Episode 51 RICHARD NIXON : The Remarkable Run (Part 1)

Bob Dole 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing

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The opening episode of Season 1 of "Bridging the Political Gap" is a particular thing of excitement for me. Richard Nixon is one of my political heroes and most responsible for my interest in public service. I have been a fan since I discovered a scrapbook saved by my Mother from a class she was student teaching in 1960. A full decade before I was born.
I have long felt that no full length , in-depth, look at the life of Richard Nixon has ever been done that did not attempt to paint the life, career, an administration of Richard Nixon in a negative light. That has, thankfully, in recent years begun to change, with great books written by Conrad Black, Jonathan Atken, Evan Thomas, J.A. Farrell, and most recently several books by Historian Luke Nichter, especially his book "Richard Nixon and Europe: The Reshaping of the Post War Atlantic World"
This Podcast Documentary, that begins with this episode, will I hope contribute to showing the remarkable life of Richard Nixon with the appreciation he deserves. This Podcast series will span four seasons worth of shows. This first season will cover his career through the end of the Vietnam War in January of 1973. We will then comeback in Season five to look at Watergate and the other events of his final year and 8 months in office, and then an epilogue of events that shows what happened after he left, to both the country, and to him.
I cannot say thank you enough to several sources of information that have made this podcast documentary possible. They are: the national archives for several oral histories, the television networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, & CNN) for historic coverage and , most especially, the Richard Nixon Foundation and the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Birthplace, that have created many of the short features I used, and events where people talked about their time with, or their studies of, President and Mrs. Nixon.
I would also like to say a special thank you to Historian Luke Nichter for his work with chronicling and making accessible the Nixon tapes through the site NixonTapes.org. We use them extensively, especially as we drew closer to the end of the Vietnam War. This I hope will be an opportunity to hear President Nixon guide us through the end game, out of Vietnam. Most people have never heard these tapes and I hope you will tune in to those episodes most especially.
This show begins at the end, on the night that former President Richard Nixon passed away. We will look as the the world stopped to take a pause and reflect on his amazing life. Much to the chattering class and media elites amazement, Richard Nixon's passing led to an outpouring of grief from the heartland of America, the common people, the folks Richard Nixon had always represented and in whose interests he served. We then will take you through a two part tour of his amazing career from running for Congress, to the Senate, the Vice Presidency , his 1960 and 1962 losses, and then back to the 1968 election he won in our last documentary. ( see the shows we just completed in Season 3 on Lyndon Johnson and 1968)
Then we will move on to Richard Nixon's Presidency and what many have called "The Age of Nixon"

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1. Episode 51 RICHARD NIXON : The Remarkable Run (Part 1) (00:00:00)

2. Welcome to Season 4 by Host Randal Wallace (00:00:28)

3. Film from the Grand Re-Opening of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, California (00:00:34)

4. Montage of coverage of the death of President Richard Nixon in April of 1994 by all 3 major networks, ABC, NBC & CBS (00:03:05)

5. Thoughts upon the passing of President Nixon by CBS Correspondent William Schieffer (00:08:09)

6. NIGHTLINE with Ted Koppell covers the passing of President Richard Nixon (00:09:02)

7. A look back at the life of Richard Nixon by ABC News correspondent Jeff Greenfield (This is my favorite mini piece ever done on Richard Nixon) (00:11:53)

8. ad for RandalWallace.com (00:19:32)

9. Host Randal Wallace welcomes you to the show and then talks about the enormous impact on the World that Richard Nixon had. Then he discusses his first political race for congress (00:21:11)

10. brief excerpt from and interview with former Congressman Jerry Voorhess (00:22:34)

11. Host Randal Wallace talks about the race in-depth and why Nixon was able to win it, then he moves on to the Herter Committee (00:23:15)

12. Historian Luke Nichter discusses the importance of the opportunity Nixon was given to serve on the Herter Committee and passage of the Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe (00:28:59)

13. Host Randal Wallace then moves us on to the case of Alger Hiss for spying (00:31:02)

14. Congressman Richard Nixon's press conference excerpt about the Hiss Case, followed by Alger Hiss and his accuser Whitaker Chambers speaking (00:32:54)

15. Host Randal Wallace explains the circumstances that led to Nixon becoming a national figure due to the Alger Hiss case and introduces author, Christina Shelton who wrote about the case and Alger Hiss (00:34:53)

16. Author of "Why He Chose Treason" Christina Shelton discusses the case (00:36:00)

17. Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein makes the rare admission "Nixon was right" about Alger Hiss (00:38:38)

18. Host Randal Wallace explains why the Bernstein segment is included, it is a rare admission that the reporters were wrong who went after Nixon on the subject of Alger Hiss (00:40:14)

19. Host Randal Wallace now moves us to the race for the Senate against Helen Cahagan Douglas (00:41:41)

20. Interview with Helen Cahagan Douglas where she actually defends communism (00:42:32)

21. Host Randal Wallace introduces Nixon's victory statement (00:47:26)

22. Senator-Elect Richard Nixon discusses the race for the Senate (00:48:01)

23. Host Randal Wallace discusses the pick by General Eisenhower to put Senator Richard Nixon on the National Ticket in 1952 (00:48:23)

24. Host Randal Wallace discuses the fund scandal and introduces the "Checkers Speech" (00:48:46)

25. Senator Richard Nixon addresses the nation to explain the Fund he had for political expenses and a very special gift he intended to keep no matter what (00:49:25)

26. CBS News coverage of election night 1952 (01:01:05)

27. Adlai Stevenson gives his concession speech (01:05:33)

28. General Dwight Eisenhower delivers his victory speech in 1952 (01:08:23)

29. CBS news coverage and final thoughts from Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, and Eric Severied (01:10:40)

30. Closing theme (01:13:28)