Episode 270 George H W Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History (Part 11) Coming Together, Coming Apart

George H.W. Bush 1991 The Gulf War

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In this episode, we look back at the coming together of the Military coalition on the ground and the man who would command it, General Norman Schwarzkopf. It would be a coalition made up of 42 countries, and troops from around the world. They would all come together on the ground in Saudi Arabia to prepare for the possible War to come. We will look at the command structure of the coalition and see just how complicated an endeavor this really was for Bush to put together.
We will listen to a 60 Minutes profile from CBS News of the General who would run the operation on the ground in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq. It would be the coming together of the world to fight back the aggression of the Iraqi Dictator showing the World that we had learned our lesson from World War 2.
However, the luck would not run as well on the other side of the Atlantic as George Bush would be pushed past the point of having to shutdown the government in a budget battle here at home. We have already covered the budget situation in an earlier episode but we wanted to give you a sense of the full plate the President had to deal with as war loomed in the Gulf.

We also include floor speeches by two Senators we profiled early in our podcasts history Senator Ernest Hollings and Senator John Warner.

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Capitole

1. Remembering the Gulf War with George H. W. Bush (00:00:00)

2. Intro Music (00:01:47)

3. MT 1038 - POTUS departs for Camp David press statement - September 14, 1990 (00:02:10)

4. Host Randal Wallace discusses where we are in the military build up (00:13:28)

5. Gulf War 31 , Desert Shield, September 21, 1990 (00:14:42)

6. Host Randal Wallace discusses the General on the ground in Saudi Arabia, Norman Schwarzkopf (00:16:50)

7. Gulf War 32, Desert Shield 60 Minutes Look at Norman Schwarzkopf (00:17:04)

8. Gulf War 33 Desert Shield, 60 Minutes Look at Norman Schwarzkopf (00:23:12)

9. Host Randal Wallace discusses the coalition and how difficult it was to manage (00:29:02)

10. Gulf War 34, Desert Shield, September 24, 1990 ITV News New Zealand (00:29:16)

11. Host Randal Wallace discusses how as all of this is happening Bush is still wrangling with Congress (00:32:53)

12. September 25, 1990 Diary entry for George H. W. Bush (00:34:11)

13. October 6, 1990 Diary entry George H. W. Bush (00:35:21)

14. October 5, 1990 United States Senate Debate discussion of the Budget deal - CSPAN (00:36:53)

15. Host Randal Wallace introduces speech by Senator Ernest Hollings D-SC (00:48:49)

16. Senate floor speech on the budget by South Carolina Senator Ernest Hollings D-SC - CSPAN (00:50:50)

17. Senate Floor speech by Senator John Warner R-VA (00:59:47)

18. Host Randal wallace talks about Senator Wendell Ford D-KY , and talks about tax deal (01:03:05)

19. Letter from George H. w. Bush to Representative Jim Lightfoot October 15, 1990 (01:03:39)

20. Letter to Cathleen Darmin October 17, 1990 (01:05:30)

21. Diary entry October 17, 1990 from "All My Best" by George Bush (01:07:51)

22. Paragraph from "All My Best" by George Bush (01:08:42)

23. Closing theme (01:09:18)