Some pieces to bang your head on. Yeah. We have a GrAnd Piano if youd like to entertain us. A GrAnd Piano . Yes. I can open it, but i couldnt play it. John laughs Michael Palin, welcome to This cultural life. Thank you. You were born in sheffield in 1943. What are your earliest memories of childhood, Home Life . Um, i think it was shopping in the Ration Book era. Um, And i can remember going with my mother to get. I think we were given free Orange Juice at that time. Really, This must have been. I must have been three or four. And watching it being filled up And hAnded over. Your father was an engineer in the sheffield steel industry. Yeah. What Sort Of man was he . What was he like . He was. He was quite a difficult man in a way. He was a little Bit Sort of. Could be quite cantankerous. And i think a lot of This went down to the fact he had a stammer all his life. He was a man with a good sense of humour, but probably unable to telljokes because of the stammer. So i think there was a
Mr. Buckley down to discuss a collection of his from the book, happy days are here again. Here he is on cspans Interview Program from 1993, footnotes. On the cover of your new book, it says the sections of the libertarian journalists. To call yourself a libertarian. Often on. As of course you know, the movement was encouraged by National Review. In the late 50s and the idea was to put a dot to the libertarians and the conservatives too much they had in common. And how effective it would be between them. And known that i am a libertarian. In the term, and most of whatever ideas and or intended to those or diminish the human liberty. Host remembering say you saying, made when you ran for the bear new york. They just seem people throw the garbage out the window. If the people would pick it up and deal with it rather than government deal with things. William no. Your memory is in which he was defending, lettering of the streets. On the grounds that is a form of something against the city.
Libertarians and conservatives how much they have in common and how effective it would be between them. Certainly in most of what i write theres a certain amount that is oriented to diminish human liberty. Cspan do i remember you saying when you ran for mayor of new york that as far as you are concerned they would throw the garbage out the window and let people pick it up rather than have the government do with that . Guest your memory is an exchange i had with James Baldwin in which he was defending the littering of the street on the grounds that it was a form of protest against the city and not paying close enough attention. I said look, it isnt very helpful to use that as a means of protesting. It was really rhetorical. Cspan if somebody buys the book what do they get . Guest while, they get the best i can give them in various modes. Over the past eight years, they covered the collapse of the soviet union, they covered the death of some very important people, plus a number of person
Could you please be seated . Welcome to the Civic Affairs speaker series. I am president of the Womens National Republican Club. Our organization was founded by the separatists in 1921 to teach women the value of the ballot. Our founders built the townhouse in 1934. Today, the Womens National Republican Club continues its goal of furthering political education and promoting good governance. The chair of the series will introduce the renowned author this evening. [applause] good evening ladies and gentlemen. I am the chair in the speakers committee. Tonight i have the great had tht privilege and honor to present to you the speaker, with mr. William f. Buckley, junior the renowned social and political commentator, journalist and author of 37 books which range from the adventure to commentary and awardwinning fiction. Mr. Buckley needs no introduction. Everyone in the room is familiar with this achiever. We have read his syndicated articles such as the column on the right, the National Re
History at the university of california at los angeles. He specializes in korea and also in northeast asia. He teaches a wide variety of courses u. S. Politics and diplomacy, the cold war, the global cold war, decolonization and dissent. The history of capitalism and much more. Kevin has written numerous essays and articles for some of the leading pop culture and scholarly journals, including diplomatic history, the nation and the village voice, his a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at stanford university. There it is again that stanford university, where hes completing a new book with the tentative title, worlds unseen, Henry Wallace, Herbert Hoover and the making of cold war america. No doubt kevin will be talking on that subject right now. Kevin, all yours. Well, thank you, burt, for the kind introduction. Thank you. Also, too, as everyone else has said to to the Thomas Schwartz for leading this charge into a revision, is am i also like shawn feel the same way about it . W