Books
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Radical Chic”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on December 17, 1970, uploaded to YouTube on January 13, 2014.Guest: Tom Wolfe Summary: Tom Wolfe–one of the leading exponents of New Journalism–was now, with his white suits and his dramatic manner, becoming a prominent public figure. “Radical… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “What to Do about the Post Office”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on April 23, 1973, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Ernest F. Hollings Summary: The spirited conversation with Senator Ernest F. Hollings–who strongly opposed the way the quasi-privatization of the Post Office had been… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Proposals for Welfare”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on April 23, 1973, uploaded to YouTube on December 19, 2012.Guest: Jimmy Carter Summary: This show was the first nationally televised appearance of Jimmy Carter. In this encounter, Governor Carter sounds quite conservative in talking about welfare… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “What Now for the Ghetto?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 24, 1973, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Thomas Bradley Summary: Thomas Bradley was the first black mayor of a predominantly white major city; previously he had been a Los Angeles policeman, and sat on the City Council.… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Heredity, IQ, and Social Issues”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on October 16, 1973, uploaded to YouTube on March 25, 2011.Guest: Thomas G. Bever, Richard J. Herrnstein Summary: The second show in the series on human behavior, this one on the explosive subject of heritability of IQ. “Explosive,”… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Tax Reform”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 21, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Stanley S. Surrey Summary: A thoughtful discussion of the federal tax system between Mr. Buckley and Stanley S. Surrey; both men have spent much of their professional lives studying… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Revisionist Historians”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 23, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Dean Rusk Summary: Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, reviled at the time by the elite press and revisionist historians, was exiled, as his Ivy League friends saw it, to the wilds… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Should the United States Disarm?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 10, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Les Aspin Summary: Rep. Les Aspin had been, as Mr. Buckley reminds us, “one of Secretary McNamara’s whiz kids in the Pentagon,” and was now one of the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Amnesty, with Ramsey Clark”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 3, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Ramsey Clark Summary: Another go at the debate over whether to offer unconditional amnesty to draft dodgers and deserters, in a high-energy exchange between our guest, Ramsey Clark,… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Future of the GOP, with Gerald R. Ford”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 28, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Gerald R. Ford Summary: The third Firing Line on “The Future of the GOP,” Mr. Buckley attempts to engage Vice President Gerald Ford on the question whether President… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Limits of Journalistic Investigation”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 9, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on December 19, 2012.Guests: Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein Summary: In a show taped while Watergate was still underway, Woodward and Bernstein are candid– as they were in their book–in admitting that… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Democratic Culture”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on November 15, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Leslie Fiedler Summary: Democracy per se doesn’t get into this rich discussion of culture much, with the much-admired and much-criticized American critic, Leslie Fiedler, but… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Integrity and Journalism”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on March 10, 1975, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guests: Tom Wicker, William Safire Summary: This conversation among a card-carrying liberal, a card-carrying conservative, and a Republican moderate winds up centering on the revolt at… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Feminism”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on March 31, 1975, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Clare Boothe Luce Summary: The peg for this show was the Equal Rights Amendment, at the time stalled in the state legislatures. But the discussion between these two old friends soon… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Tom Wolfe and The Painted Word”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 9, 1975, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Tom Wolfe Summary: “The Painted Word” had angered whichever portions of the intelligentsia had not previously been hostile to Tom Wolfe. As Mr. Buckley points out, the… More
Execution Eve And Other Contemporary Ballads
Summary: In Mr. Buckley’s fifth volume of collected material published by Putnam, he is in fine, inimitable form. He calls his book, with a wry look at the deteriorating strategic… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Ten Years of Firing Line”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 20, 1976, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guests: Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, Germaine Greer, Harold Macmillan, Clare Boothe Luce, Mary McCarthy, Dame Rebecca West, Norman Mailer, Stephen Spender, Hugh Kenner, George S.… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “G. Gordon Liddy: An Enigma”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 11, 1978, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: G. Gordon Liddy Summary: G. Gordon Liddy had spent 52 months in prison for his role in Watergate, and had applied his tough-minded view of the world to life behind bars. Amongst… More
A Hymnal: The Controversial Arts
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1978.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Television Machine”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 29, 1979, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guests: Dorothy Fuldheim, Ben Stein Summary: Is the most remarkable thing about present-day television, as Ben Stein maintains in this vivid exchange, its pervasive left-wing, anti-business… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Human Rights in Vietnam”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 6, 1979, uploaded to YouTube on November 11, 2011.Guests: Joan Baez and Ginetta Sagan Summary: Miss Baez had just taken out a full-page ad calling on Hanoi to stop its imperialism and its torture of political prisoners; 88 of her old… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Crime and Punishment: Gary Gilmore”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on October 11, 1979, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Norman Mailer Summary: A low-key and thoughtful appearance by the usually boisterous author of “The Executioner’s Song.” This new novel–on the life and death… More
The Watergate Moment
– New York Times, August 8, 1994.Excerpt: To look back on it: On Feb. 1, 1974, I urged President Richard Nixon to invoke the 25th Amendment and declare Gerald Ford to be acting President, on the explicit understanding that… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley “Kissinger’s Years of Renewal”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on April 15, 1999, uploaded to YouTube on March 5, 2015.Guest: Henry Kissinger Summary: Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s latest volume of memoirs, “Years of Renewal,” covers the period from Richard Nixon’s… More
Essays
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Radical Chic”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on December 17, 1970, uploaded to YouTube on January 13, 2014.Guest: Tom Wolfe Summary: Tom Wolfe–one of the leading exponents of New Journalism–was now, with his white suits and his dramatic manner, becoming a prominent public figure. “Radical… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “What to Do about the Post Office”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on April 23, 1973, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Ernest F. Hollings Summary: The spirited conversation with Senator Ernest F. Hollings–who strongly opposed the way the quasi-privatization of the Post Office had been… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Proposals for Welfare”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on April 23, 1973, uploaded to YouTube on December 19, 2012.Guest: Jimmy Carter Summary: This show was the first nationally televised appearance of Jimmy Carter. In this encounter, Governor Carter sounds quite conservative in talking about welfare… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “What Now for the Ghetto?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 24, 1973, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Thomas Bradley Summary: Thomas Bradley was the first black mayor of a predominantly white major city; previously he had been a Los Angeles policeman, and sat on the City Council.… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Heredity, IQ, and Social Issues”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on October 16, 1973, uploaded to YouTube on March 25, 2011.Guest: Thomas G. Bever, Richard J. Herrnstein Summary: The second show in the series on human behavior, this one on the explosive subject of heritability of IQ. “Explosive,”… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Tax Reform”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 21, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Stanley S. Surrey Summary: A thoughtful discussion of the federal tax system between Mr. Buckley and Stanley S. Surrey; both men have spent much of their professional lives studying… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Revisionist Historians”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 23, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Dean Rusk Summary: Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, reviled at the time by the elite press and revisionist historians, was exiled, as his Ivy League friends saw it, to the wilds… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Should the United States Disarm?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 10, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Les Aspin Summary: Rep. Les Aspin had been, as Mr. Buckley reminds us, “one of Secretary McNamara’s whiz kids in the Pentagon,” and was now one of the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Amnesty, with Ramsey Clark”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 3, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Ramsey Clark Summary: Another go at the debate over whether to offer unconditional amnesty to draft dodgers and deserters, in a high-energy exchange between our guest, Ramsey Clark,… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Future of the GOP, with Gerald R. Ford”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 28, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Gerald R. Ford Summary: The third Firing Line on “The Future of the GOP,” Mr. Buckley attempts to engage Vice President Gerald Ford on the question whether President… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Limits of Journalistic Investigation”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 9, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on December 19, 2012.Guests: Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein Summary: In a show taped while Watergate was still underway, Woodward and Bernstein are candid– as they were in their book–in admitting that… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Democratic Culture”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on November 15, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Leslie Fiedler Summary: Democracy per se doesn’t get into this rich discussion of culture much, with the much-admired and much-criticized American critic, Leslie Fiedler, but… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Integrity and Journalism”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on March 10, 1975, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guests: Tom Wicker, William Safire Summary: This conversation among a card-carrying liberal, a card-carrying conservative, and a Republican moderate winds up centering on the revolt at… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Feminism”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on March 31, 1975, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Clare Boothe Luce Summary: The peg for this show was the Equal Rights Amendment, at the time stalled in the state legislatures. But the discussion between these two old friends soon… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Tom Wolfe and The Painted Word”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 9, 1975, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Tom Wolfe Summary: “The Painted Word” had angered whichever portions of the intelligentsia had not previously been hostile to Tom Wolfe. As Mr. Buckley points out, the… More
Execution Eve And Other Contemporary Ballads
Summary: In Mr. Buckley’s fifth volume of collected material published by Putnam, he is in fine, inimitable form. He calls his book, with a wry look at the deteriorating strategic… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Ten Years of Firing Line”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 20, 1976, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guests: Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, Germaine Greer, Harold Macmillan, Clare Boothe Luce, Mary McCarthy, Dame Rebecca West, Norman Mailer, Stephen Spender, Hugh Kenner, George S.… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “G. Gordon Liddy: An Enigma”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 11, 1978, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: G. Gordon Liddy Summary: G. Gordon Liddy had spent 52 months in prison for his role in Watergate, and had applied his tough-minded view of the world to life behind bars. Amongst… More
A Hymnal: The Controversial Arts
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1978.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Television Machine”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 29, 1979, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guests: Dorothy Fuldheim, Ben Stein Summary: Is the most remarkable thing about present-day television, as Ben Stein maintains in this vivid exchange, its pervasive left-wing, anti-business… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Human Rights in Vietnam”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 6, 1979, uploaded to YouTube on November 11, 2011.Guests: Joan Baez and Ginetta Sagan Summary: Miss Baez had just taken out a full-page ad calling on Hanoi to stop its imperialism and its torture of political prisoners; 88 of her old… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Crime and Punishment: Gary Gilmore”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on October 11, 1979, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Norman Mailer Summary: A low-key and thoughtful appearance by the usually boisterous author of “The Executioner’s Song.” This new novel–on the life and death… More
The Watergate Moment
– New York Times, August 8, 1994.Excerpt: To look back on it: On Feb. 1, 1974, I urged President Richard Nixon to invoke the 25th Amendment and declare Gerald Ford to be acting President, on the explicit understanding that… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley “Kissinger’s Years of Renewal”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on April 15, 1999, uploaded to YouTube on March 5, 2015.Guest: Henry Kissinger Summary: Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s latest volume of memoirs, “Years of Renewal,” covers the period from Richard Nixon’s… More
Commentary
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Radical Chic”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on December 17, 1970, uploaded to YouTube on January 13, 2014.Guest: Tom Wolfe Summary: Tom Wolfe–one of the leading exponents of New Journalism–was now, with his white suits and his dramatic manner, becoming a prominent public figure. “Radical… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “What to Do about the Post Office”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on April 23, 1973, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Ernest F. Hollings Summary: The spirited conversation with Senator Ernest F. Hollings–who strongly opposed the way the quasi-privatization of the Post Office had been… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Proposals for Welfare”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on April 23, 1973, uploaded to YouTube on December 19, 2012.Guest: Jimmy Carter Summary: This show was the first nationally televised appearance of Jimmy Carter. In this encounter, Governor Carter sounds quite conservative in talking about welfare… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “What Now for the Ghetto?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 24, 1973, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Thomas Bradley Summary: Thomas Bradley was the first black mayor of a predominantly white major city; previously he had been a Los Angeles policeman, and sat on the City Council.… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Heredity, IQ, and Social Issues”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on October 16, 1973, uploaded to YouTube on March 25, 2011.Guest: Thomas G. Bever, Richard J. Herrnstein Summary: The second show in the series on human behavior, this one on the explosive subject of heritability of IQ. “Explosive,”… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Tax Reform”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 21, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Stanley S. Surrey Summary: A thoughtful discussion of the federal tax system between Mr. Buckley and Stanley S. Surrey; both men have spent much of their professional lives studying… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Revisionist Historians”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 23, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Dean Rusk Summary: Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, reviled at the time by the elite press and revisionist historians, was exiled, as his Ivy League friends saw it, to the wilds… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Should the United States Disarm?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 10, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Les Aspin Summary: Rep. Les Aspin had been, as Mr. Buckley reminds us, “one of Secretary McNamara’s whiz kids in the Pentagon,” and was now one of the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Amnesty, with Ramsey Clark”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 3, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Ramsey Clark Summary: Another go at the debate over whether to offer unconditional amnesty to draft dodgers and deserters, in a high-energy exchange between our guest, Ramsey Clark,… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Future of the GOP, with Gerald R. Ford”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 28, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Gerald R. Ford Summary: The third Firing Line on “The Future of the GOP,” Mr. Buckley attempts to engage Vice President Gerald Ford on the question whether President… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Limits of Journalistic Investigation”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 9, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on December 19, 2012.Guests: Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein Summary: In a show taped while Watergate was still underway, Woodward and Bernstein are candid– as they were in their book–in admitting that… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Democratic Culture”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on November 15, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Leslie Fiedler Summary: Democracy per se doesn’t get into this rich discussion of culture much, with the much-admired and much-criticized American critic, Leslie Fiedler, but… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Integrity and Journalism”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on March 10, 1975, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guests: Tom Wicker, William Safire Summary: This conversation among a card-carrying liberal, a card-carrying conservative, and a Republican moderate winds up centering on the revolt at… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Feminism”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on March 31, 1975, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Clare Boothe Luce Summary: The peg for this show was the Equal Rights Amendment, at the time stalled in the state legislatures. But the discussion between these two old friends soon… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Tom Wolfe and The Painted Word”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 9, 1975, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Tom Wolfe Summary: “The Painted Word” had angered whichever portions of the intelligentsia had not previously been hostile to Tom Wolfe. As Mr. Buckley points out, the… More
Execution Eve And Other Contemporary Ballads
Summary: In Mr. Buckley’s fifth volume of collected material published by Putnam, he is in fine, inimitable form. He calls his book, with a wry look at the deteriorating strategic… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Ten Years of Firing Line”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 20, 1976, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guests: Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, Germaine Greer, Harold Macmillan, Clare Boothe Luce, Mary McCarthy, Dame Rebecca West, Norman Mailer, Stephen Spender, Hugh Kenner, George S.… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “G. Gordon Liddy: An Enigma”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 11, 1978, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: G. Gordon Liddy Summary: G. Gordon Liddy had spent 52 months in prison for his role in Watergate, and had applied his tough-minded view of the world to life behind bars. Amongst… More
A Hymnal: The Controversial Arts
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1978.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Television Machine”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 29, 1979, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guests: Dorothy Fuldheim, Ben Stein Summary: Is the most remarkable thing about present-day television, as Ben Stein maintains in this vivid exchange, its pervasive left-wing, anti-business… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Human Rights in Vietnam”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 6, 1979, uploaded to YouTube on November 11, 2011.Guests: Joan Baez and Ginetta Sagan Summary: Miss Baez had just taken out a full-page ad calling on Hanoi to stop its imperialism and its torture of political prisoners; 88 of her old… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Crime and Punishment: Gary Gilmore”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on October 11, 1979, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Norman Mailer Summary: A low-key and thoughtful appearance by the usually boisterous author of “The Executioner’s Song.” This new novel–on the life and death… More
The Watergate Moment
– New York Times, August 8, 1994.Excerpt: To look back on it: On Feb. 1, 1974, I urged President Richard Nixon to invoke the 25th Amendment and declare Gerald Ford to be acting President, on the explicit understanding that… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley “Kissinger’s Years of Renewal”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on April 15, 1999, uploaded to YouTube on March 5, 2015.Guest: Henry Kissinger Summary: Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s latest volume of memoirs, “Years of Renewal,” covers the period from Richard Nixon’s… More
Multimedia
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Radical Chic”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on December 17, 1970, uploaded to YouTube on January 13, 2014.Guest: Tom Wolfe Summary: Tom Wolfe–one of the leading exponents of New Journalism–was now, with his white suits and his dramatic manner, becoming a prominent public figure. “Radical… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “What to Do about the Post Office”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on April 23, 1973, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Ernest F. Hollings Summary: The spirited conversation with Senator Ernest F. Hollings–who strongly opposed the way the quasi-privatization of the Post Office had been… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Proposals for Welfare”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on April 23, 1973, uploaded to YouTube on December 19, 2012.Guest: Jimmy Carter Summary: This show was the first nationally televised appearance of Jimmy Carter. In this encounter, Governor Carter sounds quite conservative in talking about welfare… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “What Now for the Ghetto?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 24, 1973, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Thomas Bradley Summary: Thomas Bradley was the first black mayor of a predominantly white major city; previously he had been a Los Angeles policeman, and sat on the City Council.… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Heredity, IQ, and Social Issues”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on October 16, 1973, uploaded to YouTube on March 25, 2011.Guest: Thomas G. Bever, Richard J. Herrnstein Summary: The second show in the series on human behavior, this one on the explosive subject of heritability of IQ. “Explosive,”… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Tax Reform”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 21, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Stanley S. Surrey Summary: A thoughtful discussion of the federal tax system between Mr. Buckley and Stanley S. Surrey; both men have spent much of their professional lives studying… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Revisionist Historians”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 23, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Dean Rusk Summary: Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, reviled at the time by the elite press and revisionist historians, was exiled, as his Ivy League friends saw it, to the wilds… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Should the United States Disarm?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 10, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Les Aspin Summary: Rep. Les Aspin had been, as Mr. Buckley reminds us, “one of Secretary McNamara’s whiz kids in the Pentagon,” and was now one of the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Amnesty, with Ramsey Clark”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 3, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Ramsey Clark Summary: Another go at the debate over whether to offer unconditional amnesty to draft dodgers and deserters, in a high-energy exchange between our guest, Ramsey Clark,… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Future of the GOP, with Gerald R. Ford”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 28, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Gerald R. Ford Summary: The third Firing Line on “The Future of the GOP,” Mr. Buckley attempts to engage Vice President Gerald Ford on the question whether President… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Limits of Journalistic Investigation”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 9, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on December 19, 2012.Guests: Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein Summary: In a show taped while Watergate was still underway, Woodward and Bernstein are candid– as they were in their book–in admitting that… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Democratic Culture”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on November 15, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Leslie Fiedler Summary: Democracy per se doesn’t get into this rich discussion of culture much, with the much-admired and much-criticized American critic, Leslie Fiedler, but… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Integrity and Journalism”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on March 10, 1975, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guests: Tom Wicker, William Safire Summary: This conversation among a card-carrying liberal, a card-carrying conservative, and a Republican moderate winds up centering on the revolt at… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Feminism”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on March 31, 1975, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Clare Boothe Luce Summary: The peg for this show was the Equal Rights Amendment, at the time stalled in the state legislatures. But the discussion between these two old friends soon… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Tom Wolfe and The Painted Word”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 9, 1975, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Tom Wolfe Summary: “The Painted Word” had angered whichever portions of the intelligentsia had not previously been hostile to Tom Wolfe. As Mr. Buckley points out, the… More
Execution Eve And Other Contemporary Ballads
Summary: In Mr. Buckley’s fifth volume of collected material published by Putnam, he is in fine, inimitable form. He calls his book, with a wry look at the deteriorating strategic… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Ten Years of Firing Line”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 20, 1976, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guests: Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, Germaine Greer, Harold Macmillan, Clare Boothe Luce, Mary McCarthy, Dame Rebecca West, Norman Mailer, Stephen Spender, Hugh Kenner, George S.… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “G. Gordon Liddy: An Enigma”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 11, 1978, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: G. Gordon Liddy Summary: G. Gordon Liddy had spent 52 months in prison for his role in Watergate, and had applied his tough-minded view of the world to life behind bars. Amongst… More
A Hymnal: The Controversial Arts
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1978.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Television Machine”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 29, 1979, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guests: Dorothy Fuldheim, Ben Stein Summary: Is the most remarkable thing about present-day television, as Ben Stein maintains in this vivid exchange, its pervasive left-wing, anti-business… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Human Rights in Vietnam”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 6, 1979, uploaded to YouTube on November 11, 2011.Guests: Joan Baez and Ginetta Sagan Summary: Miss Baez had just taken out a full-page ad calling on Hanoi to stop its imperialism and its torture of political prisoners; 88 of her old… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Crime and Punishment: Gary Gilmore”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on October 11, 1979, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Norman Mailer Summary: A low-key and thoughtful appearance by the usually boisterous author of “The Executioner’s Song.” This new novel–on the life and death… More
The Watergate Moment
– New York Times, August 8, 1994.Excerpt: To look back on it: On Feb. 1, 1974, I urged President Richard Nixon to invoke the 25th Amendment and declare Gerald Ford to be acting President, on the explicit understanding that… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley “Kissinger’s Years of Renewal”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on April 15, 1999, uploaded to YouTube on March 5, 2015.Guest: Henry Kissinger Summary: Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s latest volume of memoirs, “Years of Renewal,” covers the period from Richard Nixon’s… More
Teaching
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Radical Chic”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on December 17, 1970, uploaded to YouTube on January 13, 2014.Guest: Tom Wolfe Summary: Tom Wolfe–one of the leading exponents of New Journalism–was now, with his white suits and his dramatic manner, becoming a prominent public figure. “Radical… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “What to Do about the Post Office”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on April 23, 1973, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Ernest F. Hollings Summary: The spirited conversation with Senator Ernest F. Hollings–who strongly opposed the way the quasi-privatization of the Post Office had been… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Proposals for Welfare”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on April 23, 1973, uploaded to YouTube on December 19, 2012.Guest: Jimmy Carter Summary: This show was the first nationally televised appearance of Jimmy Carter. In this encounter, Governor Carter sounds quite conservative in talking about welfare… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “What Now for the Ghetto?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 24, 1973, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Thomas Bradley Summary: Thomas Bradley was the first black mayor of a predominantly white major city; previously he had been a Los Angeles policeman, and sat on the City Council.… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Heredity, IQ, and Social Issues”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on October 16, 1973, uploaded to YouTube on March 25, 2011.Guest: Thomas G. Bever, Richard J. Herrnstein Summary: The second show in the series on human behavior, this one on the explosive subject of heritability of IQ. “Explosive,”… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Tax Reform”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 21, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Stanley S. Surrey Summary: A thoughtful discussion of the federal tax system between Mr. Buckley and Stanley S. Surrey; both men have spent much of their professional lives studying… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Revisionist Historians”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 23, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Dean Rusk Summary: Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, reviled at the time by the elite press and revisionist historians, was exiled, as his Ivy League friends saw it, to the wilds… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Should the United States Disarm?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 10, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Les Aspin Summary: Rep. Les Aspin had been, as Mr. Buckley reminds us, “one of Secretary McNamara’s whiz kids in the Pentagon,” and was now one of the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Amnesty, with Ramsey Clark”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 3, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Ramsey Clark Summary: Another go at the debate over whether to offer unconditional amnesty to draft dodgers and deserters, in a high-energy exchange between our guest, Ramsey Clark,… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Future of the GOP, with Gerald R. Ford”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 28, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Gerald R. Ford Summary: The third Firing Line on “The Future of the GOP,” Mr. Buckley attempts to engage Vice President Gerald Ford on the question whether President… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Limits of Journalistic Investigation”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 9, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on December 19, 2012.Guests: Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein Summary: In a show taped while Watergate was still underway, Woodward and Bernstein are candid– as they were in their book–in admitting that… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Democratic Culture”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on November 15, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Leslie Fiedler Summary: Democracy per se doesn’t get into this rich discussion of culture much, with the much-admired and much-criticized American critic, Leslie Fiedler, but… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Integrity and Journalism”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on March 10, 1975, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guests: Tom Wicker, William Safire Summary: This conversation among a card-carrying liberal, a card-carrying conservative, and a Republican moderate winds up centering on the revolt at… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Feminism”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on March 31, 1975, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Clare Boothe Luce Summary: The peg for this show was the Equal Rights Amendment, at the time stalled in the state legislatures. But the discussion between these two old friends soon… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Tom Wolfe and The Painted Word”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 9, 1975, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Tom Wolfe Summary: “The Painted Word” had angered whichever portions of the intelligentsia had not previously been hostile to Tom Wolfe. As Mr. Buckley points out, the… More
Execution Eve And Other Contemporary Ballads
Summary: In Mr. Buckley’s fifth volume of collected material published by Putnam, he is in fine, inimitable form. He calls his book, with a wry look at the deteriorating strategic… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Ten Years of Firing Line”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 20, 1976, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guests: Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, Germaine Greer, Harold Macmillan, Clare Boothe Luce, Mary McCarthy, Dame Rebecca West, Norman Mailer, Stephen Spender, Hugh Kenner, George S.… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “G. Gordon Liddy: An Enigma”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 11, 1978, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: G. Gordon Liddy Summary: G. Gordon Liddy had spent 52 months in prison for his role in Watergate, and had applied his tough-minded view of the world to life behind bars. Amongst… More
A Hymnal: The Controversial Arts
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1978.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Television Machine”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 29, 1979, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guests: Dorothy Fuldheim, Ben Stein Summary: Is the most remarkable thing about present-day television, as Ben Stein maintains in this vivid exchange, its pervasive left-wing, anti-business… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Human Rights in Vietnam”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 6, 1979, uploaded to YouTube on November 11, 2011.Guests: Joan Baez and Ginetta Sagan Summary: Miss Baez had just taken out a full-page ad calling on Hanoi to stop its imperialism and its torture of political prisoners; 88 of her old… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Crime and Punishment: Gary Gilmore”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on October 11, 1979, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Norman Mailer Summary: A low-key and thoughtful appearance by the usually boisterous author of “The Executioner’s Song.” This new novel–on the life and death… More
The Watergate Moment
– New York Times, August 8, 1994.Excerpt: To look back on it: On Feb. 1, 1974, I urged President Richard Nixon to invoke the 25th Amendment and declare Gerald Ford to be acting President, on the explicit understanding that… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley “Kissinger’s Years of Renewal”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on April 15, 1999, uploaded to YouTube on March 5, 2015.Guest: Henry Kissinger Summary: Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s latest volume of memoirs, “Years of Renewal,” covers the period from Richard Nixon’s… More