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BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
We begin our third season on Bob Dole's life and career, by traveling back in time to his April 1995 Presidential Campaign Announcement. At that point the Republican Party was on the rise everywhere and Bill Clinton appeared to be a sitting duck. Then a series of events would occur between April and December of 1995 that would resurrect Clinton's Presidency and put him 20 points ahead of any potential rival, including Bob Dole. That margin would stay frozen in place throughout 1996. This is…
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- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 72: RICHARD NIXON 1972 The Foundation of Peace (Part 3) The Journey to China
Send us Fan Mail Finally the door has been opened to China. President Nixon would send a group of young men under the supervision of 34 year old Ron Walker to…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 71: RICHARD NIXON 1972 The Foundation of Peace (Part 2) EUREKA!! Putting the trip to China Together
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look backwards at how the China initiative came together. Richard Nixon had envisioned reaching out to China long before he…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 70: RICHARD NIXON 1972 The Foundation of Peace (Part 1) CHINA
Send us Fan Mail The opening of our Season 5 look at the Administration of Richard Nixon begins with the signature event of his time in office., the opening to…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 69 : HURRICANE HUGO A Night Like No Other (Part Two) Special Edition
Send us Fan Mail Destruction, devastation, and disaster all describe the South Carolina Coast on the 23rd of September 1989. Hurricane Hugo had torn its way…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 68: HURRICANE HUGO : A Night Like No Other (Part 1) Special Edition
Send us Fan Mail We start season 5 with a bonus two part series far from the topic of politics, Government or Richard Nixon. Though President Nixon did start…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 67 : RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 13) The Christmas Present to the Nation; Bretton Woods, Drugs, Wars, Spies and the National Cancer Act of 1971
Send us Fan Mail In our Season 4 finale we look at several of the initiatives that Richard Nixon began at the end of 1971 that we are still benefitting from or…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 66: Sow the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind Redux; The Anniversary of the Riot at the United States Capitol (Special Edition)
Send us Fan Mail On January 6, 2021 a riot broke out in Washington D.C. at the United States Capitol. It was an angering sight to see and brought the…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 65: RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 12) The China Strategy Begins
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we cover two of President Nixon's major accomplishments; giving 18 year old citizens the right to vote and initiating the…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 64: RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 11) The Best of Times and the Worst of Times (The Wedding of Tricia and Ed Cox and the Pentagon Papers)
Send us Fan Mail It was the best of times and it was the worst of times. On June 12, 1971, the daughter of President and Mrs. Nixon, Tricia Nixon married…
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! 2022, A Look back at our first year of 2021 and forward to next year
Send us Fan Mail HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022!!! In this episode we look back at 2021, a year of success here at "Bridging the Political Gap" and a year of sad…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 63: RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 10) Eavesdropping on History, After the speech on Laos, response to "Nixon at War"
Send us Fan Mail This episode begins just after President Nixon delivers his powerful speech going through the campaign in Laos and the advancements our side…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Up With America with Tom Herron with guest Randal Wallace , Host of Bridging the Political Gap (Special Edition)
Send us Fan Mail Our Host Randal Wallace appeared on the Radio show "Up With America with Tom Heron" in November of 2021 and the segment is here. This…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 62 : RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 9) Operation Lam Son 914 Laos
Send us Fan Mail One of the low moments of the Vietnam War is covered in this episode. It was the moment in the plans to Vietnamize the Vietnam War that we…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 61: RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 8) The Taping System
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we are finally at the moment that the taping system was installed. It was a fateful decision, and it would eventually lead to…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
An Introduction to the Richard Nixon White House Tapes (Special Edition)
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk about the contents of the historic tapes of the Nixon Administration. We address the negative parts that are so…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
BOB DOLE : A Tribute (Part 6) To the Stars through Difficulties, Two Historic Days in Washington D.C.
Send us Fan Mail To the stars through difficulties, the motto of the state of Kansas and a theme for the life of Bob Dole. In this final episode in our week…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
BOB DOLE : A Tribute (Part 5) The World War 2 Memorial , Farewell old Friend (Special Edition)
Send us Fan Mail In part 5 of our tribute to Bob Dole we look back at the war injury that left him disabled. We hear from him and from his close friend and…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
BOB DOLE : A Tribute (Part 4) The Presidential Medal of Freedom and the fun retirement years with Bob and Elizabeth Dole (Special Edition)
Send us Fan Mail Bob Dole lost the 1996 Presidential Election. On that night he came to the podium and said something I know for him had to be a little scary…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
BOB DOLE : A Tribute (Part 3) The Apex, June 11, 1996 (Special Edition)
Send us Fan Mail On June 11, 1996, Senate Majority Leader and the 1996 Republican Nominee for President got to do something few if any politicians ever get to…
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BOB DOLE : A Tribute (Part 2) The Campaign of a Lifetime 1996 (Special Edition)
Send us Fan Mail It was the campaign of my lifetime. A chance to work for not one but three of my heroes in one year, Bob and Elizabeth Dole and Strom…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
BOB DOLE : A Tribute ( Part 1) A Life Well Lived (Special Edition)
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Bob Dole Week!!! Everyday this week we will look back at the life and career of one of the 20th century's greatest Americans. In…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 60: RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 7 ) Starlight, A Celebration of Patricia Ryan Nixon and the initiative to open doors for women in Government
Send us Fan Mail Starlight, the Secret Service Codename for First Lady Pat Nixon, was absolutely perfect as a way to describe Mrs. Nixon. She lit up every room…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 59 RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 6) Burning Love (Civil Rights, Nixon the Strategist, Vietnam and Elvis)
Send us Fan Mail People don't seem to realize that Richard Nixon was actually one of our five great Civil Rights Presidents. Brown vs the Board of Education…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 58 RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 5) Apollo 13 Our Finest Hour SPECIAL EDITION
Send us Fan Mail Apollo 13, one of the most remembered moments in the history of NASA. By April of 1970 going to the moon had become almost "ho hum". The…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Lois Eargle A Giant Among Men (Special Edition) A Tribute to the Former Horry County Auditor
Send us Fan Mail On November 14, 2021, on a Sunday, Horry County, South Carolina, lost a towering giant in the history of the region. Lois Eargle was a…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 57 RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 4) Kent State and the Lincoln Memorial
Send us Fan Mail After President Nixon announced he would cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail and take military action in Cambodia, college campuses across the nation…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 56 RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 3) A Fire, The Court, and Cambodia
Send us Fan Mail This episode opens at the dawn of the environmental movement in America. It may come as a surprise to you that Richard Nixon is considered…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
The Entire Silent Majority Speech, November 3, 1969 (Special Edition)
Send us Fan Mail On November 3, 1969, President Richard Nixon asked to address the nation to talk about Vietnam. He then laid out his strategy for bringing the…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 55 RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 2) The Silent Majority
Send us Fan Mail This episode opens as the Apollo 11 Astronauts have returned from their mission to the moon. It was a moment in which the United States had…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 54 HERBERT HOOVER: A Forgotten Gem (The Other Quaker President) SPECIAL EDITION
Send us Fan Mail While researching the material for our podcast documentary we are currently presenting now on President Richard Nixon, I had one of those…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 53 RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union : (Part 1 ) Magnificent Desolation
Send us Fan Mail On January 20, 1969, Richard Millhouse Nixon was Inaugurated the 37th President of the United States. He faced a country and a World in…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 52 RICHARD NIXON : The Remarkable Run ( Part 2)
Send us Fan Mail This episode starts as Richard Nixon, at age 39, is taking the oath of the Vice President of the United States. On this episode we take you…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 51 RICHARD NIXON : The Remarkable Run (Part 1)
Send us Fan Mail The opening episode of Season 1 of "Bridging the Political Gap" is a particular thing of excitement for me. Richard Nixon is one of my…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Echoes from the Past: Preview of "RICHARD NIXON, The Man who Saved the Union"
Send us Fan Mail Eerie similarities mark our world today with the one Richard Nixon faced a half century ago. As we begin our Landmark Podcast Documentary…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 50 UPHEAVAL!! ( Part 9 ) 1968 The Transition, taking it all in, & Looking back at Lyndon
Send us Fan Mail In our 50th, and final episode of our third season, we watch the winding down of the Lyndon Johnson Administration. It is truly an end to an…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 49 UPHEAVAL!! ( Part 8 ) The Finish Line & the Un-Smoking Gun
Send us Fan Mail This episode opens in the final two days of the 1968 campaign as the election polls have tightened to an even race. Vice President Hubert…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 48 (Special Edition) Why Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon? .. COMPETENCY
Send us Fan Mail Why has our podcast "Bridging the Political Gap" dedicated two seasons, this one and the next one, to the Presidencies of Lyndon Johnson and…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 47: UPHEAVAL (Part 7) 1968 The Chennault Affair 4, The LBJ Calls 2
Send us Fan Mail This is the second episode examining the phone calls so often cited as proof of the Chennault Affair and Lyndon Johnson's acknowledgement of…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 46: UPHEAVAL (Part 6) 1968 The Chennault Affair 3, The LBJ Calls 1
Send us Fan Mail This is not as complicated as it looks, but we start with these two episodes to have a subset of a subset of our series on 1968. These are a…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 45: UPHEAVAL (Part 5) The Chennault Affair 2, Responding to MSNBC and LBJ's Mental State
Send us Fan Mail During the investigation of Former President Donald Trump over whether he had been colluding with the Russian Government in attempts to sway…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 44: UPHEAVAL (Part 4) 1968 The Chennault Affair 1, The Historians Talk
Send us Fan Mail As part of our series on the 1968 election , we are going to take 4 episodes and create a sub series to examine thoroughly the accusation of…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 43: UPHEAVAL (Part 3) 1968 The Conventions to the Bombing Halt
Send us Fan Mail The assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy shocks the world and causes the Democratic Party to descend into chaos. This episode opens with…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 42: Earth-Rise the Story of 1968's Apollo 8 (Special Edition)
Send us Fan Mail As we cover so much of the tumultuous year of 1968, we thought we would add one of its brightest moments too. As the country struggled with…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 41: UPHEAVAL (Part 2) 1968 Riots to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
Send us Fan Mail This episode opens with the country ablaze after riots break out in the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 40: UPHEAVAL!! (Part 1) 1968 Tet Offensive to the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
Send us Fan Mail Not since the Civil War had America been this divided. The decisions to both go to war in Vietnam and to pass several Civil Rights Bills that…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 39: The Johnson Treatment (Part 7) A Full Scale Land War in Asia
Send us Fan Mail This episode unfolds in two parts. In the mid 1990's, Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara wrote a book in which he describes what he…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Preview for Season 4: Richard Nixon , The Man that Saved the Union
Send us Fan Mail At the end of 1968 the United States was a country at war abroad and in chaos at home. The American people were asking the same question that…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 38: The Johnson Treatment (Part 6) Rolling Thunder
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we see events start moving fast. You see a divide start to show between members of the Johnson Administration as to what to do…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 37: The Johnson Treatment (Part 5) The Gulf of Tonkin
Send us Fan Mail Even though we were already involved, this was the event that really started us down the long road to a full scale land war in Asia…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
The Importance of Organ Donation: The story of my brother Keith Wallace (Special Edition)
Send us Fan Mail On August 1, 2012, My brother Keith Wallace collapsed after he had a brain aneurysm burst in Manning S. C. He died on August 2, 2012. In…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 36: The Wizard of Ooze, Senator Everett Dirksen, the forgotten champion of Civil Rights (Special Edition)
Send us Fan Mail He was known as the Wizard of Ooze, a disheveled, elderly man with a distinctive voice and a great sense of humor and a thoughtful, cautious…
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Episode 35: The Johnson Treatment (Part 4) Selma, Alabama and the Voter Rights Act of 1965
Send us Fan Mail If President Lyndon B. Johnson has a real claim to greatness it is for his work to pass the Voter's Rights Act of 1965. It was the act that…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 34: The Johnson Treatment (Part 3) The Vice Presidential Problem
Send us Fan Mail Few relationships in the history of our country were as important as the one between President Lyndon Johnson and his Attorney General Robert…
- BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
Episode 33: The Johnson Treatment (Part 2) The Great Society, the murder of 3 Civil Rights Workers, and the 1964 Civil Rights Act
Send us Fan Mail This episode opens as Lyndon Johnson declares War on Poverty in America. LBJ had a vision of the America he wanted to create and unlike many…
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Episode 32: The Johnson Treatment (Part 1) HELLO LYNDON!!
Send us Fan Mail The start of Season 3, begins on the Tarmac of Andrews Air Force Base on November 22, 1963. A new President addresses reporters and the…
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Episode 31: A Eulogy for a Dog (A very Special Farewell to a member of our team, Cooper Wallace)
Send us Fan Mail While we were in production for season 3 we lost a very special and important part of our production team, my dog Cooper. He was 11 years old…
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Episode 30: THE GIANTS OF THE SENATE and Joe Biden (Part 4 Special Edition) A Tribute to Senator John Warner R-Virginia
Send us Fan Mail Senator John Warner, the second longest serving Senator from Virginia , was one of the last World War 2 and Korean War Veterans serving in the…
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Preview For Season 3 : LBJ, The Great Society, Civil Rights, Vietnam, the Upheaval of 1968, and the Return of Richard Nixon
Send us Fan Mail Season 3 of "Bridging the Political Gap " takes us through the most controversial period in our history other than the Civil War. In this…
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Episode 29: NOVEMBER 1963: The End of the Age of Innocence ( Assassinations of Ngo Dinh Diem & John F. Kennedy)
Send us Fan Mail November 1963, was a month that changed the trajectory of American History. During the summer of 1963, President John F. Kennedy and the…
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Special Edition: This Week with Tim McGinnis, Interview with Randal Wallace, Host of Bridging The Political Gap an author of "Always Vote Your Conscience"
Send us Fan Mail In this special edition of "Bridging the Political Gap" , our host Randal Wallace sat down earlier in the month (June 2021) with This week…