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A Firing Line Special: the Republican Presidential Candidates (1987-10-28)
About this film
Broadcast live. The first public meeting of all the candidates for the 1988 Republican nomination. As in the meeting of the Democrats four months earlier (#FLS2), this show includes taped biographical segments, prepared closing statements, and lots of questions tossed at the candidates by Messrs. Strauss and Buckley, plus a segment of clips from past Firing Line appearances of each of the candidates. Of course, unlike the Democrats, these Republicans have to deal with the fact that they are striving to succeed a President of their own party, and one with whom they have all worked more or less closely. AH: "Well, I admire everything that George just said. But I would also suggest that when one is parceling out loyalty, that to me loyalty has always been having the courage to tell the man you work for what your conscience tells you he must hear, not what you think he wants to hear, and that's been my approach to every President I've served." ... RS: "On that first section, the film you had, I was interested that those candidates of yours, Bill, who were born poor sure stressed how poor they were, but none of your rich ones stressed how rich they were. Now if we Democrats could find a…
Directors & creators
Southern Educational Communications Association
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, William F. Buckley Jr., Robert Strauss, George H.W. Bush, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, 1988 Republican presidential primaries, Republican Party, Stanford University, Presidential debates, Political campaigns, U.S. presidential election 1988, American conservatism
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