Books with politics and religion and other topics and he appeared on the tv you. First in 1993 mr. Buckley sat down to discuss the collection of essays here he is from 1993 book notes. The always call yourself a libertarian . And that movement was encouraged by National Review the idea was to put out how much they had in common and then to be a libertarian. Does this augment or diminish human liberty . Cspan when you ran for mayor of new york you said as far as you are concerned he turned out the window and that the people pick it up. Your memory is the exchange i had with James Baldwin in which he was defending the littering of the streets that it was a form of protest against the city not paying close enough attention and i said its not very helpful to use that as a means should i mind out since i dont think he makes a good mayor . Cspan what do they get they buy the book . They get the best i can give them in various modes over the past eight years. So they covered the collapse of the soviet union and the deaths of very important people just some personal episodes. My sister who serves as the editor i attempt that first she calls of failing from mario cuomo and kennedy and others. And then what specific problems and a section on reflecting and celebrating and appreciating. It is a wide ranging collection. Cspan of people had former columns and articles when you put them in a companion like this . The answer is ordinarily people dont buy anything unless they are part of the hard constituency. Counting the day after tomorrow on the book but if you publish a collection that usually means they bought the first eight. Cspan what is this the numbers. 35. Cspan which sold the best . The second of my four books and in the mystery books came in between 75 and 100 except the last suffer the casualty of the end of the cold war and then most of them have been on the bestseller list. Cspan which did you enjoy the writing part the most . I really dont like to write. Its hard work thats why i write quickly. If i had a pleasure that my younger brother has then i could answer your question with a greater sense of hedonism. One writes three times a week and then i wake up is this today have to write a column if the answer is no then i wake up happy is actually the reverse. Cspan the right for the end . Also to do things for the act of the pleasure of it. Even weeding your garden the act of pleasure to see the roses come up or practice your scales for the pleasure to develop your technique. I like to have written because it is so onerous. Cspan other than the big names like reagan and nixon do you know which person you quoted the most in this book . I think i know. Cspan would it surprise you if i said Whittaker Chambers . You obviously surprised me. On the other hand im thinking what you said. During that period we were Close Friends over seven years, he wrote to me and in fact beautiful letters and republished as a book and would say things in a very interesting what he said in the way he said it. The novel have coming out next january 1 of the points has to do with the discovery by young veterans that were in moscow. The description by Whittaker Chambers with a group of young people and those who swore to give their lives of the fascination of a tyrant. And as Whittaker Chambers pointed out that is dangerous because people get the same idea to line and and then it is all ruled from soviet literature seven Whittaker Chambers would find out about that development of russian history. Cspan what kind of impact did he have on you . And who was he . Whittaker chambers was Time MagazineSenior Editor who in sworn testimony named people he had known while working as a secret intelligence agent for the city soviet union and one was algerias division of history on the question and that evidence. But and actually became family of Senior Editor and he died at a very young age at 61 but had an enormous i was joining the so the first chapter of the book two of 1000 more copies than normal. And from that moment on became a legend. So i think going on about him brings on tedium for the reader. Cspan a couple months ago august 1948 hearing the first ever televised hearing. But i want to go back to that Richard Nixon . That was the First Episode in nixons career that gave him the enormous launch because the committee was dazzled by the fire power and then have to say he is a liar and then to mobilize the evidence and persuaded the committee that this was lying and not chambers so then to become very conspicuous and it was that which gave him the reputation and the sea in the senate two years later in the Vice President of the United States. Cspan where you. I graduated college in 1950 that the drama was a significant episode when i was in school it was tended to assume his words correct because it was so formidable he had gone to Johns Hopkins and in the Harvard Law School and then he clerked with the Supreme Court the jewish liberal. Frankfurter. And then dean ackerson testified and then typing a with his wife priscilla so that was a tremendous blow to the liberal establishment the shining legacy of the new deal and years ago can see thats what he was with our stars messenger but then to be hypnotized and with jfk with a conspiracy been a that conspiracy. Cspan do you remember who influenced you the most . I had professors who were influential always find it hard because it seems to me in that respect it is a collage of people and its hard to sort out and the best known american political strategist firstclass in princeton and so on and influenced me nervously but i did not need him until the magazine began in 1955. In the back of your book. Theres the call appreciating the deeply write about that are no longer alive. Now, courage . Malcolm was the best known journalist up until ten or 15 years ago he went to the soviet union as a young socialist procommunist. And then rode a devastating critique of life under stalin. And then on the socialist side of the world. And then during the war he was very active and then after the war one had to be a humorous to do that. Editing the books section four esquire magazine. And then that turned out to be directional toward damascus. He became a christian he played tennis weaver. One of the most eloquent responses. I forget what it was about. Even when you use the term a conservative almost as if it is a verb rather than an adjective, conservative has to be put in a context. A conservative communist or conservative socialist would be at the other end of the spectrum from the american constitutionalists. Seems conservatives almost given the definition indent of itself are devoid from any context. Could you answer that . That is a wonderful question. What i remember most keenly about the confusion the way it is used is a little line in the New York Times 35 years ago, conservative communist, to change in the khrushchev regimen. Conservative communists have become so forbidding the constance of that. Against the inculcation of the constance of barry goldwater. It is used properly as an adjective. The conservative socialists in that conclave, over the proposal of Mister Harrison used in the same way a moderate republican or mister weaver was professor of english, very shy guy. After he did that, conservatism which the phenomenology of the world. Host washington, go ahead please. Caller hello, good morning. William f buckley, good morning. Mister buckley, i have an expression for five decades about my favorite ghost including abraham lincoln, winston churchill, in the firing line, still among them we have you. This is my concern. I was able to read before preschool, i was 5 years old. Would you consider my advanced ability to read hereditary, a naturally intelligent father who encouraged me, leaving out physical detriments, please comment on the present state of affairs in the United States of america on rampant illiteracy and how do my students get to grade 5, 6, high school with the inability to read . When did you start reading . Guest we published an important piece in National Review by isabel harrison. She had an important reputation as a libertarian philosopher and she was firm in all of her opinions and got to learn how to read, if you wait until late 5 you lose possibility of cultivating your memory and it is so impressive, had a terrible memory. I wonder was i 6 or 7 before i could read again . I dont know but it is probably true as this lady is a certain power that might otherwise it is disastrous by the time we are doing reading literacy. Cspan we will talk about the lexicon of cornucopia. Norwell, massachusetts. Pleasure to talk to you. I heard you describe a follower of henry george but i havent heard much in having you promote his theories and i am wondering why that is the case. Mostly because i am be down by rightwing theorists who always find something wrong but i am talking about henry george, the infinite capacity. Since wealth is a function of how they play against each other, it should be, a parking lot. The tax on that, you shouldnt encourage land stagnation. A ton of situations where the single tax theory should be applicable. And coopted by the socialists in the 20s and 30s, makes that claim processor, 0 income tax. Cspan i am fascinated and see if you will remember it, how to pronouns having Peanut Butter stuck to the roof of your mouth. Guest i think Something Like that. Cspan are you now running . The first time i met William F Buckley, both members, discussing words. The pop quiz to test a word, is it that way . I felt smug to do that as long as you dont damage it quote in an entire paragraph from political economist henry york. This little book guest along those we lines. Cspan did you write all of these things after that . This was taken from my text. With 16 from your text . Right out of your book . Guest to take words that have been used in supply the context. Cspan what is the word for having Peanut Butter stuck to the roof of your mouth . Guest aarons cover phobia. Cspan someone tells me it exists. You had to learn it after having Peanut Butter 30 years ago. Guest i dont have that. Cspan memphis, youre on the air. Go ahead, memphis. Caller a pleasure to talk to you. Ive been a tremendous fan for all the years years and read your fiction and nonfiction trying to recall it seems the overdrive for one of the books about your weeks, you made mention of the fact that you have considered the issue of the seventeenth earl of oxford, the author of the works of shakespeare and also you had someone on one of your shows, what is your position on the seventeenth earl of oxford . Guest dont have a definitive position. This was influenced by joe so burn who wrote a book on it. How do you get around the eternal fire . He died in oh 7 and romeo and another appeared two, three, four years later. Now, they have an elaborate explanation. They sort of eased out after a low in the appearance, however, the etymological case is very striking by which i mean he did write like shakespeare. Im interrupting you. Cspan just getting ready to show, so much around me, so many cameras, it is William F Buckleys execution and other contemporary ballots about 1972. Guest a famous translator in the colombia area. The book is once again another election and in this collection i stick in articles i wrote that are of perennial interest and columns and some of those matches from the magazine from a few months ago. Cspan denver, you are next. A couple of contemporary female writers notably flora king who writes for the National Review and comments on the writings of camille powell. Guest they are both brilliant writers. Florence rights for every issue of National Review and she pacifiers herself as never could understand why people consider solitary confinement as a punishment. Paglia has been extremely the thing is the lure of the lure is devastating. That is the position, so shocking. With france, and obstinance but lovable tenacity. Cspan your editor, asked him if he would ask Lawrence King to do one of these programs, do you remember saying it . He did ask her and she sent me a letter saying under no circumstances would i ever consider that . Would that fit . Guest absolutely. Cspan i would ask you to reiterate. She doesnt have as much credit but guest i am not sure i would. My fascination and devolution almost requires that remoteness. We exchanged emails. And we be rate the rest. Cspan ever seen a picture . Guest yes. Cspan california, your next. Caller it is a pleasure to speak with you. That is a bit redundant but i amended my question after 3 hours here. Three individuals you would prefer to have dinner with and secondly i will be married on april 20 eighth in berkeley, california and that is a coincidence but i would love if you could possibly send it to me if i could leave my address, three people you prefer to have dinner with and could i get a toast for my wedding. Cspan just in case you wants to write a toast guest if you send me that i would be glad to write a toast for you, 215 lexington avenue, new york, 10006. If you have the internet they will give you the zip code. Cspan how about three people at the dinner table . Guest i would settle for my wife, my son, i love my sisters. Cspan in new york, bill buckley. Caller youve seen a nation drift away and drift back towards your philosophy. I have a question about higher education. What schools do you think, what quality schools could a student get in education that is prone to postmodernism and revisionism and some of the things a liberal education suffered from recently . Guest early on someone asked about the guide to colleges, that would be Worth Consulting in your situation but remember in any what they learned, they can learn. In that college, the traditional individual people. When Peter Abelard they decide where he was teaching, it was not ambulatory but they do build a reputation. For classical economics in chicago. I repeat anywhere you go there is more scholarship, to seek it out. And cultivate the processes. Cspan if you have the opportunity to address a young audience, what would you say about current president and his administration . What would you want them to remember about the last 7 and a half years . Guest forget the last 7 and a half years. You cant, at least i cant decide any moment that far away would be needed to say. There are certain imperishable. God is not marked, the church will exist. To what extent that would be a newsworthy statement i dont know. Cspan minneapolis, minnesota. Guest i finished your book up from liberalism. Caller after reading it i also read berniess work liberalism and i noticed liberalism his shifted. We talk about Nineteenth Century liberalism which is the inverse of todays meaning of the word liberalism. In the book you discuss the fact that you dont know exactly where modern liberalism draws its heritage, they see a Rich Heritage in Nineteenth Century liberalism and dont call it such and seemed to be a little persistent in surrendering that term. Guest sort of kayak, wickedness towards surrendering on liberalism. Liberalism was defined i kid you not in Woodrow Wilsons book is the history of mans efforts to confine the strength of government. 25 years later the only thing the modern liberal is interested in liberating is a man from his marriage contract, thus the history of liberalism traveled in 30 or 40 years, pretty much a lost word in the original sense of being an effort to restrain government and keep that in mind. Cspan what about 1996. Guest he decided in the use of the english language and the supplementary business, 1000 words i have used, suffering in that collection, the reviews for the New York Times. Caller i would like to thank you for wonderful years of entertainment. I would like to ask your evaluation of two figures 1 of which i am sure you knew and the other i dont know if you did. The first one is Edward Teller and the second is the person i consider one of the most underrated people in the last 50 years. Guest Mister Thomas is not dead that i know of. I know him moderately well and revere him, know nothing about his narrative as an important russians figure in the New York Times, cant say anything interesting about him. Cspan capistrano, california next. Caller a pleasure to speak with you. I want to ask about your vocabulary. How did you go about obtaining it . Guest it is not that prestigious. When they pick up the idea of having a calendar of words i use they ran out after three years, only 1000 that could conceivably thought of as unusual. If you want a really prestigious, look at anything by updike. I think there were 26 words i never laid eyes on but by and large it is safe to say this. In unusual word is a word you dont know. And unusual word you decide that i dont know but each person has an odd little spark of words that he appropriates and what is true, tend to use words that i know when a lot of people talk them into their collection and use them frequently, what gives me something undeserved. This is a Childrens Book . Cspan where did this come from . Guest the idea was to do something on new years eve. I have permission to write a book. I have a fun book. Cspan this kid and how he taps into a magic voice. Guest a Childrens Book has to have suspense, has to have narrative, has to be a moral those are the only ones i was given, all you need. Cspan springfield, massachusetts. Caller i want to make a statement and ask a question. As a College Student i raised Irish Catholic democrat, my first from liberalism was reading your book from liberalism, i read Eugene Mccarthys book, takes a look, after weighing both books you won and since then, aggressively more conservative. I wanted you to know that you are declining the invitation to the st. Patricks day parade due to a previous commitment as not the fact that we are a heavily democratic area. Could you comment on that . Guest when i ran for mayor i made a universal statement that people shouldnt identify with any particular ethnic or social Group Whether labor unions or management or italians, that was got a little exposure. For the sake of it. Cspan we spent the last 3 hours with William F Buckley junior, it all started with this but god and man at yale in 1951. The next book you will find in the bookstores is this one on the chair, William F Buckley junior let us talk of many things in collective speeches. Last question, anything you want to accomplish for the rest of your life you havent done so far that is on the tip of your tongue . Guest now. Cspan we wish everybody a happy day. That is concluding another look at our archives with william have close William F Buckleys close to 40 appearances available to watch online. Go to our website booktv. Org and type in names of the search box. We are featuring booktv programs is a preview of what is available every weekend on cspan2. Beginning at 8 eastern booktv features several programs on books written by first ladies. And enjoy booktv on cspan2. Booktv on cspan2 this labor day weekend. Watch top nonfiction books and authors. On in depth, a 2hour conversation with father and faith and Freedom Coalition founder ralph read. 9 00 pm eastern on afterwords breitbart new Senior Editor at large on his book read november and his thoughts on