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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
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2026!!! (B) Exciting news, three books and two podcast seasons!!
Send us Fan Mail HAPPY NEW YEAR 2026!!! Last year ws a year of extremes but overall we saw our show expand to include a new local broadcast and we completed…
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Governor Jim Hunt of North Carolina and Award Winning Journalist Peter Arnett, A Tribute, Special Edition
Send us Fan Mail This episode of our podcast is a tribute for a giant figure in the history of North Carolina. Governor Jim Hunt served for 16 years and he led…
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2026 (A) - The 2025 Tribute Show, looking back at those we lost in this year, Dedicated to Brian McCarty former Lander University College Republican Chairman
Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year 2026!! In this episode we say farewell to many iconic figures on the national scene, and here locally where we record this…
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Episode 416 The GREAT AMERICAN AUTHORS (Part 14) Ernest Hemingway ( C ) : Three Houses and a Boat - Key West, Cuba, the Pillar, and Idaho
Send us Fan Mail Ernest Hemingway's life was a testament to his belief in living authentically and drawing from rich, personal experience for his writing. His…
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Episode 415 THE GREAT AMERICAN AUTHORS (Part 13) Ernest Hemingway ( B )
Send us Fan Mail In this epsode we examine the mythology around the life of Ernest Hemingway. How it has shaped his place in american Literature. We follow him…
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Episode 414 THE GREAT AMERICAN AUTHORS (Part 12) Ernest Hemingway (A)
Send us Fan Mail This episode is the first of three episodes that centers on the biggest star in all of American Literature, the great Ernest Hemingway. Ernest…
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Episode 413 THE GREAT AMERICAN AUTHORS (Part 11) Sinclair Lewis, Key West, and Tennessee Williams
Send us Fan Mail Two Great authors and one inspirational city are the focus of this episode. Sinclair Lewis Sinclair Lewis's writing advice, often delivered…
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Episode 412 THE GREAT AMERICAN AUTHORS (Part 10) Today's Best Sellers Give Their Advice : Curt Vonnegut, Walter Mosley, Stephen King, Lee Child, John Grisham, Carol Oates,
Send us Fan Mail This episode gathers some great advice from the best authors of our current time. It is a fun episode. The collective writing advice from…
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Episode 411 THE GREAT AMERICAN AUTHORS (Part 9) Pat Conroy, South Carolina's Own
Send us Fan Mail Pat Conroy’s writing tips focus on using personal experience to craft honest, passionate prose. His advice emphasizes deep exploration of…
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Episode 410 THE GREAT AMERICAN AUTHORS (Part 8) The British Invasion - Ian Fleming and J. K.. Rowling
Send us Fan Mail James Bond meets Harry Potter in this episode of our series. Two favorites of mine from across the pond in this special edition. Ian Fleming's…
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Episode 409 THE GREAT AMERICAN AUTHORS (Part 7) William Faulkner
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look back at the man who can lay claim to having written the longest sentence in American Literature. He also wrote the…
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Episode 408 THE GREAT AMERICAN AUTHORS (Part 6) Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we examine the life and work of two authors who actually knew each other and corresponded as they wrote their literary…
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Episode 407 THE GREAT AMERICAN AUTHORS (Part 5) The One Hit Wonders: Harper Lee, J. D. Salinger, and Margaret Mitchell
Send us Fan Mail These three writers all wrote just one novel of renown but they were gargantuan titles. We celebrate their impact on American Literature in…
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Episode 406 THE GREAT AMERICAN AUTHORS (Part 4) Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou
Send us Fan Mail This episode looks at two literary giants and includes their writing tips. It also features the only writer in our entire series our host…
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Episode 405 THE GREAT AMERICAN AUTHORS (Part 3) John Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, and Mark Twain
Send us Fan Mail This episode looks at three giants of American Literature who all wrote about the struggles of forgotten America. One of them, Mark Twain, is…
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Episode 404 THE GREAT AMERICAN AUTHORS {Part 2) The Extremes - Edgar Allan Poe and Dr Suess
Send us Fan Mail Is there a more terrifying writer in the world than Edgar Allan Poe, nor a more fun one to read with a child with than Theodore Geisel, "Dr…
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A tribute to my Aunt Margie Wallace and Uncle Kenneth Huggins both of Hartsville S.C. , and dedications to several local people in our home community of Myrtle Beach S.C. (Special Edition)
Send us Fan Mail In this episode our host honors two of his family members who passed away in recent times. Aunt Margie Wallace - My Aunt was a substitute…
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Episode 403 THE GREAT AMERICAN AUTHORS Episode 1: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the first episode of our special Holiday Season, "The Great American Authors", Bob Dole's series will return in January 2026. In…
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney Remembered from the Eulogies at the Washington National Cathedral (Special Edition)
Send us Fan Mail In this our second episode honoring the life of Former Vice President Dick Cheney we listen to the various eulogies from his funeral in…
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BOB CAUDLE 1930 - 2025 The Voice of Our Childhood A Tribute , and a tribute to the Pro Wrestling greats that made Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling, great fun!!!
Send us Fan Mail On Sunday, November 15, 2025, I woke up to the news that legendary Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling Host Bob Caudle had died , peacefully…
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The Great American Authors Special Season Preview
Send us Fan Mail Join us starting November 25, 2025 for a Christmas Holidays Special 16th Season as we venture into new territory. Over the end of November and…
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HULK HOGAN (1953 - 2025) , JIM LOVELL (1928 - 2025) , and ROBERT REDFORD (1936 - 2025) : Tributes B
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look back at three people it is almost hard to imagine not being around. Hulk Hogan, if you are kid in my age range, middle…
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POPE FRANCIS (1936 - 2025) , An American Pope, Leo 14th, Charlie Kirk (1993 - 2025) , and Connie Francis (1937 - 2025) TRIBUTES A
Send us Fan Mail In this episode , we look back at three men who worked tirelessly for their religious beliefs and trying to make this world a better place in…
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DAVID GERGEN : An Eye Witness to Power (1942 - 2025) A Tribute
Send us Fan Mail For decades the one thing that never seemed to change in Washington D.C. was constant presence of David Gergen. He was an aid to Richard…
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VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY, 1941 - 2025 : A Tribute
Send us Fan Mail Last week, former Vice President Dick Cheney passed away, he was 84 years old. There has been no more powerful a figure in the history of…
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THE REST OF 2025 : A Housekeeping an Announcement Show
Send us Fan Mail In this brief update we want to fill you in on our special non-political season to carry our show through the holidays, and some tribute…
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Episode 402 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 39) The Announcement for President (B) Season Finale
Send us Fan Mail In our season finale we zoom in on the fight over a Balanced budget Amendment on the 1995 Congressional agenda. You will hear Senators go…
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Episode 401 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 38) The Announcement for President (A)
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we start to move you through the big moments of 1995 as we get closer to the kick off of the 1996 Presidential Election. Bob…
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Episode 400 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (part 37) A Look at Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole too
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we set the stage for 1995 as Newt Gingrich becomes the biggest star in politics as he becomes the first Republican Speaker in…
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Episode 399 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 36) Under New Management (D) A New Whip
Send us Fan Mail As we open this episode , we will see Bob Dole truly become the last man standing from an era of political figures who had dominated the scene…
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Episode 398 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 35) Under New Management (C) Speaker Elect Gingrich
Send us Fan Mail All eyes were trained on one man as the lame duck session began. It was the soon to be new Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt…
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Episode 397 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 34) Under New Management (B) The Shelby Switch
Send us Fan Mail The power switch was swift as all eyes fell on the Republican leadership in the hours after the Republicans swept to to power in both houses…
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Episode 396 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 33) Under New Management (A) The President is relevant Here
Send us Fan Mail When the sun rose on November 9, 1994, Washington D.C. had had a seismic shift in the politics it had known for nearly a half century. Even…
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Episode 395 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 32) Election Night 1994
Send us Fan Mail It is election day 1994 at last, and this is the coverage of that historic night. For the first time in 40 years the Republicans will take…
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Episode 394 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 31) The Mid Term Elections (C) Clinton VS Dole
Send us Fan Mail As we close in on election day in 1994, both President Bill Clinton and Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, hit the campaign trail as the…
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Episode 393 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 30) Lindsey Graham for Congress 1994, A National Leader Emerges
Send us Fan Mail In 1994, our host Randal Wallace, was active in the leadership of the Lander University College Republicans. That year the long term…
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Episode 392 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 29) The Mid Term Elections (B) A Big Names in a Big Year
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we will give you a taste of the dramatic races from all across the nation. Two Bush brothers were on the ballot, we had a…
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Episode 391 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 28) The 1994 Mid-Term Elections (A) A Team
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we kick of the 1994 Midterm elections. As we look at Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole and Senate Republican Campaign Committee…
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Episode 390 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 27) A Farewell to the Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell D - Maine with Speeches from both Dole and Clinton
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we look back with a great deal of respect to a very formidable adversary for most Republicans like me, in Senator George…
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Episode 389 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 26) The Contract with America
Send us Fan Mail The Contract with America would change everything in Washington D.C. For four decades the United States House of Representatives had been…
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Bill Clinton on the phone dealing with the 1994 California Wildfires (Special Edition)
Send us Fan Mail In 1994 wildfires swept across California and the Emergency Management people steeped in to help fight them. Bill Clinton was briefed on the…
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Strom Thurmond and Bob Dole at the Graduation of the Citadel in Charleston S.C. May 14, 1994 (Special Edition)
Send us Fan Mail South Carolina has always been enormously proud of its military Collegiate institution, the Citadel, in Charleston S.C. Senator Ernest…
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Episode 388 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 25) The 1994 Crime Bill
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look back at one of the most controversial pieces of legislation in the entire history of the country, the 1994 Crime Bill…
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A Lecture by Robert Fiske, The Honest Special Prosecutor. (Special Edition)
Send us Fan Mail I may not agree with his every conclusion about the history of the Special Prosecutor and Special Counsel office and the people who have held…
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Episode 387 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 24) The Appointment of the Whitewater Special Prosecutor and Overview
Send us Fan Mail The Whitewater investigation takes a giant leap as Attorney General Janet Reno appoints a Special Prosecutor to look into the case coming out…
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Bob Dole's State of the Union Response of 1994 and his interview on the Republican Agenda of 1994 (Special Edition)
Send us Fan Mail It has been described as the hardest assignment in Washington D.C. It is the response to the sitting President after the State of the Union…
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Episode 386 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 23) The Dole - Packwood Healthcare Alternative
Send us Fan Mail The Republicans did offer up an alternative to the Clinton Healthcare proposal. It was the Dole/Packwood Republican Alternative plan. In this…
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Episode 385 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 22) Hillary and Healthcare
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we take a look back at Hillary Clinton when she first burst onto the national scene in the early days of the Clinton…
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Billy Graham The President's Preacher and his role in American History (Special Edition)
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look back at the other man who alongside, Bob Dole and Pete Wilson, spoke at both funerals for Pat and Richard Nixon. The…
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Episode 384 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 21) The Passing of Pat and Richard Nixon
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we cover the deaths of both Former First Lady Pat Nixon and former President Richard Nixon who both passed away within 10…
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Episode 383 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 20) The Brady Bill
Send us Fan Mail Jim Brady was a popular member of the Reagan campaign , and briefly the Reagan Administration. He was gunned down in 1981 in the attempt to…
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Episode 382 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 19) NAFTA
Send us Fan Mail The North American Free Trade Agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, opened up the largest free trading block in the world…
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The Bob Dole Oral History Collection Introduction (Special Edition)
Send us Fan Mail As this series has unfolded I am sure that most people have listened in and thought it was more about President Bill Clinton than Senator Bob…
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A Trip Through Georgia (Part 2) Franklin Roosevelt's Little White House & The Carter's Hometown of Plains (Special Edition)
Send us Fan Mail In this our second episode of our tour through Georgia, we head out into rural south west Georgia to visit the community of Warm Springs. It…
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A Trip Through Georgia (Part 1) The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and the Martin Luther King Jr National Historic Site (Special Edition)
Send us Fan Mail In this special, two part travelogue, we take you along with our host through Atlanta and south west Georgia as we visit several of the most…
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Episode 381 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 18) Somalia - Black Hawk Down (B) The U.S. Senate Debate
Send us Fan Mail In the second episode on the Black Hawk Down incident we will listen in on the Senate as it debates two seperate amendments concerning the…
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Episode 380 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 17) Somalia - Black Hawk Down (A)
Send us Fan Mail This is the first of two episodes looking back on the situation in Somalia. In this episode we will hear from both President Bill Clinton and…
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Episode 379 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 16) The Oslo Accords
Send us Fan Mail I went on line and looked up the Oslo Accords signed by President Bill Clinton, PLO Leader Yasir Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak…
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Bob Dole's first foray into New Hampshire in 1993 ( Special Edition )
Send us Fan Mail We travel up to New Hampshire in this special edition episode to hear Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole , in his first foray into the state this…
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Episode 378 BOB DOLE 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing (Part 15) The Budget Battle Ends
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we look at what is arguably an impressive achievement by both President Bill Clinton and Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole. The…