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00:00My guest tonight has probably appeared more hours on television talk shows than anyone in the history of television,

00:06which may or may not have something to do with the unhappy state of our universe.

00:09Mr. Susskind, you are most welcome.

00:12I wonder if I were unwelcome how you'd introduce me.

00:15Bill was a provocateur, a public brawler.

00:18Please don't proceed as though you just made a cosmic breakthrough.

00:22Buckley spends a great deal of his time in New York City, where he works at editing his magazine, National Review.

00:30Without William Buckley, conservatism, as we understand it, would never have happened.

00:35He met young people all the time, and what he found was they liked him.

00:39He was anti-establishment.

00:42He was everywhere.

00:44You'd open up a newspaper and see him there.

00:46You'd see his books in the bookstore.

00:49You almost couldn't escape Bill Buckley.

00:51So the subject of your own intolerance of other people's point of view is, I think, itself, linguistically interesting.

00:56Or he would have known Chomsky, or he would have Huey Newton, William Kuntzler.

01:02People that he disagreed with profoundly.

01:05See, the trouble with you is that you get very resentful whenever anybody reminds you of what you say.

01:08If I said what you said, I'd feel the same way.

01:10It was an almost unstoppable energy.

01:15Much better looking, much younger looking than on television.

01:18So he decides to run for mayor.

01:22It is instructive to meditate upon the rise of crime and our apparent acclamation to it.

01:27They're upset about drugs.

01:28They're upset about crime.

01:30And they saw Buckley, and they saw themselves.

01:32One of the slogans of the civil rights movement in those days was,

01:35Freedom Now.

01:36Buckley's slogan for the civil rights movement would have been,

01:39Some freedom one day when you're ready.

01:41This is the beginning of the movement of the white working class into the Republican Party.

01:48We need your help in a crusade to change the direction of this country.

01:54The conservative movement had become a machine that Buckley had helped build,

01:58but now was beyond his ability to fully control.

02:01You know, when you're on the boat, it doesn't matter how fast you're moving.

02:04You just have to keep moving some way.

02:06And that's what Buckley was like.

02:07Bill didn't want merely to taste like it.

02:10He wanted to drink it in.

02:11He wanted to gulp it.

02:1299 people out of 100 are interesting,

02:15and the 100th is interesting because he is the exception.

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