Episode 297 GEORGE H. W. BUSH : The Gulf War - The War Ends with Bush addressing Congress

George H.W. Bush 1991 The Fall of the Soviet Union

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On March 6, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed a joint session of Congress to report back that the war in the Gulf was over. That Iraq had been repulsed and Kuwait had been restored. It was an impressive moment for a President who had once been called a wimp on the front page of Newsweek.
This military operation had not only been a success it was arguably the United States most successful military endeavor. It was run as near perfectly as a war could be run. President Bush and his team set clear objectives, and backed them up with overwhelming force, and when the mission was complete they left without getting bogged down in a nation building exercise in the Middle East.
It was a clear sign of the lessons learned by a generation of Americans who had mastered their moment, from a Great Depression, to the Cold War, to this final triumph in the Middle East.
However, it would not be their final triumph as the Cold War had a couple of more twists and turns to make before it would end in 1991 as well.

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Chapter

1. Interview on how a National Security team should function - Source unknown (00:00:00)

2. Intro Music (00:04:35)

3. Host Randal Wallace welcomes you to the show and introduces the President's address to Congress (00:05:07)

4. ABC NEws Coverage of the address to Congress by President George H. W. Bush (00:06:20)

5. Address to a Joint Session of Congress at the end of the Gulf War by President George H. W. Bush on March 6, 1991 (00:13:26)

6. ABC News coverage of post address (00:50:19)

7. Closing theme (00:51:43)