Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. "Is There a Role for a Third Party?"

Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on March 8, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on July 29, 2010.

Guest: Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.

Summary:

Despite his own defeat, Mr. Roosevelt answers the title question with an emphatic yes. “I think that the role of the third party has been, especially the Liberal Party. It has been often said in jest that its role in New York politics has been to keep the Democratic Party honest and the Republican Party more liberal. Now, I suppose you could turn that to say that the Conservative Party, on whose line you ran for mayor a year and a half ago–their role, I suppose, would be to make the Republican Party more the party of McKinley or Adam Smith, and . . .” Buckley: “Are you against Adam Smith?” Roosevelt: “I think that he’s a bit out of date.”

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Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Is There a Role for a Third Party?”