Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S1107; The Social Security Debate: Part I
- Episode Number
- S1107
- 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-wd3pv6c64w
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Our guests nobly resist the temptation to behave like, as Governor du Pont puts it, "a bunch of actuaries arguing about an arcane subject." The result fills in some of the gaps left by the formal debate and gives the audience a splendid overview of this crucial topic. Mr. du Pont: "We could all agree in this country that there should be higher education for every American. But nobody thinks that that ought to be confined to a set of government universities. We have government universities; we also have private universities; and you as an individual are free to choose either one. I think the same paradigm is here. Why are we trying to put bells and whistles and strings and glue and Band-Aids on a system in which we insist everyone remain when there's an opportunity to have a mixed system so that a lot of people could do a lot better?" Mr. Kuttner: "... That is what we have. We have Social Security, but then we've got private pension plans, 401Ks, 203Bs, IRAs, Keoghs, and individual mutual funds. And it's the individual-mutual-fund sector that's growing the fastest." 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
- 1996-12-04
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Subjects
- United States; Social Security; retirement income; Individual retirement accounts
- 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: Peterson, Peter G.
Guest: Eisner, Robert
Guest: Kuttner, Robert
Guest: Du Pont, Pierre S.
Guest: Goodman, John C.
Guest: Aaron, Henry J.
Guest: Marmor, Theodore R.
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: 80040.1384 (Hoover Institution)
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 0:30:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S1107; The Social Security Debate: Part I,” 1996-12-04, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 27, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-wd3pv6c64w.
- MLA: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S1107; The Social Security Debate: Part I.” 1996-12-04. Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 27, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-wd3pv6c64w>.
- APA: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S1107; The Social Security Debate: Part I. 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-wd3pv6c64w