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Send us Fan Mail This episode allows you to listen in on the only debate of the campaign with the candidates answering questions and interacting on stage. There were some fireworks between a couple of candidates. One candidate , Stuart Behar, was not able to attend due to a medical procedure but he would attend the event in our next episode.  The participants in the debate, hosted by the NAACP and...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we listen as Randal Wallace discusses some of the plans that were cut short in 2017 when he was not re-elected. How he had hoped they would be continued but were not after he departed and how he thinks they are still things that could help with issues the city continues to wrestle with here in 2023. Then we can listen in on the speech he gave to the Horry County Re...

Send us Fan Mail Our first episode of the podcast on the Myrtle Beach City Council campaign of 2023 features our Host Randal Wallace's speech to the Forrest Dunes Home Owners Association and that is followed by his appearance on " Morning Coffee with Reese Boyd" a local Radio show that airs each Saturday Morning. The Radio show is also available as a podcast on Apple I-tunes.  You c...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our special podcast series all week looking back at the the past two months of events leading up to the Myrtle Beach City Council Election.  In this episode we will briefly introduce you to the eight city council candidates that have stepped up to the plate to make a difference here in our little corner of the World.  They are : Kenya Hennigan Stuart Behar Mike Chestnut...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look back at the relationship between President Richard Nixon and California Governor and future President Ronald Reagan.  As you will see it is obvious that Richard Nixon is actually working to open the doors of opportunity to his fellow Californian as he brings jobs to the state and arrainges for Reagan to spend time with dignitaries from around the world too,...

Send us Fan Mail In this final look back at the phone calls of Richard Nixon with Alexander Haig it is December of 1972 and January of 1973. The end of the War for America in Vietnam seems at hand. We will hear the two men work on these final problems and issues concerning getting an agreement to end the war.  We will also hear them as they learn of the death of President Nixon's predecessor...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we see President Nixon moving in on what he believes will be peace in Vietnam. However, it is not without issues and games being played by not only our enemies in Hanoi, or their allies in Peking and Moscow, but also by our own friends in Saigon too.  This is a fascinating look at the end of the War in Vietnam that so divided the nation and we listen in on the tho...

Send us Fan Mail In this second episode on General alexander Haig , we will listen in on the phone calls between the President and the Assistant National Security Advisor Al Haig. These are the calls from 1971 and they cover several different subjects from the theft of the Pentagon Papers, to issues in Africa, to the Indian - Pakistan War.  Plus the war in Vietnam.  We have used some of these call...

Send us Fan Mail This is the first episode in a four episode special series looking back at the life of General Alexander Haig.  Haig served several Presidents, working most closely with Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan. He has been a major player throughout the time periods we have been covering throughout the entire storyline of our podcast. He has been such a large player throughout the run of...

Send us Fan Mail We open this episode looking back at the hostage release just after President Ronald Reagan was sworn into office in January of 1981. It was a moment of deep relief for the entire country and former President Jimmy Carter deserves much credit for the the tireless way he worked to insure it would happen just as he was leaving office. President Reagan made it a point to allow Carter...

Send us Fan Mail In this special edition we relive the Inauguration of Ronald Reagan as the 40th President of the United States. It was a moment in which the country was looking for new leadership and moving away from its near four and half decade run with liberalism.  The coverage of the day was glowing and as we covered in Season ten it looked very apparent that our hostage crisis in Iran was co...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look back at the end of two campaigns in 1980, the Democratic race between Senator Ted Kennedy and President Jimmy Carter and then the end of the general election between Carter and former California Governor Ronald Reagan.  It was one of the most exciting races in modern American history and it was, almost until the end, much closer than history has portrayed i...

Send us Fan Mail The third day of the Republican National Convention of 1980 was arguably the most exciting political day I can ever remember in my over 40 years of involvement in political life. It was also arguably the most historic.  As a nine year old child, I was absolutely glued to the broadcast of the convention as it all unfolded on national television. Ronald Reagan and former President G...

Send us Fan Mail George Bush was an asterisk in the polls. He was up against several of the top brass of the Republican Party in America when he announced his run for President in 1980. He was facing Howard Stassen, Representative Phil Crane, Senator Bob Dole, Senator Howard Baker, Governor John Connally, Representative John Anderson and former California Governor Ronald Reagan. There was literall...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look back at the early career of George H. W. Bush, as we review his father's term in the United States Senate, his own race for the U.S. Senate against Senator Ralph Yarborough, his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, and his defeat at the hands of Lloyd Bentsen in 1968. All this from a comprehensive report by NBC News with Brian Williams that gives...

Send us Fan Mail In this special edition in our series on President George H. W. Bush, we look at a special moment for the First Lady , Barbara Bush. In 1990 , Barbara Bush was invited to address Wellesley College as its graduation speaker. It was met with resistance in an era of Women's Liberation at the all Women's University. The graduates felt that they wanted a career woman not a tr...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look at the role of the First Lady, Barbara Bush, in the life of the 41st President. (and the 43rd too)  Barbara Bush was known in her family as the enforcer. She was much more willing to call a spade a spade than her husband was to do so. Her grandchildren and her children talk in several of these reports about how she was the one in the family that enforced th...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to season 11 of our podcast, the first of three seasons that will examine the life, career, and single term of President George H. W. Bush.  His life and political career are full of life lessons and leadership lessons we could all take to heart to help build better everyday lives and help the nation develop the type of leadership in our elected class that we could all be...

Send us Fan Mail In this second episode on the sinking of the USS Indianapolis we find the sailors in the water with a nemesis arguably even more dangerous than the Japanese.  It is the predators that roam the oceans known as Sharks. With in minutes of the sinking of the ship the survivors began to see the the fins circling them as they tried to figure out how to survive.  You will hear the men ta...

Send us Fan Mail In this first episode in a two part special edition, we look back at one of the most horrifying stories of all of World War 2, the sinking of the USS Indianapolis. This was the story made famous by a scene in the movie "JAWS" when the fictional Captain Quint relives his time in the water with Chief Brody and Matt Hooper.  It is used to explain the character's almost...

Send us Fan Mail In this preview we look at the life of our 41st President , George H.W. Bush and the leadership he brought to ending the Cold War. It was an extraordinary career and he was largely seen as one of the most qualified of all of our chief executives.  Here we look back on all the great examples he set in the leadership lessons of his time in office.  This will be the first of three se...

Send us Fan Mail In this special edition of our podcast , we pay tribute to one of the true giants of the post World War 2 era, former Vice President and Former United States Senator , Hubert Horatio Humphrey.  He was the happy warrior and in some ways the fundamental decency of this man is probably what kept him away from the Presidency in an era of politics notorious for being shark infested wat...

Send us Fan Mail In this final episode of season 10, we look at the amazing contributions of our former First Lady, Rosalynn Carter. From Mental Health reform, to caregiving, to butterflies, to helping the Carter Center eradicate Guinee Worm in Africa, Rosalynn Carter has often been every bit the leader as her Presidential husband.  We will take sometime to look back at all of those efforts and ev...

Send us Fan Mail Thank you, Thank you!! From all of us at the Randal Wallace Presents Podcast where we hit 25,000 Downloads during our tenth season looking back at Congressman John Jenrette and former President Jimmy Carter.  We appreciate it more than we can say.  We are also planning on mixing some new features to our show during season eleven. We are planning some special interviews, covering t...

Send us Fan Mail Another special edition looking at one of the most interesting industries in the Florida Keys, treasure hunting.  It is an industry with historic ties to the original big business' in the Florida Keys, that of wrecking. Which was basically salvaging of ships that sank in the reef that runs in front of the various Keys. We will look back at its historic origins.  Then we will...