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Was the Supreme Court Wrong about Flag Burning?
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Item Title Was the Supreme Court Wrong about Flag Burning?
Guest Glasser, Ira
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Moderator Kinsley, Michael E.
Date CreatedAugust 23, 1989
Description

A hard-hitting but good-natured discussion of this, well, combustible topic. IG: "Whether or not you feel allegiance to the flag as a piece of cloth that symbolizes something or whether you feel allegiance to the principles that the flag represents, the paradox is that one of [those] principles ... is freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to say, 'Bleep your flag, to hell with your country, I don't like it.' And that's what the First Amendment is about." ... WFB: "May I make a confession? I frankly don't much worry about the flag issue, but here's what I worry about tremendously: that is our disposition to say, 'If the Supreme Court says it's so, it's so.' I wrote a book about 17 years ago in which I said, 'Before I die, I want to see a constitutional amendment that simply says no to the Supreme Court, and I don't much care which one.' "

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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 S0824
Record Number80040.1073
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