In Mr. Foot's previous appearance on Firing Line (#75), the themes were

economic, and what principally emerged was Mr. Foot's absolute commitment to

socialism. Here, discussing comparative British and American scandals (while Watergate

was still less than half over, a British sex scandal had been dispatched in weeks), he is

less predictable, and all the more interesting. E.g., on why a Watergate-type scandal

would have played out very differently in Britain: "Well, I believe that a prime minister who was under the kind of attack that Nixon has been under certainly wouldn't have been

able to avoid coming and facing his accusers. He would have had to come there at least

every Tuesday and every Thursday whilst the British House of Commons was sitting and,

indeed, of course, he would have faced serious risk of a vote of censure."