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A Dialogue with Young Americans for Freedom
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Item Title A Dialogue with Young Americans for Freedom
Guest Freedom, Young Americans for
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedDecember 08, 1970
Description

"A rather unconventional Firing Line" as WFB introduces it, in which the studio audience from the preceding show-made up heavily though not entirely of members of YAF-is given the floor. Topics range from the radicalism of Triumph (a Catholic magazine run by a sister and brother-in-law of Mr. Buckley's), to Chiang Kai-shek's failure to return triumphantly to Mainland China, to WFB's failure to criticize the Nixon Administration as roundly as he might have criticized a Humphrey Administration for similar actions. WFB: "I once said, if the whole country was engaged in a debate over whether we should demunicipalize the garbage collection, we wouldn't be talking about whether to socialize medicine. By the same token, I suppose, if the whole country were engaged in a debate on how exactly to emulate the Christian way, we wouldn't have to worry about things like world wars."

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Country of Origin
Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 50 minutes
FormatText
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram 228
Record Number80040.229
NotesVideo available through special order.
RightsCopyright held by Stanford University. This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on behalf of Stanford University.

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