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Send us Fan Mail In our second part of our look at both the fall of the Soviet Union and of its final leader Mikhail Gorbachev, we look back at his life and his career. we listen to the man himself and hear his thoughts after the dissolution of the Soviet Union had occurred.  We will also examine one of the ultimate of ironies for this historic figure of the 20th century. By the time of his death...

Send us Fan Mail As we begin our four part look back at the fall of the Soviet Union, we begin by looking back at the man who presided over it, Mikhail Gorbachev.  He was reformer, a charismatic leader, and a committed Communist. It is that latter part of the description that is the key to understanding his own downfall. He stayed married to the Communist philosophy to long and due to it was maneu...

Send us Fan Mail On the 33rd anniversary of the address to the Kennedy Political Union at American University by Senator Strom Thurmond, we thought we would rebroadcast it here for you.  In this address, Senator Thurmond will talk about various issues of the day from the recently concluded Clarence Thomas Hearing, to military preparedness, to politics, Thurmond discusses it all and then takes ques...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we will watch the United States Senate cast its vote on the confirmation of Clarence Thomas as an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court.  We will hear his mother's reaction as he wins the fight .  Then we will travel to the confirmation ceremony itself and hear from both President George H. W. Bush and the newest member of the U. S. Supreme Cour...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we listen in on a number of the giant figures of the era in the United States Senate as they debate the confirmation of Judge Clarence Thomas.  It is a whose who of some of the the towering political figures of the era. They will debate Clarence Thomas's political positions, their concerns about his Judical rulings, and his positions on natural law, and aborti...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we hear the Senators ask questions of both Clarence Thomas and his accuser, Anita Hill.  The questions and the answers can be at times graphic, deeply personal, and revealing. The Senators often were portrayed as sexist for the grilling they put to Anita Hill. However, some questions needed to be asked, like why did she stay in touch with Thomas for years after the...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we hear directly from the accuser and the accused just as if it happened yesterday. This episode will also have both of the people involved give addresses and opening comments from both the Chairman , Joe Biden, and the ranking member, Strom Thurmond.  It is a fascinating look back at  tumultuous times and you will get to hear both sides of the argument as we featu...

Send us Fan Mail The accusations against Clarence Thomas explode on to the scene just the day before he was going to be voted on for placement of the Space Court. The news was a bombshell in the hearings and the two sides were aimed for a fight.  In this episode we listen to the man that had originally employed Clarence Thomas as he worked his way up the legal ladder to serve as a District Judge a...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we get to listen in on various panels both in favor of Judge Clarence Thomas and opposed to Clarence Thomas testify in front of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee. You will hear the senators raise issues from Affirmative Action, to Civil Rights, to the Judges opinion on the South African Government.  You will hear from a former Attorney General , Griffin...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we see the Senators as they discuss this appointment of Clarence Thomas to Supreme Court.  We begin with a meeting of three of the most powerful Republican Senators on Capitol Hill , John Danforth, Bob Dole, and Strom Thurmond. They will discuss the qualifications of Judge Thomas and the strategy for getting him through the confirmation process.  Then Senate Majori...

Send us Fan Mail In July of 1991, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall announced his retirement as a Supreme Court Justice. That would set off the second ugliest fight to date to fill a Supreme Court seat. Only the fight over the nomination of Robert Bork was tougher and Bork lost.  Clarence Thomas was a conservative justice, he was young at age 43, and had had a distinguished career as the hea...

Send us Fan Mail Happy 100th Birthday to former President Jimmy Carter.!!! He is the first President to live to be 100 years old and he has done a tremendous amount of good over those 100 years.  In our 10th season we did a dual biography of his Presidency alongside our look at our former Congressman John Jenrette. It was an enormous educational experience for me as the host of this podcast. I lea...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we let you listen to one of the most impressive statemen of the century, Secretary of State James Baker. He was a graduate of Princeton University and after the Soviet Union Coup attempt finally calms down he returned to his Alma Mater to talk about the future he hoped would occur in the Soviet Union.  We will be covering James Baker quite a bit over the next seaso...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we get the President and Secretary of State's views on the events over the past few days in the Soviet Union.  In the press conference you will see how the management of this historic event in the Soviet Union is  indictive of how the fall of Communism was managed by these two wise leaders.  Questions or comments at  , Randalrgw1@aol.com ,  https://twitter.com...

Send us Fan Mail On the third day the Coup collapses. This is that story. From the moment the three people perish the coup becomes a trainwreck.  At one point they go back to work out a deal with Gorbachev and nothing works. By the end of this day, Yeltsin has emerged as the man who saved the Soviet Union, for the moment anyway, and Gorbachev is on his way back to Moscow, but it is clear to the wo...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we see the beginning of the end of the Coup as three people are killed by tanks running over them as the Army is moving in Moscow toward the White House, their home of the Russian Parliament. It is a day full of drama as Boris Yeltsin fights back defiantly. He eludes the Coup leaders by 40 minutes at his house and heads down to the parliament building. Then he move...

Send us Fan Mail On August 19, 1991, George H. W. Bush was woken up just after midnight to be told that Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned suddenly for health reasons as the President of the Soviet Union. That did not sound right to anyone.  What unfolded for the next three days was the entire world watching the unraveling of one of the two Super Powers of the past half century. Gorbachev was placed u...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look back at several important situations developing all at once. The Soviet Union is in trouble. Economically the situation is getting dire as Gorbachev comes to the economic summit to ask for help. As the G-7 includes the Soviets for the very first time.  This is just after a fairly small, and not so celebratory May Day in the Soviet Union. It used to be the e...

Send us Fan Mail Coalition Building in the Gulf War  President Bush introduces former Secretary of State James Baker. Mr. Baker then spoke about diplomatic efforts to build an international coalition to fight Iraq and liberate Kuwait. Following his remarks he answered questions from the audience. We decided that this event was too important not to feature in its entirety. It was held on October 26...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we follow President Bush during the period just after the Gulf War has ended. In this period he makes several speeches thanking the State Department, the soldiers, speaking to the future soldiers at the West Point Graduation and trying to inspire their future service to the nation.  Finally, he addresses the service remembering those who fell during the Gulf War at...

Send us Fan Mail On March 6, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed a joint session of Congress to report back that the war in the Gulf was over. That Iraq had been repulsed and Kuwait had been restored. It was an impressive moment for a President who had once been called a wimp on the front page of Newsweek.  This military operation had not only been a success it was arguably the United Stat...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look back at the end of the war and then tune in to a speech by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the Veterans of Foreign Wars.  General Colin Powell emerged from this war a national hero. He would go on to look seriously at his own run for President in 1996. After you listen in on this speech you understand why he was seen as so formidable a candidat...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we take a look back at General Norman Schwarzkopf the man as remembered by one of his colleagues. Then we tune in to the press conference known in Gulf War lore as "The Mother of all Press Conferences"  In this press Conference Schwarzkopf goes through what had been happening on the ground and offers his own assessment of the Leadership skills of Saddam H...

Send us Fan Mail We had planned to do a series of Press Conference shows as we told the story of the Gulf War. These are those shows. They are, as we earlier explained on our Housekeeping episode, out of chronological order.  This Press Cnference is from Janaury 27, 1992 and it was held on the same day as the Super Bowl, In this briefing Gernaral Shwartzkoft will go over the situation in the Gulf....

Send us Fan Mail In this special edition of The Richard Nixon Experience, we let you tune back in to that final day at the White House for President Nixon. You will hear excerpts from his resignation speech, his speech to his staff and reminiscences from several different people about those events including President Nixon and President Ford.  All of this leading up to an extraordinary 3 minutes o...