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Send us Fan Mail In our first of several special editions in January, we shall bid farewell to two United States Senators who have spent their times in office reaching across the aisle in order find solutions to issues plaguing our nation. While that is commendable, it does come with a price and can hurt you in the base of your own party. One of the reasons both men stepped down from the Senate is...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we take you to the Democratic National Convention to hear some of the greatest public speakers of the 1990s.  1. Jerry Brown, former Governor of California (and future Governor of California and future Mayor of Oakland) he was a 1992 Presidential candidate who near the end emerged to give Bill Clinton a little challenge at the end of the primary. He hit on economic...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look back at the remarkable life of Jimmy Carter through the eyes of several who knew him.  Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States died at age 100 on December 29, 2024. As we head into a national week of mourning we have compiled a few stories about his life from old friends like Former Congressman John Jenrette, Advisor Stu Eisenstadt, Reporter S...

Send us Fan Mail This episode will lay out a series of special episodes looking back at the departure of a couple of important Senators, the outgoing President Joe Biden, the incoming President Donald Trump and our episodes honoring the former President who just passed away at age 100,  Jimmy Carter. We will also feature a segment in honor of former ABC and CNN reporter and host Aaron Brown.  Ques...

Send us Fan Mail The opening night of the Democratic National Convention in 1992 had the misfortune of having to compete with Major League Baseball All Star Game. To counteract that programming they decided to put the ladies of the party our front on this first night, that will feature a keynote address by Representative Barbara Jordan,  Then the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter w...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year 2025!!!  What an amazing year 2024 was for us at this podcast. For 18 weeks we were the number 1 American History Podcast on Feedspot, and for just a little while we had our sister podcast "The Richard Nixon Experience" ranked at number 7 at the same time. We had two podcasts in the top 10. I am proud of that!! It was a year in which we said goodbye to a l...

Send us Fan Mail In this special edition we look back at the remarkable life of former 5th District of South Carolina Congressman John Spratt. Spratt was in Congress for nearly 3 decades and rose to be chairman of the House Budget Committee.  From that post he would become the master of the Federal Budget working throughout the 1990’s to balance the Federal Budget and manage the nation’s ever grow...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we look at three major stories that all happened in the early summer of 1992.  1. H. Ross Perot decides to enter the race for President after getting over 200,000 signatures to get him on the ballot in Texas. When he decides to enter the race he is polling in first place ahead of both President George Bush and the Democratic presumptive nominee Arkansas Governor B...

Send us Fan Mail In this special edition we will hear President Bush speak to the American Legislative Exchange Council, which is a group of State elected officials that help form conservative policy for the Federal Government.  In this speech you will hear the President as he discusses the various policy intiatives he was pressing in the spring of 1992. It gives you a sense for where he was heade...

Send us Fan Mail Rodney King was stopped for speeding in California the year before and savagely beaten after he resisted arrest. It was all caught on video by a bystander and the police were charged for excessive  brutality while trying to subdue King.  When the police were acquitted by an all white jury in another neighboring county from where the crime had occurred the city of Los Angeles explo...

Send us Fan Mail The 1992 New York Democratic Primary was a knock down drag out affair between Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and his one remaining challenger Former California Governor Jerry Brown. The two men pulled no punches as they fought over the delegates in this state , that was no stranger to rowdy politics.  Brown would accuse Clinton of shaking down the Arkansas poultry industry for tho...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we will listen in as Pat Buchanan begins to fade away after it is discovered he drives a Mercedes Benz and the Bush campaign pounces on it.  On the other side, Paul Tsongas, Tom Harkin, and John Kerry also fade away but Bill Clinton will still find himself with one very stubborn opponent left to lock horns with before he can lay claim to the Democratic Nomination. ...

Send us Fan Mail Here is Ross Perot in all his blunt, direct, glory. In this episode we hear him give the 1992 graduating class of Oklahoma University commencement address. It is a speech full of truly useful advice. It will leave you impressed and you will understand better after you listen to it as to why he came very close to actually winning the Presidency in 1992.  Questions or comments at  ,...

Send us Fan Mail He was talking on the Larry King Show on CNN and said that if the people could get enough signatures to gethim on the Texas ballot he might run for President. They needed 50,000 signatures, they ended up with 250,000. Suddenly, H. Ross Perot was a serous contender for President of the United States.  He had the money, a self made billionaire, and he told you what he really thought...

Send us Fan Mail This short housekeeping show will air on both of our podcasts because we want to hear from you. We are about to air an uninterupted oral history on The Richard Nixon Experience. We want to know if you would be interested in more episodes in this type of format and have us, at the Richard Nixon Experience, comeback for a seventh season.  Just let us know by emailing me here on the...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we cover the 1992 New Hampshire Primary with the help of WMUR News from Manchester, New Hampshire. They do a segment titled "Inside the Vault" that covers the history of the New Hampshire Primary. They did several on the 1992 Primary, we used four of them for this episode.  We will look back on Bill Clinton's incredible comeback in this primary after...

Send us Fan Mail The first stop of the primary season is in Iowa. It is an important stop on the pathway to the Presidential Nomination in both parties. In 1992, President George H. W. Bush was way out in front and his challenger, Pat Buchanan, decided not to contest him in Iowa, and on the Democratic side Iowa Senator Tom Harkin was running and therefore the Democrats decided not to invest to muc...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we introduce you to the one person who needs no introduction, Bill Clinton, the then Governor of Arkansas. He would burst onto the national stage in 1991 and quickly emerge as the Democratic Frontrunner. He raised the most money, setup the strongest organization , and used his extraordinary people skills to win the public over.  In this episode we let you see those...

Send us Fan Mail Pat Buchanan, the tough talking, former speechwriter and aid to Richard Nixon, and former Communications Director for Ronald Reagan, steps up and challenges the President and leader of his own party in New Hampshire. His campaign will sound very familiar to you if you have followed the last three Republican Presidential Campaigns.  For much of the "America First" and &qu...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look at the daunting economic tasks George H. W. Bush has in front of him over the next year. The economy, Unemployment, Healthcare, and the ever present issues on the World Stage, are all piling up and Bush is busy putting his plans together to tackle them. We will see him in this episode start putting those plans out into the public.  At the sametime, he will...

Send us Fan Mail In our first episode of our fourteenth season, we open with arguably one of the high points of the George H. W. Bush years. When he opened the 1992 State of the Union address he could legitimately say"The State of our Union is strong", for in the past year, he had vanquished a dictator in the Middle East, and he had managed the collapse of the Communist World without it...

Send us Fan Mail In this brief bonus episode we take just a few minutes to remember the career of the great ABC News reporter Tom Jarrell who passed away in October 2024. Jarrell covered some of the biggest stories of the last half of the 20th century. He most notably was in Memphis covering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr when King was assassinated in 1968.  We have some of his remarkable career to pla...

Send us Fan Mail In 1992, as the Cold War had come to an end, George H. W. Bush was up for re-election. It should have been a cake walk. Bush had accomplished more in three years than many Presidents accomplish in 8 years. He had presided over the end of the Cold War, victory in the Gulf War, and in Panama, he had bailed out the Savings and Loans, passed the Americans with Disabilities Act, and pr...

Send us Fan Mail In our Season finale of the historic year that was 1991, we look at the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Soviet Union itself.  It began in a bloody revolution that saw the execution of not only Czar Nicholas the second but also his entire family including his young daughters. In the 69 years it officially existed and in the five years before that after the Russian Revolution,...

Send us Fan Mail In over a thousand years of Russian history only one man can lay claim as having been elected directly from the people. His name was Boris Yeltsin.  He is the man who pushed the Soviet Union over the cliff and then became the leader of the fledgling Russian Federation. He stood on a tank in defiance of a coup that was trying to seize control of the nation from the President of the...