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Send us Fan Mail In our middle episode on the Inauguration of Bill Clinton, we take you from the President - Elect Bill Clinton's departure from Blair House over to the meeting with President George H. W. Bush.  We will let historians talk about how these rides have gone between Presidents who liked each other and Presidents who didn't.  Plus, we will hear the television network ABC, as...

Send us Fan Mail It is finally the last 24 hours of the Bush Administration. It is the end of an era. Those 24 hours will be crammed with activity, with President Bush preparing to  leave office, with President -Elect Clinton making the rounds in Washington D.C. as he prepares to take the reigns of power, and with our military conducting air strikes on Saddam Hussein in Iraq.  It is an eventful 24...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we jump around a bit in our timeline in this final episode that looks back at George H. W. Bush’s presidency. We will look at the one request Bush made to his successor of what he hoped would continue after he left office.  Bush wanted the Points of Light initiative to outlive him. It did. President Clinton not only honored that request, he embraced it with the sam...

Send us Fan Mail As the transition moves forward, George Bush begins to wrap up his administration and honor those who helped him throughout his career.  In this episode, President Bush travels to West Point to speak to the cadets who were about to embark on their military careers. As a veteran, it is clear, George H. W. Bush, is most at home with the troops. We will listen as he inspires these yo...

Send us Fan Mail It is the next morning and the dust is settling. For the first time in 12 years the country has a Democratic President-Elect. It is also the first time since December 7, 1941 that the nation has a leader at the helm who did not serve in some capacity in World War 2.  It was a sea change election.  The country knew it was about to see a real change in how the government works.  In...

Send us Fan Mail In the second installment of the Election Night from 1992, we see the official changing of the guard. It is at this moment, on election night, that one generation of leadership gives way to another.  The World War 2 Presidents, that had served from two generations, those who ran the war : Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Dwight Eisenhower, followed by the generation of leader...

Send us Fan Mail On April 26, 2025, a shooting occurred in Myrtle Beach S.C. on Ocean Boulevard in the city's downtown area. There were 11 people injured and one person, the alleged gunman, was killed by an officer of the Myrtle Beach Police Department.  This podcast is produced in Myrtle Beach, and it just so happened that our host, Randal Wallace, was only one block away at an area restaura...

Send us Fan Mail In this special edition we remember one of the most influential people in the history of South Carolina politics. He was also one of the most colorful characters too.  He was a leader in changing our State with a strong vocational education system, developing a strong nutrition program for young children in poverty, and during the civil rights movement he moved our state forward w...

Send us Fan Mail It is election Night 1992. We will be using the coverage I collected that night , mainly, from ABC News, but it will also feature segments from CNN, NBC, and CBS News.  We saved some interesting interviews with political figures like South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell, and Texas Governor Ann Richards, you will get insights from the leading reporters of the age such as David...

Send us Fan Mail We have finally arrived to the final day on the trail for George H. W. Bush , Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot. It had been an election for the history books, as hard a fought battle as I had ever witnessed in my then short lifetime. You could not have asked for more formidable candidates to face each other than the three men who had shared the national stage together over the past ye...

Send us Fan Mail Few offices in the history of our government have produced more harm, to more people, more often, and more efficiently that the office created in 1973 to investigate the Watergate Scandal. The Special Prosecutor's statute stayed on the books the rest of the 20th century and was used to wound the reelection campaign of George H. W. Bush, and then cripple the final years of the...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I really want to give you the feeling that George H. W. Bush had finally turned the corner because that was what was really happening at the end of the 1992 campaign. After a tough primary challenge from a surprisingly strong Pat Buchanan, an upstart billionaire in Ross Perot jumping in who had a personal ax to grind with Bush going back many years, and then a form...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we will tune in to a  Ross Perot Rally in Missouri. It will give you a chance to hear the upstart billionaire as he leads his revolutionary campaign through the heartland of America.  "Hi, I'm Ross and you're the Boss" became his tag line and he hit it over and over again, telling the enthusiastic crowds that they finally had a candidate that un...

Send us Fan Mail Judy Rodman was a towering figure in the history of the city of Myrtle Beach. Starting as the Horry County Co-Chair for the Bob Dole for President campaign in 1988, then serving three terms, in two different eras, on the Myrtle Beach City Council, and then serving as a member of the City owned Myrtle Beach Sheraton Hotel Board, and throughout her entire tenure the city's repr...

Send us Fan Mail It is time to hit the trail in the final couple of weeks of the 1992 campaign. I figured we would take off with the three Vice Presidential candidates in this episode. They were Vice President Dan Quayle, Senator Al Gore, and Admiral James Stockdale.  We will start out spending the the day with Dan Quayle. You will hear him interacting with the public, giving a campaign speech, an...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the South Carolina United States Senate Debate in 1992. It was a barn burner of a debate between two very formidable figures: Senator Ernest Hollings and Former Congressman Tommy Hartnett.  So sit back, pop up the popcorn, and find the southern native friend you have who may be able to help you understand these two combatants with the thick Charlestonian accents, becaus...

Send us Fan Mail In 1992, South Carolina featured a heated Senate race that featured two very experienced and respected political figures in incumbent senator Ernest Hollings and his challenger former Congressman Tommy Hartnett. It would be the toughest challenge for Hollings in decades because not only was Hartnett a formidable challenger but the political dynamics in South Carolina were changing...

Send us Fan Mail In this special edition episode of our podcast we take a look back at a very special man, former Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming. He passed away in March at age 93. He had been the Senate Republican Whip under Bob Dole for a decade and together they made the institution work.  Alan Simpson had one of the best wits in the Senate, or even all of Congress. He could make you laugh out...

Send us Fan Mail This might be the most fun episode we ever produced. As we look back at George H. W. Bush , Pro wrestling fan. With the help of Charleston Post and Courier articles written by their star reporter Mike Mooneyham, we will examine the Bush connection to the world of Professional wrestling and especially his fondness for wrestling's greatest athlete, "The Nature Boy" Ri...

Send us Fan Mail In this special edition of our podcast we will be looking at the highly acclaimed best selling book written by former Ronald Reagan Speech writer Ken Khachigian.  The book offers an insiders view of not one President but two Presidents, both giants in our long long struggle against the forces of Communism in the Cold War. The two Presidents were two of history's giants, Richa...

Send us Fan Mail The day after the Presidential debate, Hillary and Bill Clinton had a rally in Richmond , Virginia. The feeling of momentum shifting in their direction was certainly evident but the race would prove to be far from over.  This is that rally in its entirety as the Clinton campaign kicks off its run toward the finish line.  George Bush would be heading out on a whistlestop tour acros...

Send us Fan Mail This is the famous Vice Presidential Debate. It would feature a fiery set of exchanges between Vice President Dan Quayle and Senator Al Gore. The two men served in the Senate together and knew each other quite well. The gloves will come off and as that happens the third man on the stage , retired Admiral James Stockdale, was often reduced to being a bystander.  It was a shining mo...

Send us Fan Mail In this first of several episodes where we will be looking at the Presidential Debates, both in this series in 1992, and the coming Dole series in 1996, we will look back on the first Townhall debate held in a Presidential election year.  This was playing to Bill Clinton's strength. It would also play to George Bush's weakness. Bush appears at times to be bored with the...

Send us Fan Mail He's Back!!!! After a nearly three month absence in the 1992 Presidential race, Ross Perot decides to jump back in to the race. The truth is he probably never really ever left it. All I can say about whomever's tactical decision it was to have him withdraw in the first place needed to have their head examined. It ranks, in my opinion, as one of the stupidest decisions in...

Send us Fan Mail As September draws to a close, we listen in on two rallies, and an introduction from a political rising star who will go on to be a big player in the next three decades.  At Governor Bill Clinton's rally in San Francisco we introduce you to the former Mayor and the 1992 candidate for the U. S. Senate, Dianne Feinstein. Then Bill Clinton will address the rally Then President B...