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Send us Fan Mail Episode 431 — Bob Dole: The Life That Brought Him There (Part 12) Roy vs. Dole for U.S. Senate, 1974: The Landscape of 1974 (B) In this twelfth installment of our long-running series on the life and career of Bob Dole, we turn to one of the most difficult political moments of his career — the 1974 United States Senate race in Kansas. The political landscape of 1974 was unlike anyt...

Send us Fan Mail In 1974, Bob Dole was up for re-election. He could not have picked a worse moment to be on the ballot as a Republican. Watergate had just unraveled the Presidency of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford had just pardoned Nixon, and Bob Dole had the added problem of having just gotten a divorce. To make matters worse a popular an effective United States Congressman announced he was going to...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the fourth installment of our special tribute series honoring the life and legacy of the Reverend Jesse Jackson — a minister, civil rights leader, presidential candidate, and one of the most recognizable voices in American public life for more than half a century. Over the course of this series, we’ve revisited the moments that defined Reverend Jackson’s remarkable jour...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this special tribute edition of the podcast. Four years after his groundbreaking 1984 campaign, Reverend Jesse Jackson returned to the Democratic National Convention — this time in Atlanta, in 1988 — having achieved something extraordinary. His second presidential run was stronger, broader, and even more disruptive to conventional politics. Jackson won primaries and cau...

Send us Fan Mail I had the honor of appearing on the show "Tripp and Graham have Issues" this past week. It is a new podcast in Myrtle Beach. I was thrilled to do it and we talked pretty extensively on the history of our show and the entire Wallace Podcast Network (WPN). We hope you enjoy this special edition. Here is the write up from their podcast and we encourage you tune into their s...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s episode is a special rebroadcast and tribute — a return to one of the defining voices of modern American political history. In 1984, at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, Reverend Jesse Jackson stepped onto the national stage not simply as a candidate, but as a movement leader. His campaign had galvanized millions — expanding the electorate, registering n...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a special edition of the program. Today we focus on what may prove to be one of the most consequential military operations of the 21st century — Operation Epic Fury — the coordinated action undertaken by the United States and Israel against the Iranian regime. President Donald J. Trump has described this operation as decisive and necessary — aimed at dismantling what he...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 429 – Bob Dole: The Life That Brought Him There (Part 10)  Watergate Part 10 takes listeners inside one of the most seismic political crises in American history — and does so through the eyes and voice of Bob Dole. As the Watergate complex break-in spiraled into a constitutional confrontation, Washington changed overnight. This episode weaves together archival news coverag...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 428 – Bob Dole: The Life That Brought Him There (Part 9)  Out as RNC Chairman Power in Washington can rise quickly — and shift just as fast. Part 9 explores the dramatic turning point when Bob Dole’s tenure as chairman of the Republican National Committee comes to an abrupt end and George H. W. Bush is brought in to take the helm. Through a series of revealing phone conver...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a very special edition of the program. Today, we dedicate this episode to a man whose voice, vision, and moral urgency helped shape the American political and social landscape for more than half a century — Reverend Jesse Jackson . From the civil rights movement to the national political stage, Jackson’s journey is inseparable from the story of modern America. He stood...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 427 – Bob Dole: The Life That Brought Him There (Part 8)  With Nixon’s Help (B) Part 8 follows Bob Dole deeper into the inner orbit of presidential politics as the Nixon years reshape both America’s place in the world and the future of the Republican Party. The episode begins with the historic opening to China, as President Richard Nixon makes his groundbreaking trip to Be...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 426 – Bob Dole: The Life That Brought Him There (Part 7)  With Nixon’s Help (A) Part 7 explores a pivotal chapter in Bob Dole’s rise on the national stage — his growing alliance with Richard Nixon during one of the most turbulent periods in modern American history. As the Nixon administration grappled with the war in Vietnam, Dole emerged as a reliable and disciplined voic...

Send us Fan Mail Bob Dole: The Life That Brought Him There (Part 6)  Welcome to the United States Senate What was the Senate really like when Bob Dole walked into it in 1968? Part 6 answers that question through the voices of the people who lived it. This episode moves beyond biography and into lived institutional memory, as a remarkable lineup of Senate insiders describe the culture, pace, and po...

Send us Fan Mail Bob Dole: The Life That Brought Him There – Part 5  Getting Into Politics (B): The Senate Campaign In Part 5, the journey continues as Bob Dole takes his biggest political leap yet — a run for the United States Senate. This episode explores the ambition, strategy, and sheer determination behind a campaign that would elevate him from the House to one of the most powerful chambers i...

Send us Fan Mail Bob Dole: The Life That Brought Him There – Part 4  Going Into Politics (A) Before he was a national figure, he was a young Kansan with grit, ambition, and a deep belief in public service. In Part 4 of our series, we follow Bob Dole’s path from student life and small-town law practice to the rough-and-tumble world of national politics. This episode traces Dole’s formative years —...

Send us Fan Mail February 2026 on the Wallace Podcast Network — One Month. Three Podcasts. A Shared Journey Through History. This February, all three shows across the Wallace Podcast Network come together for a powerful month of storytelling that connects world history with hometown legacy. On Grand Strand Politics , we revisit our acclaimed January 2024 special series, “Robert Hirsch: Our Mayor.”...

Send us Fan Mail In this remarkable episode, we step out of narration and into history itself. Episode 422 is built entirely around a rare, deeply personal interview conducted by the Eisenhower Presidential Library with Senator Bob Dole when he was 95 years old. What unfolds is not just a recollection of events — it is a living voice from a man who stood at the crossroads of America’s greatest gen...

Send us Fan Mail Dwight Eisenhower: The Inspiration (A) What kind of leader shapes a young soldier’s idea of courage, duty, and sacrifice—and then stays with him for a lifetime? In this powerful second chapter of our Bob Dole series, we turn to the man who became Dole’s lifelong hero: Dwight D. Eisenhower . Long before Bob Dole entered politics, he was a wounded young officer watching the world be...

Send us Fan Mail BOB DOLE LECTURE: One Soldier’s Story Special Edition In this extraordinary special edition, Bob Dole returns home to Kansas—and to the school that bears his name—to tell the story that shaped everything that came after. Standing before a new generation, Dole recounts the moment on a battlefield in Italy when his life was shattered by war, and the long, uncertain months that follo...

Send us Fan Mail Season 17 Premiere Before Bob Dole became a Senate leader, a presidential nominee, or a national symbol of resilience, he was a 21-year-old second lieutenant fighting for his life on a hillside in Italy. This season-opening episode begins at the moment everything changed. Through Bob Dole’s own words and historic audio, we return to the brutal final months of World War II and the...

Send us Fan Mail In this special tribute episode, we honor the extraordinary life and legacy of Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell — Olympic athlete, decorated Marine, master silversmith, and one of the most consequential Native American leaders in the history of the United States Senate. Campbell’s journey was uniquely American: from a childhood marked by hardship, to representing the United States...

Send us Fan Mail Here is a little bit about our coming book projects:  16 Leadership Lessons From the Cold War By Randal Wallace What does it really take to lead in moments when history is on the line? Drawing on five years of research from The Randal Wallace Presents Podcast , 16 Leadership Lessons From the Cold War distills timeless leadership principles from the men and women who shaped the Ame...

Send us Fan Mail Bob Dole returns January 20, 2026 Bob Dole: The Life That Brought Him There — Season Preview How does a small-town Kansas boy, gravely wounded on an Italian battlefield, rise to become one of the most powerful and respected figures in American politics? This season of Bob Dole: The Life That Brought Him There traces the extraordinary journey of Bob Dole from the moment his life wa...

Send us Fan Mail In this landmark season finale, The Great American Authors brings its sweeping literary and political journey to a powerful close by spotlighting a remarkable group of leaders who turned to fiction to tell their stories — Jimmy Carter, Marilyn Quayle, Newt Gingrich, Bill Clinton, and James Patterson — and by sharing major news from our own host, Randal Wallace . We begin with Pres...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Great American Authors , we take an unforgettable look at two astonishing works born from the tumultuous aftermath of Nixon-era Washington — The Canfield Decision by Spiro T. Agnew and The Company by John Ehrlichman. Today, The Canfield Decision enjoys a surprisingly warm reception online, with roughly 87% of readers awarding it three to five stars on Goodreads...