Young Billy Graham evangelizes William F. Buckley
One hundred years from now, what will future generations think when studying the partisan circus-barker sideshows that pass for "news" today?
I could not be more different from William F. Buckley and could not disagree more with his views, but I tell you this: We are a poorer society without his sober exploration of today's issues.
Buckley's gift took the form of boldly unafraid interviews of the most powerful voices of that volatile era of change; a tone, balance and intellect we are desperately in need of today. The screeching of extreme opinions we currently suffer serves only to deafen ears and paralyze progress.
This interview is a fascinating historical snapshot of 1969, when Nixon "I am not a crook!" was president, the Vietnam war and protests against it destroyed falsely-hallowed institutions and idealism of peace-and-love was extinguished with the murder of its leaders. America was seething with rage.
Buckley's theme is decline...
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