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
Good morning. Good morning. Proving once again that if you want a nice crowd, servant some food. But we do have a great crowd here, thank you for everyone for coming. On behalf of the National Review institute, its president mc craig and my fellow trustees including here and now rich lowry and if ive forgotten anyone, let me know later. I would like to welcome you to this special conversation about an important book, an important new book. A torch kept lit great lives of the twentieth century. My name is jack fowler and im the publisher of the National Review. [applause] we will applaud National Review. The institute is our sister organization, a nonprofit educational entity founded 25 years ago by William F Buckley junior. [applause] its mission, is to advance the conservative principles bill champion, complement the mission of the magazine, supports the National Reviews best talent, preserve and promote the buckley legacy. Indeed, the institute has formally launched its bodily legacy
Good morning. Good morning. Proving once again that if you want a nice crowd, servant some food. But we do have a great crowd here, thank you for everyone for coming. On behalf of the National Review institute, its president mc craig and my fellow trustees including here and now rich lowry and if ive forgotten anyone, let me know later. I would like to welcome you to this special conversation about an important book, an important new book. A torch kept lit great lives of the twentieth century. My name is jack fowler and im the publisher of the National Review. [applause] we will applaud National Review. The institute is our sister organization, a nonprofit educational entity founded 25 years ago by William F Buckley junior. [applause] its mission, is to advance the conservative principles bill champion, complement the mission of the magazine, supports the National Reviews best talent, preserve and promote the buckley legacy. Indeed, the institute has formally launched its bodily legacy
I dont even know if its a published paper. Jennifer sent to me. This is several years ago and i read it and is talking about a path to nationhood for the native nation. What any native nation would look like. In the sense of where we been in terms of the history and were at this point in time. They took part of the and modified it a bit. Its an article that was published in the quarterly back in 2006. That version is very modified. I still have it. Anything in terms of publication. I talk to people about my ideas. If you ask native people the discussions about what it really means for us simply taking place right now. With all of the allies theres in terms of them wanting to protect not only the water with the people and the way of life. Its going much faster than a lot of us are envisioning. In some ways you can see it. I think youre right. Because of the amount of those people. And getting educated. With our way of life and our language definitely taking place in accelerating. I thin
Dr. Edwards thank you, john. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. There were two bills at National Review, and in the conservative movement. Bill buckley, a radiant, shooting star, who lit up the usher, a bill r neverwavering northstar, by which conservatives learned to chart their political course. Many have written about william f. Buckley, jr. , that irresistible renaissance man, fiskont want until david has given us an indepth portrait of the other bill, william a. Rusher, who among other salutary and contributions, played a pivotal role in the life of a National Draft Goldwater Committee. And that was critical because if there had been no Draft Goldwater Committee there would , have been no president ial candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964. And, if there had been no candidate goldwater in 1964, there would have been no president elect, Ronald Reagan, in a 1980. It was goldwater, you see, what who approved reagans famous time for choosing, the tv address that made him a political st