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Send us Fan Mail At the end of 1968 the United States was a country at war abroad and in chaos at home.  The  American people  were asking the same question that movie star Lauren Bacall expressed to the country on "The Dick Cavett Show", "What has become of our country, is our country worth saving? " In January 1969, a new President, but a leader many had written off as a fail...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we see events start moving fast. You see a divide start to show between members of the Johnson Administration as to what to do about the problems of Vietnam. The enemy starts bombing American targets including the Brinks Hotel during the Christmas season, maximizing the number of deaths in the hotel. Still Lyndon Johnson refuses to retaliate. He still has to be con...

Send us Fan Mail Even though we were already involved, this was the event that really started us down the long road to a full scale land war in Asia.  Strangely, to this day no one knows exactly for sure what happened in the middle of the night on the other side of the world. Most likely, nothing. But the supposed attack on the U.S.S. Maddox and U. S. S.  C. Turner Joy led to a retaliatory strike...

Send us Fan Mail On August 1, 2012, My brother Keith Wallace collapsed after he had a brain aneurysm burst in Manning S. C. He died on August 2, 2012.  In Memory of him on this the 9th anniversary, I thought we would rebroadcast the ABC News "Carolina This Week with Tim McGinnis" show from 2013 in which I discussed his situation and the importance of organ donation.  Thousands of people...

Send us Fan Mail He was known as the Wizard of Ooze, a disheveled, elderly man with a distinctive voice and a great sense of humor and a thoughtful, cautious style.  He was the leader of the Republican Minority in the United States Senate. He often had only 36 members in his caucus. But that was often enough votes to break a filibuster and deliver enough votes to pass major legislation that would...

Send us Fan Mail If President Lyndon B. Johnson has a real claim to greatness it is for his work to pass the Voter's Rights Act of 1965.  It was the act that guaranteed every citizen in this country the right to vote. It came after a horrifying Sunday in the Alabama town of Selma. It was there that a contingent of Alabama State Troopers attacked a group of protesters as they marched across th...

Send us Fan Mail Few relationships in the history of our country were as important as the one between President Lyndon Johnson and his Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and fewer still, were as bad. The two men could not stand one another and it was like that from the start. In 1960, Bobby Kennedy had tried to get Lyndon Johnson to back out of his acceptance of the Vice Presidential slot on the Dem...

Send us Fan Mail This episode opens as Lyndon Johnson declares War on Poverty in America. LBJ had a vision of the America he wanted to create and unlike many of our Presidents this man was the quintessential legislator.  Johnson's ability to get legislation passed was an area of his job in which there has been no equal, whether you like what he passed or not. Johnson's Great Society chan...

Send us Fan Mail The start of Season 3, begins on the Tarmac of Andrews Air Force Base on November 22, 1963. A new President addresses reporters and the American people after the assassination of a young and vigorous President. The New President was an old hand in Washington, with a larger than life persona and an ego as large as the State he had represented in the United States Senate, the state...

Send us Fan Mail While we were in production for season 3 we lost a very special and important part of our production team, my dog  Cooper. He was 11 years old and was a special member of my family. The two of us have weathered some very significant storms together and it warranted a special send off. Cooper's cancer diagnosis came as a surprise and he lived a brief four weeks after the major...

Send us Fan Mail Senator John Warner, the second longest serving Senator from Virginia ,  was one of the last World War 2 and Korean War Veterans serving in the Congress when he retired in 2009. He passed away on May 25, 2021 at the age of 94. He was a class act and a man who knew how to get things done. He knew how to work with people and how to reach across the aisle and find bi-partisan solutio...

Send us Fan Mail Season 3 of  "Bridging the Political Gap " takes us through the most controversial period in our history other than the Civil War.  In this season we will cover one of the most controversial an arguably most consequential Presidencies in the entire history of our nation. The Administration of Lyndon B. Johnson.  Here is a preview of what promises to be a long, hot, summe...

Send us Fan Mail November 1963, was a month that changed the trajectory of American History.  During the summer of 1963, President John F. Kennedy and the Kennedy Administration grew increasingly frustrated with the South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and his increasingly dictatorial ways in running the government. When Ambassador , and Republican, Henry Cabot Lodge pushed Diem to remove his...

Send us Fan Mail In this special edition of "Bridging the Political Gap" , our host Randal Wallace sat down earlier in the month (June 2021)  with This week with Tim McGinnis, a current South Carolina State House Member and former television anchorman for WPDE TV-15, the local ABC affiliate here in Myrtle Beach. Tim McGinnis is also the owner of "The Famous Toastery" in Carolin...

Send us Fan Mail In Part 3 of the celebration of the life of George Shultz, we look back at one of the singular, major events of the Cold War in which George Shultz was a major participant.   For a couple of days in October of 1986, four men met and changed the direction of the world. The two leaders President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and their two chief diploma...

Send us Fan Mail In this second part in our celebration of the life of George Shultz,  we look at his many wise thoughts on the problems our country and world face today, and how he felt they needed to be addressed. He tells stories from his time in public office as both a cabinet member,  an education leader, and his career in the private sector.  There is a lot to learn and a lot we can all be t...

Send us Fan Mail "He was a gentleman of honor and ideas, dedicated to public service and respectful debate, even into his 100th year on Earth. That’s why multiple presidents, of both political parties, sought his counsel. I regret that, as president, I will not be able to benefit from his wisdom, as have so many of my predecessors." - President Joe Biden George Shultz died on February 6,...

Send us Fan Mail "Madison did not design government to be easy, he designed it to be difficult, for unrelenting process and debate" - Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan D- New York There is no more important tool in the arsenal of the minority party when it comes to maintaining some sway with legislation in the United States Senate than the legislative Filibuster. It is a tool with a very i...

Send us Fan Mail One of the truly most heartfelt and memorable things I was able to do as an elected official and candidate for Congress was speak at this event honoring those who had lost their lives in Military Service in 2012.  This speech was very special to me because it involves three people I admired tremendously. I was able to talk about my political hero Bob Dole, My Great Uncle J.B. Crow...

Send us Fan Mail In December of 2019, our Host Randal Wallace published his first  book, "Always Vote Your Conscience, don't take it personally and don't fight the same old battles over and over again". Just as he was going out to do book promotions the Covid- 19 Pandemic hit the United States and everything was cancelled. It was then that he put together and started this podca...

Send us Fan Mail There is a price that must often be paid for leadership. If you want to be a leader you must be willing to pay it. I question whether many of our leaders today seem to realize this simple fact. There comes a time when you must put the country first.  For all of their flaws, no one can question whether General Douglas MacArthur or President Harry Truman were willing to pay that pri...

Send us Fan Mail The People's Volunteer Army descends on North Korea and pushes the United Nation's forces back to below the 38th Parallel. All of General Macarthur's reassurances vanish and Truman is stuck with tough decisions. Does he take the war to the Chinese or contain it on the Korean Peninsula? His Field General wants to bomb Manchuria and do battle with the Chinese. Truman...

Send us Fan Mail From 1950 to 1953 America went to war in what has often been called "The Forgotten War" in Korea. It was one of the first real tests of the Cold War between the United States and the Communist World and it happened due to an oversight. When Secretary of State Dean Acheson forgot to include the Korean Peninsula in his a speech about American Policy in Asia, and who we wou...

Send us Fan Mail In a year so dramatic no fiction writer would dare write it Franklin Roosevelt Dies Benito Mussolini is captured , executed, and hung in a public square, upside down Adolf Hitler Commits Suicide Winston Churchill is defeated for re-election Harry Truman drops an Atomic Bomb  and finally Douglas Macarthur presides over the surrender of Japan in Tokyo Bay.  1945 was a year for the h...

Send us Fan Mail Strom Thurmond landed on a glider behind enemy lines at D-Day and then went with the 82nd Airborne Division and then the First Army Division all the way to nearly Berlin. Listen as he talks about that campaign from D-Day through Belgium and the Battle of the Bulge and across the Rhine River as we also mix in Newsreel coverage from the time. It is the closing days of 1944 and the A...