BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
We begin our third season on Bob Dole's life and career, by traveling back in time to his April 1995 Presidential Campaign Announcement. At that point the Republican Party was on the rise everywhere and Bill Clinton appeared to be a sitting duck. Then a series of events would occur between April and December of 1995 that would resurrect Clinton's Presidency and put him 20 points ahead of any potential rival, including Bob Dole. That margin would stay frozen in place throughout 1996. This is that story.
In our third of four seasons, we will look back at Bob Dole's 1995 as he takes off into the Presidential campaign, while also trying to manage Congress. A Congress full of unruly new Republican firebrands in the House under their revolutionary Speaker Newt Gingrich. We will listen as that struggle between the Republican Establishment, the new House Republicans under Gingrich, and the Liberal Democrats in Congress, all converge into a battle for power, all of which allows Bill Clinton to perform one of the most dramatic political comebacks in all of American History.
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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Season 1 : Bridging the Political Gap episodes 1 -11 --- Season 2 : Lessons in Leadership : --- The GIANTS of the Senate and Joe Biden episodes 14 - 16 ---- World War 2 Episodes 17 - 20 --- General MacArthur You're Fired Episodes 21 - 23 ---- A Celebration of the life of George Shultz episodes 26 - 28 ---- November 1963 : The end of the Age of Innocence episode 29 --- Season 3 ----The Johnson Treatment episodes 32 - 39 ---- Upheaval 1968 episodes 40 - 50 ---- Season 4: Richard Nixon 1968 -1971 The Man Who Saved the Union episodes 51 -67 ----- Season 5 Richard Nixon 1972 The Foundation of Peace episodes 71 - 96 -----1973 Ten Days in January 97 - 100 -- Season 6 Richard Nixon 1973 : Enemies at the Gate 101 - 125 ---- Season 7 Richard Nixon 1974 Through the Fire 126 - 147 ---- Season 8 Richard Nixon 1974 - 1994 The Fall and the Re-Rise of Richard Nixon. 148 - 174 plus bonus materials --- Season 9 Gerald Ford Beyond Watergate 175 -190 -- Season 10 John Jenrette. & Jimmy Carter too 191 - 224 -- Season 11 George H.W. Bush : The Leadership Lessons 225 - 250 --- Season 12: Mayor Hirsch 253 - 259, George H.W. Bush : The Sweep of History 260 - 285, Season 13 George H.W. Bush The Gulf War, The Coup, Clarence Thomas & the Cold War's End 286 - 318, Season 14 George H. W. Bush 1992 The Changing of the Guard 319 - 363 Season 15 Bob Dole 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing 364 - 402, Special Season 16 The Great American Authors 403 - 419 , Season Seventeen Bob Dole The Life that Brought him there 420 - 458, Season Eighteen Bob Dole 1995 Clinton's Comeback 459 -
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Episodes
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Episode 488: BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback The Federal Government Shutdown November the First One
BOB DOLE 1995 Clinton's Comeback Bonus Edition: The Lander College Republican Recruitment Video
Here is my student video project for a Mass Communications class at Lander University for Professor Frank Jackson, who was one of my favorites. The video was saved from an old videotape and the sound quality has eroded some ...
OCTOBER 2026 A Preview for the entire Wallace Podcast Network
A preview for three different stories we will be sharing on all three of our podcasts. On Grand Strand Politics we will be covering the race for Governor of South Carolina between Alan Wilson and Jermaine Johnson, and the razor thin...
Politically Speaking (History Collection 5, The Lander University Forum Newspaper) Phil Gramm Comes to Greenwood Wendy Gramm visits Greenwood County November 13 1995
This is an article covering both events our last two episodes also covered. As a media student I was allowed to use the media equipment to cover projects I was working on and I mixed that with my time also with the Student Newspaper, The ...
Episode 487: BOB DOLE 1995 Clinton's Comeback (Part 28) (Special Event 6) - The 1995 South Carolina Third District Convention featuring Presidential Candidate Phil Gramm, Lindsey Graham, and Henry McMaster
Episode 486: BOB DOLE 1995 Clinton's Comeback (Part 27) - (Special Event 5) A Drop in with Wendy Gramm, wife of Senator Phil Gramm in Hodges SC
Episode 485 : BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback (Part 26) Colin Powell for President Not (B)
In this epsode, we brace for the announcemnet along with the resat of the Republoican field for President. Colin Powell has his press conference to announce his decision about seeking the Presidency. That decision was NO, he would not.
Episode 484: BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback (Part 25) Colin Powell for President Not (A)
In this episode, we examine the shadow that had loomed, all of 1995, over the Republican 1996 Presidential Campaign. The potential that the charismatic and popular Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Colin Powell , was about to ...
Episode 483: BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback (Part 24) The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin Nov 4 1995
Episode 483: BOB DOLE 1995 – Clinton’s Comeback (Part 24)The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin – November 4, 1995On November 4, 1995, one of the most shocking political assassinations of the modern era took place in Tel Av...
Politically Speaking (The Historical Collection 4 , The Lander University Forum Newspaper, ) Misrepresenting Details Bill Clinton Lying about College Loans October 1995
President Clinton wrote one of the most misleading opinion pieces in 1995 on the Republican plan on College Loan program. He then sent it out to college campuses all over the country including The Lander University Student Newspaper The Forum. ...
Episode 482: BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback (Part 23) : The New Hampshire Republican Presidential Campaign Forum B Inside Politics Analysis Special Edition CNN
In this brief episode we let you listen in on the CNN broadcast special from Inside Politics with Bernard Shaw, Judy Woodruff and Political Director William Schneider, as they analyze that first forum from New Hampshire, as it introduc...
Episode 481 : BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback (Part 22) The New Hampshire Republican Presidential Candidates Forum October 11, 1995
This episodes lets you hear from all the Republican candidates who were aiming to beat Bob Dole in the Republican Primaries just months away. It is an all star cast and you will hear from them all in this forum where each one just gets to intro...
Politically Speaking (Historical Collection 3, Lander College The Forum) Moderates Leaving Congress Oct 2 1995
One of my columns from my days in College. This particular column points out something that was just beginning to really show at the the time. It was that moderates in both arties were leaving the Congress. Today that is wing that is barely if ...
Episode 480 : The Brief Journalism career of our Host, Randal Wallace : "On Packwood - Politically Speaking" and The Forum Newspaper at Lander University (Special Edition) - Dole 21
Here is the political column that started it all for our host Randal Wallace. It was his guest column to the Lander Forum Student Newspaper in defense of Bob Packwood in the edition that came out just after his resignation. This col...
Episode 479 : The Fall of Bob Packwood (part 13) The Oral History on Bob Dole ( B ) - Dole 20
In part two of the best oral history I have ever heard on any subject Bob Packwood continues to give listeners a tour through how the United Senate works and the issues Senators face from raising money to dealing with national issues and his as...
Episode 478: The Fall of Bob Packwood (Part 12) The Oral History on Bob Dole (A) - Dole 19
This is the first of our shows allowing you to hear the oral history for the Dole Institute in Kansas. In the following two episodes you will hear Bob Packwood discuss his working relationship with Bob Dole. In the process, he will ...
Episode 477 The Fall of Bob Packwood (part 11) The Third Bonus Speech from The Gresham Area Chamber of Commerce July 7, 2015 - Dole 18
This is the most recent of our bonus speeches given by Senator Packwood in our series looking back at his career and fall from power. It is another tour of the Federal Budget and assessments of the leaders the country had near the end of the Ba...
Episode 476 : The Fall of Bob Packwood (part 10) Second Bonus speech To the City Club of Portland Sept 10, 2010 - Dole 17
This is our second bonus speech given by now former Senator Bob Packwood to the Portland City Club. The Portland City Club has been an Oregon institution for political speeches and debates and it famously hosted his debate with then...
Episode 475 The Fall of Bob Packwood (Part 9) Bonus speech at Iowa State University from 1972 - Dole 16
This is our 1000th episode , counting all three podcasts we produce. In this episode we look back at a speech given at Iowa State University in 1972, during Senator Bob Packwood's first term where he talks about the landscape of the...
DOLLY PARTON Our National treasure 1946 - 2026 Special Edition (Part 3) The Conclusion
In this episode we tune in as the entire world pays tribute and grieves together at the loss of this American Original, Dolly Parton. Country Music singers, the American Media, the common fans and political figures of both parties g...
DOLLY PARTON Our National Treasure 1946 - 2026 Special Edition (Part 2) Carl Dean and more fun
In this episode we listen as Dolly Parton talks about her life with Asphalt Contractor Carl Dean. A man so private that even though he was married to one of the single most recognizable figures on Earth, almost no one had ever seen a pict...
DOLLY PARTON Our National Treasure 1946 - 2026 Special edition (Part 1) She was so much Fun
This is the first of our three part tribute set of episodes looking back at America's National Treasure, the one and only, Dolly Parton. In this we step back at some of her funniest moments, a lot of which popped back up on our news...
Episode 474 The Fall of Bob Packwood (Part 8) The Packwood Interviews Dole 15
In this episode we give Senator Bob Packwood the final word on his quick and tragic fall. Amazingly, he agreed to sit down interviews with CBS News, Dan Rather, ABC News Barbara Walters, and an extended interview with CBS News “Face th...
Episode 473 The Fall of Bob Packwood (Part 7) 24 hours (D) The Aftermath Dole 14
In the aftermath of the resignation we take you to the cable news and network newscasts that covered the dramatic fall of the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. We hear from journalist, Senators, and Senate Staffers alike as they pile on...
Episode 472 The Fall of Bob Packwood (Part 6) 24 Hours. (C) The Resignation of Senator Bob Packwood. Dole 13
In this episode we take you tot he Senate floor when Senator Bob Packwood announces, finally, that he will resign from the Senate. Then we will hear the speeches given on that day from his collegues all of whom had held him in high ...