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
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.
[high hopes plays] thank you for your support. Thank you to all of you for taking the time to join this conversation at a time that could not be more crucial for this country. President running for as a thirtysomething mayor is not a professional move. It isason i am doing because of the moment we are living in. Headlines, we may be under reacting to the seriousness of the moment we live in. That right now, the pace of change in our economy and politics is accelerating and if we dont get on top of that, we are not on top of the conditions that made the president we are living with now even possible. [applause] mr. Buttigieg a president like the one we have now does not get within cheating distance of the oval office unless something is wrong across the land. I am convinced we need to ground our politics and our deepest values. Spell that break the has had some americans believing the word values is a word that should only be associated with one political party. These are not conservati
It is great to be with somebody who gets the value of National Service. Thank you to all of you for taking the time to join this conversation at a time that could not be more crucial for this country. I get that running for president as a thirtysomething mayor is not a conventional political or professional move. The reason i am doing it is because of the moment we are living in. As we read the headlines, we may be under reacting to the seriousness of the moment we live in. That right now, the pace of change in our economy and politics is accelerating and if we dont get on top of that, we are not on top of the conditions that made the president we are living with now even possible. [applause] mr. Buttigieg a president like the one we have now does not get within cheating distance of the oval office unless something is wrong across the land. We have to speak to that if we want to win. In order to do that, i am convinced we need to ground our politics and our deepest values. I am out to
[applause] [high hopes plays] thank you for your support. Thank you to all of you for taking the time to join this conversation at a time that could not be more crucial for this country. President running for as a thirtysomething mayor is not a professional move. It isason i am doing because of the moment we are living in. Headlines, we may be under reacting to the seriousness of the moment we live in. That right now, the pace of change in our economy and politics is accelerating and if we dont get on top of that, we are not on top of the conditions that made the president we are living with now even possible. [applause] mr. Buttigieg a president like the one we have now does not get within cheating distance of the oval office unless something is wrong across the land. I am convinced we need to ground our politics and our deepest values. Spell that break the has had some americans believing the word values is a word that should only be associated with one political party. These are not