Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0756; Debates and Politics
- Episode Number
- S0756
- Episode
- Debates and Politics
- 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/514-959c53fs6x
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- Description
- Episode Description
- In this hour we look at the meeting of the Republican candidates through a conservative prism. As WFB poses the question, "What were [the candidates] saying to American conservatives on the issues? ... Indeed, what is it that conservatives most wish to hear these days?" Occasionally rambling but often insightful. RB: "If the person who wins the Republican nomination has any political intelligence at all, which may eliminate George Bush, they have to take into account the force and the effect that Robertson has had." ... WFB: "The thing [Haig] said that struck me with greatest force is: Look we ought to be awfully happy that we're not living in a nuclear-free world. Fifty million people were killed the last time we had a nuclear-free war.... Now I think that's a very important point to make at a moment when the President of the United States, who is our leader, has taken, in effect, a position that thinks in terms of international denuclearization." 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
- 1987-10-29
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Subjects
- Politics and government; United States; election; Presidents; political campaigns; presidential candidates; Bush, George, 1924-; Dole, Robert J., 1923-; Haig, Alexander Meigs, 1924-; Kemp, Jack; Robertson, Pat; Du Pont, Pierre S.; Campaign debates
- 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: Brookhiser, Richard
Guest: Weyrich, Paul M.
Guest: Burnette, Kevin
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: 80040.1004 (Hoover Institution)
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 1:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0756; Debates and Politics,” 1987-10-29, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 1, 2026, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-959c53fs6x.
- MLA: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0756; Debates and Politics.” 1987-10-29. Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 1, 2026. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-959c53fs6x>.
- APA: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0756; Debates and Politics. 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-514-959c53fs6x