George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History

Send us a Text Message.Thanksgiving arrives in Saudi Arabia, as President Bush travels there with Mrs Bush, Senate Leaders George Mitchell and Bob Dole, House Speaker Tom Foley, and several other congressional people. They will speak to the troops and spend the holiday with them. As they get closer to the start of the Gulf War. However this is not the only big news going on in the world. In the United Kingdom, a major political shift is about to take place as the Conservative...

Send us a Text Message.Here is one of the press conferences from the month of November. Here the President will talk of his desire for peace as he has the region prepared for War. It is at this point that the United states can say they are prepared for any actions the Iraqi's may take. As we tune in and listen in on this important moment in November of 1990. The Press Conference will be held with both President Bush and Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. A Little Bit de TodoA ...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we take you through the tension building period in late October and Early November of 1990. You will listen in to news reports from ABC News and the News from New Zealand as the Middle East moves closer to War. We will also listen to letters from George H. W. Bush to King Hussein, his staff and to common everyday people. In them Bush tries to reassure them all that he wants to resolve the situation peacefully if at all possible. But if we have...

Send us a Text Message.This episode is a rare chance to listen in on a speech at the United Nations. The video, and therefore, the audio quality is not the best but the speech is rare and very important to the storyline. In it the President makes his case to the world of just how important it is to stop the Iraqi aggression now, calling up the lessons of world War 2. Plus he discusses the new direction the World is taking and how we can now leave many of the old fights of the 20th Centur...

Send us a Text Message.In this follow up episode on the reunification of Germany we arrive at the White House for German - American Day about three weeks after the reunification had occurred. At this White House Event, the President will celebrate the contributions to America made by the millions of Germans who immigrated or were direct descendants of those who did. It was a moment of happiness for all who witnessed it. The event featured some small children singing, a speech by both the...

Send us a Text Message.Here is one of the great stories of the Bush Administration and of World History. After 4 decades of separation the people of Germany would be one country again. Though the Berlin Wall had come crashing down just 11 months before, this was the big moment for the German People, but it did not come without a lot of high level negotiations that involved horse trading, and skilled diplomacy. The other countries of Europe had not forgotten the Germany of two different ...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode, we look back at the coming together of the Military coalition on the ground and the man who would command it, General Norman Schwarzkopf. It would be a coalition made up of 42 countries, and troops from around the world. They would all come together on the ground in Saudi Arabia to prepare for the possible War to come. We will look at the command structure of the coalition and see just how complicated an endeavor this really was for Bush to put to...

Send us a Text Message.In this short episode we will listen in on PBS as Governor Bill Clinton comes to the hall at the Democratic National Convention in 1992 a night early. Clinton will say just a few words of thank you for the Democrats nominating him. The interesting part of the segment is that joining in the commentary from PBS is Senator Joe Lieberman, as he discusses his early history with Bill and Hillary Clinton. It is one of the first moments the country tunes in to hear about this c...

Send us a Text Message.Senator Joe Lieberman, a Democrat from Connecticut, died unexpectedly in April from complication from a fall. He was 82 years old and his loss from the scene will be incalculable. For Joe Lieberman was one of those rare public figures who was not just respected, but beloved, by both sides of the aisle. He was unafraid to take on controversial issues, and he could disagree without being disagreeable and, most importantly, he was committed to bipartisan leadership. He cou...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we will listen in on two addresses by President George H. W. Bush. One is to a joint session of the United States Congress as he reports back to the nation the situation in the Persian Gulf. He will also address the growing issues of division at home on the Federal Budget. We will listen in on the growing size of the military force then building up in the Persian Gulf region as the World prepares itself for war. It is from this backdrop that a...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we watch as the Cold War comes quietly to an end. The United States and the Soviet Union actually work together to handle a crisis that involves a client Soviet state, Iraq. We will tune in as the situation in the Gulf continues to move close to war. Then we will travel to Helsinki for the meeting of the two leaders of the World's superpowers. You will be able to listen in on their press conference as the two men answer questions about t...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we hear from Saddam Hussein himself in an exclusive interview by ABC News and Diane Sawyer. In it he denies he has ever murdered his opponents, claims he is not an admirer of Josef Stalin, and tries to justify his actions in Kuwait. Then we listen in as he rounds up the British citizens who had been working in Kuwait and keeps them in a hotel there under the guise of protecting them. He even goes for a visit and at one point pats a small child on th...

Send us a Text Message.As we approach the eve of the August 10, 1990, Arab League Summit; I thought this a good time for us to go back, with the help of the PBS Documentary series "Frontline", to the summer of circumstances that led to the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. So, we will relive the summer months prior to the invasion as we listen to the "Frontline: The Gulf War" Documentary sum up the issues between Iraq and Kuwait that escalated into the invasion. How Saddam Hussein mislead Hos...

Send us a Text Message.After we put together our tribute episode in memory of Former Canadian Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney, that had included a short tribute honoring my Step Father, Larry Bulmer, I thought about the World Heritage site I had visited and Larry talked about in the short segment I used in the show. I figured most people probably know nothing about the Buffalo Jump nor the World Heritage site in Alberta , known as Head Smashed-In Buffalo Jump History Center. I figured he...

Send us a Text Message.Brian Mulroney was a great friend to American Presidents, and one of the big four leaders who helped bring down Communism in the 1980s. He helped George Bush in the Gulf War and was the leader who pushed for the freeing of Nelson Mandela in South Africa. He was a man who played an outsized role in his times as the leader of our great northern neighbor. Brian Mulroney died on February 29, 2024. In his Obituary The New York Times wrote of him: " Mr. Mulroney was...

Send us a Text Message.One of the United States' closest allies is the nation of Canada and during this period it had one of its greatest statesman at the helm of Government, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. He stood with Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul 2 as they worked to end the scourge of Communism in the late 1980s and continued on to aid President Bush as Communism fell. He formed great friendships with all of these leaders. In this episode we hear about some...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we sit in on the President's press Conference on August 9, 1990. At this point he has been busy assembling the World LEaders that he will need to begin the process of forcing Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. This press conference is an interesting look at how the President deals with the press and it shows President Bush at his best. A Little Bit de TodoA Little Bit de Todo is a podcast about a little bit of everything, for curious minds...Listen o...

Send us a Text Message.It is the day after the invasion of Kuwait by the Iraqi Army under the orders of it's dictator Saddam Hussein. We will listen in to the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw as they recount the events of the 24 hours after the initial invasion for the public. We will hear from the Kuwaiti citizens as they recount the events as they unfolded. In chilling detail, they tell the tale of living in a peaceful tranquil Kuwait, in the period of time that many were just coming off th...

Send us a Text Message.In this Special Edition of our show we are adding a third installment to the special series we ran in January looking back at the life and career of Senator Mitch McConnell, the longest serving Republican Leader in the history of the Senate. In our special series in January we profiled the leader and his historic role over the past 40 years in the Senate. We even labeled him as the Senator of the Century. It would be hard to find an argument against the statement. He to...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode, we will examine one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation passed since the 1960s. It was the Americans with Disabilities Act, and it insured for all Americans the basic right to equal access to all of American Life. It is hard to believe that there was actually a day when people with disabilities were forced to stay home, hidden from the rest of society. They were often discriminated against in employment opportunities, in restaurants...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we close out our podcast coverage of the 2024 South Carolina Presidential Primary. We will listen in to the concession speech of former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and the victory address from former President Donald Trump. We will also hear remarks from South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, and our two Senators Tim Scott, and Lindsey Graham. It is that always fun moment when we get to hear from the candidates themselves for that brief mom...

Send us a Text Message.Feedspot released yesterday, February 26, 2024, our ranking at number 1 of the 70 Best American History Podcasts of 2024. https://podcasts.feedspot.com/american_history_podcasts/ Here is the ListWe are enormously proud to have been listed in that position and we thought we would have a little fun on our victory lap in this episode, but most importantly, we are enormously grateful to all of you who have tuned in for the past nearly four years and 12 Seas...

Send us a Text Message.In our final show to air before the South Carolina Presidential Primary election, our Host Randal Wallace , will discuss what he believes is the root cause of much of the division our country faces today. It is the criminalization of politics and the weaponization of Justice in America. It is the legacy of the worst and least qualified Attorney General to ever hold the position, Robert F. Kennedy, and it has morphed into a tragic way of administering Justice in this cou...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode , we will let you listen in on the Colorado Ballot Access case against President Donald Trump. This case rests on accusing Former President Donald Trump of being an insurrectionist, a charge of which has not been made in ANY of the 91 indictments so far being charged in the court cases in New York, Georgia, or in Federal Court in Miami, Florida.We thought in this final week before the February 24, 2024 South Carolina Primary our listeners may want to hea...

Send us a Text Message."Read My Lips , No New Taxes!!" , the most famous words George H. W. Bush ever uttered. He said it at the 1988 Republican National Convention as he struggled to unite his party for the coming race for President against a surging Michael Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts. Dukakis was a whopping 20 points ahead of George Bush the sitting Vice President. While Ronald Reagan had grown to have a good relationship with his Vice President, those around Reagan and the co...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode , we will let you listen in on the Colorado Ballot Access case against President Donald Trump. This case rests on accusing Former President Donald Trump of being an insurrectionist, a charge of which has not been made in ANY of the 91 indictments so far being charged in the court cases in New York, Georgia, or in Federal Court in Miami, Florida. We thought in this final week before the February 24, 2024 South Carolina Primary our listeners may want to he...

Send us a Text Message.Join us in this episode for the Donald Trump for President Rally. As the old saying goes poor planning on my part does not constitute an emergency on their part. I did not get there in time to get in because 20,000 plus may have been in attendance. You will get to hear our host as he tries to get in before giving up and heading home only to be stuck in traffic on Hwy 501 all while President Donald Trump takes the stage to electrify the crowd. Theme song is Produce...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we see the South Carolina Primary starting to heat up, which is what this primary is historically well known for doing. We will feature two Donald Trump for President events , one in Columbia centered on Nikki Haley's record on illegal immigration as compared to that of President Donald Trump , and another in Horry County at the Conway Courthouse that centers on Governor Haley's friendly relationship with China. It is an all star cast of speakers f...

Send us a Text Message.It is the season 12 premier episode and with such a long gap since our last Bush episode we thought we would start by looking at the life of George Bush , from his love of Golf and his family connection to the game, to his military time in World War 2, and his time as Vice President, up to the moment in our timeline when Bush enters his second year in the Presidency. It is in 1990, when President Bush meets with Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev to sign the Arms Red...

Send us a Text Message.Though many in the political world think this race is all but over, it still is not over. I can tell you from my many years of working in South Carolina politics that Former Governor Nikki Haley is no paper tiger and underestimating her is something you will do at your own political peril, just ask any number of leading political figures who did that in the 2000s, when she rose out of political nowhere, to end up the Governor of South Carolina. I remember "Nikki Who?" S...

Send us a Text Message.Charles Osgood Wood III , was the given name of a television icon, we all knew simply as Charles Osgood. He was the host of the CBS News "Sunday Morning" broadcast for 22 years but long before that he was the voice for the Osgood File on CBS Radio. It was that voice that made him instantly recognizable to almost everyone in America. He stood out in the media landscape for his understatement and his genuine kind nature. He was a poet, a musician, and an extraordina...

Send us a Text Message.Welcome to the 2024 South Carolina Hall of Fame Induction ceremony in Myrtle Beach , South Carolina. In this episode , we have included some of the news coverage of the induction ceremony both before the event with an interview with SC Hall of Fame Chairman Randal Wallace (also the host of this podcast) and the coverage after the ceremony occured from the evening newscast on WBTW - TV 13, which is the local CBS affiliate. The episode includes the entire 2024...

Send us a Text Message.This is a housekeeping show to let everyone know when the George Bush series will be returning to the podcast. It will also fill you in on what we have been doing and what else we have in store over the next few weeks. We hope you are enjoying the various new things and subjects we have been trying to cover. Please let us know what you think. Randal Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randal...

Send us a Text Message.In one of the true honors of our host Randal Wallace's career has been his appointment as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the South Carolina Hall of Fame. 2024 marks the first time Mr. Wallace would preside over the induction ceremony of honorees inducted into the South Carolina Hall of Fame. He decided that we would make a podcast covering the event. In this two part episode we look on at the 2024 Induction Ceremony honoring Francis Salvador, Rudy...

Send us a Text Message.In our final episode in this special series we will listen in as Mayor Hirsch talks about his wife of many years, Ethel Hirsch. Her many contributions to his successful life, and career, and the raising of 10 children. The real keys to happy life are right here to be learned in this special story. We will also listen , in its entirety, to the speech that inspired this special series in the first place. When Mayor Bob Hirsch addressed the ceremony at the Grand...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode, in our special series, looking at the career of former Mayor Robert Hirsch, we look back at his arrival in Myrtle Beach and his single term as Mayor. It was a term of extraordinary accomplishment, much of which may not be as well known by the public in general today. Myrtle Beach today is the fastest growing region in America, a far cry from where it was in the early 1970s.When Mayor Hirsch was elected in 1973 , the City of Myrtle Beach was operat...

Send us a Text Message.In our third episode of the Grand Strand Politics segment, we witness what we thought was going to be the first of many rallies in the Myrtle Beach area as we got closer to a barnburner of a fight in the South Carolina Presidential Preference Primary on the Republican side this year. Instead, it appears the race was over within 48 hours of that rally. In this episode we shall see the power play that shutdown the primary election cycle turning it from a contested b...

Send us a Text Message.In this special Edition within our special series I thought it was important to introduce you to three of the names you have heard or will hear in our series. As a person in my 50s who has worked in or around politics my entire life these names are familiar to me. That may not be the case for so many of our listeners who are either younger or not from South Carolina. Strom Thurmond, the former Senator from South Carolina, was as dominate a political fig...

Send us a Text Message.As the War came to its end it brought about the confirmation that up to that point had been known but not confirmed. That the horrific genocide of a people had gone on throughout Europe. The Deathcamps that were discovered , one by one , by the Allied troops as they moved closer to Germany, from all directions, had practiced such organized, horrific, cruelty, that even these most hardened of war veterans could barely talk about it over 80 years later. Which we will hear...

Send us a Text Message.Operation Market Garden was an enormous effort led by General Montgomery that included 41,268 troops from Allied countries. It was designed to capture several bridges so that the Army could cross over into Germany and , with any luck, end the war by Christmas of 1944. The overall effort failed because the German forces fought hard to defend the bridges and they had help from the weather. This operation was where Bob Hirsch was extremely active throughou...

Send us a Text Message.Operation Overlord, known to the world as D-Day, was the beginning of the end for the Nazi Regime of Adolf Hitler. It was the start of the Allied march across the European Continent. Bob Hirsch had not yet arrived in England in time to take part in the invasion. However, a decade ago he sat down with Rod Gragg of Coastal Carolina University and participated in several interviews about his experiences as a pilot that carried paratroopers over enemy line...

Send us a Text Message.Welcome to a very special edition of shows over the next couple of weeks. Over the next seven episodes we will be looking back at the extraordinary life of the former Mayor of my hometown, of Myrtle Beach S.C. His name was Robert J. "Bob" Hirsch and he recently celebrated his 100th birthday. In another milestone, for our community, City Councilman Phil Render, himself the son of a World War 2 Veteran, achieved the passage of a Myrtle Beach World War 2 Memori...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we have a brief introduction by our Host Randal Wallace on Mayor Robert J. Hirsch and the circumstances that led to this special series on his life and career. Bob Hirsch was the Mayor of Myrtle Beach S.C. from 1973 to 1977, and then later served as a Myrtle Beach City Councilman from 1990 to 1994. He would also serve as a member of South Carolina Governor James Edward's staff running the Energy programs for the State and he has been a drivin...

Send us a Text Message.In this new introduction to our podcast documentary series “Nixon and Watergate” we take you through the many exculpatory examples of events that are exposed over the next three seasons that the public was unaware of a half century ago. All of which points to one extraordinary fact, that Richard Nixon did not deserve to be forced out of the office he had earned. That there truly was a sinister force at work to remove one of the greatest political figures of the cen...

Send us a Text Message.On January 9, 2024, the City of Myrtle Beach held a swearing in ceremony in Council Chambers to welcome two new members of the Myrtle Beach City Council, Debbie Conner, and Bill McClure, and say farewell to two members John Krajc and Phil Render. This was the end of the election cycle our podcast chronicled in October-November of last year. An election cycle that found our host in the race as a candidate. He did not win. In this episode we also saw Councilman Micha...

Send us a Text Message.In this second episode looking back at the career of Senator Mitch McConnell we will listen in to two of his most important Senate Addresses. The speech he gave prior to the vote that rejected Robert Bork as a Supreme Court nominee and the speech he gave that helped save the current Filibuster rules when the Democrats attempted to change them. One at the very start of his Senate career and one here in recent times. We will also listen to biographical story aired on...

Send us a Text Message.Welcome to this first Grand Strand Politics Segment episode. In this episode, we try and set the stage for the coming South Carolina Presidential Preference Primaries coming to our State. We do so by covering several different political events from both parties that have occured over the past month in order to set the stage for February 2024. First, was the Republican "First in the South" Action conference held at the Myrtle Beach Hilton Hotel. It featured a numbe...

Send us a Text Message.In this two part Special Edition Series, we are going to look back at arguably the most effective public servant in Washington D.C. today. He is the senior Senator from the State of Kentucky, the current Republican Leader, and the man who rested away the Federal Court System from Democratic total control, making it a far less effective way for the Democratic Party to use it as a weapon to block conservative policy. His name is Mitch McConnell, and a good case can ...

Send us a Text Message.This week, as we start our 12th Season of podcasting, we will feature a special two part look at the longest serving Senate Republican Leader in history, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. He can rightfully be given credit for the conservative control of the United States Supreme Court we now see and our series will look back at his heroic efforts dating back to the shameful actions of the Democrats in the Senate who worked to destroy Supreme Co...

Send us a Text Message.Coming in 2024, the second part in our three part series looking back on the Presidency of George H. W. Bush. In this series "The Sweep of History" we will look back at some of the most historic moments of the 20th century, as Communism breathes its last and one of the two Super Powers, the Soviet Union, comes crashing down. Though it all happened without a war and without the United States having to fire a shot. In this series we will also look back at the Gu...

Send us a Text Message.HAPPY NEW YEAR !!! THANK YOU FOR TUNING IN THIS PAST YEAR OF 2023 TOO!!In this episode, we look back at several people we have featured through the years who passed away during 2023. They included Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Congressman John Jenrette, Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, and Senator Dianne Feinstein of California. Sadly, Congressman Jenrette passed away just as we were completing ...

Send us a Text Message.Dear Friends, Thank you for tuning in to our podcast during 2023. It was a year that saw us delve into our most personal of podcasts to date, as we looked back at our friend former Congressman, John Jenrette, and his role on the national stage during the middle - late 1970s. We also examined the Presidencies of the two Presidents that came to office after the overthrow of Richard Nixon, as they were forced to try and keep the country stable in the most tumultuous o...

Send us a Text Message.In this special edition, we look back at the remarkable life of the longest serving female Senator in American History, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California. A Democrat that I almost never agreed with on anything except forestry management and protecting endangered fish. She was a champion of gun control, was an entrenched fighter of the pro-abortion agenda and spent her career working on environmental and liberal social agenda items.So what in the world c...

Send us a Text Message.In the season finale of our 11th Season, we have the equivalent of the "Who Shot J.R.?" episode of DALLAS mixed with all the excitement of the end of a Roger Moore "James Bond" movie. In the second part of our look at "A Bloody Christmas" we look back at the suddenly swift, and deadly fall of Romanian Dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu. He had been the absolute ruler of the nation of Romania for nearly 25 years. In that time, he had been the Communist Ruler with at l...

Send us a Text Message.This is the start of our two part Season 11 conclusion, A BLOODY CHRISTMAS. Two major events occured at the sametime over the Christmas holidays in 1989, the invasion of Panama, and the Romanian Revolution. Both were bloody affairs and both were plotlines no novelist would have ever made up. In this episode we look back at the invasion of Panama and its dictator Manuel Noriega, described by one Cabinet Official as "The Mouse that Roared" . He actually declared war ...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we look back at the moment it was clear the Cold War was essentially over. The story actually begins in 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev is elevated to power after a succession of elderly, Communist leaders, all of whom went back to the early days of the Soviet Union. Leonid Brezhnev had been a hard line, old school, Communist leader, that had been in power throughout the Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and early Reagan Years. He had presided over ...

Send us a Text Message.The Fall of the Berlin Wall was the most significant moment recorded in an era when it became obvious that the winds of freedom were about to sweep through Eastern Europe and around the World. It came without warning at the end of a rather boring press conference when the Communications Director for East Germany read a final statement ending the press conference that if East German residents wanted to leave they could and if they wanted come back they would be all...

Send us a Text Message.Deng Xiaoping was the People's Republic of China's Paramount Leader for over a decade. A decade, in which the nation rose from a backwards, isolated, command economy, Communist Nation, to the front doorsteps of becoming an unquestioned World Power. It is hard to find an argument against Deng Xiaoping's status as one of the most important figures in the history of the 20th century.While all of that is true it is also true that most Americans proba...

Send us a Text Message.President George Bush had been the first envoy to China during the Ford Administration. A job he had loved. He was a friend to the People's Republic of China, and he actually picked the nation to be the first place he went on an official trip as President. Which put him, and his administration, in an awful spot when Deng Xiaoping ordered the military to crush a student demonstration that had gone on for several weeks in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. It ...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we take a look back at one of the biggest environmental disasters of all time. The Exxon Valdez oil tanker hit the Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989 and dumped 10.8 million gallons of oil into the water. Prince William Sound was so remote that it could only be gotten too by boat or air, and that made getting to it in order to clean the spill up nearly impossible for Exxon and the Government. The result was that the oil dri...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we look as President George H. W. Bush looks head on into one of the most expensive financial disasters the nation had seen up to that point. The Savings and Loan industry had long since operated without the same constraints as normal banking operated under and it led to a meltdown for investors and those who had deposited money in them in 1989 just after President Bush tool office. He could have let it collapse and done nothing, which actuall...

Send us a Text Message.This episode takes a look at the team President George H. W. Bush put together in order to run his Administration. They were an impressive group that helped guide the country through the many historical events that this administration faced during its four years in office. From the Savings and Loan debacle, to the Exxon Valdez disaster, to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Panamanian invasion, the fall of the Romanian Government, the Gulf War and the collapse ...

Send us a Text Message.This episode opens on the joyous occasion of President Bush's Inaugural event and his walking down Pennsylvania Avenue. You will hear from George W. Bush, then a Texas Oilman who had little to do with politics other than working for his Father, and NBC News personality Willard Scott from the parade route. It was the happy culmination of years of hard work and following a winding road that had finally led George Bush to the White House on his own Then we will ...

Send us a Text Message.Henry Kissinger, a giant of American History, and arguably the nations greatest diplomat died on November 29, 2023 at the age of 100. In this episode we look back at his extraordinary 100 years as he worked with Richard Nixon to bring peace to millions of people around the world and keep our nation safe here at home. His passing comes at an unusual moment as our rebroadcast of the Nixon Podcast Documentary is, in December, coming to the secti...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we hear from George H. W. Bush as he addresses the nation in his Inaugural Address in 1989. It would begin a single term in office that would see the face of the entire world change dramatically from its start to its finish. The final triumph for a generation of American Leaders who rightfully could be called the Greatest Generation. We will also see one of America's Greatest leaders leave center stage as Ronald Reagan flies away to Calif...

Send us a Text Message.In this final episode in our 8 episode look at the 2023 Myrtle Beach City Council Race we bring you to the end of the run off election and the fate of the final seat available on the Myrtle Beach City Council. In the final race Bill McClure was elected and we have all the coverage here for you plus a little house keeping about some of the coming episodes and special editions on tap for December and into 2024. Thanks for tuning in and if you want to learn...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we do a deep dive on one of the most famous speeches ever given by an American President. It was when Ronald Reagan went to the Berlin Wall, just as Mickael Gorbachev had loosened up restrictions on the Soviet and Communist world, and demanded that Gorbachev prove he was serious about change and tear down the wall that divided the people of East and West Germany. We found a lecture from the Ashbrook Center with Reagan Speech writer Peter Robinson wh...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we tune in to the race between Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and Vice President George H. W. Bush. as they debate each other in a debate that saw Dukakis answer one of the hardest hitting questions ever asked in my memory of any candidate. His answer came off like a robot and with that the slide began that would lead to Bush's victory. We will join an August, 24, 1988 campaign rally in California that will feature George Bush's other ace in...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we get an overview of the 1988 Presidential election field of candidates. On the republican side the race has 8 candidates but it really is a battle between two: George H. W. Bush and Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole. There is also a new rising force that would play a major role in the campaign primaries and continue to do so to this day. It is the role of Evangelical Christians. their leader , televangelist Pat Robertson, would tu...

Send us a Text Message.On November 9, 2023, The City of Myrtle Beach opened its new World War 2 Memorial on the grounds of Warbird Park, just past the front entrance going into the Market Commons area of Myrtle Beach. This was, for nearly a half century, the front gate of the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base until it closed in 1993. In the years since the city of Myrtle Beach has tried to preserve its history as a military town. This Memorial was the brain child of Myrtle Beach City Co...

Send us a Text Message.In our final full episode on the 2023 Myrtle Beach City Council Election special series we take you along on election day with a candidate in the race (who is also the host of our show) In it you will hear him talking to people, checking the poll numbers, (which as a candidate he is allowed to do) and talking with people as he goes from precinct to precinct on Election Day. We also take a look at the changing dynamics of our city, Myrtle Beach, as this election mov...

Send us a Text Message.Dear Friends, As you may know I am a candidate tomorrow for the Myrtle Beach City Council. I am asking for and hoping you will vote for me in that election if you live in Myrtle Beach. I have recorded this special message for you and with it my hope to return to the city council and continue to work on your behalf to insure our city remains the great, family, working class beach it has been for over 80 years. We are a wonderful place that is why we are now the...

Send us a Text Message.This episode is the recording of the only event in which all 8 candidates appeared together. It was held at the Portside at the Grand dunes meeting room and it features five minutes for each candidate to talk about their positions and issues and it features a question and answer portion with all the candidates. It is a very informative event and I hope you enjoy this look at all the candidates. Thank you to the Grand Dunes HOA for putting on this event and pr...

Send us a Text Message.This episode allows you to listen in on the only debate of the campaign with the candidates answering questions and interacting on stage. There were some fireworks between a couple of candidates. One candidate , Stuart Behar, was not able to attend due to a medical procedure but he would attend the event in our next episode. The participants in the debate, hosted by the NAACP and Micky James, were : Kenya Hennigan, Mike Chestnut, Debbie Conner, John Krajc, Bill McC...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we listen as Randal Wallace discusses some of the plans that were cut short in 2017 when he was not re-elected. How he had hoped they would be continued but were not after he departed and how he thinks they are still things that could help with issues the city continues to wrestle with here in 2023.Then we can listen in on the speech he gave to the Horry County Republican Women’s Club at Magnolia’s Restaurant in Myrtle Beach. It is an address that lays o...

Send us a Text Message.Our first episode of the podcast on the Myrtle Beach City Council campaign of 2023 features our Host Randal Wallace's speech to the Forrest Dunes Home Owners Association and that is followed by his appearance on " Morning Coffee with Reese Boyd" a local Radio show that airs each Saturday Morning. The Radio show is also available as a podcast on Apple I-tunes. You can learn more about the Randal Wallace for Myrtle Beach City Council Campaign at www.RandalforCouncil....

Send us a Text Message.Welcome to our special podcast series all week looking back at the the past two months of events leading up to the Myrtle Beach City Council Election. In this episode we will briefly introduce you to the eight city council candidates that have stepped up to the plate to make a difference here in our little corner of the World. They are :Kenya HenniganStuart BeharMike Chestnut (Incumbent)Debbie Conner John Krajc (Incumbent)Bill McClureMyra Starnesand our h...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we look back at the relationship between President Richard Nixon and California Governor and future President Ronald Reagan. As you will see it is obvious that Richard Nixon is actually working to open the doors of opportunity to his fellow Californian as he brings jobs to the state and arrainges for Reagan to spend time with dignitaries from around the world too, Reagan in turn offers up his own ideas and suggestions on how to handle some of ...

Send us a Text Message.In this final look back at the phone calls of Richard Nixon with Alexander Haig it is December of 1972 and January of 1973. The end of the War for America in Vietnam seems at hand. We will hear the two men work on these final problems and issues concerning getting an agreement to end the war. We will also hear them as they learn of the death of President Nixon's predecessor Lyndon Johnson and the ultimate irony that he would die literally on the eve of peace and no...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode, we see President Nixon moving in on what he believes will be peace in Vietnam. However, it is not without issues and games being played by not only our enemies in Hanoi, or their allies in Peking and Moscow, but also by our own friends in Saigon too. This is a fascinating look at the end of the War in Vietnam that so divided the nation and we listen in on the thoughts of the men who brought that war to an end, Richard Nixon and one of his assistant...

Send us a Text Message.In this second episode on General alexander Haig , we will listen in on the phone calls between the President and the Assistant National Security Advisor Al Haig. These are the calls from 1971 and they cover several different subjects from the theft of the Pentagon Papers, to issues in Africa, to the Indian - Pakistan War. Plus the war in Vietnam. We have used some of these calls in our earlier series on Vietnam and some are shared here for the first time. Wh...

Send us a Text Message.This is the first episode in a four episode special series looking back at the life of General Alexander Haig. Haig served several Presidents, working most closely with Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan. He has been a major player throughout the time periods we have been covering throughout the entire storyline of our podcast. He has been such a large player throughout the run of our series and we thought here at what will be his last major appearance in our...

Send us a Text Message.We open this episode looking back at the hostage release just after President Ronald Reagan was sworn into office in January of 1981. It was a moment of deep relief for the entire country and former President Jimmy Carter deserves much credit for the the tireless way he worked to insure it would happen just as he was leaving office. President Reagan made it a point to allow Carter to fly to Germany to greet the hostages. Then we move on to March 30, 1981, a date wh...

Send us a Text Message.In this special edition we relive the Inauguration of Ronald Reagan as the 40th President of the United States. It was a moment in which the country was looking for new leadership and moving away from its near four and half decade run with liberalism. The coverage of the day was glowing and as we covered in Season ten it looked very apparent that our hostage crisis in Iran was coming to a close. It was with this backdrop that Ronald Reagan would address the n...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we look back at the end of two campaigns in 1980, the Democratic race between Senator Ted Kennedy and President Jimmy Carter and then the end of the general election between Carter and former California Governor Ronald Reagan. It was one of the most exciting races in modern American history and it was, almost until the end, much closer than history has portrayed it. The Democratic race was a bitter fight and that bitterness would linger for de...

Send us a Text Message.The third day of the Republican National Convention of 1980 was arguably the most exciting political day I can ever remember in my over 40 years of involvement in political life. It was also arguably the most historic. As a nine year old child, I was absolutely glued to the broadcast of the convention as it all unfolded on national television. Ronald Reagan and former President Gerald Ford were locked in intense negotiation behind the scenes as to how to get a Rea...

Send us a Text Message.George Bush was an asterisk in the polls. He was up against several of the top brass of the Republican Party in America when he announced his run for President in 1980. He was facing Howard Stassen, Representative Phil Crane, Senator Bob Dole, Senator Howard Baker, Governor John Connally, Representative John Anderson and former California Governor Ronald Reagan. There was literally no one who thought he had any chance in that crowd at all. On the other side of the ...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we look back at the early career of George H. W. Bush, as we review his father's term in the United States Senate, his own race for the U.S. Senate against Senator Ralph Yarborough, his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, and his defeat at the hands of Lloyd Bentsen in 1968. All this from a comprehensive report by NBC News with Brian Williams that gives a great overview of the former President's career. We will then follow NBC News' Brian Wil...

Send us a Text Message.In this special edition in our series on President George H. W. Bush, we look at a special moment for the First Lady , Barbara Bush. In 1990 , Barbara Bush was invited to address Wellesley College as its graduation speaker. It was met with resistance in an era of Women's Liberation at the all Women's University. The graduates felt that they wanted a career woman not a traditional house wife and motherly type as the speaker. Over 25% of the entire class signed the p...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we look at the role of the First Lady, Barbara Bush, in the life of the 41st President. (and the 43rd too) Barbara Bush was known in her family as the enforcer. She was much more willing to call a spade a spade than her husband was to do so. Her grandchildren and her children talk in several of these reports about how she was the one in the family that enforced the rules, and did not allow any of them to let their heads get to big. I actually ...

Send us a Text Message.Welcome to season 11 of our podcast, the first of three seasons that will examine the life, career, and single term of President George H. W. Bush. His life and political career are full of life lessons and leadership lessons we could all take to heart to help build better everyday lives and help the nation develop the type of leadership in our elected class that we could all be proud to have in charge of our Government. In my opinion, George H.W. Bush was the bes...

Send us a Text Message.In this second episode on the sinking of the USS Indianapolis we find the sailors in the water with a nemesis arguably even more dangerous than the Japanese. It is the predators that roam the oceans known as Sharks. With in minutes of the sinking of the ship the survivors began to see the the fins circling them as they tried to figure out how to survive. You will hear the men talk about how they were covered in diesel fuel and oil, hungry and thirsty, but kno...

Send us a Text Message.In this first episode in a two part special edition, we look back at one of the most horrifying stories of all of World War 2, the sinking of the USS Indianapolis. This was the story made famous by a scene in the movie "JAWS" when the fictional Captain Quint relives his time in the water with Chief Brody and Matt Hooper. It is used to explain the character's almost maniacal hunting of sharks. That is totally understandable when you learn the real story from ...

Send us a Text Message.In this preview we look at the life of our 41st President , George H.W. Bush and the leadership he brought to ending the Cold War. It was an extraordinary career and he was largely seen as one of the most qualified of all of our chief executives. Here we look back on all the great examples he set in the leadership lessons of his time in office. This will be the first of three seasons that look at his single term in in office as he deals with the most far rang...

Send us a Text Message.In this special edition of our podcast , we pay tribute to one of the true giants of the post World War 2 era, former Vice President and Former United States Senator , Hubert Horatio Humphrey. He was the happy warrior and in some ways the fundamental decency of this man is probably what kept him away from the Presidency in an era of politics notorious for being shark infested waters,For it was Hubert Humphrey that watched his Presidential dreams get dashed in 1960...

Send us a Text Message.In this final episode of season 10, we look at the amazing contributions of our former First Lady, Rosalynn Carter. From Mental Health reform, to caregiving, to butterflies, to helping the Carter Center eradicate Guinee Worm in Africa, Rosalynn Carter has often been every bit the leader as her Presidential husband. We will take sometime to look back at all of those efforts and even see how you can help that work continue into the future.Plus we will listen in as P...

Send us a Text Message.Thank you, Thank you!! From all of us at the Randal Wallace Presents Podcast where we hit 25,000 Downloads during our tenth season looking back at Congressman John Jenrette and former President Jimmy Carter. We appreciate it more than we can say. We are also planning on mixing some new features to our show during season eleven. We are planning some special interviews, covering three elections over the next six months, The Myrtle Beach City Council Election, a...

Send us a Text Message.Another special edition looking at one of the most interesting industries in the Florida Keys, treasure hunting. It is an industry with historic ties to the original big business' in the Florida Keys, that of wrecking. Which was basically salvaging of ships that sank in the reef that runs in front of the various Keys. We will look back at its historic origins. Then we will look at the modern day Treasure Hunters who make their homes along the Florida Keya wit...

Send us a Text Message.Welcome to our first ever Travelogue edition of our podcast. We recently headed off to the Florida Keys for a much needed vacation. I have friends, Jennifer and Jimmy Hornsby, who live in Royal Palm Beach, Florida, and I stayed with them on the first day and the final day of my trip and it was they who suggested that the videos from the trip would make a good podcast. I thought that was a great idea and WALLA!! A new feature for our show was born!! In this ep...