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Send us Fan Mail I was so moved by the ad released for Tim Scott's Presidential Exploratory Commitee that we decided to do a commentary on it.  He said in three minutes what I have tried to convey in a run for Congress, a 554 page book, and 270 episodes of this podcast.  I hope you will listen...... Questions or comments at  , Randalrgw1@aol.com ,  https://twitter.com/randal_wallace    , and...

Send us Fan Mail In the final episode of season 9, we look back at the remarkable man that was Gerald Ford. He inherited the Presidency at one of the lowest moments in all of American History. He worked the job tirelessly to heal the wounds of a divided land. He set an example that many hope could be followed today in these troubled and divided times. One of the ways he set that example came after...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we fast forward some 20 years to 1996, when Gerald Ford's running mate would be a weekend away from the election day when he would carry the banner for the Republican Party. Bob Dole was giving it his all in a race against a fairly popular, but considerably flawed, incumbent President, in Bill Clinton.  The polls had Dole down by a considerable 20 points and i...

Send us Fan Mail The original premise of our podcast "Bridging the Political Gap" when we began 9 seasons ago was to look at the leadership offered by a generation of Americans who fought World War 2 and built the American Century. They got things done and they could disagree without being disagreeable. They understood like no generation before and perhaps none of the members of the lead...

Send us Fan Mail In this third episode in our three part mini - series on the 1976 Presidential Election, we get in the trenches and watch the campaign play out.  For the Republicans if it can go wrong it does go wrong, from the audio going out at the Presidential Debate, to the gaffes of "No Domination of Eastern Europe by the Soviets", to the number of dead "in Democrat Wars in th...

Send us Fan Mail In our second episode of the three part look at the 1976 Campaign we head into the aftermath of the divided Republican Convention after Gerald Ford has secured the nomination. Ronald Reagan lets President Ford know that he does not want to be the Vice Presidential nominee and that decision opens the door for my personal hero to walk on to center stage in the Republican Party. A sp...

Send us Fan Mail Campaign 1976!!! It is one of the most interesting Presidential elections in all of American History. It is also the gateway to the end of one era, that of the Vietnam - Watergate years and the start of the Reagan Era. It is a Presidential Campaign that early on featured figures from the battles of the 1960's and 1970s, from George Wallace  to Hubert Humphrey and George McGov...

Send us Fan Mail This is a fun episode looking back at one of the purely fun events of the past half century. It was the Bicentennial of Declaration of Independence, the celebration of our nation's founding. It was an event like no other in our history and Gerald Ford, a man who had not sought the Presidency at all,  got to enjoy presiding over it all.  He gives all appearances of having enjo...

Send us Fan Mail John Jenrette , former United States Congressman from the 6th District of South Carolina, passed away on St. Patrick's Day 2023.  A fitting day for a man who  was as colorful a character as has ever set foot in Congress and who  was also stunningly effective. John Jenrette was the only native Horry County, South Carolinian to ever serve in Congress until our brand new Congres...

Send us Fan Mail From Wikipedia: According to the Cold War scholar John Lewis Gaddis in his book The Cold War: A New History (2005), " Leonid Brezhnev had looked forward, Anatoly Dobrynin recalls, to the 'publicity he would gain... when the Soviet public learned of the final settlement of the postwar boundaries for which they had sacrificed so much'... '[Instead, the Helsinki A...

Send us Fan Mail From Wikipedia: The Mayaguez incident took place between Kampuchea (now Cambodia ) and the United States from 12 to 15 May 1975, less than a month after the Khmer Rouge took control of the capital Phnom Penh ousting the U.S.-backed Khmer Republic . After the Khmer Rouge seized the U.S. merchant vessel SS Mayaguez in a disputed maritime area, the U.S. mounted a hastily-prepared res...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look at three of the major events of the Gerald Ford Administration that people will remember.  First off Gerald Ford had to find a person to fill the office of Vice President of the United States. It would be only the second time the 25th amendment would be used, and the last time it was used. He would select New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller to serve in tha...

Send us Fan Mail On April 30, 1975, The North Vietnamese Army invaded Saigon and the war in Vietnam ended. While it was not a defeat for the United States since President Nixon had brokered a peace in January of 1973, and we had left, it sure felt like one.  Gerald Ford , who had inherited the Presidency at the end of the Watergate legal process ( A process  we have shown that was riddled with all...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we hear from both former President Gerald Ford and his wife Betty Ford from an in-depth interview from a 1996 CNN Special "Riding the Tiger".  In it they discuss the feelings they had as they assumed the Presidency in the most difficult of circumstances, why he decided to grant former President Nixon a pardon, and how they dealt with the traumatizing two...

Send us Fan Mail It is one thing to work with a President from the other party and be the loyal opposition that is often getting in the news for being opposed to the President. It is another to be your President's leader on the House floor pushing through his agenda, especially when you are in the minority. That is the position that Gerald Ford will be in for much of the Presidency of Richard...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode you will get to see how the sausage is made. We feature several phone calls between two of the nation's consummate legislators, Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of the United States (A Democrat) and Representative Gerald Ford, the House Republican Leader. You will get to see some serious wheeling and dealing on the grandest of stages.  While LBJ had had a long a...

Send us Fan Mail In our season premier of Season 9 we begin our look back at "Gerald Ford: The Accidental President" as we look at his overall time as President and his film "A Time To Heal" which was also the name of his book. Then we go back to the beginning of our long look at the 1960's and 1970's to the subject of our first episode on the subject.  The assassinat...

Send us Fan Mail For all of the folks who have said to me that our long documentary on Watergate and the massive evidence of alleged prosecutorial misconduct just did not seem plausible. This special edition is for you. It is a story I had not heard before until our podcast's friend , Geoff Shepard, sent the story to me and then I proceeded to research it.  It is the story of one of greatest...

Send us Fan Mail Our New Sister Podcast, The Randal Wallace Show is up now and you can find it wherever you get your podcast. So please tune in and we hope you will stick around for a lot of good conversation and some shows covering current events too!!  https://www.buzzsprout.com/1532626  The Randal Wallace Show Link  Questions or comments at  , Randalrgw1@aol.com ,  https://twitter.com/randal_wa...

Send us Fan Mail In part three of "The Randal Wallace Show" we bring you the conclusion of the fight for the Speakership of United States House of Representatives. In this episode, we see the negotiations begin to finally  bring the debate to a close. Representative Kevin McCarthy gives in to several of the requests of the conservative wing of the Party. But just when you think a deal ha...

Send us Fan Mail In part two of our introductory podcast series for "The Randal Wallace Show" we let the leading news outlets of the day cover the fight for the Speakership of the 118th Congress. You will get to sit through all the twists and turns of the middle days of the open rebellion of conservative firebrand congressmen who tried to block Representative Kevin McCarthy from becoming...

Send us Fan Mail Exclusive first episode of our new sister podcast "The Randal Wallace Show"  This is the first of three episodes we will release this week on our site to introduce the show. In it we will take you on a tour of Washington D.C. during the first week of January as we were in Washington to celebrate and witness the swearing in ceremony for the 118th Congress and the new Sout...

Send us Fan Mail Coming on February 20, 2023,  The "Randal Wallace Presents Podcast" begins our 9th season with a very special look back at  Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United States. He was the only man in the history of the Presidency that was never elected to either the Presidency nor the Vice Presidency.  He was the Accidental President.  Over 14 episodes we'll look ba...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to  The Revealing Documents from the Watergate Prosecutions  featuring : • Prof. Stephen Saltzburg, Wallace and Beverley Woodbury University Professor of Law; Co-director of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program, The George Washington University Law School • Geoff Shepard, Author of The Nixon Conspiracy (2021) and The Real Watergate Scandal (2015) • Hon. Laurence S...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to  The Revealing Documents from the Watergate Prosecutions  featuring : • Prof. Stephen Saltzburg, Wallace and Beverley Woodbury University Professor of Law; Co-director of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program, The George Washington University Law School • Geoff Shepard, Author of The Nixon Conspiracy (2021) and The Real Watergate Scandal (2015) • Hon. Laurence S...