George H.W. Bush 1991 The Soviet Coup

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Randal Wallace Presents : "George H. W. Bush" a four season look back at his extraordinary life, career, and his single term as President of the United States. A term that saw the high point of American Leadership around the world as he steered the world through the fall of the Communist superpower, the former Soviet Union. It also saw the United States lead a worldwide coalition against aggression by the Middle Eastern Dictator Saddam Hussein, and setting the example on how to fight such a war with textbook accuracy, overwhelming force, with a clear set of objectives, and leaving after those objectives were met. A lesson sadly we did not seem to learn in subsequent foreign entanglements. Then we will watch the changing of the guard as the Vietnam Generation leads a campaign in 1992 to transfer power from the generation of leadership that won the Cold War.

In this our 12th and 13 Seasons, we will look back at the Bush Administration and the historic sweep of freedom that changed the world from 1990 through Christmas 1991. It was a historic time. We saw the Gulf War begin as Bush led a multinational coalition to beat back the Iraqi Dictator, Saddam Hussein, after he invaded Kuwait. In August of 1991, hard liners in Moscow would attempt a coup to bring down Mikhail Gorbachev and his many reforms that were changing the Soviet Union. The coup would fail but it would help launch the career of the Moscow Mayor, Boris Yeltsin. That would, by Christmas Day, 1991, lead to what had been unthinkable for the past 70 years, the end of the Soviet Union. We would also see President Bush lead the way to reunify Germany, and a fight for the future of the United States Supreme Court would erupt after the nomination of Clarence Thomas was made to replace Thurgood Marshall. It all happened without firing a shot, which is an enormous success story for the ages.

We invite you to come along with us on a wild ride through the high points and low moments of modern American History, in an effort to show the citizens of today that we are an amazing and resilient nation.

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In November 1972, Nixon and Spiro Agnew, his vice president, celebrated a landslide re-election. Within 11 months, Agnew would resign from office. A federal investigation revealed the veep's political corruption and tax evasion issues. He was the first-ever vice president to have to resign. Nixon picked Ford, Minority Leader of the US House of Representatives, to replace Agnew. Nine months after that, Nixon would also have to resign, due to the Watergate scandal. Gerald Ford: The Accidental President goes through these complicated machinations. Wallace explains them in an engaging way, so today's listeners can understand the story.

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Gerald Ford: The Accidental President also talks about Ford's term. Inflation was high and the US was getting out of Vietnam. Ford tried to heal the nation during this troubled time. He pardoned Nixon to calm things down. But this action was controversial. It is one of the reasons Jimmy Carter defeated Ford when he ran for the presidency in 1976. Fans of history and politics may enjoy this podcast.

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Send us a textComing in 2024, the second part in our three part series looking back on the Presidency of George H. W. Bush. In this series "The Sweep of History" we will look back at some of the most historic moments of the 20th century, as Communism breathes its last and one of the two Super Powers, the Soviet Union, comes crashing down. Though it all happened without a war and without the United States having to fire a shot. In this series we will also look back at the Gulf War, the textbook example of how to fight a war in the modern era, the Clarence Thomas Hearings, and the Soviet Coup attempt that helped bring about the total collapse of Communism throughout the World. It was a dramatic year and a half. Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

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Episode 302 GEORGE H. W. BUSH The Soviet Coup (Part 2) Blood in the Street

Episode 302 GEORGE H. W. BUSH The Soviet Coup (Part 2) Blood in the Street

Send us a textIn this episode we see the beginning of the end of the Coup as three people are killed by tanks running over them as the Army is moving in Moscow toward the White House, their home of the Russian Parliament. It is a day full of drama as Boris Yeltsin fights back defiantly. He eludes the Coup leaders by 40 minutes at his house and heads down to the parliament building. Then he moves to block the coup. He calls on a strike by the nations minors, calls the coup leaders directly, and warns them that the world is watching and their would be consequences for their actions, and he talks with the leaders of the free world , John Major of the United Kingdom, and George H. W, Bush. the President of the United States, and he impresses then both. He is singularly the brave figure who stands up against the tyranny of the Committee of Eight. Boris Yeltsin emerges on this day as the most powerful public figure in Russia. Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Episode 301 GEORGE H. W. BUSH The Soviet Coup (Part 1) Caught by Surprise

Episode 301 GEORGE H. W. BUSH The Soviet Coup (Part 1) Caught by Surprise

Send us a textOn August 19, 1991, George H. W. Bush was woken up just after midnight to be told that Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned suddenly for health reasons as the President of the Soviet Union. That did not sound right to anyone. What unfolded for the next three days was the entire world watching the unraveling of one of the two Super Powers of the past half century. Gorbachev was placed under house arrest in his Black Sea Dacha, and his vice President and the leaders of the KGB and the Army took over the country. However, the coup was poorly conceived, poorly managed, and the plotters were often unwilling to to the things necessary to secure control of the country. They also miscalculated how much the reforms that Gorbachev had set forward in the Soviet Union had actually taken hold. The people were resisting the take over and a leader emerged who stood up against it all. His name was Boris Yeltsin. This is the story of those three days in the next three episodes. It was a historic three days that changed the World. Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Episode 300 GEORGE H. W. BUSH 1991 The Start 1 Treaty

Episode 300 GEORGE H. W. BUSH 1991 The Start 1 Treaty

Send us a textIn this episode we look back at several important situations developing all at once. The Soviet Union is in trouble. Economically the situation is getting dire as Gorbachev comes to the economic summit to ask for help. As the G-7 includes the Soviets for the very first time. This is just after a fairly small, and not so celebratory May Day in the Soviet Union. It used to be the event every year where the Soviets displayed their military muscle and its high brass stood up over seeing it all from the balcony. Missiles and troops would march by under portraits of Lenin, and whomever the Communist Party Leader was at the time, be it Khrushchev or Brezhnev. But this time it was sparsely attended under heavy security, and it had none of the trappings of old. If that was not bad enough for the Communist superpower, its largest Republic, the Russian Federation, was in the midst of holding its very first election for President, in what would be its first completely free election with real choices for leadership. the front runner was not the Kremlin's choice, it was a renegade natural politician who had already bolted the Communist Party and was busy trying to get control of various power sources from the Soviet leadership and put it under Russian control His name was Boris Yeltsin and he was on the verge of being catapulted onto the World Stage. Finally the START 1 Treaty was being negotiated and it would be a further thawing of the Cold War but one that had the hardline Communists worried that their control was rapidly fading away. The Treaty was defined here by a use of Artificial Intelligence (our first use of that) here: START I, or the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty I, was an agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union to reduce the number of long-range nuclear weapons. The treaty was signed in Moscow on July 31, 1991 by George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev. The treaty's main limits included: 1,600 strategic nuclear delivery vehicles, 6,000 accountable warheads, 4,900 ballistic missile warheads, 1,540 warheads on 154 heavy ICBMs, and 1,100 warheads on mobile ICBMs. The treaty also required the parties to:Exchange data on the number and location of their strategic delivery vehiclesAllow each other to conduct inspectionsBan the encryption and exchange of telemetric data that tracked ballistic missiles during test launches The START I treaty was part of the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), which began in 1982 and lasted for three decades. The START II treaty was agreed upon in 1993, but never came into force. Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Episode 299 GEORGE H.W, BUSH The Gulf War (Part 14) Building Coalitions, An Address by James Baker, Former Secretary of State

Episode 299 GEORGE H.W, BUSH The Gulf War (Part 14) Building Coalitions, An Address by James Baker, Former Secretary of State

Send us a textCoalition Building in the Gulf War President Bush introduces former Secretary of State James Baker. Mr. Baker then spoke about diplomatic efforts to build an international coalition to fight Iraq and liberate Kuwait. Following his remarks he answered questions from the audience.We decided that this event was too important not to feature in its entirety. It was held on October 26, 2001 Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Episode 298 GEORGE H.W. BUSH: The Gulf War - The President Bush Post War addresses Collection

Episode 298 GEORGE H.W. BUSH: The Gulf War - The President Bush Post War addresses Collection

Send us a textIn this episode we follow President Bush during the period just after the Gulf War has ended. In this period he makes several speeches thanking the State Department, the soldiers, speaking to the future soldiers at the West Point Graduation and trying to inspire their future service to the nation. Finally, he addresses the service remembering those who fell during the Gulf War at the amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery. It is there on our nation's most hallowed ground that this President comes back to honor those we lost on his watch during the Gulf War. Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Episode 297 GEORGE H. W. BUSH : The Gulf War - The War Ends with Bush addressing Congress

Episode 297 GEORGE H. W. BUSH : The Gulf War - The War Ends with Bush addressing Congress

Send us a textOn March 6, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed a joint session of Congress to report back that the war in the Gulf was over. That Iraq had been repulsed and Kuwait had been restored. It was an impressive moment for a President who had once been called a wimp on the front page of Newsweek. This military operation had not only been a success it was arguably the United States most successful military endeavor. It was run as near perfectly as a war could be run. President Bush and his team set clear objectives, and backed them up with overwhelming force, and when the mission was complete they left without getting bogged down in a nation building exercise in the Middle East. It was a clear sign of the lessons learned by a generation of Americans who had mastered their moment, from a Great Depression, to the Cold War, to this final triumph in the Middle East. However, it would not be their final triumph as the Cold War had a couple of more twists and turns to make before it would end in 1991 as well. Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

George H.W. BUSH The Gulf War : A Clear , Clean Victory in the Persian Gulf, An Address by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Colin Powell, March 4, 1991 (Special Edition)

George H.W. BUSH The Gulf War : A Clear , Clean Victory in the Persian Gulf, An Address by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Colin Powell, March 4, 1991 (Special Edition)

Send us a textIn this episode we look back at the end of the war and then tune in to a speech by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the Veterans of Foreign Wars. General Colin Powell emerged from this war a national hero. He would go on to look seriously at his own run for President in 1996. After you listen in on this speech you understand why he was seen as so formidable a candidate. Powell is a very good public speaker. Here he talks about the war, the past wars, and the soldiers who have fought them. It is a good speech. Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Episode 296 GEORGE H.W. BUSH : The Gulf War - The Norman Schwarzkopf Mother of All Press Conferences (Special Edition)

Episode 296 GEORGE H.W. BUSH : The Gulf War - The Norman Schwarzkopf Mother of All Press Conferences (Special Edition)

Send us a textIn this episode we take a look back at General Norman Schwarzkopf the man as remembered by one of his colleagues. Then we tune in to the press conference known in Gulf War lore as "The Mother of all Press Conferences" In this press Conference Schwarzkopf goes through what had been happening on the ground and offers his own assessment of the Leadership skills of Saddam Hussein. He is , as always, blunt, direct, and to the point. He also shows flashes of his sense of humor as the war begins to wind down with a commanding American victory in the Middle East. Then we tune in to the ceremony honoring both General Schwarzkopf and his Commanding officer Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell. Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Episode 295 GEORGE H.W. BUSH: The Gulf War - The Norman Schwarzkopf January 27, 1991 Press Briefing

Episode 295 GEORGE H.W. BUSH: The Gulf War - The Norman Schwarzkopf January 27, 1991 Press Briefing

Send us a textWe had planned to do a series of Press Conference shows as we told the story of the Gulf War. These are those shows. They are, as we earlier explained on our Housekeeping episode, out of chronological order. This Press Cnference is from Janaury 27, 1992 and it was held on the same day as the Super Bowl, In this briefing Gernaral Shwartzkoft will go over the situation in the Gulf. The biggest issue at this time was the dumping of Kuwaiti Oil into the Gulf waters. You will Schwarzkopf go over the situation as best he understands it from the environmental impact side but he is clear that it won't effect his military ability to make war on Saddam Hussein. It is vintage General Stormin Norman Schwarzkopf. Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

What IF Nixon had been able to serve the remainder of his term as President (with Special Guest Star Robert M. Bostock) A SPECIAL EDITION courtesy of The Richard Nixon Experience

What IF Nixon had been able to serve the remainder of his term as President (with Special Guest Star Robert M. Bostock) A SPECIAL EDITION courtesy of The Richard Nixon Experience

Send us a textIn 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. Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

IN MEMORIAM : James Wiles, Legal Advisor to our show, CBS News Correspondent Phil Jones, and Legendary T.V. Talk Show Host Phil Donahue (and his amazing love affair with Marlo Thomas)

IN MEMORIAM : James Wiles, Legal Advisor to our show, CBS News Correspondent Phil Jones, and Legendary T.V. Talk Show Host Phil Donahue (and his amazing love affair with Marlo Thomas)

Send us a textIn 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 Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

A Housekeeping Show about issues with our timeline for the next few episodes

A Housekeeping Show about issues with our timeline for the next few episodes

Send us a textDue 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. Randal WallaceHost Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Episode 294 GEORGE H. W. BUSH The Gulf War (Part 9) - The Ground War B

Episode 294 GEORGE H. W. BUSH The Gulf War (Part 9) - The Ground War B

Send us a textIn 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. Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Episode 293 GEORGE H. W. BUSH The Gulf War (part 8) - The Ground War A

Episode 293 GEORGE H. W. BUSH The Gulf War (part 8) - The Ground War A

Send us a textThe 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. Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Episode 292 GEORGE H. W. BUSH The Gulf War (Part 7) - Air Supremacy

Episode 292 GEORGE H. W. BUSH The Gulf War (Part 7) - Air Supremacy

Send us a textIn 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. Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Episode 291 GEORGE H. W. BUSH : The Gulf War (Part 6) - The second Schwarzkopf Press Conference.

Episode 291 GEORGE H. W. BUSH : The Gulf War (Part 6) - The second Schwarzkopf Press Conference.

Send us a textThe 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. Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Episode 290 GEORGE H. W. BUSH : The Gulf War (Part 5) - The Battle of Khafgi

Episode 290 GEORGE H. W. BUSH : The Gulf War (Part 5) - The Battle of Khafgi

Send us a textThis 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. Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

GEORGE H.W. BUSH : The Gulf War - The 1991 State of the Union Address (January 31, 1991) Special Edition

GEORGE H.W. BUSH : The Gulf War - The 1991 State of the Union Address (January 31, 1991) Special Edition

Send us a textThis 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. Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Episode 289 GEORGE H. W. BUSH : The Gulf War Part 4 - The Super Bowl

Episode 289 GEORGE H. W. BUSH : The Gulf War Part 4 - The Super Bowl

Send us a textThe 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. Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

The Joe Biden Presidential Withdrawal Address (Special Edition) Two Speeches Part 2 (with Special guest clip from Lyndon Johnson.)

The Joe Biden Presidential Withdrawal Address (Special Edition) Two Speeches Part 2 (with Special guest clip from Lyndon Johnson.)

Send us a textIn our second edition on the two speeches from July 24, 2024, we have the address to the nation of President Joe Biden. This is the speech that was a follow up to his letter to the American People announcing his withdrawal from the Presidential race this coming fall. In this episode we discuss our personal good feelings for the current President even though we are a Republican and not a supporter of the President. We will also look back at the similar withdrawal of Lyndon Johnson in March of 1968. These two speeches were both of major importance to the world and for those of you who may not have been able to hear them, here is your opportunity. The Gulf War will return in August to continue our look back at the Presidency of George H. W. Bush. Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!