Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0637; Are We Coddling the Farmers?
- Episode Number
- S0637
- Episode
- Are We Coddling the Farmers?
- 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/514-8p5v69916t
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- Description
- Episode Description
- The conversation sometimes fails to click, with Messrs. Bovard and Buckley concentrating on the amount of money that goes to "the farmers" (actually, most of it to the huge agribusiness producers of grain and rice and cotton) and Mr. Mullins arguing that "stability" demands the expenditure. But if we get no meeting of the minds, we do get the two sides' cases clearly presented. JB: "A lot of people put a sentimental value on having people on the farm ... but I think we need to put that in perspective; we need to put a price tag on that. The question is: Are we willing to pay an extra $20 billion a year in order to have an extra 50,000 people living on the farm? ..." RJM: "I am willing to pay a price to maintain stability, not only stability from the farmers' standpoint, but stability from the consumers' standpoint and stability in our industrial production. My friends in the United Auto Workers told me that 85,000 United Auto Workers are out of work today that used to make farm implements that there is no longer a market for. So it's not a nostalgia trip." 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
- 1985-02-26
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Subjects
- United States; agricultural subsidies
- 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: Bovard, James
Guest: Mullins, Robert J.
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: 80040.879 (Hoover Institution)
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 1:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0637; Are We Coddling the Farmers?,” 1985-02-26, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed October 3, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-8p5v69916t.
- MLA: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0637; Are We Coddling the Farmers?.” 1985-02-26. Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. October 3, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-8p5v69916t>.
- APA: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0637; Are We Coddling the Farmers?. 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-514-8p5v69916t