WEBVTT 00:01.301 --> 00:02.502 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - My guest tonight has probably appeared more hours 00:02.502 --> 00:04.437 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% on television talk shows than anyone 00:04.437 --> 00:05.905 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% in the history of television, 00:05.905 --> 00:07.240 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% which may or may not have something to do 00:07.240 --> 00:08.675 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% with the unhappy state of our universe, 00:08.675 --> 00:11.711 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Mr. Susskind, you are most welcome. 00:11.711 --> 00:14.714 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - I wonder if I were unwelcome, how you'd introduce me. 00:14.714 --> 00:16.149 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% (audience laughing) 00:16.149 --> 00:18.251 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] Bill was a provocateur, a public brawler. 00:18.251 --> 00:19.686 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - Please don't proceed 00:19.686 --> 00:21.021 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% as though you had just made a cosmic breakthrough. 00:21.021 --> 00:22.455 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% (audience laughing) 00:22.455 --> 00:24.224 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - [Narrator 2] Buckley spends a great deal of his time 00:24.224 --> 00:25.759 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% in New York City, 00:25.759 --> 00:27.994 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% where he works at editing his magazine, National Review. 00:27.994 --> 00:29.796 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% (coworkers laughing) 00:29.796 --> 00:32.132 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator 3] Without William Buckley, 00:32.132 --> 00:35.301 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% conservatism as we understand it would never have happened. 00:35.301 --> 00:37.270 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator 4] He met young people all the time, 00:37.270 --> 00:39.372 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and what he found was they liked him. 00:39.372 --> 00:41.975 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% He was anti-establishment. 00:42.976 --> 00:44.411 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - [Narrator] He was everywhere. 00:44.411 --> 00:46.880 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% You'd open up a newspaper and see him there. 00:46.880 --> 00:49.082 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% You'd see his books in the bookstore. 00:49.082 --> 00:51.484 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% You almost couldn't escape Bill Buckley. 00:51.484 --> 00:53.253 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - So the subject of your own intolerance 00:53.253 --> 00:54.654 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% of other people's point of view 00:54.654 --> 00:56.790 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% is I think itself linguistically interesting. 00:56.790 --> 00:58.291 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator 3] Or he would have Noam Chomsky 00:58.291 --> 01:02.195 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% or he would have Huey Newton, William Kunstler, 01:02.195 --> 01:05.065 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% people that he disagreed with profoundly. 01:05.065 --> 01:07.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - See, the trouble with you is that you get very resentful 01:07.100 --> 01:08.701 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% whenever anybody reminds you of what you say. 01:08.701 --> 01:10.203 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% If I said what you said, I'd feel the same way. 01:10.203 --> 01:15.275 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] It was an almost unstoppable energy. 01:16.443 --> 01:17.377 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Much better looking, much younger looking 01:17.377 --> 01:18.745 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% than on television. 01:18.745 --> 01:21.581 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator 3] So he decides to run for mayor. 01:21.581 --> 01:25.351 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - It is instructive to meditate upon the rise of crime 01:25.351 --> 01:27.220 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% and our apparent acclimation to it. 01:27.220 --> 01:28.755 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] They're upset about drugs, 01:28.755 --> 01:30.523 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% they're upset about crime, 01:30.523 --> 01:32.058 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and they saw Buckley, they saw themselves. 01:32.058 --> 01:33.626 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% - [Narrator 3] One of the slogans 01:33.626 --> 01:35.161 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% of the Civil Rights Movement in those days was freedom now. 01:35.161 --> 01:38.231 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Buckley's slogan for the Civil Rights Movement 01:38.231 --> 01:41.968 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% would've been some freedom one day, when you're ready. 01:41.968 --> 01:44.404 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% This is the beginning of the movement 01:44.404 --> 01:48.975 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% of the white working class into the Republican party. 01:48.975 --> 01:51.077 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - We need your help in a crusade 01:51.077 --> 01:53.146 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to change the direction of this country. 01:53.146 --> 01:54.848 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% (audience applauding) 01:54.848 --> 01:56.850 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - [Narrator] Conservative movement had become a machine 01:56.850 --> 01:58.485 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% that Buckley had helped build, 01:58.485 --> 02:01.321 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% but now was beyond his ability to fully control. 02:01.321 --> 02:03.223 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] You know, when you're on the boat, 02:03.223 --> 02:04.390 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% it doesn't matter how fast you're moving, 02:04.390 --> 02:05.625 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% you just have to keep moving some way. 02:05.625 --> 02:07.727 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% And that's what Buckley was like. 02:07.727 --> 02:09.829 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - [Narrator 4] Bill didn't want merely to taste life, 02:09.829 --> 02:12.398 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% he wanted to drink it and he wanted to gulp it. 02:12.398 --> 02:15.668 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - [Bill] Ninety-nine people out of 100 are interesting, 02:15.668 --> 02:17.203 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and the hundredth is interesting 02:17.203 --> 02:19.672 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% because he is the exception. 02:19.672 --> 02:22.308 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (gentle music)