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George H.W. Bush 1992 The Changing of the Guard

George H.W. Bush 1992 The Changing of the Guard

Randal Wallace

Randal Wallace Presents : "George H. W. Bush" a five season look back at his extraordinary life, career, and his single term as President of the United States. A term that saw the high point of American Leadership around the world. In our 14th Season , we will look back at one of the most exciting election years in history. It should have been easier, George Bush had freed the world of Communism and managed the fall of a superpower without having the world fall into violent chaos. A truly remarkable achievement in World History.
At one point George Bush had a 91% approval rating, By the end of 1992, he would lose his reelection bid. This is that story and in it you will see the foundational beginnings of the very "America First", "Make America Great Again" movement that so dominates our politics in 2024 in the form of Donald Trump. We will watch the changing of the guard as the Vietnam Generation leads a campaign in 1992 to transfer power from the generation of leadership that won the Cold War, to those who protested the Vietnam War in the streets of America . In the forefront of that campaign we witness arguably the greatest campaigner to ever set foot on the trail in Arkansas Governor, Bill Clinton.

We invite you to come along with us on a wild ride through the high points and low moments of modern American History, in an effort to show the citizens of today that we are an amazing and resilient nation.
Our Podcasts are separated by individual Documentary style titles. --
Season 1 : Bridging the Political Gap episodes 1 -11 --- Season 2 : Lessons in Leadership : --- The GIANTS of the Senate and Joe Biden episodes 14 - 16 ---- World War 2 Episodes 17 - 20 --- General MacArthur You're Fired Episodes 21 - 23 ---- A Celebration of the life of George Shultz episodes 26 - 28 ---- November 1963 : The end of the Age of Innocence episode 29 --- Season 3 ----The Johnson Treatment episodes 32 - 39 ---- Upheaval 1968 episodes 40 - 50 ---- Season 4: Richard Nixon 1968 -1971 The Man Who Saved the Union episodes 51 -67 ----- Season 5 Richard Nixon 1972 The Foundation of Peace episodes 71 - 96 -----1973 Ten Days in January 97 - 100 -- Season 6 Richard Nixon 1973 : Enemies at the Gate 101 - 125 ---- Season 7 Richard Nixon 1974 Through the Fire 126 - 147 ---- Season 8 Richard Nixon 1974 - 1994 The Fall and the Re-Rise of Richard Nixon. 148 - 174 plus bonus materials --- Season 9 Gerald Ford Beyond Watergate 175 -190 -- Season 10 John Jenrette. & Jimmy Carter too 191 - 224 -- Season 11 George H.W. Bush : The Leadership Lessons 225 - 250 --- Season 12: Mayor Hirsch 253 - 259, George H.W. Bush : The Sweep of History 260 - 285, Season 13 George H.W. Bush The Gulf War, The Coup, Clarence Thomas & the Cold War's End 286 - 318, Season 14 George H. W. Bush 1992 The Changing of the Guard 319 -

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George H.W. Bush 1992 The Changing of the Guard - Episode 10 : "Sow The Wind" (PART 1)

Episode 10 : "Sow The Wind" (PART 1)

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02/15/21 • 90 min

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Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind!
For two decades our leadership in America has sown discord and divisiveness. The leadership of the Republican Party have often pushed conspiracy theories out to its true believers, the Democratic Party, in turn, has made outlandish accusations a hallmark of its leadership.
All the while the national media has devolved not into purveyors of fact, but of cheerleading organizations , that pick sides, and give the political parties outlets to preach their outlandish nonsense to the unsuspecting masses.
As Ted Koppel said in his interview with PBS, " The Washington Post of today, and the New York Times of today is not the New York Times of 50 years ago, nor the Washington Post of 50 years ago."
The same could be said for all the television networks and the cable networks. They have all blurred the lines between news content and editorials. What is even worse is they have done it at the exact moment that the rise of social media has made any person with a lap top computer or cellphone an untrained, and often unreliable journalist.
You don't know what you are listening to or whether what you are reading has any validity at all. That has allowed every crazy story to get legs and travel. That, all together, has fed an atmosphere of division, demonization, and no trust in our traditional institutions, not even a shared sense of what is really reality, and that boiled over on January 6, 2021 at the U.S Capitol.
This episode takes you from the retirement of the last World War 2 national figure, Bob Dole, to the circus of the Brett Kavanaugh Hearings and President Donald Trump's war with "Fake News".
And to the doorstep of what it brought us, the meltdown at the U.S. Capitol January , 06, 2021.

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George H.W. Bush 1992 The Changing of the Guard - The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis (Preview)

The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis (Preview)

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08/29/23 • 8 min

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It is the most horrific tale from the most catastrophic war the World has ever known. It is the story of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, the warship that had just completed its top secret mission to deliver the uranium needed to build the first atomic bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima , Japan.
It would be sunk by a Japanese submarine as it traveled through the Philippine Sea on its way to Leyte, in the Philippines. the story was largely forgotten, even at the time, by a U.S. Government that had just won the war, announcing the sinking at the same time as the Japanese surrender, and by the American public anxious to move on from the war that had so dominated their lives for three and a half years.
It was only revived, and brought back to the public consciousness by a pivotal scene in a summer blockbuster movie in 1975. In the movie "JAWS", the fictional Captain Quint of the shark hunting ship "Orca" was said to be an Indianapolis survivor, and the speech he gave about the event was the heart of the movie. In this preview, we use portions of that dramatic cinematic moment, delivered by the Shakespearean theater giant, Robert Shaw, and directed by the legendary Stephen Spielberg, to lead you through a preview of the tale, as told by the real survivors of the sinking of the Indianapolis. It is a gripping, horrific, heroic, and in the end hopeful story, of the largest naval catastrophe of the war. In a coming two part podcast documentary special edition at the start of our podcast's 11th season in late September.
JAWS Credit :

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary
Jaws [Original Score] by John Williams released in 1975

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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.

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George H.W. Bush 1992 The Changing of the Guard - Episode 308 GEORGE H.W. BUSH The Clarence Thomas Hearings (Part 3) The Senators Ask Questions
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10/09/24 • 61 min

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In this episode we get to listen in on various panels both in favor of Judge Clarence Thomas and opposed to Clarence Thomas testify in front of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee. You will hear the senators raise issues from Affirmative Action, to Civil Rights, to the Judges opinion on the South African Government.
You will hear from a former Attorney General , Griffin Bell, some Georgia State Senators, a State Judge, the President of the American Bar Association, and several College Professors who taught Thomas at Holy Cross University.
This is an excellent opportunity for many of our listeners to hear the U. S. Senate at work debating and discussing issues in a civil manner about the qualifications of a Supreme Court Nominee. Things don't get ugly until our next episode. You will hear some of the giants of the Senate in this episode asking questions and gathering information and it will give you some insights into why Clarence Thomas was picked to be on the Supreme Court in the first place, before the debate of race and sexual harassment over shadowed everything.

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This episode opens with the new President Gerald R. Ford addressing a joint session of Congress. He is there laying out his agenda for his new administration. The problems that he felt needed immediate addressing and where he intended to continue the policies of the man he had just replaced as President. Unfortunately for Ford every question he got in his first press conference had to do with Richard Nixon. He was spending a disproportionate amount of his time dealing with the problems of his predecessor.
So Gerald Ford decided to put an end to the issues once and for all. He granted a full an absolute pardon on to Richard Nixon thusly clearing the deck and allowing the country to move forward and leave Watergate behind. It would however, stir up a hornets nest among the rabid Nixon haters, and much of the country who had no idea of the alleged massive misconduct of the Watergate Special Prosecution force.
Here in this episode we will hear from Representative Elizabeth Holtzman who would get a chance to question President Ford during his historic testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee. You will hear President Ford in an interview with NBC "Later" host Bob Costas discuss the decision to grant the Nixon pardon.
You will also hear about his visit with President Nixon when he was near death in California during the month of October 1974.
Then we switch gears to the attempt by the
Special Prosecutor's to get Grand Jury testimony from the former President despite his weakened condition. In hopes, many thought, of entrapping the former President in a perjury wrap, which would not have been covered by the Presidential Pardon. However, they never laid a glove on the former leader of the free world.
In this episode we cover these days during the time Richard Nixon was at his lowest.

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George H.W. Bush 1992 The Changing of the Guard - Episode 81: RICHARD NIXON 1972 The Foundation of Peace (Part 11) SALT 1, The Summit in Moscow
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02/27/22 • 69 min

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SUMMIT IN MOSCOW.
On May 22, 1972 Richard Nixon was the first American President to set foot inside the Kremlin as he and Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev would hold the first Summit meeting. It would lead to various treaties and the start of a thaw in Cold War relations between the two world Super Powers. It was there in Moscow that the two nations signed the SALT 1 agreement, the Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty.
In this show we look back at this momentous moment and hear from several of the folks at a conference at the Nixon Library about how the summit came together and how it changed our diplomatic positioning through out the world. We listen in on a documentary about the summit just after it concluded and finally we listen in on something no one in America during the height of the Cold War would ever believed could happen.
We listen as President Richard Nixon, one of the most anti-communist leaders in the entire world, addresses the people of the Soviet Union on primetime television.

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George H.W. Bush 1992 The Changing of the Guard - Episode 41: UPHEAVAL (Part 2) 1968  Riots to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
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08/25/21 • 55 min

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This episode opens with the country ablaze after riots break out in the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The country struggles with how to cope with the loss of the leader who had preached nonviolent resistance, and who had died such a violent death.
The one city that did not have a riot the night of the assassination was Indianapolis, Indiana. It was there that Senator Robert Kennedy had planned to address a crowd about his campaign for President. Instead he told them of the death of Dr. King and then expressed his own emotion from the death of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. Both men had died at the hands of white assassins'.
These events elevated Senator Kennedy's cause to a higher one and gave him momentum going into the primaries where he would face Senator Eugene McCarthy, and also now an establishment candidate, the Vice President of the United States, Hubert Humphrey. Humphrey was gathering delegates from favorite son candidates and endorsements from the party bosses, because he entered the race to late to be on the primary ballots.
Listen in as Robert Kennedy campaigns in Oregon and California and as he and McCarthy have a debate. Plus the Republicans have a race too. Kennedy would lose Oregon and Nixon would win it on his side, and that would make California make or break for the candidates.
It would be a tough campaign but Kennedy would win California. He would come out and excitedly address the crowd, firing them up for the showdown in Chicago at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Kennedy seemed poised to win.
Then, yet another tragedy would strike.

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George H.W. Bush 1992 The Changing of the Guard - Episode 266 GEORGE H.W. BUSH 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History (Part 7) A United Arab Front
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03/21/24 • 64 min

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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 Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, who in turn assured President Bush that an invasion was not imminent.
Then we will listen in on a Documentary on Former Secretary of State James Baker, as he describes going to the Soviet Union and bringing them into the coalition which in a lot of ways marked the true end of the Cold War.
All of this while tensions mount and the world moves closer to war, and the United States starts negotiating with King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, to move more than 200,000 United States Military troops to the Persian Gulf to insure that Iraq will not make moves toward any other neighbors in the region.
Then we will go to the coverage of the Arab League Summit where the Arab Nations stand with the United States against the aggression of Saddam Hussein against Kuwait. It is a united Arab League, with just a couple of hold outs.
We want to recognize "The Gulf War by Frontline" a documentary on the war, we used a long segment for this podcast to go through how the war started, and we recognize "James Baker President-Maker Real Stories " Documentary for the use of the long segment from their documentary as well. Links to both documentaries are provided in the chapters. The use of these documentary segments was for educational purposes and we claim no copyright to those materials or the use of any other materials in our broadcasts .

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From Wikipedia:
The Mayaguez incident took place between Kampuchea (now Cambodia) and the United States from 12 to 15 May 1975, less than a month after the Khmer Rouge took control of the capital Phnom Penh ousting the U.S.-backed Khmer Republic. After the Khmer Rouge seized the U.S. merchant vessel SS Mayaguez in a disputed maritime area, the U.S. mounted a hastily-prepared rescue operation. U.S. Marines recaptured the ship and attacked the island of Koh Tang where it was believed that the crew were being held as hostages.

Encountering stronger than expected defences on Koh Tang, three United States Air Force helicopters were destroyed during the initial assault and the Marines fought a desperate day-long battle with the Khmer Rouge before being evacuated. The Mayaguez's crew were released unharmed by the Khmer Rouge shortly after the attack on Koh Tang began. The names of the Americans killed, including three Marines left behind on Koh Tang after the battle and subsequently executed by the Khmer Rouge, are the last names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
This episode is that story. It features the news coverage of the time and some interviews with soldiers who were there as it all unfolded. In many ways, it was the final battle of the Vietnam War for America.

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In this episode, we listen to Richard Nixon's thoughts on the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union may be gone but the nation that succeeded it, Russia, is now under the leadership of an old KGB Agent, Vladimir Putin. A Russian strongman, leading a resurgence of Russian Nationalism and Russian despotism just as President Nixon had predicted way back in the early 1990s. So President Nixon's thoughts on the subject are just as relevant now as they were at the end of the Cold War.
Richard Nixon also developed a strange relationship near the end of his life with a brand new President. A man from the other party, married to a woman who served on the House Judiciary Committee staff that had voted to impeach him nearly two decades before. But in Bill Clinton he found a willing student of unparalleled intellectual capability and the two men became friends. In this episode we will learn that story and much, much more in part two of our listen to the Wisdom of Richard Nixon.
This episode also has several points made by author Kasey Pipes throughout, Mr. Pipes wrote the book "After the Fall" about Richard Nixon's post Presidency. We highly recommend that book and provide you a link here.
https://a.co/d/cygMZIN

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