‘United in the Faith, Differing on a Particular’

IN 1977 Warren Steibel, the producer of my television show, Firing Line, came up with the idea of supplementing its weekly schedule with special two-hour programs four or five times per year. The first of these, in January 1978, was a formal debate on an issue that had divided the American Right.

The question of the Panama Canal’s future had recently become acute when President Jimmy Carter signed a treaty that would cede control of the Canal Zone to Panama. This would mean a diminution of American control over the canal itself, and a hint of any such thing-especially so soon after the Vietnam debacle-greatly alarmed conservative America.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

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IN 1977 Warren Steibel, the producer of my television show, Firing Line, came up with the idea of supplementing its weekly schedule with special two-hour programs four or five times per year. The first of these, in January 1978, was a formal debate on an issue that had divided the American Right.

The question of the Panama Canal’s future had recently become acute when President Jimmy Carter signed a treaty that would cede control of the Canal Zone to Panama. This would mean a diminution of American control over the canal itself, and a hint of any such thing-especially so soon after the Vietnam debacle-greatly alarmed conservative America.