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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 inequities in the system and slammed both parties over campaign finance reform. He is a fiery speaker and knew how to stir up a crowd. the speech however was remembered for what he did not do, which was mention Bill Clinton, at all.
2. Zell Miller, Governor of Georgia, delivers the 1992 Convention Keynote address, and he does it with all the fire of Southern stump meeting, attacking Bush on his economic record, and Ross Perot on his positioning as a political outsider. He feeds the crowd plenty of red meat. Later, he would turn his fire on his own party in 2004, and famously challenge Chris Matthews to a duel on national television.
3. Reverend Jesse Jackson, civil rights pioneer and political activist, he always speaks to the downtrodden, ran a powerful campaign for President in his own right in 1988, but finds himself in a much diminished role after he made comments that offended Jewish people and found himself at odds with the party nominee, Bill Clinton, over comments Clinton made about rap lyrics.
4. Ted Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts, he is the Liberal Lion of the Senate, former Presidential candidate in 1980 that helped rip apart the Democratic support of Jimmy Carter, and he had a long history of undermining both Presidents he disliked of both parties. He was still a formidable speaker and this speech lives up to the billing as he endorses Bill Clinton and attacks the record of the Reagan-Bush years.
This is a great show if you like great speakers even if you don't agree with much of anything they actually say. But, alas, I am a Republican so take that for what it is worth. Still, I love a great speaker and raw meat politics of both sides.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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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 Susan Zelensky and former aid Chris Matthews from various news outlets as they looked back, over the past few days, at his life.
We also invite you to look back at our 10th season of this broadcast when we produced a joint biography of former President Jimmy Carter and our former Congressman John Jenrette. Sadly, both men have now passed away, but they left a huge mark on our times and even in our local community.
Then we also look back at another figure who passed away this week former newsman Aaron Brown who hosted one of our favorite news hours nightly on CNN in the 2000s, he won an award for his coverage of the 9-11 attacks, coverage he provided to CNN even before he was contracted to start at the network. He was a dynamic, interesting, and great reporter and we send our condolences out to his family and his former colleagues at both CNN and ABC News.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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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.
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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 will take the stage for his first prime time address in 12 years at the convention. It would prove to be an interesting evening, the first of several in a convention that would feature some high drama.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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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 lot of legendary figures and in this episode we spend sometime looking back at their remarkable contributions to America and the World, in both politics and journalism.
We will also preview two of the coming seasons for 2025, though one of the previews comes from our friends at CNN, as they were reviewing the 1996 election in real time.
Finally, we want to get on your radar for not one, but two books, that our host Randal Wallace wrote in 2024, they will be hitting bookshelves (and Amazon) in the coming year. "The Leadership Lessons from the Cold War" should be out in the spring or early summer of 2025 and our novel, should be out in the fall. We are excited at the prospects for both in the new year.
But, most of all, we want to say a simple thank you to all of you for tuning in to our podcast for another year. We hope you are enjoying the episodes as much as we enjoy bringing them to you.
Thank you so much for tuning in,
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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 growing debt. He was constantly at odds with the George W Bush administration. We will look back at his many challenges to the Bush Administration, his role as a budget hawk, and his final campaign in the 5th Congressional District.
Finally, we will hear from the Congressman’s exit interview about his career in Congress just as he was leaving office.
Spratt died on December 14, 2024 at age 82. He lived a remarkable life.
Also, this episode is dedicated to the memory of KOLD tv 13 anchor woman Ana Orsini in Tuscan, Arizona. She died suddenly of a brain aneurysm at the age of 28. This was the same thing our host’s brother , Keith Wallace, died of 12 years ago at age 26. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and her coworkers at this time.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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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 Bill Clinton. It is a story that shakes the political class to its core as it heads into the Convention season
2. Boris Yeltsin comes to Washington D.C. and meets with President Bush and they begin negotiating an Arms reduction deal that would see the Nuclear arsenal of both countries not cut by a third but to a third of what they had at that moment just after the Cold War had ended. It was a major achievement for George Bush that is lost often in the retelling of the 1992 election. Plus this segment will also give you a feel for a State Dinner if you have never witnessed one.
3. Senator Al Gore of Tennessee is selected by Bill Clinton to be his Vice Presidential running mate. It would be a ticket made up of youth and it will signal a sea change in the generational leadership of the country. Both men are in their mid forties, Gore 44, and Clinton 45, and both men are from the South and that will help undercut President Bush in what had been his strongest geographical base of support in the country. It is a big moment in the 1992 campaign, just as we head into the conventions for the two major political parties in America.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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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 headed domestically and how he wanted to direct Federal Policy.
This was an interesting speech, and I am sharing it to give you a feel for President Bush's domestic policy agenda.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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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 exploded. There were riots , looting, and fires all over the downtown area, and after the death of a rioter in Koreatown, the tensions mounted as the riot moved over into the Korean section.
In this episode, we will relive the riots both in real time, and thanks to the L.A. TV Station KCAL, through the eyes of some of the people 25 years later in their series reliving the L.A. Riots. We will hear from Mayor Tom Bradley, Governor Pete Wilson and at the end of the episode we will hear President George H. W. Bush as he addresses the nation in an attempt to bring calm to the disorder he was facing, all of which is occurring just six months before the 1992 Presidential Election.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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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 thousands of dollars in legal fees for his wife's law firm in Little Rock. Clinton would return the fire going after Brown's constant reinventing of himself, and the fact that he had been known for his shaking down of California business interests for years.
They both went straight for the jugular and it left hard feelings that did not end after the primary was over. But Bill Clinton would win it, and Jerry Brown would lose not only to Bill Clinton but also to Paul Tsongas, who had suspended his campaign a couple of weeks earlier. That would seal the fate of Jerry Brown and finally give Bill Clinton his party's nomination for President.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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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.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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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.
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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 without poll testing it first. He ran for President warning everyone of the disaster the deficit and national debt could be. The people were listening and for a while he was in first place.
In this episode we look back at the man who , in a way, is who Donald Trump has followed in the foot steps of in his run for the Presidency three times, winning it twice. Perot may not have won but he laid the foundation for the politics we see dominating the political landscape we look out upon today.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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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 website or at our website RandalWallace.Com or at my personal email address [email protected]
We are at the end of our series on the Richard Nixon Experience, and will run the interview with former FBI Agent Angelo Lanao, starting tomorrow, followed by our tribute to Federal Judge Lawrence Silberman and then the Watergate symposium filmed just three weeks before Judge Silberman passed away and featuring Geoff Shepard whose research made this series possible.
That will wrap up our existing work on Richard Nixon, unless you decide we should comeback for a seventh season.
I am running this short episode on both of our podcasts.
Thanks Again for tuning in and listening to our podcasts,
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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 scandal threatens to take him out, we will look at the floundering campaign of Senator Bob Kerry who at the start appeared to be the most formidable of candidates and it just never materialized for him, we will also look at the incredible speech at the Dover, New Hampshire Elks Club that turned Bill Clinton's fortunes around , and then finally, we will tune in at a look back at the forgotten winner of the 1992 New Hampshire Primary Senator Paul Tsongas.
Then it's off to the nightly news broadcast from that evening and hear the analysis before the votes come in and after, as we relive one of the turning points in the most exciting campaigns in the history of the republic.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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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 much energy there either.
But we are going to start there in Iowa. Then move you over to New Hampshire where at this point in the campaign both front runners are hemorrhaging badly to their challengers. Bill Clinton gets bogged down in two personal scandals, one concerning infidelity and an Arkansas lounge singer named Gennifer Flowers, and the other one about his attempt to dodge the draft and steer clear of the Vietnam War. The result of both of these scandals is Clinton drops from a clear frontrunner to battling to stay alive with Tom Harkin and Bob Kerry on his heels. He will spend this week trying to stop the bleeding, and as we shall see on election night, he does.
Then President Bush is in a tug of war with television commentator Pat Buchanan. Buchanan wants to put "America First", to stop getting into trade deals, and stop providing foreign aid. His main theme is that the elite, personified by George Bush, don't care about you, and make decisions to the detriment of the working class. He wants to "Make America First Again", sound familiar. That message is resonating in a New Hampshire then in the throws of a tough recession.
In this episode, we will stop off in Iowa and then venture over to New Hampshire and the eve of the hard fought New Hampshire Primary and in both primary races they will serve up some surprises.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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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 skills in full bloom. We watch two different Clinton Foundation videos that tell the story of the start of his historic 1992 campaign, and we will sit down with him, and legendary reporter Hugh Sidey, as they discuss his life and career before the Presidency.
Then we head down to Little Rock, Arkansas, on October 3, 1991, to hear the Governor announce he is a candidate for President of the United States. It is a big moment , for this Governor from this small Southern State, who will in little over a year, find himself the First in his Class of Baby Boomers to make it to the White House.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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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 "Make America Great Again" platforms and campaign rhetoric began with the campaign in 1992 of Pat Buchanan. In this episode we will take you back to the beginning of his improbable campaign in 1992 when he nearly toppled a President before the President could get his campaign off the ground.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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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 face the 1992 Presidential Campaign and in this episode we will hear from the long list of Contenders all vying for his job. Senators Tom Harkin, Paul Tsongas, Bob Kerry, and Governors Jerry Brown, Doug Wilder, and the front runner, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, all step onto the national stage in an attempt to unseat President Bush. They will receive some help too.
From a Republican, who will challenge Bush from his right, in his own party, the way Senator McCarthy did President Lyndon Johnson, nearly a quarter of a century before. Pat Buchanan's candidacy would have much the same effect, turning the Republican race into a real race for the nomination and wounding the President for the upcoming fall campaign.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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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 leading to another World War.
As Robert Gates had said often, the collapse of a major World Empire rarely if ever happens in history without a major War. Bush and his Soviet counterpart, Mikhail Gorbachev, had managed to oversea the end of the Cold War without it leading to a hot one.
However, in the meantime, the United States economy had gone into recession and that would be the next big item on President Bush's already historic agenda. The question would become could he get it all turned around in time for the election that was on the horizon in 1992.Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/
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