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In this episode we listen in on a number of the giant figures of the era in the United States Senate as they debate the confirmation of Judge Clarence Thomas. 

It is a whose who of some of the the towering political figures of the era. They will debate Clarence Thomas's political positions, their concerns about his Judical rulings, and his positions on natural law, and abortion rights but always the question of sexual harrassment will linger in the air. 

We will also feature commentary from the coverage of NBC News with Tom Brokaw and Andrea Mitchell as they count the votes right up until they actually do vote on the nomination of Clarence Thomas, the numbers will be close as the Senate prepares to vote. 

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In this episode we hear the Senators ask questions of both Clarence Thomas and his accuser, Anita Hill. 

The questions and the answers can be at times graphic, deeply personal, and revealing. The Senators often were portrayed as sexist for the grilling they put to Anita Hill. However, some questions needed to be asked, like why did she stay in touch with Thomas for years after the alleged harassment had occurred. 

To both of their credit, they answered them all and I will leave it to you to decide as you listen if you find one more credible than the other as the hearing unfolded. 

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In this episode we hear directly from the accuser and the accused just as if it happened yesterday. This episode will also have both of the people involved give addresses and opening comments from both the Chairman , Joe Biden, and the ranking member, Strom Thurmond. 

It is a fascinating look back at  tumultuous times and you will get to hear both sides of the argument as we feature both the accuser, Anita Hill, and the accused Clarence Thomas as they open up their lives for close examination  .  

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The accusations against Clarence Thomas explode on to the scene just the day before he was going to be voted on for placement of the Supreme Court. The news was a bombshell in the hearings and the two sides were aimed for a fight. 

In this episode we listen to the man that had originally employed Clarence Thomas as he worked his way up the legal ladder to serve as a District Judge and now a potential Supreme Court Justice.  Senator John Danforth will step up and hold a press conference in defense of his former employee who was now poised to become the a Supreme Court Justice, or maybe not.

This is the opening act for the hearings that will get underway later the next morning. 

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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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In this episode we see the Senators as they discuss this appointment of Clarence Thomas to Supreme Court. 

We begin with a meeting of three of the most powerful Republican Senators on Capitol Hill , John Danforth, Bob Dole, and Strom Thurmond. They will discuss the qualifications of Judge Thomas and the strategy for getting him through the confirmation process. 

Then Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell comes out and you will hear the arguments against Thomas that the Democrats are planning to make in the hearings to come. They will question his commitment to Civil Rights, Affirmative Action, and what they feel his position on abortion rights are all going to be. Then they try to sneak in some attacks based on race. 

But Senator Strom Thurmond will step up to counteract that attack by inviting several leaders in South Carolina to come to the Judge's defense and show there support for Thomas. It is all here in this episode along with the opening questions that will begin with the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. 

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In July of 1991, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall announced his retirement as a Supreme Court Justice. That would set off the second ugliest fight to date to fill a Supreme Court seat. Only the fight over the nomination of Robert Bork was tougher and Bork lost. 

Clarence Thomas was a conservative justice, he was young at age 43, and had had a distinguished career as the head of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and he served on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, He was a Yale Graduate and he had an undergraduate Degree from Holy Cross. He would also be the second African American to sit on the Supreme Court but he was not a liberal nor a Democrat. 

That guaranteed him a fight on issues concerning Civil Rights, Affirmative Action, and Abortion rights. Those fights turned out to be only the first round of the Hearings to confirm him. An accusation had been made in some of the FBI reports that had been checking his background and in typical Washington style, it got leaked. 

That led to round 2 and a long debate about the sordid tale of sexual harassment between the Conferee and a former employee he had at the EEOC, Dr. Anita Hill. This is the story of some of the most heated hearings ever held on Capitol Hill. 

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Happy 100th Birthday to former President Jimmy Carter.!!!

He is the first President to live to be 100 years old and he has done a tremendous amount of good over those 100 years. 

In our 10th season we did a dual biography of his Presidency alongside our look at our former Congressman John Jenrette. It was an enormous educational experience for me as the host of this podcast. I learned a lot I had not known about his time in office. 

It was just before we started those episodes he announced he was going into hospice care. We put together this episode in order to honor him immediately when he passed away thinking it was only days away. Instead, he lived on and to honor him now we thought we would run that pre-prepared special edition, with a new brief introduction and a special message from President Joe Biden from CBS Sunday Morning too. 

Happy 100th birthday to Jimmy Carter and we encourage you to go into our back catalogue and listen to our shows profiling his amazing life!! 

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In this episode we let you listen to one of the most impressive statemen of the century, Secretary of State James Baker. He was a graduate of Princeton University and after the Soviet Union Coup attempt finally calms down he returned to his Alma Mater to talk about the future he hoped would occur in the Soviet Union. 

We will be covering James Baker quite a bit over the next seasons as he takes a central role in managing the end of the Cold War, and running the re-election of his friend George H. W. Bush in 1992.  

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In this episode we get the President and Secretary of State's views on the events over the past few days in the Soviet Union. 

In the press conference you will see how the management of this historic event in the Soviet Union is  indictive of how the fall of Communism was managed by these two wise leaders. 

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