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This episode opens on the joyous occasion of President Bush's Inaugural event and his walking down Pennsylvania Avenue. You will hear from George W. Bush, then a Texas Oilman who had little to do with politics other than working for his Father,  and NBC News personality Willard Scott from the parade route. It was the happy culmination of years of hard work and following a winding road that had finally led George Bush to the White House on his own 

Then we will move on to the speech given at Texas A&M University that would lay out the strategy that Bush would follow as the world changed all around them. For on this eve of the start of his term, the world was still dominated by two Superpowers, one who stood for Freedom and capitalism, and another that believed in no freedom and and a command economy, which was failing all around the world. 

Here you will see the first steps toward the end of the Cold War. 

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Henry Kissinger, a giant of American History, and arguably the nations greatest diplomat died on November 29, 2023 at the age of 100. 

In this episode we look back at his extraordinary 100 years as he worked with Richard Nixon to bring peace to millions of people around the world and keep our nation safe here at home. 

His passing comes at an unusual moment as our rebroadcast of the Nixon Podcast Documentary  is,  in December,  coming to the section that brings to a close the end of the Vietnam War. The bulk of the coming episodes is a window into this extraordinary partnership between one of the four greatest Presidents in American History and one of its  greatest diplomats, as they bring to a close a war that ripped apart the American people as few things have over its nearly 250 year history. 

We invite you to tune in, in December, to a month that will be dedicated to the memory of Henry Kissinger as it shows you in real time the true story of how the Vietnam War ended.  So please join us at "The Richard Nixon Experience" (a link is provided in the chapter lists)  or go through our back catalogue here at "Randal Wallace Presents" for a chance to deep dive into the most comprehensive examination of the Nixon tapes available online, other than at Luke Nichter's www.Nixontapes.org website. You can also visit www.RandalWallace.com to hear our show and read all about these podcasts. 

We want to thank CNN News and FOX News whose reports and two interviews  we used to tell this story, as quickly as we could.

Henry Kissinger was 100 years old. 

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In this episode we hear from George H. W. Bush as he addresses the nation in his Inaugural Address in 1989. 

It would begin a single term in office that would see the face of the entire world change dramatically from its start to its finish.  The final triumph for a generation of American Leaders who rightfully could be called the Greatest Generation. 

We will also see one of America's Greatest leaders leave center stage as Ronald Reagan flies away to California after laying the foundation for the triumphs to come. 

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In this final episode in our 8 episode look at the 2023 Myrtle Beach City Council Race we bring you to the end of the run off election and the fate of the final seat available on the Myrtle Beach City Council. 

In the final  race Bill McClure was elected and we have all the coverage here for you plus a little house keeping about some of the coming episodes and special editions on tap for December and into 2024. 

Thanks for tuning in and if you want to learn more about the Dickens Christmas show here is the website for Myra Starnes legendary event held each November here in Myrtle Beach. 

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In this episode we do a deep dive on one of the most famous speeches ever given by an American President. It was when Ronald Reagan went to the Berlin Wall, just as Mikhail Gorbachev had loosened up restrictions on the Soviet and Communist world, and demanded that Gorbachev prove he was serious about change and tear down the wall that divided the people of East and West Germany. 

We found a lecture from the Ashbrook Center with Reagan Speech writer Peter Robinson where he tells the story of how the speech came to be, and how the famous line "Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down this Wall!!" was placed in the speech and the efforts of the State Department and several of Reagan's closest advisors to remove it even though Reagan himself was determined to leave it in the speech. 

Then you can listen to President Ronald Reagan as he addresses Berlin in one of histories most consequential addresses in its entirety. A speech that laid the foundation for the story to come and the fall of communism around the world. 

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In this episode we tune in to the race between Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and Vice President George H. W. Bush. as they debate each other in a debate that saw Dukakis answer one of the hardest hitting questions ever asked in my memory of any candidate. His answer came off like a robot and with that the slide began that would lead to Bush's victory. 

We will join an August, 24, 1988 campaign rally in California that will feature George Bush's other ace in the hole, the then current President, Ronald Reagan. You will see a vintage Reagan as he delivers a speech in the effort to elect his Vice President to carry on the work he had begun over 8 great years as President. 

Finally you can relive the election of George H. W. Bush as we drop in on the coverage on election night 1988 when George Bush closes in on victory after climbing over a 17 point deficit with the voters and eventually defeats Michael Dukakis to become the nation's 41st President. 

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In this episode we get an overview of the 1988 Presidential election field of candidates. On the republican side the race has 8 candidates but it really is a battle between two:  George H. W. Bush and Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole.  There is also a new rising force that would play a major role in the campaign primaries and continue to do so to this day.  It is the role of Evangelical Christians.  their leader , televangelist Pat Robertson, would turn the Iowa Caucus on its head with a far stronger showing than anyone had predicted and hand Bob Dole the win and the lead finishing second and knocking Bush to third. 

George H.W. Bush would have to claw his way back into the race in New Hampshire and he would do it with some of the most skillful use of television ever produced. It would be a fight that would lead to an angry eruption from his vanquished foe on primary night. 

On the Democratic side, we see a little known Massachusetts Governor emerge after helping the early demise of a Senator  who had widely been seen to that point as a rising political star for nearly two decades. Senator Joe Biden had been elected at the age of 29, and had risen in the Senate to Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Michael Dukakis would see to it that it was a short lived campaign for Joe Biden, the first of possibly five Presidential forays the Senator has made on the Presidential level over the past four decades. 

We will also tune in on the campaign of Jesse Jackson, that really did shatter the race barrier for national elections, that would open the door twenty years later to the election of Barack Obama as President.  

It was 1988, a historic campaign year, that showed an entire generation of political consultants the rules to the game, of what to do, and what not to do, in order to win. They have been perfecting it ever since. 

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On November 9, 2023, The City of Myrtle Beach opened its new World War 2 Memorial on the grounds of Warbird Park, just past the front entrance going into the Market Commons area of Myrtle Beach. This was, for nearly a half century, the front gate of the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base until it closed in 1993.  In the years since the city of Myrtle Beach has tried to preserve its history as a military town.  

This Memorial was the brain child of Myrtle Beach City Councilman Dr. Phil Render, whose father was a World War 2 Veteran, who aided at the landing at Bougainville in the Pacific.  This Memorial was very special to us at this podcast as we have been trying to educate people on the great leadership lessons that the Greatest Generation showed us in the half century they ran the American Government.  In this episode, we actually use materials from the various episodes we have done covering the military events of the era. We use footage from interviews with Senators Dan Inouye, Strom Thurmond, and Bob Dole, we also feature George H.W. Bush and survivors from the sinking of the USS Indianapolis.  Much of this audio materials is mixed in with the recent event in Myrtle Beach. 

At that event the city was able to gather together 11 World War 2 Veterans for an amazing moment to share with the last living links to this incredible era. The Former Mayor of Myrtle Beach Robert  Hirsch spoke at the event and we have his  speech in its entirety on this broadcast.  Mayor Hirsch, who served as Mayor from 1973 to 1977, was also a World War 2 Veteran and American fighter pilot, who served in Europe and met General Patton among many of the giants of the era. He tells that story and many more in his speech at this event. Mayor Hirsch just recently celebrated his 100th birthday. This episode is a real treat, and an honor to have been able to put together , as we honor the Greatest Generation both on our show and with a beautiful Memorial in Myrtle Beach. 

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In our final full episode on the 2023 Myrtle Beach City Council Election special series we take you along on election day with a candidate in the race (who is also the host of our show) In it you will hear him talking to people, checking the poll numbers, (which as a candidate he is allowed to do) and talking with people as he goes from precinct to precinct on Election Day. 

We also take a look at the changing dynamics of our city, Myrtle Beach, as this election moves from an old school type political structure, with lifelong, or 30 year residents serving on council to the first run off in the city's history that will feature two candidates who have lived in the city for less than a decade.  It is the dawn of a new era and we try and take you along for the ride. 

Our host Randal Wallace,  was a candidate in this race, and as he will discuss his long shot bid, with only the materials from his attic, his own two feet, and his desire to continue serve the people he had represented for nearly two decades,  he managed to come within 250 votes of winning a spot in the election runoff against candidates endorsed by the heir to the Budweiser Distribution fortune, who is the  current Mayor of Myrtle Beach, who not only publicly selected and endorsed her candidates, she helped raise and spend nearly a quarter of a million dollars in their efforts.  For Wallace it was a campaign against all odds , that even featured  one final sneak attack by dark money special interests determined to stop the Cinderella campaign of Randal Wallace at the twilight hour, as he fought to return the city to responsible fiscal management, and to listening to the people again.

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Dear Friends, 

As you may know I am a candidate tomorrow for the Myrtle Beach City Council. I am asking for and hoping you will vote for me in that election if you live in Myrtle Beach. I have recorded this special message for you and with it my hope to return to the city council and continue to work on your behalf to insure our city remains the great, family, working class beach it has been for over 80 years. 

We are a wonderful place that is why we are now the fastest growing, number one destination in America. We have a wonderful hometown and we need to protect it for the future. 

Please consider voting for me tomorrow, November 7th, if you live here in Myrtle Beach and if you know someone here please ask them to consider voting tomorrow for me too,

Thanks Again, 

Randal Wallace
Host of "The Randal Wallace Presents " Podcast 

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