URL: https://digitalcollections.hoover.org/objects/6062
Collection Structure Firing Line broadcast records >  Episode guide >  The American Challenge
Item Title The American Challenge
Collection Title Firing Line broadcast records
Guest Servan-Schreiber, Jean Jacques
Guest Galbraith, Evan G.
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date Created December 09, 1968
Description The "challenge" in question being, as WFB glosses it, whether "France and Europe are permitting America to overtake them by indulging us instead of emulating our extraordinary technological and managerial breakthroughs." Despite occasional impasses (like one at the beginning over whether the differences among various countries are "racial" or "cultural"), this proves to be a fascinating three-way discussion of economic competition, how having a Protestant versus a Catholic culture affects a country's economic development, how companies in different countries in Europe might learn to cooperate. JJSS: "You see, for instance, a very Catholic country, the most Catholic country in the Common Market, is Italy. And Italy was lagging industrially, even under Mussolini--when all Italy geared up for a war effort, he could not bring any industrial results in his country. But now this very Catholic country is the fastest driving country in the Common Market."
Subject(s) Competition, International Foreign economic relations United States Europe
Language(s) English
Country of Origin United States
Place Recorded New York City, New York, United States
Dimensions Duration: 50 minutes
Format Text
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio 4:3
Aspect Ratio 4:3
Color color
Color color
Soundtrack sound
Soundtrack sound
Hoover ID Program 128
Record Number 80040.128
Notes Video available through special order.
Collection Guide https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6m3nc88c
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