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This begins our final two episodes in our Farewell and Welcome back special series. 

We were invited to come up for the Inauguration of Donald Trump and had planned to do a Facebook Live broadcast and interviews live from Washington D.C. Unfortunately, it got seriously cold. 

I am a southerner, I mean seriously cold. 

That changed everything and while we did do some recording it was no where near our original goal. We tried to get into the Capitol One Center to broadcast from there, all we did was wait in line only to be turned away. 

Still this episode makes the best of the materials we did manage to get and thanks to the ABC News coverage, for which we are enormously appreciative, we do have commentary on the huge news of the day, coverage of the two Presidents as they met, and, in this episode, Joe Biden as he leaves. 

In this first part on the Inauguration of Donald Trump, we carry you through the decision to move indoors, the announcements of pardons by Biden, the two Presidents meeting and ride to the Capitol, all from the ABC News broadcast, the swearing in of Donald Trump the 45th President as he became the 47th President of the United States, and we bid farewell to Joe Biden, the 46th President. 

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This is the final night of the 1992 Democratic National Convention and there is only one star of this show. We start out with the CNN Documentary "The Road to the White House 1992" as it fills you in on the events of that day and then we listen in on one of the best films ever produced for a Presidential nominee. "The Man from Hope" put together by Linda and Harry Thomason. The Hollywood TV Producers that came up with the hit T.V Series "Designing Women". This intro video was impactful. 

I will go ahead and tell you our version came from my ancient VHS Collection and the sound audio is at times a struggle. 

After the video we use a better audio, of Bill Clinton as he takes the stage and delivers his 1992 acceptance speech. It was one of the greatest campaign addresses in the history of televised addresses. 

All of this on a night when earlier in the afternoon Ross Perot had withdrawn from the race and handed the Democratic nominee the largest viewing audience for any Convention speech in history. Bill Clinton delivered. 

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As we take off into a new era of American History , I thought it might be interesting to look back at a few of the highlights from a historic week in Washington and look back at the three Presidents this week centered on. 

1. Jimmy Carter - We pay tribute to a great man in former President Jimmy Carter, who passed away at age 100 at the very end of 2024

2. Joe Biden - We listen in on his final speech and his message to America about what he thinks its greatest threats are, his look back at his accomplishments, and his final thoughts at the end of his 52 year career. 

3. Donald Trump - Like a Category 5 Hurricane Donald Trump has blown into town and turned Washington D.C. on its ear. He issued a record number of Executive Orders and grasped the reigns of power quickly and aggressively in what he hopes will usher in a Golden Era in American History. 

We will look back at all three and the week that history was recalled and history was made. We also want to invite you to relive the historic 2nd Inaugural of the 45th and 47th President on February 3 & 4th . 

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We ran out of time in our last episode but felt that both of these segments were worthy of being chronicled in our series looking back at the 1992 election. 

The first is the full press conference of Ross Perot as he withdrew from the 1992 election. It was a move that to this day makes no sense to me as to why he did it. He had been in first place and while he had slipped in the polls he was still in a stronger position than he would ever see again prior to this early withdrawal from the race. You will listen in at his reasoning at the time in his Press conference announcing his withdrawal. 

Then we will return to the convention hall on that final day and during a break in the action on the convention floor we will listen to a panel discussion that will feature every unsuccessful Democratic nominee over the past 22 years up to that point. It is a fascinating discussion featuring reporters and commentators Robert McNeil, Jim Lehrer, Mark Shields, David Gergen and former Democratic Presidential nominees, Senator George McGovern from 1972, Former Vice President Walter Mondale who was on the national ticket as VP in 1976, 1980- and the nominee in 1984, and Massachusetts former Governor and 1988 Nominee Michael Dukakis. It is a must listen to panel discussion from a set of true history makers. 

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In this episode we listen in on one of the great public speakers of the Democratic Party, New York Governor Mario Cuomo.  He will deliver the nominating speech for Governor Bill Clinton and he will electrify the crowd as only he can do. In fact, what stands out is that most of the delegates in the hall, who are way more liberal than your average Democrat, really would have preferred Cuomo as the nominee. 

Cuomo had toyed with the idea of running for President back in 1991 but at that time George H. W. Bush was at 91% favorables in the polls and Cuomo decided to not make the race.  That left the field wide open for Bill Clinton. So, on this third night of the 1992 Democratic Convention it would be Mario Cuomo speaking in nomination of Bill Clinton. Clinton having gambled and won by challenging a President who seemed so strong just 12 months before that he had scared out the heavyweights that could have challenged him. 

There is a political lesson in that scenario because it cannot be lost on you that Clinton would go on to win and Mario Cuomo would never again have the opportunity to run for President in his own right. Such, is the wheel of fate in politics. 

Then a surprise will occur that will change the race and turn it completely upside down, just after Bill Clinton broke with tradition and came down to the hall himself to thank the delegates in person. 

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On this final day of the administration of the 46th President of the United States, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr, we will look back at his Life and Career, and his final week as President of the United States. 

It began in 1972, when our Host Randal Wallace, was only a year and a half old, and it would continue unabated for the next 52 years. A remarkable run for any political figure in either party. 

We start the episode with a phone call from President Richard Nixon on a tragic day in the life of Joe Biden, just after his wife and daughter are killed, and his two other sons, are injured in a horrific automobile accident in December of 1972, and we end the episode with his farewell address on January 15, 2025.  In between, our nation saw Vietnam come to an end, Watergate, the Iranian Hostage crisis, the height of the Cold War, the fall of communism, the Gulf War, the dot com boom, the second Gulf War , the War on Terror, a war in Afghanistan, the first African American President, the passage of Universal Healthcare, the rise of Donald Trump, three impeachments and one near impeachment,  and Joe Biden's own election as President. 

It is a remarkable and long career. Joe Biden was there through an amazingly long consequential period of American History. We try to capture some of that while also chronicling his final week in the White House. Plus near the end of the episode, our Host, Randal Wallace, a lifelong Republican,  will share with you his own experiences dealing directly with the President and share his final thoughts on the man, that in the ultimate irony of life, is the only President of the United States our Host has ever worked directly with on one occasion, Joe Biden, a Democrat. 

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We have an announcement. We are heading to Washington D.C. to cover the Inauguration of Donald Trump. Tune in to our Facebook Live videos on our "Randal Wallace Presents" podcast  Facebook page and then we will have the show ready to go when we get back. 

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In our second installment of "Farewells and Welcome Backs" we begin our farewell to Joe Biden, the 46th President of the United States. 

In this episode we share a few thoughts on the man and his entire career and we listen in on three of his final speeches in his own farewell tour of sorts. 

1. His Lifetime Achievement Award from the Clinton Foundation given to him by Former President Bill Clinton in New York, thanking him for his lifetime of service to the nation. 

2. President Biden's final address to the United Nations as he talks about the sweep of History he has been a witness to in his roles as a Senator, Vice President and President. What he thinks the priorities should be for the United Nations in the coming years as he prepares to leave center stage. 

3. Then we share with you his press announcement of the ceasefire agreement ironed out between his Administration and the two warring factions in the Middle East  of Israel and the terrorist organization Hezbollah that operates out of Lebanon but is financed by the Iranian Government. 

This is an interesting look at the final moments of the Biden Administration, 

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In this episode we look back at a triumphant week for President Donald Trump as he held a pre Inaugural press conference on the transition and his plans for a second Trump term. 

In this episode we will listen in on all the various themes and issues he touched on in his hour and 20 minute press conference and then delve into the historic legal proceeding in New York State. In our opinion, that action by the New York State Court was exactly the type of overreach that we hope the President will remember as he takes office on January 20th. Our podcast, has dove in deeply into our examples of how lawfare has created a rift on our national body politic for over a half century and how desperately we believe this evil needs to be stopped. 

History, fate,  or circumstance, has given Donald Trump an unparalleled opportunity to destroy this evil political ploy that no one in our history has ever been handed. The use of lawfare destroyed the Presidency of Richard Nixon, helped end the career of George H. W. Bush, crippled the remainder of the Presidency of Bill Clinton, and while Senator Ted Stevens would be eventually totally exonerated that all occurred when he wasn't a Senator any more. Donald Trump has been afforded the opportunity to right this wrong after being its victim for the entire time he was out of office between January of 2020 and literally, last week. 

This episode is also dedicated to President Donald Trump's biggest fan here in Horry County, a woman instrumental in his success in our State of South Carolina. Gerri McDaniel was a force of nature who exploded onto the local political scene almost 18 years ago as a leader in the Tea Party movement, she would go on to help engineer Newt Gingrich's victory in South Carolina's Primary in 2012, and was the early leader here for President Donald Trump throughout his time in politics. She passed away suddenly this week and we thought it only fitting she share in this moment of triumph for President Trump. This show is dedicated to Gerri McDaniel's memory. 

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This is a second part we added to our tribute to President Jimmy Carter that ran yesterday. The episode we put together to start with was already 1 hour and 47 minutes long after editing it down,  so we had to decide what to cut from the program. After making the edits we came to the conclusion that we had another episode that really needed to be shared. 

This is that episode and that material. We will begin with some extra things we found including a speech by President Carter introducing his Grandson at the college in Sumter County, Georgia when his grandson, Jason Carter, spoke to the graduates. It is in that speech you will see just how effective and inspiring a speaker the younger Carter actually is, as we had already learned watching the State Funeral last week. We include that eulogy in this episode as well. 

We will also let you hear from President Jimmy Carter as he delivers a eulogy for former President Gerald Ford. The two men had become very close friends and both agreed that they would deliver a eulogy for whichever one survived the other. Ford wrote his eulogy for Carter and had it filed away for the possibility that one day he would deliver it. His son, Steven Ford, did so last week, 18 years after President Ford had passed away. We thought you might find it interesting to hear President Carter deliver the eulogy that he gave at President Ford's funeral in Michigan on the heels of hearing President Ford's read so many years later. 

Finally, we end where the State Funeral ended, with the eulogy delivered by President Carter's great friend, the former Mayor of Atlanta, the Carter Administration's United Nations Ambassador, and great civil rights leader, Andrew Young, who is now 92 years old and who, in order to deliver his powerful remarks about President Carter, had to do so while sitting down. It was a moment that held everyone spellbound as the Ambassador talked about his nearly 7 decade friendship that would take both of them from the rural southwest Georgia backroads, to the White House and beyond. 

Former President Jimmy Carter was 100 years old. 

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