BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback

Send us Fan Mail During the week that President and Mrs. Nixon were in China there were several staged tours arraigned for the party and at those events there were often staged people too.  This is the story of the wandering adventures of the party and the press corp as they traveled around China all the while President Nixon and Zhou Enlai were busy negotiating out the Communique from the trip. ...

Send us Fan Mail Somethings never change, and one of those things that will never change is the troublesome issues the press can create by trying to get into mischief and question everything they see. This was very true with the traveling press corp as they were bused around China.  The Chinese tried to contain them but it was to no avail and they managed to find a good story or two while they wer...

Send us Fan Mail In a trip planned and choreographed to the minute, an enormous surprise happened with in hours of the President's arrival.  Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai showed up at the guest house where President Nixon was staying and whisked him away with only Henry Kissinger, his aid Winston Lord, and one Secret Service Agent in tow.  Bob Haldeman recorded in his diary his worry at having t...

Send us Fan Mail "One story about the famous meeting with Richard Nixon remained a secret for many years, until Nixon’s memoirs appeared. The story began in the mid-50’s, when America and China had no diplomatic relations, and there was great hostility between the two nations. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, at a meeting in Geneva, deliberately snubbed Zhou Enlai, refusing to shake his...

Send us Fan Mail Finally the door has been opened to China. President Nixon would send a group of young men under the supervision of 34 year old Ron Walker to China to lay the groundwork for the historic visit. They would find it immensely rewarding but not without many frustrations as they entered a world that was totally foreign to the one they left.  A world where technology was behind, a world...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look backwards at how the China initiative came together. Richard Nixon had envisioned reaching out to China long before he became President of the United States. He wrote an article for Foreign Affairs magazine in 1967 where he talked briefly about Asia after Vietnam and the importance of reaching out to China. There were hints in his inaugural Address about bu...

Send us Fan Mail The opening of our Season 5 look at the Administration of Richard Nixon begins with the signature event of his time in office., the opening to China.  It marks the beginning of a season of triumph for America and for Richard Nixon. It begins with a journey into the unknown because China and the United States had had no diplomatic ties for a quarter of a century. In fact, China had...

Send us Fan Mail Destruction, devastation,  and disaster all describe the South Carolina Coast on the 23rd of September 1989.  Hurricane Hugo had torn its way through the State of South Carolina, plowing into Sullivan's Island S.C. and drowning McClellenville S.C. , a small shrimping town, under a massive surge of water.  In Georgetown S.C. , Atalaya , a Spanish style castle villa once owned...

Send us Fan Mail   We start season 5 with a bonus two part series far from the topic of politics, Government or Richard Nixon. Though President Nixon did start NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration which began the National Weather Service and Hurricane Tracking. A service that has saved thousands of lives and improved weather tracking  and predicting immensely since the 1970&ap...

Send us Fan Mail In our Season 4 finale we look at several of the initiatives that Richard Nixon began at the end of 1971 that we are still benefitting from or are impacted by today.  In 1971 Richard Nixon changed the monetary system for the United States ending the Breton Woods system and taking the United States off the Gold Standard. It was a dramatic economic move that is still debated. It cer...

Send us Fan Mail On January 6, 2021 a riot broke out in Washington D.C. at the United States Capitol. It was an angering sight to see and brought the functioning of the Capitol to a total standstill. The national media and the Democratic Party have tried very hard to put the blame on one man, Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States. But I think I speak for millions of Americans wh...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we cover two of President Nixon's major accomplishments; giving 18 year old citizens the right to vote and initiating the opening to China.  First, we listen as Richard Nixon signs the 26th Amendment into law in front of a White House full of young people.  Then we listen in on a call between Henry Kissinger and President Nixon on a wide range of subjects inv...

Send us Fan Mail It was the best of times and it was the worst of times.  On June 12, 1971, the daughter of President and Mrs. Nixon, Tricia Nixon married Edward Cox at a White House ceremony in the Rose Garden. It was a wedding celebrated by not only the Nixon and Cox families but by the entire nation. President Nixon said of the day "It was a day we were all just very happy" It was a t...

Send us Fan Mail HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022!!! In this episode we look back at 2021, a year of success here at "Bridging the Political Gap" and a year of sad farewells as we said good by to so many inspirational figures in our life from former Senator Bob Dole, to former Secretary of State George Shultz ,  to Former Senator John Warner, to the Mayor I served with through most of my time as a My...

Send us Fan Mail This episode begins just after President Nixon delivers his powerful speech going through the campaign in Laos and the advancements our side is making in extricating ourselves from the Vietnam War. It was a powerful moment for President Nixon.  Recently, another documentary titled "Nixon at War" , attempted to smear President Nixon for his conduct of the operation,  that...

Send us Fan Mail Our Host Randal Wallace appeared on the Radio show "Up With America with Tom Heron" in November of 2021 and the segment is here. This interview stresses the importance of history in learning how to deal with today's divisions in our land. We hope you enjoy the interview.  Questions or comments at  , Randalrgw1@aol.com ,  https://twitter.com/randal_wallace    , and h...

Send us Fan Mail One of the low moments of the Vietnam War is covered in this episode. It was the moment in the plans to Vietnamize the Vietnam War that we conducted an operation with only South Vietnamese troops on the ground and we provided air support. In the end, our side got walloped.  This happened in an operation in which our side went over the border into neighboring Laos to finally stop t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we are finally  at the moment that the taping system was installed. It was a fateful decision, and it would eventually lead to the fall of the Nixon Administration. The tapes have been used to attack the President and portray him as an awful person. For the most part, only the worst of the worst of these tapes have been promoted to the public.  President Nixon all...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk about the contents of the historic tapes of the Nixon Administration. We address the negative parts that are so familiar to the public. Nixon's remarks about Women, Gays, Jews, African Americans, his rages, and his intemperate remarks, all caught on a voice activated tape recorder that caught his every word every time he entered a room.  We will also d...

Send us Fan Mail To the stars through difficulties, the  motto of the state of Kansas and a theme for the life of Bob Dole.  In this final episode in our week long tribute to Senator Bob Dole we look back on two historic days  in which the Senator laid in state in the rotunda of the Capitol of the United States of America.  Here you will hear the President of the United States, Joseph R. Biden, sp...

Send us Fan Mail In part 5 of our tribute to Bob Dole we look back at the war injury that left him disabled. We hear from him and from his close friend and fellow Senator, Dan Inouye, about his hard scrabble fight back to health.  Dole spent 39 months in Army hospitals regaining his health after his act of heroism trying to save his radio man, Corporal Simms.  We then hear Bob Dole talk about his...

Send us Fan Mail Bob Dole lost the 1996 Presidential Election.  On that night he came to the podium and said something I know for him had to be a little scary.  "For the first time in my life when I get up tomorrow I won't have anything to do" - Bob Dole Boy did that turn out not to be true. In three days he would be invited to come be a guest on the CBS show "Late Show with Da...

Send us Fan Mail On June 11, 1996, Senate Majority Leader and the 1996 Republican Nominee for President got to do something few if any politicians ever get to do. He left office on his own terms. Bob Dole resigned so he could focus all his energy and effort on winning the 1996 election.  He was behind in the polls but on Capitol Hill he was given a heroes send off. It was truly a day for the histo...

Send us Fan Mail It was the campaign of my lifetime. A chance to work for not one but three of my heroes in one year, Bob and Elizabeth Dole and Strom Thurmond.  1996 was a great year.  Some people have been critical of the campaign Bob Dole ran in 1996, but I doubt anyone could have done any better. The economy was booming and Bill Clinton was the master of campaigning. But Bob  Dole gave him a r...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Bob Dole Week!!! Everyday this week we will look back at the life and career of one of the 20th century's greatest Americans.  In this episode we look back at his entire life with his Presidential Concession speech, and  two videos of his life from his 1988 Presidential campaign and from the Bi-Partisan Policy Center. Then we will step back in time to the moment he...