feature for the show.  The Randal Wallace Journal is a new publication on Substack and we invite you over to sign up and get on our email list.  Here is the Link https://substack.com/@randalw The Randal Wallace Journal will be bringing you several different columns including the return...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we will listen tot he one full length interview Bob Packwood gave reporter Barbara Walters about midway through the ordeal that would consume thirty-three months in total before it toppled his career.  It is an in-depth interview an examination of the scandal and it does leave you with lingering questions about the entire ordeal that I think still echo through time...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we examine the scandal that would eventually lead to Senator Bob Packwood's fall from grace.  We will hear from the women involved in their long form "60 Minutes" Interview, where 10 of the accusers sat down with Morley Safer of CBS News and told their stories.  Then will let you hear from the reporter who broke the story and let her tell you how she...

Send us Fan Mail This is a new feature that will actually be introduced later in the season when it fits more perfectly in our timeline with the Bob Packwood Special Series. But these two stories were discovered when we were doing the research to reintroduce the history of our old column at The Lander Forum Student Newspaper.  In honor of Senator Lindsey Graham, who passed away on July 11, 2026, w...

Send us Fan Mail Who was Bob Packwood?  He was one of the leading Senators in Washington DC on tax and fiscal policy. The Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and often acknowledged as the Senator with the greatest grasp on how the finances of the Federal Government actually worked. In this episode we look back at who Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon was on the eve of his 1992 reelection, which...

Send us Fan Mail In this preview we look back at arguably the biggest game changer of 1995 for Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole. It was the loss of his chief Lieutenant in the United States Senate, Bob Packwood.  Dole and Packwood were friends, and both men were experts on the Federal budget.  Packwood’s loss cannot be overstated.  In this special series we will examine the scandal that brought him...

Send us Fan Mail EXCLUSIVE HISTORIC CONTENT:  IN 1995, our Host Randal Wallace showed up tot he brand new Bob Dole for President Headquarters with a camcorder and recorded the event there as Senator Bob Dole and his wife Elizabeth Dole cut the ribbon for the new headquarters.  It was an all star cast of political leaders who stood on the stage beside him to welcome him to the state and open the ca...