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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we will lay out the case made by the government against Congressman John Jenrette. We will also go through the differences between this one case and literally all the other cases involved in the scandal known as ABSCAM.  We will also examine the daunting task John Jenrette faced as all of this unfolded as he was indicted and tried during an election year. An elect...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we let you listen to the only set of start to finish tapes that I am aware of that are available to the public, at least that I could find.  These tapes involve Congressman John Murtha , who was targeted but was never indicted.  John Murtha would go on and serve long enough after ABSCAM that he would become the longest serving Congressman in Pennsylvania history. ...

Send us Fan Mail What was Abscam?  In this episode we try an answer that question for those of you who may not remember, or be as familiar with, what many will recall was the second biggest political scandal of the 1970's and early 1980's.  It involved six United States Congressman and one United States Senator.  They were : US Senator Harrison A. Williams (D-NJ) US Representative Frank...

Send us Fan Mail The Camp David Accords were the crowning achievement of the Jimmy Carter Administration foreign Policy. This episode tells the dramatic story of how Jimmy Carter was able to get these two old warriors together at Camp David in order to make it happen.  Egyptian President Anwar Sadat  was very ready and willing to try and make the peace but an election in Israel with a surprise out...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we will follow the same format we have done with several other of our subjects during the run of our broadcast. We will let the tape roll and listen to advice and stories by former Congressman John Jenrette with out interruption nor narration.  Here you will listen as Jenrette gives advice on how to win elections, how to be an effective legislator, about family, ab...

Send us Fan Mail The second episode of a two part look back at the Vietnam War on the 50th Anniversary of its end. In this episode you will hear from private soldiers,  to the tapes of the two Commander and Chiefs, as we hear the struggles of the two Presidents who had to preside over the war, and the troops who fought the war. and several of the Prisoners of War.  The audio for these two episodes...

Send us Fan Mail The first episode of a two part look back at the Vietnam War on the 50th anniversary of its end. In this episode you will hear from military front line privates, to the tapes of the two Commander and Chiefs, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon,  as we listen in on the struggles of the two Presidents who had to preside over the war ,  the troops who fought the war, and several of the...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look back at several of the accomplishments of John Jenrette's time in the United States House of Representative. In many ways it laid the groundwork for  much of the enormous growth we have seen in our region over the past 40 plus years.  We will look at the start of the Tourism and Travel Caucus that allowed the tourism industry to finally have a group in...

Send us Fan Mail It was a new era in Washington D.C. and the United States of America. Finally, the great gash in modern American history, The Vietnam War and the Watergate Crisis, was in the rearview mirror.  It was all symbolized by a new American President from Georgia, who had risen out of seemingly nowhere to be elected President.  He represented a refreshing change, with a big toothy smile,...

Send us Fan Mail In our previous episode, we ended with a funny story about Congressman John Jenrette trying to get his cousin, Dick Jenrette, an appointed position with the Carter Administration in a high enough spot to get a private government jet airplane. His cousin instead of asking to be Secretary of the Treasury or of Commerce, as John Jenrette had hoped, asked to be put in charge of histor...

Send us Fan Mail This episode introduces the other main character in our documentary series, President Jimmy Carter. He rose out of a field of political insiders all of whom were better known to capture the White House in 1976.  Carter was perfectly situated as the consummate outsider from the state of Georgia to pull off such an improbable upset. He would face a list of Democratic leaders all of...

Send us Fan Mail It was an historic class of freshman members to Congress in 1974. It was made up of 17 Republicans and 74 Democrats and many would go on to become household names. They turned the inner workings of the House Chamber upside down, removing longtime chairmen, and opening up the rules for more transparency and more access, in ways that are still with us today. In the midst of all of t...

Send us Fan Mail We had a couple of announcements and a couple of websites to direct you in this brief housekeeping episode. 1. Thanks to the interest in our show  " How to cook a pot of Chicken Bog", we have discovered that  the legendary "Southern Sportsman"  Franc White still has a website up that is run by his two daughters. YOU CAN STILL GET HIS COOKBOOKS. So I went out an...

Send us Fan Mail In this special edition we take a break from the history of politics to enjoy the history of entertainment from the golden age of television. Here we look back at two of the giants of television, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. The couple who invented the way America watches comedy, from the the three camera filming, to the saving of the show on film, to be preserved for generations,...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode , we look back at the high drama of winning a historic primary and unseating a political giant, only to lose in the general election. Then coming back two years later to finally win a seat in the United States House of Representatives. It was a rollercoaster of a ride with enormously consequential side stories that had far reaching importance.  For the 1972 race fo...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode , we look back at John Jenrette's fateful decision to run for the South Carolina State House. He was living in North Myrtle Beach and struggling as a Lawyer. In that day lawyers could not advertise and John Jenrette was trying to figure out a way to get his name out to the public. He was, he said, tired of getting paid in collard greens.  It was a decision tha...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, John Jenrette will take off from his hometown of  Loris S.C  for his  days at Wofford College in Spartanburg,  and his summers in Ocean Drive, now North Myrtle Beach S.C. It would be an adventure to say the least, he would meet  friends Jerry Richardson ( future owner of the Carolina Panthers) and Don Fowler (future Chairman of the Democratic National Committee) ,...

Send us Fan Mail John Jenrette started life in the tiny hamlet of Loris S.C. He was the youngest son of a carpenter turned farmer, so poor it was noted he first saw indoor restrooms at the age of seven. His sister was 23 years older. It would have been hard to imagine the heights he would rise to in his life during these years in Loris. This episode will take you back to a different era in the rur...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is a housekeeping episode to address several circumstances that we felt needed to be addressed as we moved forward with our documentary presentation.  Former Congressman John Jenrette passed away just as we were completing this series of shows. It was such sad news because anyone who knew former Congressman John Jenrette could not help but like him.  It left us with a...

Send us Fan Mail If you have not noticed in our first two episodes, and in the next, we have a character that is almost as  big a star in our 10th season as John Jenrette or Jimmy Carter. It is a low country South Carolina dish famously known as Chicken Bog.  If you watch campaign rallies on C-Span or make it to the Democratic Party's Galivants Ferry Stump or the Republican Party's Horry...

Send us Fan Mail In our last episode we introduced you to both Former Congressman John Jenrette and a historic South Carolina political event known as the Galivants Ferry Stump.  The latter is just one of those things you have to be a part of to truly appreciate. Since many of you may never have the opportunity to visit South Carolina when this historic event is going on. I thought we would take y...

Send us Fan Mail In this first episode of Season 10 we introduce you to Congressman John Jenrette, who had once been the only person from Horry County S.C. to ever serve in either house of the United States Congress.  John Jenrette came from obscurity and abject  poverty, the child of older parents, his father a carpenter in the rural enclave of Loris , South Carolina, and rose to the  halls of th...

Send us Fan Mail Breaking News!! The Vindication of Richard Nixon appears at long last to be upon us. One of the leading academic institutions in America has decided to look in-depth at the documents discovered by Geoff Shepard ( and that we used on our podcast for Seasons 6 -8) as we approach the 50th anniversary of the Watergate Scandal and the fall of President Richard Nixon.  In this episode ,...

Send us Fan Mail On April, 14, 2023 , I was asked to speak , briefly, to the Confederation of Local Historical Societies in my new role as Chairman of the South Carolina Hall of Fame. I only spoke for a few minutes just to introduce myself and inform them of our three inductees this year in 2023.  They are Francis Salvador, the first Jewish American casualty in the fight for American Independence,...

Send us Fan Mail To the nation he was the congressman who was nabbed in ABSCAM and whose wife claimed to have had a late night lovemaking session with him on the steps of the United States Capital, all written about in the pages of  Playboy Magazine. To those of us in Myrtle Beach , South Carolina, where he lived.  John Jenrette was our eccentric, fun loving, famous neighbor, who was always ready...