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On June 11, 2025, our podcast will embark on the final story in the original thesis we intended to tell when we started this podcast nearly five years ago. On June 11, 1996, exactly 29 years ago, we saw Bob Dole resign his Senate seat, giving one of the most important speeches we ever heard, to pursue full time his bid for the White House. He would be the last of "The Greatest Generation" to do so.
In 1992, in the midst of a recession, the Republican Party would be swept out of power losing not only the White House, but the House and Senate as well. On the Federal level of Government, one man stood alone, as the leader of his party. That man was also the last of the World War 2 generation to be left on the national stage. He was Senate Minority leader Robert J. Dole of Kansas.
Over the next three seasons we will tell his story and the story of the rise of the modern Republican Party. It will be the final story of National leadership for the generation of people who built the American Century.
For all the attention a new generation of Republican leaders would garner, it was in fact, Bob Dole, so often in the shadow of the giants of his age, from Nixon to Reagan to Bush, and who would largely be forgotten in the coming era of Gingrich , Clinton, the second Bush, McCain, and now Donald Trump, who actually led the Republican Party out of the political wilderness and back to power in both houses of Congress, and he was able to do it even as his own efforts to win the Presidency fell short.
It was a remarkable final chapter for this greatest of generations and the opening chapter in the career of our host Randal Wallace. This series will be that story too, a story straight from the heart of our host over these next three seasons. As he was an eyewitness, to the last campaign of the very man who would become that last living symbol of the bygone era led by the Greatest Generation.
Join us for :
Season 15 - Bob Dole 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing
Season 16 - Bob Dole The Life that Brought Him There &
- The 1995 Resurrection of Bill Clinton
Season 17 - Bob Dole 1996 The Campaign of a Lifetime.
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Keith C. Hinson was the Founder of Waccamaw Land and Timber Company where our Host Randal Wallace has sold Real Estate for the past 22 years. He is a giant figure in the history of Horry County S.C. where this podcast is produced.
No matter where you turn in or around the Myrtle Beach area you will see the mark he has left for the better in our region and its development. His passing last week is an enormous loss for the State of South Carolina, this region of the state, and for his family and friends.
We here at this podcast extend our heartfelt condolences to his friends and family during these days of mourning his passing.
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In this final episode of our 14th Season, we watch one era begin and another end.
We will tune into the beginning of the Inaugural Ceremony, hearing the great Senator Wendell Ford greet the crowd and introduce the players, which will include, the Reverend Billy Graham who will give the invocation.
Then we will listen in as Governor William Jefferson Clinton of Arkansas, the first Baby Boomer President, takes the oath of office and assumes the title 42nd President of the United States. Then we will hear him deliver his Inaugural Address before we fade out and over to the final ceremonies of the tenure of the now former President George H. W. Bush.
We will follow him out to the West side of the Capitol as he is escorted by President and Mrs. Clinton out to the Helicopter which will fly him out to Andrews Air Force Base.
We will hear some final assessments from ABC News reporter Britt Hume, followed by ABC News Anchormen Peter Jennings and David Brinkley, some final thoughts from our host Randal Wallace, and then the brief departure events at Andrews Air Force Base as President Bush and Mrs. Bush fly off for Houston , Texas and their long retirement.
Then we will hear some final thoughts from the President himself as we say farewell to him and his generation of Americans at the end of the era. An era that built the American Century and created the enormously powerful and prosperous country we live in today.
But what we didn't know then, that we do know now, is that the Greatest Generation would have one more story to tell, and that will be the subject of our next three season series.
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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 they start their coverage, let each of their reporters tell their different perspectives on the day, and interview several of the countless guests who will be attending the swearing in ceremony of the new President.
Then we let you listen in on the coverage of the ride from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue from one end to the other, as the two Presidents ride, enter the Capitol, and then go their separate ways to the holding rooms as we prepare for the ceremony to begin.
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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 hours.
We will take you to the news conference by Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater announcing the actions overseas. Then to the different activities around the nation's Capitol City as Bill Clinton visits with his many supporters, the nation's Governors, a Howard University event honoring him, and star studded Gala event that will cap off his last day as a private citizen.
We will also check in on the mostly quiet itinerary of President George H. W. Bush who finds that after another two months of overseas operations both in Somalia and in Iraq, his popularity rating has soared back up into the 60% range. Amazingly, he was one of the most consistently popular Presidents in American history only seeing it drop in 1992 long enough for him to lose the election. Bush, famous for his graciousness, keeps a low profile in these final hours only inviting some of his closest political friends and staff over for a final dinner in the White House.
We will also look at the legendary poet Maya Angelou as she prepares to read a poem at the Clinton Inaugural and at the end of this broadcast we let you hear it , out of order, because it was a powerful moment in the Inauguration of Bill Clinton.
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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 same vigor that Bush had shown. Today, the Points of Light Foundation works with millions of volunteers around the world to assist in promoting volunteerism and tackling countless issues in order to make the world a better place.
We will look at the Foundation as it exists today, learn more about the couple who inspired it, and watch the final event at the Bush White House honoring the individual people who made up those early volunteer efforts.
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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 young people at the start of their careers, here at the end of his time as Commander in Chief.
Then he will present the Medal of Freedom to the man who ushered in the era of conservative leadership in America, Ronald Reagan. We will listen in at one of Ronald Reagan’s last speeches on the national stage.
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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 this episode, the White House staff welcomes home the defeated President. The new President Elect Bill Clinton will make it clear we have only one President at a time and for the next two and a half months that President is still George H. W. Bush. However, the transition is about to begin.
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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 leaders who were troops in the war : John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush, were now finally leaving the center stage of American politics, or so it seemed. 10 United States Presidents in all, would now be replaced by the nations' first Baby Boomer President.
Bill Clinton will win on this night. In this episode, we will hear from all the candidates for President and Vice President , but one, and we will watch as the Greatest Generation, symbolized by George Bush, gracefully leaves the stage.
Then we will hear the national address from Little Rock, on the steps of the Arkansas Capitol, as Bill Clinton begins to take the reigns of power, inheriting a country that now stood alone as the leading economic and military super power on Earth. A gift left to him by the 10 Presidents and their fellow leaders of the generation of leaders who made it all possible.
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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 restaurant when the shooting occured. Wallace was also a former city councilman in Myrtle Beach for 16 years, and just a year and a half ago, ran for the city council again. We wanted to take this episode to share, respectfully, some thoughts on the situation that he witnessed first hand as it unfolded on that weekend. We also wanted to provide an outlet for our local listeners to be able to hear the press conference the local authorities had on Thursday to answer questions many of the citizens had about the events last Saturday night.
Mr. Wallace also wanted to thank our local Police Department on the extraordinary response they had to the events, and send out our thoughts and prayers to the 11 people injured in the situation that unfolded. He will also share some thoughts he had on how to help prevent these type of issues in the future.
His thoughts include:
1. Heavily Advertise both the no tolerance policy for crime in Myrtle Beach and the fact that the city has thousands of state of the art camera and video systems through out. If you come here and misbehave you will be caught. We ran radio ads all over the States of North and South Carolina after a shooting in the early 2000's and that effort did work during the next couple of years. That should be even easier to implement today given the readily accessible access to the internet available now which was not the case during the time of my service on council.
2. Make the Downtown property owners, the businesses, and employees your ally not your adversary in changing the atmosphere in the area. They can be your best friends in combating these issues if you will let them be on your team. Through all the years I have been involved with the city these people have often not felt that way. This has been an ongoing issue.
3. Grow an atmosphere with the downtown merchants, property owners, and employees where they feel like they have a say in the future of the area. Any successful redevelopment will have to come organically from them and any attempt to force change on them, as has been proven, will consistently fail. Let them take the lead in what direction the area will take in the future.
We hope these suggestions can help and we also want to keep the victims, officers, and families of these folks involved in this tragic event in our prayers over the days to come.
Sincerely,
The Randal Wallace Presents Podcast.
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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 with little of the chaos seen in other southern states.
After leaving office he preached against the massive amount of money pouring into our election process. He was right about that.
I worked hard to unseat him in 1992 but as time has moved on I have grown to admire his leadership and his record more and more.
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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 Brinkley, Peter Jennings, Jeff Greenfield, Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson, Lyn Sherr, Brit Hume, Chris Bury, Bernard Shaw, Judy Woodward, and countless other journalist who made up the best era in the news business.
Finally, we will also see the results come in from the other race, our Host Randal Wallace, was involved with as Ernest Hollings defeats former Congressman Tommy Hartnett to return to Washington in the United States Senate for South Carolina. This is part A in our look at this historic election night and its coverage in 1992.
(In an aside, this episode marks our 356th storyline episode of our podcast, this ties our show with the exact number of original episodes of our childhood favorite show "DALLAS" We are enormously proud of that and to celebrate this milestone we have special hat tip for our favorite all time t.v. Show)
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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 year. Each with enormous strengths and each with well thought out strategies for victory on that first November tuesday.
In this episode we will visit in on the final two rallies of the 1992 election for Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush. We could not find a final rally for Ross Perot as we combed our videos and the internet, so for that we apologize.
What will stand out to our audience we think is the final Bush rally because it will feature for the final time , the old guard of politics and entertainment standing on stage with President Bush in Houston. For many of them this was their final Presidential campaign as the leadership of the nation. The President will be joined by Charlton Heston, Ted Williams, The Gatlin Brothers, Naomi Judd, and the legendary entertainer Bob Hope. The last hoorah for a generation of American leadership in both politics and entertainment.
The next day George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot would face the voters from sea to shining sea.
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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 Presidency of Bill Clinton. It has horribly damaged the historical legacies of four United States Presidents: Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.
Ironically, the very party who dreamed this evil institution up, the Democratic Party, was the same one to end it when the statue expired in 1999, but only after it had been effectively used to demolish a President of their own party, even as the Impeachment attempt failed to remove Bill Clinton from office. Then congress invented its bastardized cousin, the Special Counsel statue. While it does have some modest restraints compared to the absolute total powers of the Special Prosecutor's statute, the record of abuse there may not be fully known until our current era, centered around Donald Trump, is over.
As we look back at the 1992 Presidential Election and its controversial end. We thought this the perfect opportunity to show to our listeners the full impact of the 30 years of dishonesty that has been used to devastatingly wound four American Presidencies. But even worse than the damage done to the institution of the Presidency is the personal destruction it has wrought on the innocent aids to these Presidents. Often young men and women, whose only real crime was earnestly wanting to play role in the history of the nation and seize the opportunity so few people get in life, the chance to work for the President of the United States.
Instead, many faced prison time, and were financially wiped out, while the most dastardly, horrible , unethical people you could have ever dreamed up paraded themselves on television and in books as lawyers who champion justice while playing on the trusting nature of a naive public that still believes that our Justice System is the one uncorrupted branch of government left in the land. Here we lay everything out, the abuses of power, and the intentionally corrupt birth of the most evil office our government has ever created. We hope it will serve as a warning for what we have seen in our more modern times, so that perhaps wise heads will see to it that this institution dies, with a stake through its heart. Like this bloodsucking vampire of an institution of division and destruction truly deserves.
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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 formidable, charismatic, Southern Governor in Bill Clinton to face at the head of a resurgent Democratic Party, all combined with a struggling economy, George Bush finally had some momentum heading into the final week of the campaign.
The economy had seen some improvement with a 2.8% growth rate in the the third quarter of 1992, and Bush was seeing many of his initiative's bearing fruit out in the electorate. Plus, Bush was seen by everyone as having been a very effective foreign policy President, it seemed that the doubts about the other two leading candidates had finally started to settle in, and people were coming home to the President. The polls by the Wednesday prior to the election had the race in a statistical dead heat. Bush was energized by all the good news and he had one strong card that he was about to play in the final weekend.
That card was former President Ronald Reagan, the most popular public figure in a generation, and he was out on the trail for the final time in order to help his former Vice President. All the news for Bush seemed good, Clinton and his team were worried.
And then, the sinister hand of the most evil office ever created by our country would strike again. The Iran Contra Special Prosecutor would indict former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and several others, and they would document dump a number of records into the debate including notes , that everyone had already known existed, that contradicted Bush's earlier statements about his knowledge of the Iran Contra Affair and the sale of weapons to Iran for the release of hostages.
The results of that October Surprise engineered by the Special Prosecutor was the stopping of all of that momentum, the Clinton Campaign pounced on the news, and the momentum of the entire election swung totally back to the Governor in those final four days. It would lead to hard and bitter feelings amongst Republicans that to this day have never faded away and cemented in the mind of one Republican, our Host Randal Wallace, that their has never been a more evil office than the Special Prosecutor's Office in our system of government, and that the use of lawfare so flagrantly is the root source of much of the bitter divisiveness that has finally ground our system to halt 32 years later.
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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 understood that the candidate had to answer to them. In doing so he hit a nerve with the electorate and led to generation, or more, of political figures, no matter how entrenched, claiming that they too knew that the public was the boss.
His campaign and its themes also draw a striking resemblance to another billionaire who will take up the mantle of maverick campaigner and revolutionary leader. A man named Donald Trump. Trump would grab more than one theme , and from more than one candidate, in this era, and this particular campaign year that he would use in his own campaigns in three runs for the Presidency in 2016, 2020, and again last year n 2024.
Here is the original billionaire turned Presidential candidate and consummate outsider at his very best on the campaign trail in 1992. Here is H. Ross Perot.
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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 representative on the South Carolina Hall of Fame Board, Judy Rodman maintained a dominant presence in the growth and success of the city of Myrtle Beach S.C.
It cannot be overstated the powerful role she has played in turning this once sleepy, seasonal, tourist destination for North and South Carolina residents into an international tourism powerhouse. Through it all, Judy Rodman was there and her influence is literally everywhere you look as you drive down any road in the city she called home. Judy Rodman led initiatives to put utilities underground, protect trees, limit the number of billboards, build a Convention hotel, improve the cities recreation facilities, and look out for the growing senior population that has now grown to be the majority of the residents that have made the Myrtle Beach area their home.
Judy Rodman did it all in her quiet, intelligent, understated way, often overshadowed by the more boisterous personalities of the Mayors and council people she served with in her decades of service to the city of Myrtle Beach in several different capacities. In this special edition of our podcast we try to capture some of the magic that was always present whenever Judy Rodman entered the room, as our community, Myrtle Beach, says farewell to , as Senator Ernest Hollings once said of Senator Strom Thurmond upon his passing, " A Mighty Oak in the world of public service"
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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, and being interviewed by the press. This selection of events really does give you a feel for what it is like on the Presidential campaign trail for these candidates. It us up early in the morning and out late at night.
This campaign really is a high spot for the Vice President Dan Quayle who I feel was often unfairly maligned. He was a much better campaigner than anyone has given him credit and I feel like he performed outstandingly through out the 1992 campaign. In fact, it was his Vice Presidential Debate performance that finally began to close the gap between the President and Governor Bill Clinton.
This episode then turns to a campaign rally given for Senator Al Gore. You will hear him giving one of his stump speeches in the final weeks of the campaign. Al Gore is also a much better campaigner than you may think. I have always felt he was actually better in 1992 and 1996 than his performance at the top of the ticket in 2000. This speech is guaranteed to fire you up and it too will give you a feel of what it was like to be on the campaign trail in 1992.
Finally, we will introduce you to the true American Hero that was on the ticket in 1992, Admiral James Stockdale. Stockdale was a far more formidable man than his performance in the Vice Presidential debates would lead you to believe. He had been the President of the War College and had led troops in Vietnam as a POW, creating a civilization and working to keep the troops spirits alive in captivity for nearly 8 years. It seems a shame to me that he is only remembered today for his Vice Presidential debate performance.
We hope to change that here by letting you hear his video biography from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society because among James Stockdale's many honors he was a member of this most exclusive clubs of men who have attained the highest honor available in the land, the Congressional Medal of Honor. We want to end this episode honoring this extraordinary achievement from this extraordinary man.
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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, because this is a debate you will thoroughly enjoy if you like to hear brilliant people, discussing real policy, with tremendous passion.
It was a debate for the ages.
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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 fast as the state grew more conservative and more Republican.
But Ernest Hollings was a towering political figure. He had been at the forefront of political crusades to feed the hungry, keep the military strong, protect manufacturing jobs, and stop the massive amounts of money flowing into political races. Holling's fit the bill that had often been how South Carolinian's described liking their politicians, "Ernest Hollings fought hard for what he believed in, even when he was wrong." That always appealed to people in the state even when they disagreed with the Senator.
His opponent in the race was former Representative Tommy Hartnett, the former congressman from the South Carolina First District, which included Charleston S.C. where the Senator was from too. Hartnett was a champion for fiscal responsibility, supported term limits for Congress, and fought to keep the budget under control. He had arrived in Washington D.c. as part of the Reagan Revolution in 1980 and served for six years in Congress before deciding to come home and run for Lieutenant Governor. After nearly, two and half decades in public life, first as South Carolina State House member, he lost the race for Lieutenant Governor and this was his attempt at a comeback.
This was an exciting race between two formidable men. In this episode, we will look at the careers of both men and their thoughts on Government and what they both feel is the problems our nation at the time faced. Many of those issues still plague us now. In the end, we will focus in on the legendary career of the incumbent, a man considered a giant of American Politics both at home and in Washington D.C. He became famous for his southern Charleston drawl, his towering physical frame, and his often blunt, fiery positions, on issues, always on the side of the little man he had been sent to the Senate to represent.
Then in our next episode we will present the South Carolina United States Senate debate and let me warn you, it will be exciting, but unless you are from South Carolina you may need an interpreter to understand them.
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