Series
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.
Episode Number
S0633
Episode
Can An American Dominate the UN?
Producing Organization
Southern Educational Communications Association
South Carolina Educational Television Network
Contributing Organization
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University (Stanford, California)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/514-5x2599zs50
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Description
Episode Description
In answer to the title question, Mrs. Kirkpatrick had certainly been doing her best for the past four years. On this show, she gives a pellucid account of the dynamics of that institution (things one hadn't thought of: "Using the veto in the Security Council is a mark of lack of political clout. If you've got political influence then you can persuade more than six nations in the Security Council not to vote for the resolution you're against and you don't need to veto it") and a novel defense of our continued membership ("The reason we should not withdraw from the UN is that our Declaration of Independence requests us to have a decent respect for the opinions of mankind. Now there's no doubt that it would be a terrible, terrible affront to the opinions of mankind for the U.S. to withdraw from the UN"). Currently there is only a digitized transcript available for this episode.
Series Description
The television series Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. was a venue for debate and discussion on political, social, and philosophical issues with experts of the day. Firing Line broadcasts from 1966 through March 1971 were produced and syndicated by WOR-TV, a commercial station in New York, but some of them were also broadcast on noncommercial television stations. Starting in April 1971, Firing Line broadcasts were produced by the Southern Educational Communications Association, an arm of South Carolina Educational Television. Hoover Institution Library & Archives' Firing Line collection guide can be found at: https://www.hoover.org/library-archives/collections/firing-line.
Date
1985-01-28
Asset type
Episode
Genres
Talk Show
Topics
Public Affairs
Subjects
United Nations; United States; voting; Kirkpatrick, Jeane J.; Security Council
Rights
Copyright 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.
Media type
Moving Image
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Credits
Guest: Kirkpatrick, Jeane J.
Host: Buckley, William F., Jr.
Producing Organization: Southern Educational Communications Association
Producing Organization: South Carolina Educational Television Network
AAPB Contributor Holdings
Stanford University
Identifier: 80040.875 (Hoover Institution)
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 1:00:00
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Citations
Chicago: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0633; Can An American Dominate the UN?,” 1985-01-28, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed July 6, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-5x2599zs50.
MLA: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0633; Can An American Dominate the UN?.” 1985-01-28. Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. July 6, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-5x2599zs50>.
APA: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0633; Can An American Dominate the UN?. Boston, MA: Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-5x2599zs50