BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback
by Randal Wallace
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
Episodes
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Episode 499: BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback : Bill Clinton in Dublin, Ireland Part 3
Send us Fan Mail Episode 499: Bob Dole 1995 – Clinton's Comeback: Bill Clinton in Dublin, Ireland, Part 3 In the final installment of our three-part series examining President Bill Clinton's historic December 1995 trip to Ireland, we turn to Dublin, where the President continued his efforts to...
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Episode 498: BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback : Clinton at Derry, Ireland part 2
Send us Fan Mail Episode 498: Bob Dole 1995 – Clinton's Comeback: Clinton at Derry, Ireland, Part 2 In this second installment of our examination of President Bill Clinton's historic December 1995 trip to Ireland, we look back through the eyes of the President at his administration's efforts to...
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Episode 497: BOB DOLE 1995 Clinton's Comeback : Clintons Economic Investment Summit on Ireland Part 1
Send us Fan Mail Episode 497: Bob Dole 1995 – Clinton's Comeback: Clinton's Economic Investment Summit on Ireland, Part 1 In this episode, we turn our attention to President Bill Clinton's growing involvement in the Northern Ireland peace process and the historic diplomatic efforts that would...
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Episode 496: BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback (Part F) Bob Dole’s Final Remarks on Bosnia (5)
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we hear first from Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle as he supports his President. Then Bob Dole steps forward to do the same. It was one of the high points of Bob Dole's entire career. He lays out his case in support of our troops and the Commander in Chief of...
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Episode 495: BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback Bosnia (Part E) The Senate Debate continues Byrd and Hatch (4)
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we listen to two of the giants of the chamber, on opposite sides of the issue, address the well of the Senate. Former Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd and Utah Senator Orrin Hatch. Two of the nations most dynamic public speakers. Unfortunately, for some…
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Episode 494: BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback Bosnia (Part D) More of the Senate Debate (3)
Send us Fan Mail In this episode , we listen to several of the most prominent Foreign Policy focused Senators in in the Senate at the time as they say their piece on the policy of President Clinton in Bosnia. The Senators speaking in this episode include : John Warner, Barbara Boxer, Sam Nunn…
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Episode 493: BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback The Senate Debate Speech of Senator Joe Biden on sending Troops to Bosnia Special Edition (Part C) Bosnia (2)
Send us Fan Mail One of the leaders on this issue in the United States Senate at the time was a future President of the United States, Joe Biden D- Delaware. He would speak for nearly a half hour on the floor in favor of the Dole-McCain Resolution. This is that speech, a future President in his...
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Episode 492: BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback Bosnia (Part B) The Senate Debate (1)
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we begin our coverage of the Senate Debate on Bosnia. There will be two competing resolutions, one cutting funds and not supporting the mission as designated by President bill Clinton. It was led by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson R- Texas, and it was supported by...
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Episode 491: BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback Bosnia (A) The Powder Keg
Send us Fan Mail Bosnia, Bill Clinton, and Bob Dole: Politics Meets Principle In the 1990s, the war in Bosnia presented President Bill Clinton and the United States with one of the most difficult foreign-policy decisions of the post-Cold War era. After years of ethnic violence, atrocities, and...
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Episode 490: BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback The Florida Straw Poll Debate at Presidency 3 (Part B) The Results
Send us Fan Mail This is part two of the Florida Presidency 3 Straw Poll Debate. It features the closing remarks and results from the straw poll. It is a forum where we get to see real history unfold as the Senators come into the studio having just voted for the historic Balanced Budget…
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Episode 489: BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback The Florida Straw Poll Debate at Presidency 3 (Part A) Nov 17, 1995
Send us Fan Mail This episode features all of the candidates but it is spread out over the entire two hours by candidates entering the fray at various times. This forum was supposed to be held in Florida for the Republican convention there and the Presidency 3 campaign event. But the Senate ended...
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Episode 488: BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback The Federal Government Shutdown November the First One
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we examine the growing rift over the Federal Budget. It would see the Republican Leadership under the new House Speaker attempt to force cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, and several other entitlement programs on the President. The President was already in huge…
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BOB DOLE 1995 Clinton's Comeback Bonus Edition: The Lander College Republican Recruitment Video
Send us Fan Mail 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 but it’s still fairly clear except for the Lindsey…
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OCTOBER 2026 A Preview for the entire Wallace Podcast Network
Send us Fan Mail 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 race between Senator Darline Graham versus Dr....
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Politically Speaking (History Collection 5, The Lander University Forum Newspaper) Phil Gramm Comes to Greenwood Wendy Gramm visits Greenwood County November 13 1995
Send us Fan Mail 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 Forum at Lander University. The footage we...
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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
Send us Fan Mail Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/ Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcasts Thanks for listening!!
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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
Send us Fan Mail Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/ Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcasts Thanks for listening!!
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Episode 485 : BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback (Part 26) Colin Powell for President Not (B)
Send us Fan Mail 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. Instantly, the field was relived and set for...
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Episode 484: BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback (Part 25) Colin Powell for President Not (A)
Send us Fan Mail 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 announce he was going to run for…
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Episode 483: BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback (Part 24) The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin Nov 4 1995
Send us Fan Mail Episode 483: BOB DOLE 1995 – Clinton’s Comeback (Part 24) The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin – November 4, 1995 On November 4, 1995, one of the most shocking political assassinations of the modern era took place in Tel Aviv. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had just addressed...
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Politically Speaking (The Historical Collection 4 , The Lander University Forum Newspaper, ) Misrepresenting Details Bill Clinton Lying about College Loans October 1995
Send us Fan Mail 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. This was my rebuttal. Questions or...
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Episode 482: BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback (Part 23) : The New Hampshire Republican Presidential Campaign Forum B Inside Politics Analysis Special Edition CNN
Send us Fan Mail 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 introduced all of the Republican Presidential...
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Episode 481 : BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback (Part 22) The New Hampshire Republican Presidential Candidates Forum October 11, 1995
Send us Fan Mail 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 introduce themselves and answer a few...
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Politically Speaking (Historical Collection 3, Lander College The Forum) Moderates Leaving Congress Oct 2 1995
Send us Fan Mail 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 not nonexistent in both parties....
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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
Send us Fan Mail 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 column got him added to the student newspaper…
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Episode 479 : The Fall of Bob Packwood (part 13) The Oral History on Bob Dole ( B ) - Dole 20
Send us Fan Mail 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 assessments of the people he worked…
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Episode 478: The Fall of Bob Packwood (Part 12) The Oral History on Bob Dole (A) - Dole 19
Send us Fan Mail 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 tell great stories from his long career in the...
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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
Send us Fan Mail 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 Barak Obama Presidency. It is an…
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Episode 476 : The Fall of Bob Packwood (part 10) Second Bonus speech To the City Club of Portland Sept 10, 2010 - Dole 17
Send us Fan Mail 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 Senator Wayne Morse who he defeated in one of…
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Episode 475 The Fall of Bob Packwood (Part 9) Bonus speech at Iowa State University from 1972 - Dole 16
Send us Fan Mail 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 1972 Presidential Election and the issues…
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DOLLY PARTON Our National treasure 1946 - 2026 Special Edition (Part 3) The Conclusion
Send us Fan Mail 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 grieve in a way we don't see very often in this...
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DOLLY PARTON Our National Treasure 1946 - 2026 Special Edition (Part 2) Carl Dean and more fun
Send us Fan Mail 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 picture of him. It was , from all accounts, a...
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DOLLY PARTON Our National Treasure 1946 - 2026 Special edition (Part 1) She was so much Fun
Send us Fan Mail 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 newsfeeds over these past few days. As we look back...
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Episode 474 The Fall of Bob Packwood (Part 8) The Packwood Interviews Dole 15
Send us Fan Mail 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 the Nation” with Bob Schieffer. All over a…
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Episode 473 The Fall of Bob Packwood (Part 7) 24 hours (D) The Aftermath Dole 14
Send us Fan Mail 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 after the fall but we also hear…
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Episode 472 The Fall of Bob Packwood (Part 6) 24 Hours. (C) The Resignation of Senator Bob Packwood. Dole 13
Send us Fan Mail 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 regard before the scandal that took him down...
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Episode 471 The Fall of Bob Packwood (Part 5) 24 Hours (B) News in anticipation Dole 12
Send us Fan Mail With his back against the wall Senator Bob Packwood vowed to fight on. Here is the coverage of that 24 hours when all of Washington held its collective breath while Bob Packwood tried to find a way to defend himself from the overwhelming vote for expulsion, 6-0 by the Senate…
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POLITICALLY SPEAKING 2026 with Randal Wallace - LINDSEY GRAHAM: A Life Well Lived
Send us Fan Mail Our first column of our new publication on Substack. Questions or comments at , [email protected] , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/ Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcasts Thanks for listening!!
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POLITICALLY SPEAKING (History Collection) with Randal Wallace - College Republicans Meet Dole (At Grand opening of Dole South Carolina Headquarters Grand Opening , see special Event)
Send us Fan Mail Our first episode of our new feature complimenting our 1995 and 1996 retrospective seasons of our show where we share the political columns from our time at the Lander University Student Newspaper where we commented on the national issues we are now covering with our podcast.…
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Introduction to the RANDAL WALLACE JOURNAL on Substack
Send us Fan Mail An introduction to a new feature for our podcast and publication on Substack. Please come over to Substack and The Randal Wallace Journal and join our email list for future updates on the journal, the podcasts and the coming books over the next year and beyond. Questions or...
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Episode 470 The Fall of Bob Packwood (part 4) 24 Hours ( A ) Dueling Press Conferences Dole 11
Send us Fan Mail No one saw it coming. There had been no public hearings, the story had died down, the Ethics Committee had been predicted to censure Senator Packwood, and most likely strip him of his Chairmanship of the powerful Senate Budget Committee. Then it announced that in a 6 - 0 vote, it...
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The Randal Wallace Journal and the return of our column Politically Speaking , both the History Collection and our contemporary new column from Substack
Send us Fan Mail In this special short episode, we are introducing our new publication on Substack and new short feature for the show. The Randal Wallace Journal is a new publication on Substack and we invite you over to sign up and get on our email list. Here is the Link...
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Episode 469 The Fall of Bob Packwood (Part 3) Thirty Three Months.... An interview with Senator Packwood by Barbara Walters Dole 10
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we will listen tot he one full length interview Bob Packwood gave reporter Barbara Walters about midway through the ordeal that would consume thirty-three months in total before it toppled his career. It is an in-depth interview an examination of the scandal and…
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Episode 468 The Fall of Bob Packwood (Part 2) The Scandal Begins....(Special Series) Dole 9
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we examine the scandal that would eventually lead to Senator Bob Packwood's fall from grace. We will hear from the women involved in their long form "60 Minutes" Interview, where 10 of the accusers sat down with Morley Safer of CBS News and told their stories.…
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Politically Speaking with Randal Wallace : Lindsey Graham Visits Greenwood and Endorsement 1995 and 1996
Send us Fan Mail This is a new feature that will actually be introduced later in the season when it fits more perfectly in our timeline with the Bob Packwood Special Series. But these two stories were discovered when we were doing the research to reintroduce the history of our old column at The...
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Episode 466 The Fall of BOB PACKWOOD (Part 1) Who Was Senator Bob Packwood ? (Special Series) Dole 8
Send us Fan Mail Who was Bob Packwood? He was one of the leading Senators in Washington DC on tax and fiscal policy. The Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and often acknowledged as the Senator with the greatest grasp on how the finances of the Federal Government actually worked. In this...
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The Fall of Bob Packwood Preview (Special Series)
Send us Fan Mail In this preview we look back at arguably the biggest game changer of 1995 for Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole. It was the loss of his chief Lieutenant in the United States Senate, Bob Packwood. Dole and Packwood were friends, and both men were experts on the Federal budget....
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Episode 465 BOB DOLE 1995 Clinton's Comeback (Part 7) The Grand Opening of the South Carolina Headquarters of the Bob Dole for President Campaign (3rd Special Event)
Send us Fan Mail EXCLUSIVE HISTORIC CONTENT: IN 1995, our Host Randal Wallace showed up tot he brand new Bob Dole for President Headquarters with a camcorder and recorded the event there as Senator Bob Dole and his wife Elizabeth Dole cut the ribbon for the new headquarters. It was an all star…
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Episode 464 BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback (Part 6) The Clinton-Gingrich Town Hall from New Hampshire
Send us Fan Mail One of the great lost opportunities of the 1990s was the way the relationship between President Bill Clinton and Speaker Newt Gingrich disintegrated over the years from this moment right here. After being invited to an event in New HAmpshire where both of them spike and talked...
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LINDSEY GRAHAM Our Senator A Tribute Part 5 A South Carolina Original
Send us Fan Mail LINDSEY GRAHAM: OUR SENATOR – A Tribute, Part 5: A South Carolina Original Our five-part documentary tribute concludes with a look back at the remarkable public life and enduring legacy of Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the most consequential political figures in modern South...
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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
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