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Richard Nixon and Young Conservatives (1972-06-16)
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The McGovern youth were ubiquitous in this election season, but, as WFB points out, "it is obvious that there are other young people around, some of whom are even for Nixon ... It is less obvious that there are still others to the right of Nixon (if that is the word for it), who are a strange, quiet, but fascinating complement to the McGovern people." We have met Mr. Hukari before (Firing Line #181); on that occasion he was the lone right-winger in a sea of left-wing radicals. Mr. Rohrabacher would a decade later become a speechwriter for President Reagan; in 1988 he would win a congressional seat from his native California. The two RNC chaps start out judiciously with polling data on young people; the fun starts when the libertarians jump in: HH: "One notices that the only kind of literature that the campaign committee ... distributes says, 'Re-elect the President'; they never remind you that the President's name is Richard M. Nixon. And there's a very good reason for that: because they've taken a poll that shows more people are in favor of re-electing the President than are in favor of re-electing Richard M. Nixon." WFB: "When you say, 'Long live the Queen,' you don't say, 'Long…
Directors & creators
Southern Educational Communications Association
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr., United States, conservatism, Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
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