Housekeeping Show to announce Season 18 BOB DOLE 1995 Clinton’s Comeback

This is a housekeeping show to explain why we decided to add a season to our Bob Dole series. this additional season also includes a miniseries on the fall of Senator Bob Packwood, one of Bob Dole's chief lieutenants in the Senate. We hope you enjoy our coming season and our continued look back at giant political figure and the last of the Greatest Generation to run for President, Bob Dole. 

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Hi everybody, this is Randall Wallace, your host for the Randall Wallace Presents Podcast. And this is a little housekeeping show as we get ready to kick off season 18, hard to believe, of uh the Randall Wallace Presents Podcast. And this is the reason I'm on here is is to make kind of this announcement that we're gonna add a season to this Bob Dole series. We had so many shows, and it was so important to cover this part of 1995. Bob Dole will announce in April of 1995. At the time that he announces, Bill Clinton's in still in big trouble. He's digging out of a hole from the 94 election. As you know, uh you know, Bill Clinton does uh the midterms are abysmal for him. And the Republicans take over the House, they take over the Senate. Uh Bob Dole's moving in on running for president. Uh the Bill Clinton's in so much trouble. I heard Koki Roberts uh once once say uh this election looked like just all you had to do is get the nomination and you could beat him. Bill Clinton was in that much trouble, and in this six months is the Clinton comeback. And I thought it was too important to this overall story to tell, not to put this as a separate season after I got into putting it together. So we've been saying this Bob Dole series is going to be a three-season um format. It's actually gonna be four, and this is gonna be 1995, the Clinton Comeback. And it's going to feature a very long special series in it on the fall of Bob Packwood, who was a U.S. Senator from Oregon. We featured him quite a bit, both in his oral histories about Bob Doe and his role in health care, in the tax bills. Uh, and so he is a major player through this Clinton uh in the first Clinton administration. Uh, but in December of 1992, right after he'd been re-elected, uh the Washington Post ran a story accusing him of uh sexual misconduct, uh, and it would grow into a multi-pronged scandal that would involve uh his diaries that he kept and uh whether he was trying to get jobs for his wife his ex-wife, uh, and uh and then of course as many as 29 accusers of sexual harass of sexual misconduct. And some of this stuff is pretty aggressive. We're gonna cover that in a very long arc because and I I will admit up front that I have such mixed emotions about Bob Packwood because on one hand I admired him a great deal. He was a brilliant, he is a brilliant man, and a brilliant U.S. senator whose grasp on finance issues was uh par none. There was no one that that that equaled him, save maybe Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Bob Dole himself on the finance committee. Uh and and even then he was a just a giant senator in that realm of the of dealing with health care, Medicare, uh Social Security, uh all those uh different uh revenue sources for the government and and expenditures for the government. I mean, that was just his thing, and he could get on there and talk tax policy like in 1986. He was the architect of the 1986 tax bill, tax reform act, that was a huge moment in uh it was one of the biggest overhauls of the tax system that we've seen. And uh and he can make it mesmerizing when you listen to him on the on the Senate floor. We're gonna do it's about 12 episodes that we're gonna do on Bob Packwood uh in within this 1990 framework because 1995 framework because he was Bob Dole's chief lieutenant in the Senate on that finance committee, and a and a big person, a big part of the architecture of the Republican program. So for when he got taken out, that was a massive loss for Bob Dole, and it's going to be that big of a thing in our overall story about 1995. But we're also going to cover Bosnia, the federal government shutdown, the assassination of Yikchak Rabin, the Clinton initiative in Ireland for peace. Bob Dole's a presidential announcement. Uh uh, you know, uh we've got some exclusive footage, special events footage we're gonna show you when Phil Graham came and spoke to the Greenwood County, uh the third district uh convention, when Wendy Graham had an event in Greenwood. We were there. Uh so we're gonna have a lot of really neat stuff in night in this 1995 uh segment uh or season, and I'm very excited about adding it, and uh and then we will get into campaign 1996 right after we're done with this 1995. So 1995 is part of the campaign from April on, but we will be uh separating it into two seasons uh just to make it kind of easy. So we'll get we're gonna get you from Bob Dole's presidential announcement to the federal government shutdown. Uh and with that, we'll see you here. Season 18 is about to kick off 1995, Clinton's Comeback on Bob Dole here on Duranda Wallace Presents Podcast. Thank you.