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A Democrat Critiques the Reagan Years
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Item Title A Democrat Critiques the Reagan Years
Guest Carter, Hodding (1907-1972)
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Moderator Kinsley, Michael E.
Date CreatedNovember 28, 1988
Description

This show is often entertaining, though weakened by the fact that Mr. Carter, who served his presidential namesake as State Department spokesman, tends to repeat, without evidence, all the cliches about President Carter's successor. HC: "... you have for the first time created a thought in this society that we may be permanently divided by class, that it may be okay, acceptable, inevitable that we're going to leave behind 20 per cent of our folks ... that the idea that anybody was going to have a chance to reach up and grab and go forward has been to a large degree minimized." WFB: "... If there were going to be a stratification of America into a class system, then you would say: Well, exactly the same people who constituted the 10 per cent richest eight years ago constitute the 10 per cent now. Statistics show--and on this a tremendous amount of work has been done by Thomas Sowell--that the descent from there and the ascent to there has been as dynamic as at any time in American history."

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Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 30 minutes
FormatText
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram S0801
Record Number80040.1049
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