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
Nonfiction books and authors. Cspan2 created by americas Cable Television companies of the Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Beginning now on booktv we will spend time with the late author and columnist William F Buckley. This is part of our summer bins watch series which features one wellknown author. He found the National Review and help to the political Debate Program firing line for several years, also the author of 50 books which included his thoughts on politics, religion, culture, literature and other topics. He appeared on booktv and cspan at 45, we will share those programs with you. First up tonight, in 1993 Mister Buckley sat down to discuss the collection of his essays from his book happy days were here again. Here he is on cspans Interview Program from 1993 book notes. Cspan on the cover of your book it says reflections of a libertarian journalist. You always call yourself a libertarian . Guest as of course you know, something called the
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 t
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
President ial candidates appeared for the first time on the same stage thursday night sparring over immigration, Foreign Policy , health care, and president obamas legacy. I think we e should have a debate on health care. She isthe senator says for bernie. I am for barack. I think obamacare worked. Insurance Companies Last year billions of dollars in profit out of the system. How did they make that money . Everyone of those 23 billion was m made by an insurance compy saying no to your health care. Amy we will air highlights from the houston debate and host a roundtable discussion. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In texas, the ten leading democratic president ial candidates appeared for the first time on the same stage together thursday night at a debate at Texas Southern university in houston. It was the third debate of the primary season but marked the first time former Vice President joe biden and se