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In this special edition of The Richard Nixon Experience, we let you tune back in to that final day at the White House for President Nixon. You will hear excerpts from his resignation speech, his speech to his staff and reminiscences from several different people about those events including President Nixon and President Ford. 

All of this leading up to an extraordinary 3 minutes of footage just released by the Richard Nixon foundation that includes President nixon's brief impromptu remarks at the El Torro Marine Base when he arrived back home in California. Until this year that footage had not been released. So, other than the network news casts we had not been able to hear any of the audio from that extraordinary moment when a President, leaving office in disgrace, was greeted like a hero by the people he had led. Not at all the story you have been told. 

Then we have invited a guest to speak on this episode. Robert M. Bostock, was an aid to President Nixon in retirement and he has been a great friend to podcast. He recently wrote an op-ed for the Washington Times and in it he asked a question that I hope many of you will ask. What if President Nixon had been allowed to finish his second term? 

It is a question worth listening to the answer too and we asked Mr. Bostock to read his op-ed for our show and we will let you listen to it at the end of this broadcast. 
I agree with Mr. Bostock, the world would have been a much different and much better place had Richard Nixon completed his term of office. 

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In this special edition of our podcast we look back in Memoriam to three people who passed away in August of 2024. 

They are our podcasts legal advisor, James Wiles, a retired lawyer who lived here in Myrtle Beach and was active in Republican Party Politics, working on several campaigns for Horry County Council, Myrtle Beach City Council, and Myrtle Beach Mayor, he also helped in a couple of congressional Races and he worked on the Presidential Campaign of Rick Santorum. He later became an advisor to this podcast, starting around our 30th episode and really gave us solid advice as we dealt with the series on Former President Richard Nixon. He was a good friend and will be missed. 

When we were running our series on Richard Nixon we often heard the voice of CBS Newsman Phil Jones, he covered the Watergate story and then seven more Presidents from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush before retiring in the early 2000s He passed away in late August at the age of 87. 

Finally, we look back at television talk show pioneer, Phil Donahue. He made our show for two very personal stories to us at this podcast. He had Rita Jenrette on his show and it was then , in prime time that our Congressman called in and made national news. It was an episode everyone in Myrtle Beach in that era always remembered. 

Then there is a love story like no other. When Phil Donahue met Marlo Thomas on his television show and it was love at first sight and on live television. Everyone watching could see the chemistry on full display. We should all be so lucky. They were married for 44 years and there was just as much chemistry between them in their last appearance on TV as there was in their first. It is one of our hosts favorite stories to retell. So, we let him tell it here on this episode again. 

Rest in Peace, James Wiles, Phil Jones, and Phil Donahue 

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Due to the death of our legal advisor, James Wiles, here at "The Randal Wallace Presents" Podcast we were caught in a situation on August 1, 2024,  that led to some episodes we had produced not being aired in the order they were supposed to be aired on. They are episodes that deal with General Norman Schwarzkopf. We will be airing these two shows next week and a special edition episode later today. 

In this brief episode we are just going to explain the situation and how these episodes will work out. We are a small shop here at this broadcast and we apologize for the error. Thank you for baring with us too. 

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In this episode we see the War wrap up as the Iraqi's flee Kuwait and the United Nations Forces take control of the nation. 

In this episode you will hear President Bush address the nation as the ground war comes to an end. 

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The Ground War begins. 

In this episode we will listen in as the press struggles to get a full story as to what is happening on the ground in Kuwait and Iraq. 

We will hear President Bush address the nation and that will be followed up by Defense Secretary Dick Cheney holding a press conference at the Pentagon with a simple message that the ground operations have begun and that they will not be telling the press what is happening from this point on . 

It is high drama as the end game of the 1991 Gulf War begins. 

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In this episode we look at the dominating ability of the Coalition Air Forces led by the United States. 

Saddam Hussein finds himself out gunned, out technologized, and on the brink of losing badly. The United States forces are gearing up to begin the Ground War after basically demolishing the Iraqi Air Force. 

We will also show you some of the new technology developed for fighting the war and one one old ship that came back for active duty, the historic USS Missouri. Plus, we will listen to an interesting story about the impact of music in Wartime going back to World War 1.

All as we get ready for the Ground War to begin.  

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The second in a series of Norman Shwartzkoft press briefings. His briefings were a work of art. He lays out the situation and keeps the public informed. He does it with an amazing sense of humor and focus all at the sametime. 

Enjoy listening to the General on the ground running the war in a way we had never been able to hear a commanding in the field General talk before. 

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This episode we will examine the battle of Khafgi. It was Saddam Hussein's attempt to make America bleed. He had not been able to engage any American troops at all and therefore had few if any bargaining chips as the War had been mostly an air campaign to this point. His thought was to invade this tiny Saudi Arabian border town and force the Americans into a battle . Killing some and capturing some. It did not work that way. 

In Fact, it served as a tactical blunder as it exposed just how weak the Iraqi military actually were on the ground. After the battle of Khafgi, the ground war would be sped up and the entire war brought to an end quickly as the Americans had figured out that the famous Iraqi million man army was mostly ill managed, ill equipped, and ill trained. We were now ready to press on to victory. 

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This episode we hear from President George Bush as he reports back to the country the State of the Union as we are poised for a land war in the Middle East. 

It is a strong speech from a commanding President who at this point was one of the most popular Presidents' in American History. 

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The Gulf War heats up just in time for one of America's biggest annual events, the Super Bowl. 

In this episode we tune in as the issues in the Middle East take front and center in the second week of the air war. We listen in as the United States and the Coalition forces dominate the Iraqi military. But fear here at home also grows as the nation gets ready for its biggest secular holiday the Super Bowl, 

The game will be greeted with enormous security but it also lives up to the billing. It starts out with one of the most amazing renditions of the Star Spangled Banner ever recorded by artist Whitney Houston and it is followed up by a spectacular game, arguably the greatest Super Bowl ever played as Marv Levy's Buffalo Bills take on Bill Parcell's New York Giants in a game as exciting as any played and it will all be decided by a field goal attempt by Buffalo Kicker Scott Norwood. 

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