This show (taped after #S1222 but broadcast before it) begins the countdown for Firing Line. These two shows--this one focusing on domestic policy, the following one

on foreign policy--each feature a major figure from the 20th century and an up-and-

comer for the 21st. This one suffers slightly from the fact that, because it was election

day, our guests are beamed in via satellite. But what the conservation lacks in give-and-

take, it makes up for in substance. CC: "Politics is the business of talking to people--if

you can, one at a time, or alternatively in reasonably small groups so that there is still a

personal message. And that's why affiliation politics will always remain important, even

in a country such as ours, where we stress the importance of looking at every person as an individual and not as a member of some group or class. We want people to be

completely mobile, as a matter of policy, between what other cultures might define as

classes--we don't--and among groups." ... HJH: "We're in a political situation where

the Democrats have expressed themselves as not wanting to legislate. They really have a vested interest in not passing legislation, blaming us as a do-nothing Congress, and using that canard to vault themselves back into power.... So we have to not only get

ourselves excited about legislation, but we have to persuade a few Democrats to join us

so we can pass something."