Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0152; The Nixon Experience and American Conservatism
- Episode Number
- S0152
- 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/514-0k26970k72
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Richard Nixon had finally flown off to San Clemente, something that freshman Senator James Buckley had bucked much of conservative and Republican sentiment by urging him to do back in March (JLB: "There were many others who knew exactly what I was trying to say and who agreed with me--unfortunately, more of them privately than publicly"). A substantive and often wryly moving discussion (JLB: "We had a little pool in our office in the mail room as to whether I'd be compared with Judas Iscariot or Benedict Arnold or Brutus most often. And I think Benedict Arnold won") of Watergate details, and of how those fit into broader questions of congressional versus presidential power, of the President's ability to conduct foreign policy, and of our tendency, as WFB puts it, "to associate an idea with a person, and if that person lets [us] down, [to] become disillusioned with the idea."
- 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
- 1974-09-04
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Subjects
- United States; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); public opinion; conservatism; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; Watergate Affair, 1972-1974
- 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: Buckley, James Lane
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: 80040.394 (Hoover Institution)
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 1:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0152; The Nixon Experience and American Conservatism,” 1974-09-04, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed July 22, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-0k26970k72.
- MLA: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0152; The Nixon Experience and American Conservatism.” 1974-09-04. Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. July 22, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-0k26970k72>.
- APA: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0152; The Nixon Experience and American Conservatism. 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-514-0k26970k72