Cspan nearly 40 times and over the next five hourswere going to share some of those programs with you. First up tonight in 1993, Mister Buckley sat down to discuss a collection of his essays from his book happy days are here again. Here he is on cspans Interview Program from 1993, book notes. On the cover of your new book it says reflections of a libertarian journalist. Do you always call yourself a libertarian western mark. Off and on. As i of course do, its something called the movement was encouraged by me in National Review during the late 50s and the idea was to put out to the straight libertarians and conservatives how much they had in common and how effective this symbiosis would be between them. So from time to time i stressed the fact that every now and then that im a libertarian and in most of what i write theres a certain amount of it that is does not augment or diminish human liberty. Did i remember you saying maybe when you ran for mayor of new york that this may not be yo
they d be carried out on a stretcher, folks. guards are gentle, walking out, high fives, smiling, laughing. i d like to punch him in the face. i ll tell ya. we re in a serious moment in our country, and i mean it from the bottom of my heart. as i said last week, we remain in the battle for the soul of america. by the way all right. god love ya. let em go. let em go. no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, let him go. look, everybody is entitled to be an idiot. no, no, everybody is entitled. president biden s response to a protester while campaigning in wisconsin yesterday, as compared to how donald trump handled hecklers during the 2016 campaign. remember that? yeah, willie, it kind of feels like he was speaking to me there. everybody is entitled to be an idiot. i had the same thought. a different approach than donald trump, obviously. that was for us. exactly. also looking back on 2016, too, the idea that donald trump has ever been in a fistfight in his life, the
[cheers and applause] that kind of future entered my life the night our daughter chelsea was born. As i sat in the delivery room i was overcome with the thought that god had given me a blessing my own father never knew the chance to hold my child in my arms. Somewhere at this very moment a child is being born in america. Let it be our cause to give that child a happy home, a Healthy Family and a hopeful future. Let it be our cause to see that that child has a chance to live to the fullest of her godgiven capacity. [cheers and applause] let it be our cause to see that child grow up strong and secure, braced by her challenges, but never struggling alone with family and friends and a faith that in america no one is left out, no one is left behind. [cheers and applause] let it be our cause that when this child is able she gives Something Back to her children, her community and her country. Let it be our cause that we give this child a country that is coming together, not coming apart, a co
Who struggled to balance their family and their jobs, and who should never, ever be forgotten. I just hope that, like her grandparents and her great grandparents before, lily goes on to raise her kids with the promise that echoes in homes all across america, that we can do better. And thats what this election is all about. Thank you very much. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] for the first time in our nations history that a woman will be a major party nomination. At the Democratic National convention in philadelphia, Hillary Clinton becomes the first woman nominee of a Major Political party for president of the united states. Live coverage of every minute of this Historic Convention begins monday on cspan. The cspan radio app, and www. Cspan. Org. Atlary clintons nomination the Democratic National Convention Next week will mark the first time in u. S. History that a husband and wife have both been presi
Let it be voted on. Now,ly qualify, i am a registered republican. I have been registered as an independent. I have voted for two democratic president s. But we must all remember, we are americans first, party last. Have a good day. From randall, washington, d. C. , is up next. Hello. Caller hello . Youre on. Caller randall in d. C. . Yes, youre on. Caller okay. I simply want to say people are forgetting, they voted for gridlock, the republicans did. They voted republicans in twice. They initially voted them into the house so they would they botched the republic argument about all the power rested in one party. So, to counter obama, and im sure a little of it had some race factor in it, they voted in gridlock. Nothing is said about it because they thought the republicans would do even more when they voted them into the senate. And, like i said, the other factor is race. People working class people who are democrats, republicans, black or white, should all be working together against cla