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The 18-to-21-Year-Old Vote
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Item Title The 18-to-21-Year-Old Vote
Guest Diamond, Larry Jay
Guest Seidman, Larry
Guest Mendel, Meta
Guest Morgan, Steve
Guest Martin, Marsha
Guest Gerbe, Dave
Guest Westbrook, Yvonne
Guest Cortright, S. A. (Steven A.) (1953-)
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedNovember 16, 1971
Description

In the course of the anti-Vietnam agitation, the 26th Amendment, lowering the voting age to 18, had been drafted, sent to the states, and ratified in a matter of weeks. "There is much speculation about all of this," Mr. Buckley begins. "How will they vote? How will they affect national and state elections? Ought they to vote while at college?" Our eight students today are more articulate than many student panelists, and while Vietnam keeps coming up, so do questions of domestic policy and more general questions of political philosophy. Miss Westbrook: "... that, I think, relates back to my first statement, that young people have given up. I think that it has to go further than the vote." WFB: "But how can you give up when you're 18?" YW: "Very easily!" WFB: "You just stopped eating popsicles yesterday." YW: "At 18, you're going to war, and you're killing people, and you're being killed." Miss Mendel: "You probably got popsicles. Not everyone did."

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Country of Origin
Place RecordedSan Francisco, California, United States
DimensionsDuration: 60 minutes
FormatText
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram S0033
Record Number80040.270
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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