Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0583; A Firing Line Debate: Resolved: That President Reagan Should Be Re-elected in 1984-part II
- Episode Number
- S0583
- 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/514-610vq2sx6m
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- Description
- Episode Description
- A lively debate before an appreciative audience for such things, the place where WFB first won his spurs, the Yale Political Union. Samples: Mr. Shrum: "All of us agree that Mr. Reagan's re-election is likely to mean more for guns and less for human needs, that it is likely to mean escalation and not negotiation in Central America, that it will probably mean a continuing arms race with the Soviet Union. The difference is that while Mr. Buckley and Mr. Will welcome that result, Senator McGovern and I and most Democrats resist it." ... Mr. Will: "It is a sobering thought that if any of the Democratic candidates now running for President had been President in the fall of 1983, an extraordinary band of cutthroats would now be screwing down the lid of a dictatorship on a now free island [Grenada] in the eastern Caribbean." 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
- 1984-01-19
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Subjects
- Soviet Union; Reagan, Ronald; Foreign relations; United States; election; Presidents; Central America; Military policy; political campaigns; presidential candidates; arms race; Grenada; American invasion, 1983
- 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
- Credits
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Guest: Will, George F.
Guest: Buckley, William F., Jr.
Guest: McGovern, George S. (George Stanley)
Guest: Shrum, Robert
Host: Buckley, William F., Jr.
Moderator: Caston, Victor Miles
Producing Organization: Southern Educational Communications Association
Producing Organization: South Carolina Educational Television Network
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Stanford University
Identifier: 80040.828 (Hoover Institution)
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 1:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0583; A Firing Line Debate: Resolved: That President Reagan Should Be Re-elected in 1984-part II ,” 1984-01-19, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed August 28, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-610vq2sx6m.
- MLA: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0583; A Firing Line Debate: Resolved: That President Reagan Should Be Re-elected in 1984-part II .” 1984-01-19. Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. August 28, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-610vq2sx6m>.
- APA: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0583; A Firing Line Debate: Resolved: That President Reagan Should Be Re-elected in 1984-part II . 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-514-610vq2sx6m