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Item Title
Debtors and Creditors
Collection TitleFiring Line broadcast records
Guest
Wriston, Walter B.
Host
Buckley, William F., Jr.
(1925-2008)
Date CreatedMay 30, 1986
Description
The title of this show refers to, as Mr. Buckley puts it, "how we are expected to
get our money back from all those nice, deserving countries to which Mr. Wriston lent it," but the discussion that ensues ranges over the history of banking in the 20th century, from the establishment of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (Mr. Wriston would have voted for it, "on the grounds that the small saver, which it was designed to protect, needed the reassurance after the bank holiday to get the economy moving again") to present-day transactions with South Africa. WBW: "There's a finite amount of capital and unlimited numbers of places to put it.... It goes where it's wanted and stays where it's well treated."
Theme(s)
Language(s)
Country of Origin
Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 60 minutes
FormatText
Medium
television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram S0696
Record Number80040.935
NotesVideo not currently available for purchase.
Collection Guidehttps://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6m3nc88c
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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