BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback

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...

Send us Fan Mail We start this episode at the low point in the fighting for the Allies, just after Pearl Harbor. Here you see the mighty resolve cement in place as Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill rally their two nations to come back from near disaster.  Then we fast forward 40 years to the anniversary of the Normandy Invasion and hear the inspiring words of another U.S. President, Ronald...

Send us Fan Mail World War 2 was the  central event of the 20th Century, it shaped the life of all who lived through it and created a generation of leaders who made America into the country it is today. Over the next four episodes we will relive the moments, speeches, and events through newsreels, full speeches, and commentary.  We have focused our show on the lessons we can learn from this genera...

Send us Fan Mail The Life , Career, and Leadership of Robert Byrd, the longest serving legislator in all of American history. He could give a speech on Dog fighting and quote Aristotle. He worked together with Bob Dole on enormously important pieces of legislation through out the 1980's and while they were often adversaries on issues they were obviously friends and they set the example we sho...

Send us Fan Mail Dan Inouye and Ted Stevens, they were like brothers.  Dan Inouye won a Medal of Honor fighting for his country in Italy.  He would serve 59 years in Congress and he would be the example our leadership should always look to for building consensus and reaching across the aisle in a bipartisan fashion. He had two famous cross party friendships we can examine with Bob Dole and with Te...

Send us Fan Mail Some of the 20th Century's most consequential figures all served in the last quarter of the 20th century with the man who is now the President of the United States, Joe Biden.  They may have had very little in common, and disagreed often, but they all figured out ways to get things done by reaching across the aisle and finding that common ground so necessary in making governm...

Send us Fan Mail In 1996,  I was a student at Lander University and to complete my Mass Communication T.V. production project to graduate I decided to create a Lander College Republican Recruitment video. I was the Chairman of the College Republicans at the time.  I got lucky!! 1996 was a Presidential election year and we had every candidate running come through town and so I managed to get snippe...

Send us Fan Mail Our Podcast second season was supposed to start in March of 2021 but sadly my Mother passed away on March 17, 2021.  I could think of no better tribute to her than taking this opportunity to introduce her to the world here on my Podcast.  There is absolutely nothing I ever achieved that she was not the foundation for throughout my lifetime. As she was recovering from her first ill...

Send us Fan Mail "We can lead or we can mislead, as the people's representatives, but either way we will be held accountable" - Senator Robert J. Dole,  (R- Kansas)  January 6, 2021  A day when years of conspiracy theories and outrageous accusations finally came home to roost. Re-live the horrifying day from start to finish, when the World's oldest and greatest democracy had it...

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Send us Fan Mail Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind!  For two decades our leadership in America has sown discord and divisiveness. The leadership of the Republican Party have often pushed conspiracy theories out to its true believers, the Democratic Party, in turn, has made outlandish accusations a hallmark of its leadership.  All the while the national media has devolved not into purveyors of fact,...

Send us Fan Mail *THIS IS NOT THE FINAL EPISODE.  DUE TO EVENTS ON JANUARY, 06, 2021 TWO MORE EPISODES WERE ADDED TO THE SERIES AND THEY WILL BE PREVIEWED AT THE END OF THIS SHOW. In part 2 , of the two part look at World War 2, we look at the life of Senator Bob Dole.  Dole was shot in the shoulder as he was trying to save his radio man on an Italian battlefield, Hill 913.  He would spend 34 mont...

Send us Fan Mail World War 2, the main event of the 20th century. It shaped the lives of all who lived through it. 10 United States Presidents and countless numbers of other public servants shaped American policy, both foreign and domestic, for the next half century.  It moderated their stands and kept emotions in check. They came back from the war and very sensibly went about creating the most do...

Send us Fan Mail Richard Nixon was arguably the most controversial political figure in the last half of the 20th Century. Today, he has been smeared as the measuring stick for corruption and authoritarian behavior.  Yet, when you examine his record, he is also arguably one of our 5 or 6 Greatest United States Presidents. Clearly, one of the most consequential figures in any field of endeavor in al...

Send us Fan Mail First, let me say thank you to all who have been tuning in to our Podcast Documentary. It has been a hit and we appreciate you.  Due to the events of January 6, 2021, we added two new episodes to our documentary and since they were not previewed previously we have put these two previews together. We hope you will tune in throughout February as we draw to a close this first season...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 6 changes our focus from examining the relationships of several figures of the era to looking at concrete solutions to the divisions gripping our government and our society, These ideas come from interviews from two books written by United States Senators.  "Crisis Point" by two former  Senate Majority Leaders from different parties, Tom Daschle and Trent Lott. ...

Send us Fan Mail A tribute to Former Myrtle Beach Mayor John Rhodes who passed away on January 17, 2021. He had already agreed to be our first guest for next season's interview segments. He would have been our first guest. The host of this broadcast served 12 years on the Myrtle Beach City Council while Mr. Rhodes was Mayor.  Questions or comments at  , Randalrgw1@aol.com ,  https://twitter.c...

Send us Fan Mail The extraordinary relationship of Senator Dan Inouye of Hawaii, a Democrat, and Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska , a Republican. Together they traded places on the Senate Appropriations Committee Leadership and the Senate Appropriation Armed Services subcommittee leadership, and they made sure that no matter who was in charge of Congress and the White House, each others states had a...

Send us Fan Mail Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neil were not friends and had never even met. Yet, fate would land them on opposite ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. One was a staunch Conservative the other a Boston Liberal. It looked like nothing but constant stalemate was on the agenda. But together they made the 1980's roar.  And they became friends after 6 o'clock. They also turned our econ...

Send us Fan Mail Two old friends from when one was a brand new Congressman and the other a congressional elevator operator. But fate would land one in the White House through assassination, and it would coincide with the culmination of 100 years of struggle for civil rights in America.  Lyndon Johnson would make it his priority to "finish what Lincoln began" but to do it he would have to...