BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback

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Rodney King was stopped for speeding in California the year before and savagely beaten after he resisted arrest. It was all caught on video by a bystander and the police were charged for excessive  brutality while trying to subdue King. 

When the police were acquitted by an all white jury in another neighboring county from where the crime had occurred the city of Los Angeles exploded.  There were riots , looting, and fires all over the downtown area, and after the death of a rioter in Koreatown, the tensions mounted as the riot moved over into the Korean section.  

In this episode, we will relive the riots both in real time, and thanks to the L.A. TV Station KCAL, through the eyes of some of the people 25 years later in their series reliving the L.A. Riots. We will hear from Mayor Tom Bradley, Governor Pete Wilson and at the end of the episode we will hear President George H. W. Bush as he addresses the nation in an attempt to bring calm to the disorder he was facing, all of which is occurring just six months before the 1992 Presidential Election. 

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The 1992 New York Democratic Primary was a knock down drag out affair between Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and his one remaining challenger Former California Governor Jerry Brown. The two men pulled no punches as they fought over the delegates in this state , that was no stranger to rowdy politics. 

Brown would accuse Clinton of shaking down the Arkansas poultry industry for thousands of dollars in legal fees for his wife's law firm in Little Rock. Clinton would return the fire going after Brown's constant reinventing of himself, and the fact that he had been known for his shaking down of California business interests for years. 

They both went straight for the jugular and it left hard feelings that did not end after the primary was over. But Bill Clinton would win it, and Jerry Brown would lose not only to Bill Clinton but also to Paul Tsongas, who had suspended his campaign a couple of weeks earlier. That would seal the fate of Jerry Brown and finally give Bill Clinton his party's nomination for President. 

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In this episode we will listen in as Pat Buchanan begins to fade away after it is discovered he drives a Mercedes Benz and the Bush campaign pounces on it. 

On the other side, Paul Tsongas, Tom Harkin, and John Kerry also fade away but Bill Clinton will still find himself with one very stubborn opponent left to lock horns with before he can lay claim to the Democratic Nomination. 

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Here is Ross Perot in all his blunt, direct, glory. In this episode we hear him give the 1992 graduating class of Oklahoma University commencement address. It is a speech full of truly useful advice. It will leave you impressed and you will understand better after you listen to it as to why he came very close to actually winning the Presidency in 1992. 

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He was talking on the Larry King Show on CNN and said that if the people could get enough signatures to gethim on the Texas ballot he might run for President. They needed 50,000 signatures, they ended up with 250,000. Suddenly, H. Ross Perot was a serous contender for President of the United States. 

He had the money, a self made billionaire, and he told you what he really thought without poll testing it first. He ran for President warning everyone of the disaster the deficit and national debt could be. The people were listening and for a while he was in first place. 

In this episode we look back at the man who , in a way, is who Donald Trump has followed in the foot steps of in his run for the Presidency three times, winning it twice. Perot may not have won but he laid the foundation for the politics we see dominating the political landscape we look out upon today. 

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This short housekeeping show will air on both of our podcasts because we want to hear from you. We are about to air an uninterupted oral history on The Richard Nixon Experience. We want to know if you would be interested in more episodes in this type of format and have us, at the Richard Nixon Experience, comeback for a seventh season. 

Just let us know by emailing me here on the website or at our website RandalWallace.Com or at my personal email address [email protected] 

We are at the end of our series on the Richard Nixon Experience, and will run the interview with former FBI Agent Angelo Lanao, starting tomorrow, followed by our tribute to Federal Judge Lawrence Silberman and then the Watergate symposium filmed just three weeks before Judge Silberman passed away and featuring Geoff Shepard whose research made this series possible. 

That will wrap up our existing work on Richard Nixon, unless you decide we should comeback for a seventh season. 

I am running this short episode on both of our podcasts. 

Thanks Again for tuning in and listening to our podcasts,

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In this episode we cover the 1992 New Hampshire Primary with the help of WMUR News from Manchester, New Hampshire. They do a segment titled "Inside the Vault" that covers the history of the New Hampshire Primary. They did several on the 1992 Primary, we used four of them for this episode. 

We will look back on Bill Clinton's incredible comeback in this primary after scandal threatens to take him out, we will look at the floundering campaign of Senator Bob Kerry who at the start appeared to be the most formidable of candidates and it just never materialized for him, we will also look at the incredible speech at the Dover, New Hampshire Elks Club that turned Bill Clinton's fortunes around , and then finally, we will tune in at a look back at the forgotten winner of the 1992 New Hampshire Primary Senator Paul Tsongas. 

Then it's off to the nightly news broadcast from that evening and hear the analysis before the votes come in and after, as we relive one of the turning points in the most exciting campaigns in the history of the republic. 

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The first stop of the primary season is in Iowa. It is an important stop on the pathway to the Presidential Nomination in both parties. In 1992, President George H. W. Bush was way out in front and his challenger, Pat Buchanan, decided not to contest him in Iowa, and on the Democratic side Iowa Senator Tom Harkin was running and therefore the Democrats decided not to invest to much energy there either. 

But we are going to start there in Iowa. Then move you over to New Hampshire where at this point in the campaign both front runners are hemorrhaging badly to their challengers. Bill Clinton gets bogged down in two personal scandals, one concerning infidelity and an Arkansas lounge singer named Gennifer Flowers, and the other one about his attempt to dodge the draft and steer clear of the Vietnam War. The result of both of these scandals is Clinton drops from a clear frontrunner to battling to stay alive with Tom Harkin and Bob Kerry on his heels. He will spend this week trying to stop the bleeding, and as we shall see on election night, he does. 

Then President Bush is in a tug of war with television commentator Pat Buchanan. Buchanan wants to put "America First", to stop getting into trade deals, and stop providing foreign aid. His main theme is that the elite, personified by George Bush, don't care about you, and make decisions to the detriment of the working class. He wants to "Make America First Again", sound familiar.  That message is resonating in a New Hampshire then in the throws of a tough recession. 

In this episode, we will stop off in Iowa and then venture over to New Hampshire and the eve of the hard fought New Hampshire Primary and in both primary races they will serve up some surprises. 

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In this episode we introduce you to the one person who needs no introduction, Bill Clinton, the then Governor of Arkansas. He would burst onto the national stage in 1991 and quickly emerge as the Democratic Frontrunner. He raised the most money, setup the strongest organization , and used his extraordinary people skills to win the public over. 

In this episode we let you see those skills in full bloom. We watch two different Clinton Foundation videos that tell the story of the start of his historic 1992 campaign, and we will sit down with him, and legendary reporter Hugh Sidey, as they discuss his life and career before the Presidency. 

Then we head down to Little Rock, Arkansas,  on October 3, 1991, to hear the Governor announce he is a candidate for President of the United States. It is a big moment , for this Governor from this small Southern State, who will in little over a year, find himself the First in his Class of Baby Boomers to make it to the White House. 

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Pat Buchanan, the tough talking, former speechwriter and aid to Richard Nixon, and former Communications Director for Ronald Reagan, steps up and challenges the President and leader of his own party in New Hampshire. His campaign will sound very familiar to you if you have followed the last three Republican Presidential Campaigns. 

For much of the "America First" and "Make America Great Again" platforms and campaign rhetoric began with the campaign in 1992 of Pat Buchanan. In this episode we will take you back to the beginning of his improbable campaign in 1992 when he nearly toppled a President before the President could get his campaign off the ground. 

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