Gore Vidal: An Appreciation by Charlie Rose

[@IanThaddiam]

"Always remember that it is of no consequence to you what other people think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life." Now that's brilliant.

[@kristinpfanku3927]

The perfect ending for this video. Vidal would have loved it.

[@hayleyava7398]

Marvellous!

[@tatuloa]

Charles is hard to remember , and I used to watch his show religiously....

[@SuperGuanine]

@@tatuloa 👍👍

[@JoeL-kn9tc]

I miss Gore Vidal. The world needs more people like him.

[@sykes758]

Vidal's best feature , he always told the truth as he saw it and never sold out to anyone.

[@Guedingen]

heartfelt thanks. The beauty of You Tube is that we can 'bring him back to life' at the press of a key. Somehow comforting.

[@patrickmccormack4318]

"For those who worry about their place in the world. Always remember, that it is of no consequence to you what other people think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life." - Gore Vidal

[@xavierbalzola880]

Clearly one of the MOST brilliant men ....of the American experience...and in retrospect, he was RIGHT about so much....he is so missed..

[@Tupelo927]

Gore Vidal could be treacherous to his foes (friends too) & was often an irascible scoundrel, but his love for this country was deep & true. His mental acuity, razor-sharp wit, & knowledge of American history was second to NONE. He was a genius- a legend in his own time & god, how I miss him!

[@thenextrung]

W! Couldn’t have put any better myself.👍

[@srmcriclesinthenight9317]

Gore means so much to me . I'm a high school student who wants so much to be like him that's all I want right now 🎙

[@davidsessera1337]

You have chosen an excellent role model. Use your brain. Be strong. Work hard, and never surrender. Much success to you.

[@jamesanthony5681]

Vidal wrote books and plays, and grew up in Washington with a grandfather who was a blind Senator from Oklahoma and a father who was in the Roosevelt administration . He saw politics and politicians up close. His brilliant essays will be his ticket to posterity. They will be read, I believe, a hundred years from now.

[@cayetanotirado5907]

Amazing! This interview is from 2003; Vidal was always a visionary, how he talks about what is happening in government and what will come to be in this country, and this is what we have now in 2019.

[@blanchefan]

Gore was absolutely one of a kind; among many things I admired about him was the fact that he wasn't afraid of the truth; and he wasn't afraid to talk about the truth. Thank you, Charlie Rose, for this appreciation, and for your work "in the field," as Kinsey (whom Gore liked) would say.

[@tonyk501]

Mr Gore Vidal was intellectually brilliant on a level that most people will never know exists. Given what today's modern world has become, there will likely never be another one like him. Christopher Hitchens might have been the closest, but unfortunately he is also deceased.

[@IanThaddiam]

+Tony K. Yes, Tony. Even in his absence his intellect and wit is so staggering that it's still perfectly intimidating.

[@Rikishade1]

chomsky is pretty much the only seasoned intellectual left

[@prajnasword]

+Tony K. Genius is born everyday but crushed. All the reason to nurture and cultivate it when you see it in the youth.

[@nikibirdflight]

+Tony K. Considering every human being is unique, you are totally right, there will never be another Vidal or another Hitchens.

[@nikibirdflight]

+Rikishade1 intellectual yes but not entertaining. Love to listen to him but it is only pure information. Vidal could make great impressions , equal to seasoned comedians but his focus was his writing and his total honesty.

[@AMadd3RHatt3R]

He was an INCREDIBLE person! Wish I could've conversed and learned from him!

[@cappsginny699]

Learn from him by reading the many things that he wrote!

[@curtislemay428]

This man is a veritable quote generator.

[@kristinpfanku3927]

He remembers everything he's read. Amazing.

[@robtul1294]

This was wonderful. Thank you very much indeed. I remain a great admirer of Gore Vidal. He was, and will ever be, one of my favorite intellectuals. He always told the truth -- as he saw it. :)

[@sanfrancisco1231]

Gore Vidal would have a field day with Trump. It is terribly sad that he is not here to comment on this race.

[@DavidSmith-ss1cg]

I also think that he would have some caustic, funny comments...but if he had lived this long, he may have poisoned himself soon after election day - after listening to Trump, Bannon and Jeff Sessions. I miss both him and Christopher Hitchens all the time.

[@jacobjorgenson9285]

David Smith that’s why I thought! Would be an insult for his intellect to live today. Not that it wasn’t when he did

[@carryclass6807]

i happen to believe that trump is the first president in a long time to be truthful about important things such as immigration and the fake "labor shortage". we do not have a country if we do not control our borders.

[@steveconn]

@@carryclass6807 If Vidal called Buckley a crypto-Nazi, he would definitely call Trump one.

[@hayleyava7398]

Agree! Such a shame. I do not think he would be surprised.

[@nikibirdflight]

Loved Vidal ! great soul !

[@channelfogg6629]

What a wonderful piece. Rose knows how to draw people out and Vidal was worth drawing out.

[@stevecox7075]

A brilliant, erudite spokesman. His wit and intelligence were astonishing.

[@GooglFascists]

Gore Vidal has been a favorite of mine for precisely the reason that he was a voice from the "opposite side" of what we're continually fed by Corporate owned media and indoctrination centers they call "public schools". He was a great mind and my opinion is his unconventional life gave him a perspective that few others could speak and write from. Only Vidal's certain atheism saddens me, because I fear a man I considered a gift to the world may be lost forever, & that's a tragedy.

[@reidwhitton6248]

Gore Vidal was an intellectual who couldn't be bought. A genuine dissenting voice. The late Edward Said wrote a little book about anti-establishment figures called Representations of the Intellectual.

[@paulscousedownie]

I really like this man, he was free thinking maverick. His own man! His put downs against adversaries was brilliantly done with such charm!

[@gregoryberrycone]

a rare type of genius

[@chathall574]

Love Gore Vidal. Love Charlie Rose. Love intelligent conversation. Thanks for the upload:-)

[@richdelarby9387]

Thank you for posting it. I watched it on teak time and i was fascinatedby Vidal's denunciation of the 9/11 lies.

[@MissPerriwinkle]

thank u for 'bringing ghosts back' sir....

[@SagesseNoir]

I've read none of his novels, and possess only LINCOLN. But I've read a fair number of his essays, and happily own an essay collection, UNITED STATES: ESSAYS 1952--1992. He was a superb prose stylist in that genre, and quite perceptive as well. I will have to look at his fiction at some point, starting with LINCOLN.

[@sanfrancisco1231]

I have read ALL of his novels, essays, plays and screenplays. Of the historical novels, I recommend BURR which was the first of his American cycle. I was hooked after I read it in the 1970's....

[@SagesseNoir]

Katharine Phipps-Ram I can see you're admirer of Vidal, I will have to look at some of those works you mention.

[@auok909]

SagesseNoir he wrote the screen play for Ben hur up to the Chariot race

[@bernardkennedy5436]

Wonderful snapshot. Of his writings Essays are superb. Hard to equal.

[@coreycox2345]

I think that Noam Chomsky is always right, but Gore Vidal's approach to fighting the comments of William F. Buckley is the funniest. Both oracles in my opinion.

[@greg1mcintosh844]

every once in awhile I get obsessed with a certain writer or actor scientist or somebody with something to say and then as I go about my business house cleaning etc mindlessly listen to mycurrent interest. in the last week it's been Gore Vidal that's arisen in my consciousness so I'mlistening to him while I'm cleaning the kitty litter or doing my dishes for vegging out various KZbin interviews why what is it. and then I stumble on this one and then the semi-conscious state I listen to him talk about his childhood friend his other half so eloquently and so easily the Greek god cutting the sphere and a half and then suddenly and instantly solid he didn't believe in believe in certain people in my life are my other half. people' who have come along in the most mundane or random moment and ended up being my other half I have multiple other half's all variations of me it's so wonderful and yes some are gone some even dead but knowing of that makes it eternal the way Gore Vidal expressed it. that's what I needed to hearthat must be what I was waiting for that must be why I've been playing Gore Vidal over the last several days.

[@georgecorrea192]

Gore Vidal was an intellectual giant and a brilliant man.

[@dragonfly1929]

GORE VIDAL MATCHLESS !!

[@acohen1980]

What a guy....a real individual..fearless...

[@acohen1980]

MetrazolElectricity : no...but your ability to make sense obviously is.

[@AAwildeone]

So bittersweet that now he's gone, you see sooo many national and state politicians articulating his ORIGINAL ideas, without ever expressing the courage to mention his name, because he was such a "leftist outsider"....but, of course, he predicted all of them too. He'll be a mentor and oracle to our country, until our country finally reaches rockbottom, and, then, if anyone deserves to say 'I told you so', it's Mr Vidal

[@TheStudioexpresso]

There is not a serious writer today who commands the national stage on important issues in the way that Gore Vidal did for half a century. His work has, to some degree, been taken over by comedians like Stephen Colbert and Bill Maher. passion for values like justice, honor, truth... missing today

[@patrickohare1681]

Smart wit and always entertaining ,

[@vasilioskokkinias978]

What a great loss... When he called Buckley a " krypto-nazi" I died..lol

[@steveconn]

Crypto. Not related to Krypton.

[@brianbuday8639]

steve conn aw why not? Let's do superman a solid 😎🍷

[@jackblack804]

extremely prophetic

[@ExodusPessoa]

He was definitely the last of a breed he will be missed.

[@mhikl4484]

But his messages will continue for those who give him time.

[@kellyharper5211]

Love Gore! What a patriot.

[@alexcorcoran7807]

+MetrazolElectricity who cares there is no proof of any supernatural beings

[@kellyharper5211]

And your point is? You have to believe in that stuff right?

[@jadezee6316]

one of the greatest minds this country has ever seen......the world is less with his death.....but we still must learn from his words

[@JSV-pr4qo]

I am a product of a free education in a poor public school system all my life. I know I have major education barriers I am working to change it. I wonder what a genius like him would say to someone who didn't want to be ignorant or stupid anymore

[@halse8280]

turn off the tv,mingle with the right people and open some books probably.

[@JSV-pr4qo]

Bob Djoey Just finished David Cay Johnston Making of Donald trump ... speechless. Now about to start Narratives of Empire from Vidal in order

[@halse8280]

ok. The two caracters i am into these days also,will buy gore vidal-Burr in a few days and also a couple on trump. What is your impression after reading 'making of donald trump'?

[@DavidSmith-ss1cg]

J.S V - Read. Read as much as you can, all the time. Gore read books and reference books for his grandfather, a US senator from Oklahoma, who had lost his sight. So, by reading a lot, and talking about the stuff he had read to his grandpa, Gore was superbly educated at a young age.

[@cappsginny699]

Read challenging non fiction books and literature, not escapist novels...

[@christopherrobbins9985]

I miss Gore. Great wit.

[@mottthehoople684]

He saw the future of American cities

[@michelerandall123]

Did you see the book that Assange had in his hands? It was a Gore Vidal book about National Security.

[@thenextrung]

😎🐶

[@guytintintininbaum3074]

The last two minutes are creepy accurate

[@Tupelo927]

Guy Tintintininbaum I'm commenting 3 years later & wow, you sure were prescient! It's eerie how accurately Gore read the tea leaves of the country. I try to keep cynicism at bay but it's very difficult to feel hopeful these days.

[@morethanwords]

@@Tupelo927 And I'm reading it 8 months after you, Rebecca. Extraordinary how Gore could predict so accurately the fall of America. Perhaps I ought to call it 'Trump - America's disgrace.'

[@ivandjolev2700]

@@morethanwords Trump is irrelevant. Nothing significant changed with him. He even bombed less countries than Obama till now.

[@steveconn]

@@ivandjolev2700 Scapegoating and demonizing immigrants is a vast change in American policy.

[@ivandjolev2700]

@@steveconn The anti immigration rhetoric was still well and good it just didn't win the last elections. Ironically thou Obama build concentration camps for kids on the border.

[@robertoday7526]

Brilliant interview

[@rwags7466]

No doubt… he was entertaining A legend in his own mind!!

[@cydppalley2644]

Such a brilliant man.

[@julianmarsh8384]

He was the last of a breed....that stretched back to Aaron Burr....now that we are a second world country and heading to third world status, he will sooner or later be remembered as the last of his kind....not the best, mind you; I doubt he would say he was the equal of say, Edmund Wilson...but the best we could do in our twilight...

[@nathanbridle]

Many thanks for putting this on. It could have been so much better, the selections were odd. I hope they have a cross table chat about his great contributions.

[@steveconn]

Could have seen him speak in Santa Fe a few months before he died. Regret not going.

[@bobnob9195]

such a shame Vidal never got to the whitehouse

[@NYyankeeboi]

He was too good for the white house.

[@jfs78]

I am happy to share a birthday with you. I have always looked to you as a hero and always will.

[@scottyjoe22]

Great stuff.

[@JoeL-kn9tc]

Buckley, etc. interrupted him on the 1968 Convention TV discussion about free speech and he shouted out loud and clear: "We've just had to listen to a grotesque example of it." That was beautiful, classic Gore Vidal.

[@JoeL-kn9tc]

You can witness it on The Education of Gore Vidal - documentary.

[@jaredramirez3164]

There can't be another Gore

[@neolamanite]

MetrazolElectricity agree. I had hopes on him. Not any more

[@trishachamberlain5692]

Thank you. His thoughts, so long ago, weren't just words. Hmmmmm

[@SarahJones-wy5us]

The great human race (not) can never stop pulling apart someone who tells it as IT IS in erudite terms.

[@Constantine-the-Great2000]

He didn't join the Navy!

[@raginald7mars408]

Rose Self Titanic Sunk DEEP

[@VictorFr0st]

"Thats very exciting" lmao!

[@kristinpfanku3927]

Gotta love it!

[@ashleymistletoe]

Vidal is like one who sees living among blind people, forewarning what he sees to the blind. blind people think he's egoistic, untrustworthy and no one truly believes him because no one understand him. with all the unfoldings today in America, I hope people have come to open eyes and see what he's been saying all along.

[@JohnnylMr]

Among the few pubic figures with integrity, courage and eloquence. Most mainstream journalists have neither. .

[@cappsginny699]

Who is he - Gore or Rose?

[@brainsareus]

3:00 Gore Vidal looked like a cross between Carl Sagan, Chris Hitchins, and Tom Snyder, here.

[@joshuamustapick3055]

he was not the last ofg his breed my family raised its airs to be of stout resolve and well coothed conversationists.

[@darktagmaster1861]

Heirs*

[@pinkyi151]

Listen carefully to what he says in minute 25:15

[@kristinpfanku3927]

He's totally spot on in that comment.

[@coreycox2345]

"Two halves of the same whole." He was lovely.

[@joaomarcelo742]

god vidal

[@karenkaren3189]

What would he have made of Trump?

[@1aikane]

So much noise and rushing around today, quiet intelligent voices like his are not listened to now. Even if we had them today, can't hear them for all the mindless screeching voices

[@darktagmaster1861]

Absolutely true. Also, no one fuckin reads book anymore. Most ppl are fuckin retards.

[@thedolphin5428]

Amazing agreement with Vidal -- no labels for people, there's no such thing as a homosexual nor heterosexual only ACTS. These are adjectives, not nouns of selfhood.

[@thedolphin5428]

@@CelineOracle Well, I don't know where exactly Vidal got his views and perspectives, but it is a central tenet of many spiritual philosophies.

[@karinaandersen2618]

how dare you Charlie you have broken my heart

[@imperialtimes9136]

People like Charlie Rose are more or less what Vidal would pin as a huge part of the problem

[@steveconn]

A man who lets him expound on his life and beliefs? Doubtful.

[@imperialtimes9136]

@@steveconn Rose in his obituary highlights Gore's ego and iconoclastic nature over the valid criticisms of American empire that Vidal left us. Gore's such an old patrician that he indulged people he considers detrimental to society in conversation often and with great pleasure

[@brainsareus]

Yes, an establishment sycophant.

[@susampson278]

4.40 source of quote? which book? 5.37 interviewed 1995 22.13 interviewed 11-2003

[@thamilton007]

Every.Word.

[@RichardPhillips1066]

Gore is man a deeply admire but also hate

[@amgirl4286]

Why do people still listen to Gore? A man who used to have little boys up to his house in Italy? Ask around

[@bigstuff52]

...This must of been 1995 if he is 70 here

[@DonnyWilmer]

Tag said "1998"...

[@rorypreston7178]

Can Buckley insult people without turning into Wilfrid Brambell

[@williamwoody7607]

That last bit of interview-was it taped before 9/11? Looks like it. Very prescient.

[@kevgh3869]

I would never guess this man had love affairs with other men.

[@icecreamalacarte]

And . ? Debate you any day on his merits-miss his voice during this election cycle

[@kevgh3869]

ya write fucking English next time so i can understand what your saying.

[@sanfrancisco1231]

He was engaged to Joanne Woodward at one time who later married Paul Newman.

[@kristinpfanku3927]

@@sanfrancisco1231 I like Vidal, but Joanne dodged a bullet, IMO.

[@Paglia444]

Whether or not he had "no clue about America" is irrelevant to what I wrote. I wrote that he was wrong that "America was on the verge of breakup." I never said he had a "total lack of knowledge about America," only that he was wrong that it was on the verge of breaking up.

[@osianmuhammad]

How come Charlie Rose's accent has so much southern drawl here when i've never heard it on him in other videos?

[@knowledgeandpleasure]

Osian Grifford He’s originally from North Carolina...maybe it comes out more when speaking to others who have prominent speech affectations. I know that’s happened to me a few times.

[@267BISMARK]

Sadly Mr Rose was on the Epstein island list.

[@raginald7mars408]

sad? C R is a S Ex Pert well known self Titanic

[@johndalton3180]

Jimmy Trimble was hot.

[@kendallevans4079]

Where are the Gore Vidal's of the future going to come from? No one want's to be educated or erudite for it's own sake, now it's just to make money

[@busterbiloxi3833]

Announcer can't quite suppress his White Southern Boy accent.

[@lynngregory393]

Vidal blamed America for the death of Jimmy Trimble. Never overcame it and pssst in the American soup from that day forward.

[@46dc9er]

"Hamilton tried to overthrow Adams as head of the Republican party as it was then called?" Sorry John Adams was of the Federalist Party .............

[@edydon]

He was an excellent raconteur and commentator - but his politics was self-indulgent gibberish meant for shock value and magazine blurbs. "This country was built on cheap labor and cheap energy; which we'll never see again" Really? We're faced with a global system where people are willing to work for pennies a day and oil just went negative.

[@BearyTheBear69420]

19:50

[@jchien]

23:50

[@AMadd3RHatt3R]

+jchien Why did you mark 23:50?

[@jchien]

+MaddeR_TheN The_HatteR prescience.

[@AMadd3RHatt3R]

+jchien is that a class your taking?

[@shanana5822]

He calls democrats and Republicans one right wing party 😆

[@Paglia444]

Vidal was always ranting that America was on the verge of breakup. And he was so wrong precisely because he was an expatriate who rarely set foot in America, "participation in elections" notwithstanding.

[@tomcat1020]

Hamilton was considering taking Leadership of Mexico after a Coup and was speaking with Spanish officials? I have never heard that before and have many many books on Hamilton. This is balderdash Mr. Vidal. Although since you said it I will research more but that is whacky if its true which I doubt

[@heidimueller1039]

Hamilton was also all in for the complete annihilation of indigenous people.

[@nightowl5475]

Vidal is splitting hairs when he says, there are no homosexuals, just people who commit homosexual acts. That's like saying, a Senator is not a conservative Senator, he simply votes in a conservative manner. Brando is not a dramatic actor, he simply acted in dramatic roles. I think Vidal has brilliant insight and was a great writer, but his ambiguity over sexuality was just his way of not coming to terms with himself being gay. He was from a different generation and probably struggled with that aspect of his life from time to time. As society evolved, people eventually realized they have no say in the matter of their sexuality just like they have no say in the matter of the color of their eyes. It's a crap shoot.

[@Arareemote]

They dedicated a small segment about this to a documentary about him funnily enough, but he said it himself he just didn't like labels, he didn't think there was any kind of a point to them. He often drew attention to his own homosexuality, he expressed it was who he was and fought for it consistently since the 80s. It was one of his main preoccupations. I mean, goodness the man even talked about his sex life lol. He definitely was very secure and confident in it. The label/term just bothered him.

[@brainsareus]

Buckley was such a goon.

[@coreycox2345]

He didn't even have to open his mouth. It was the insufferable look he usually had on his face.

[@WintersWar]

23:22 Gore is exhibiting colossal ignorance regarding Napoleon Bonaparte. He was 5' 6'' which was an average size for man at that time. Napolean is thought of as a small individual due entirely to the British cartoonist of that time, Gillray, Who illustrated him as a small man for propaganda purposes. It was very effective, that endures to this very day, though false.

[@Arareemote]

I think people just don't understand that the French units weren't equivalent. Since In French units he was indeed 5'2, but... as research suggests this is barely below what the average was for the time. So unless one wants to be really critical of an inch then small he was not.

[@brainsareus]

I don't care what Buckley slept with... To me, he was a complete and total, Prissy Queen.

[@pgmreallaw]

Oh God, Charlie Rose on Gore Vidal - its like bad perfume interviewing a can of Glade air freshener.