Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0049; A Populist Manifesto
- Episode Number
- S0049
- Episode
- A Populist Manifesto
- 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/514-8w3804zb2f
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- Description
- Episode Description
- The candidacy of George McGovern, WFB begins, "is off to a ripping start largely because of the appeal of what they are nowadays calling 'the new populism.' By happy coincidence for [today's guests], they brought out during the same season a book on the new populism called A Populist Manifesto: The Making of a New Majority." And we're off on a rousing battle over taxes & fairness. WFB: "An oil company is you and me and a lawyer to whom we pay $25 and we constitute ourselves an oil company. You are aware that there are thousands?" JG: "They may be you, babes, but they ain't me." WFB: "There are people much poorer than you, my friend, who have gone out and struck oil. H. L. Hunt was one of them. And if there is any?" JG: "You mean J. Paul Getty, don't you?" WFB: "Some people write books and some people..." JG: "Bill, you do mean J. Paul Getty, not H. L. Hunt." WFB: "I mean H. L. Hunt. H. L. Hunt was much poorer than you when he struck oil. I know; my father lent him money." JN: "At what rate?" 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
- 1972-05-15
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Subjects
- Politics and government; United States; Economic Policy; social policy; Newfield, Jack. A populist manifesto : the making of a new majority; Populism
- 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: Greenfield, Jeff
Guest: Newfield, Jack
Host: Buckley, William F., Jr.
Producing Organization: Southern Educational Communications Association
Producing Organization: South Carolina Educational Television Network
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Stanford University
Identifier: 80040.29 (Hoover Institution)
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 1:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0049; A Populist Manifesto,” 1972-05-15, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 1, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-8w3804zb2f.
- MLA: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0049; A Populist Manifesto.” 1972-05-15. Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 1, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-8w3804zb2f>.
- APA: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0049; A Populist Manifesto. 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-514-8w3804zb2f