William Buckley Debates: Cold War Realities and Human Rights Discussions | The Dick Cavett Show

William Buckley, a renowned debater and political commentator, discusses the Jewish Defence League's justifications for violence against the Soviet Union. He views the current situation as the most significant assault on the human spirit in history and criticizes anti-communist sentiment, arguing that mental and cultural genocide should be viewed as murder. Buckley also explores the potential of presenting dog droppings to the UN Security Council.
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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[@j.c.o6333]

There was a time when this was considered a talk show... Oh how far we've fallen.

[@dbeaumontresident847]

I miss having people intellectually having conversations on television. Thank you Mr. Cavett.

[@Warp75]

Last time I saw that was on French television in 2002.

[@orangebean325]

Amen. Conversation there was sometimes heated, but always civil.

[@fifthbusiness1678]

Don’t you mean “… people having intellectual conversations on tv?”

[@dbeaumontresident847]

@@fifthbusiness1678 No, I meant to write "people intellectually having conversations on television". It might sound odd to you, but grammatically it's correct. A stative verb such as intellectually, following the collective noun such as People, is a high english we use here in England, which, again, I'm being presumptive in saying so, might sound odd outside My country. Thank you for asking.

[@beyondvger3682]

Me too!

[@kekkles117]

Mr Buckley once said over the years he had several appearances on this show and Johnny Carson's, yet scarcely a trace can be found on YT in either case. Good to see the stuff finally getting released.

[@n_v9386]

Can you please go back to posting the exact date in the video description? Thank you,

[@jamescrabtree9240]

Yes, I was thinking the same thing. From listening to it, I think this program aired in 1972.

[@StephenPickells-bi2ii]

It was after the Munich Olympics and before Nixons re-election, so latter half of 1972

[@SB-hy9iq]

I was just watching Buckley and Goldwater speaking on Firing Line this morning on KZbin. Perusing some old episodes.

[@U_ever]

More Buckley please !

[@winmine0327]

Anger! There is no date for the clip in the whole description.

[@yelddoswell9292]

Mr Buckley has his nervous niche. Pulls out his trusty pen or pencil when ever he's on a talk show. We need more people like him.

[@phillipruland4886]

It’s called conversation. It used to be on display every night on tv a long, long time ago.

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

William Buckley is a fine human being 😊

[@Jere616]

Aired June 7, 1972.

[@MsLoverockmusic]

Thank you for uploading this great episode of your TV series. An interesting guest, Mr. Buckley always was!

[@jimlaguardia8185]

When Buckley walks in the room, everyone else in the room shrinks to insignificance, without any effort on his part.

[@Ken-iu2zp]

Buckley is very articulate. But his facts aren't solid. Especially when he speaks to real historians. Look at how Chomsky washed him up on his own show and panel.

[@dixonpinfold2582]

"William F. Buckley has a knack of making you his ally." Cf. Sir Roger Scruton [to laughter and applause, after his interlocutor in a televised talk, a left-activist academic, was left with little choice but to grudgingly concede his series of points]: "I get this all the time. People say _I'm in danger of agreeing with you."_

[@WintersWar]

Buckley's greatness has the whole stage uptight and nervous.

[@danam0228]

It's great to hear what the Rabbi said about being anti-communist given how many people were afraid of being anti-communist after the McCarthy era and given what Nixon started with the Chinese which never made sense to me and in hindsight was clearly wrong, has been and is causing many problems for the West

[@castelodeossos3947]

'You always look like you just got up.' It's deliberate, of course. And he doesn't get offended at all.

[@antoinepetrov]

Buckley is always so funny to listen to. One of the greatest comedians of his time.

[@gravenewworld6521]

Please post some the Warren Beatty interviews, especially when he discussed Vietnam

[@BGTuyau]

Buckley's wit and rhetoric are so dense and mesmerizing that -even without the clipboard- it's difficult to imagine anyone even managing a reply. And who's the guy who said "Looks like he just got up?"

[@danam0228]

If he is so witty, why did he play with himself at 11:12

[@charleyfolkes]

Dick Cavett, best, most generous, balanced interviewer of all time. You should come back on TV. Of course WFB was such a prominent thought leader of the time, and Rush had some stories as well about this man. (Good timing on this drop as well)

[@andyecheandia8375]

Kahane was addressing the conditions today in 2024

[@Tesserae]

I was wondering who the President was at this time. Please add the air date to the video title for context. (Nixon was mentioned more than half-way through the interview.)

[@aleksz.a.769]

most likely 1972, since mcgovern was mentioned.

[@wkenneth7916]

I heard him refer to "the governor." Would that be Governor Jimmy Carter or Governor Reagan?

[@mrdroog1999]

June 7, 1972. Episode #61 Theodore Bikel, William F. Buckley, Jr., Rabbi Meir Kahane.

[@rhondaorberson9664]

I wondered the same and assumed it was 72 or earlier, as I know Nixon was still in office when I was born (Feb of 72). I believe one of them also mentioned the upcoming mid-70s as well. Fascinating conversation to watch and still relatable today.

[@lotharvonrichthofen4474]

Buckley refers to Nixon in n the discussion

[@Asparagus777-hw5ft]

Looks like Robert Mitchum.

[@stephenremington8448]

Buckley! He gets a free pass on soooo much!

[@danielrae861]

Prescient sentiment 3:28😢

[@phillipruland4886]

Boy, was WFB ever prescient.

[@rsgabrys----]

--------------------------- billClinton had Palestine n Israel singing Kumbaya .....in harmony ....thanks4sharing.....i firmly believed his brother's beer definitely had something to do w/it.....

[@McLoed22]

Oh they had no idea how many would actually die. No one survives a nuclear war.

[@PhilipShawn]

Have to have something to hate

[@tomloft2000]

Put a couple of Yaleees together and see what happens?

[@Roy-or6ev]

William F. Buckley, Jr, a sophist extraordinaire. As baseball players say, it's one thing to *talk* a good game; it's quite another to go out and pitch one, e.g., a no-hitter. 🤨

[@Adam-ov5ie]

Buckley the king of whatabouttism.

[@VideoAmericanStyle]

Not to mention masking his despicable, outmoded elitist viewpoints with that obnoxious, theatrical and flamboyant manner of speaking.

[@Drchainsaw77]

You say that as though it means something.

[@Adam-ov5ie]

​@@Drchainsaw77 it does to anyone who is remotely familiar with Buckley's style of discourse. Apparently that does not include you.

[@Drchainsaw77]

@@Adam-ov5ie Has nothing to do with Buckley. The charge of "whataboutism" is just dodging and deflection, like so many other words ending in "-ism" or "-ist."

[@wraithby]

I guess that's how he became a Yale champion debater with L. Brent Bozell at Yale.

[@greencraig8570]

The rabbi looks like Ben Shapiro's grandfather.

[@TheTalkWatcher]

WOW Cold War propaganda at its finest.

[@PlayNiceFolks]

How so? Who is the worst offender here in your opinion?

[@rsgabrys----]

--------------------------- billClinton had Palestine n Israel singing Kumbaya .....in harmony ....thanks4sharing.....i firmly believed his brother's beer definitely had something to do w/it.....