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Item Title Professor Galbraith Names Names
Guest Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908-2006)
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedMay 18, 1999
Description

Professor Galbraith had just written, WFB tells us, a book of "biographical sketches of mighty men and women he has known"-starting with Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Albert Speer-"but was taunted by an associate who...said it sounded like a lot of name-dropping to him. Professor Galbraith thereupon changed his working title, and his book is now called Name-Dropping. A neat job of disarming his critics." While this show has some of the customary Buckley-Galbraith backchat, our host mostly encourages his guest to reminisce about his more than sixty years on the public scene. JKG: "Adlai was very much averse to anything that might be called rabble-rousing, anything which had a wider public appeal." WFB: "Was there a sharp distinction between his voice to the public and FDR's?" JKG: "Very much, yes. FDR would identify himself much better with the American public as a whole than could Adlai Stevenson. He was also much more susceptible to suggestion, recommendation. The great charm of FDR was that he had no fixed ideology, unlike you, Bill." WFB: "What causes my charm?" JKG: "And therefore he was open, or seemed to be open, to recommendations from a wide circle of people."

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Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 27 minutes, 46 seconds
FormatMoving Image
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram S1204
Record Number80040.1487
NotesVideo available through special order.
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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