This show -- the first in an election-year series -- is accurately described as a mini-debate: there are no big opening or closing statements, but instead of the informal give-and-take of a regular Firing Line, the participants take turns cross-examining each other, as in the middle portion of a formal debate. Good fun even if there aren't many surprises. WFB: "I would like to ask Mr. Clyburn . . . whether it has ever occurred to him . . . that to the extent that you have this unanimity which you have had in the recent past in black reliance on the Democratic Party, which is the statist party, that there might be some overhang there of a plantation mentality. . . ." JC: "I find it very hard to figure out how you will apply an individual remedy to a harm that was heaped upon a group. Now if the group was the recipient of the harm, then it seems to me that it's the group that needs to find the remedy, and the remedy must apply to the group. . . ." AW: "As an African-American, I think that anybody can see that the welfare system that the New Deal put in place -- even the President at the time said, 'I pray to God that it doesn't become an opium to the society' -- I think it's a tragedy that the welfare system has been put in place to the extent that it still exists. Because I'll tell you, it is the worst form of slavery. What you do is you enslave people's minds."