Margaret Hoover Talks About Life on the Firing Line




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Summary: Few TV shows—especially few political shows—can compare to Firing Line, the talk show hosted by William F. Buckley, Jr. In its original incarnation, it ran for 33 years and over 1,500 episodes and featured guests ranging from Muhammad Ali to Ronald Reagan to Jack Kerouac to Milton Friedman to Mother Teresa. The show went off the air in 1999, but now it's back on PBS with Margaret Hoover in the host chair. Born in 1977, Hoover is the great-granddaughter of Herbert Hoover, a former contributor to Fox News and CNN, and the author of 2011's American Individualism: How a New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party. Interview by Nick Gillespie. Edited by Alexis Garcia.