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381 cast members |
Name | Episodes | Known for |
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William F. Buckley
Self - Host / Self (for the positive) / Self - For the Affirmative
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192
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Margaret Hoover
Self / Self - Host
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97
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Michael Kinsley
Self - Moderator / Self (Moderator) / Self - Guest
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16
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Jeff Greenfield
Self - Panelist / Self - Examiner / Self / Self - Questioner / Self - Writer / …
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16
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C. Dickerman Williams
Self - Moderator / Self - Chairman
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13
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John Scott
Self - Moderator / Self - Announcer
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12
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Lester Smith
Self - Moderator / Self - Announcer
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8
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Mark Green
Self - Panelist / Self - For the Negative / Self - Guest
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6
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Malcolm Muggeridge
Self - Guest
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4
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Henry Kissinger
Self - For the Affirmative / Self - Guest
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4
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Ira Glasser
Self - For the Affirmative / Self - For the Negative
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4
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Ronald Reagan
Self - Guest / Self - For the Negative
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3
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Mortimer J. Adler
Self - Guest
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3
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Tom Wolfe
Self - Guest / Self
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3
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Harry Hennessy
Self - Moderator
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3
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Roy M. Cohn
Self / Self - Examiner
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3
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Ernest Van den Haag
Self - Examiner / Self - Guest / Self - Moderator
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3
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Arianna Huffington
Self - For the Affirmative / Self - For the Negative / Self - Guest
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3
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Lynne Williams
Self - Panelist / Self - Panel
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3
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John Coyne
Self - Panelist
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3
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Frances Fitzgerald
Self - Panelist
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3
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Richard Brookhiser
Self - National Review / Self - Panelist
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3
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Jack Kemp
Self - For the Affirmative / Self
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3
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Pat Schroeder
Self - For the Negative
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3
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Jerry Brown
Self - For the Negative
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3
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Clare Boothe Luce
Self - Guest
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2
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B.F. Skinner
Self - Guest
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2
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Barry Goldwater
Self / Self - Guest
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2
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Dick Gregory
Self / Self - Guest
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2
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Milton Friedman
Self - Guest
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2
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Allen Ginsberg
Self / Self - Guest
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2
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Rosalyn Tureck
Self / Self - Guest
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2
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Newt Gingrich
Self - For the Negative / Self - Guest
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2
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Michael Kramer
Self - Panelist
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2
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Alan Dershowitz
Self - For the Negative / Self - Guest
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2
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Vere Gaynor
Self - Panel / Self - Panelist
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2
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Barry Lynn
Self (for the negative) / Self - For the Negative
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2
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Allard K. Lowenstein
Self / Self - Guest
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2
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Daniel Tracy
Self - Panelist
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2
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Thomas J. Hart
Self - Panelist
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2
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Brenda Wilson
Self - Panelist
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2
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Henry Schwarzschild
Self
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2
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Harvey Grill
Self - Panelist
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2
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Andrea Glass
Self - Panelist
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2
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Elizabeth Clarke
Self - Panelist
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2
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Robert Kuttner
Self / Self - For the Negative
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2
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George Bush
Self / Self - Chairman of the Republican National Committee
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2
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Deborah Rhode
Self - Panel / Self - Panelist
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2
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William Workman
Self / Self - Questioner
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2
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Linda Bridges
Self - National Review / Self - Panelist
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2
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Cornel West
Self - For the Negative / Self - Host
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2
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Jerry Jasinowski
Self - For the Affirmative
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2
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Theodore Bikel
Self - Guest
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1
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Hugh Hefner
Self - Guest
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1
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Steve Allen
Self - Guest
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1
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Dore Schary
Self - Guest
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1
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David Susskind
Self - Guest
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1
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Richard N. Goodwin
Self - Guest
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1
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Murray the 'K'
Self - Guest
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1
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John Henry Faulk
Self - Guest
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1
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David Merrick
Self - Guest
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1
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Mark Lane
Self - Guest
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1
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Robert D. Novak
Self - Guest
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1
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Max Lerner
Self - Guest
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1
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Albert Gore Sr.
Self - Guest
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1
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Norman Thomas
Self - Guest
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1
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William Sloane Coffin
Self - Guest
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1
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Paul Goodman
Self - Guest
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1
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Aryeh Neier
Self - Guest
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1
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Leo Cherne
Self - Guest
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1
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Michael Harrington
Self - Guest
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1
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Seymour Melman
Self - Guest
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1
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Paul Weiss
Self - Guest
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1
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James Farmer
Self - Guest
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1
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James Pike
Self - Guest
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1
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Theodore W. Kheel
Self - Guest
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1
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Murray Kempton
Self - Guest
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1
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Thomas J. Dodd
Self - Guest
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1
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Arnold Lunn
Self - Guest
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1
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Staughton Lynd
Self - Guest
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1
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Harry Golden
Self - Guest
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1
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Floyd McKissick
Self - Guest
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1
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Robert Vaughn
Self - Guest
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1
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Otto Preminger
Self - Guest
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1
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Richard Nixon
Self - Guest
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1
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Timothy Leary
Self - Guest
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1
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.
Self - Guest
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1
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F. Lee Bailey
Self - Guest
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1
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Allen Dulles
Self - Guest
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1
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Nat Hentoff
Self - Guest
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1
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Tom Wicker
Self - Guest
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1
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Robert Scheer
Self - Guest
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1
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Jesse M. Unruh
Self - Guest
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1
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Harold Taylor
Self - Guest
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1
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Saul Alinsky
Self - Guest
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1
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Clayton Fritchey
Self - Guest
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1
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Conor Cruise O'Brien
Self - Guest
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1
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Mark Hatfield
Self - Guest
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1
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Dwight Macdonald
Self - Guest
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1
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Hans Morgenthau
Self - Guest
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1
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Fred Schwarz
Self - Guest
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1
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Vance Hartke
Self - Guest
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1
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Benjamin Spock
Self - Guest
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1
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Truman Capote
Self - Guest
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1
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Muhammad Ali
Self - Guest
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1
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Norman Mailer
Self - Guest
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1
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Gerald Ford
Self - Guest
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1
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Jack Kerouac
Self - Guest
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1
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George Wallace
Self - Guest
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1
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Zbigniew Brzezinski
Self - Guest
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1
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Eldridge Cleaver
Self - Guest
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1
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David Dellinger
Self - Guest
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1
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Slobodan Draskovich
Self - Guest
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1
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Noam Chomsky
Self - Guest
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1
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Al Capp
Self - Guest
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1
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Billy Graham
Self - Guest
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1
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Donald Rumsfeld
Self - Guest
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1
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James B. Carey
Self - Guest
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1
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Albert Shanker
Self - Guest
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1
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Josiah Lee Auspitz
Self - Guest
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1
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Elspeth Huxley
Self - Guest
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1
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Jesse Jackson
Self - Guest
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1
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Betty Friedan
Self - Guest
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1
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Anthony Burgess
Self - Guest
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1
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Jimmy Hoffa
Self - Guest
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1
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Eudora Welty
Self - Guest
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1
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Jimmy Carter
Self - Guest
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1
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Huey P. Newton
Self - Guest
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1
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Phyllis Schlafly
Self - Guest
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1
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Thomas Bever
Self - Guest
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1
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Carl Bernstein
Self - Guest
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1
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Ian Smith
Self - Prime Minister of Rhodesia
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1
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Cao Ky Nguyen
Self - Guest
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1
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Harry Reems
Self - Guest
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1
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Roberto de la Madrid Romandia
Self - Governor of Baja California
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1
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Vernon Walters
Self - Guest
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1
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Allen Weinstein
Self - Guest
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1
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P.J. Vatikiotis
Self - Guest
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1
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Self - Guest
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1
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Harlon Carter
Self - President of the National Rifle Association
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1
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Victor Navasky
Self - Guest
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1
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Richard Lugar
Self - Guest
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1
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Martin Anderson
Self - Guest
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1
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Thomas Sowell
Self - Guest
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1
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Paul Hollander
Self - Guest
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1
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Diana Trilling
Self - Guest
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1
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William Rusher
Self - Guest
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1
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Edward F. Prichard
Self - Guest
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1
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Richard Grenier
Self - Guest
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1
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Fernanda Eberstadt
Self
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1
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Robert S. Strauss
Self - Host
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1
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Ron Paul
Self - Guest
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1
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Self - Guest
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1
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Daniel Yergin
Self - Guest
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1
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Joseph Riley
Self - Guest
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1
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Rush Limbaugh
Self - Guest
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1
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Philip E. Johnson
Self (for the positive)
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1
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David Brudnoy
Self - Guest
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1
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Carmine DeSapio
Self - Guest
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1
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Lewis Yablonsky
Self - Guest
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1
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Sidney Zion
Self - Guest
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1
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Thomas Petri
Self - Guest
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1
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Philip P. Ardery Jr.
Self (panelist)
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1
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Donald MacKay
Self - Guest
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1
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Walker Percy
Self - Guest
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1
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Richard Herrnstein
Self - Guest
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1
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Leon Festinger
Self - Guest
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1
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Bob Woodward
Self - Guest
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1
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Athan Theoharis
Self - Guest
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1
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Andrew Knight
Self - Examiner
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1
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Sam Ervin
Self - Chairman
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1
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Gabriel Warburg
Self - Guest
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1
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Thomas Plate
Self - Guest
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1
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Alvin Rabushka
Self - Guest
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1
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John Buckley
Self - Sheriff of Middlesex, Massachusetts
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1
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Howard Miller
Self - Guest
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1
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Lloyd Irving Rudolph
Self - Guest
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1
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William Green
Self - Guest
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1
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Bret Easton Ellis
Self
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1
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Donald Fowler
Self - Guest
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1
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Michael Behe
Self (for the positive)
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1
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Ed Sanders
Self - Guest
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1
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Mary Duffy
Self (panelist)
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1
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Gabriel Ben-Dor
Self - Guest
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1
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Rita Ricardo-Campbell
Self - Guest
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1
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Elizabeth Pecota
Self
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1
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David Berlinski
Self (for the positive)
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1
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Eugenie C. Scott
Self (for the negative)
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1
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Michael Ruse
Self (for the negative)
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1
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Kenneth Miller
Self (for the negative)
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1
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Pierre Salinger
Self - Guest
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1
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David D. Duval
Self - Panelist
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1
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George Coller
Self - Panelist
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1
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Victor Riesel
Self
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1
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Lewis Shollenberger
Self - Moderator
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1
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Mark Sandler
Self - Panelist
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1
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Harry Chandlis Jr.
Self - Panelist
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1
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Betty Jane Dooley
Self - Questioner
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1
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Henry Prillis
Self - Panelist
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1
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H. Carmichael
Self - Panelist
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1
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Mary W. Shea
Self - Panelist
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1
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Joseph Kelley
Self - Questioner
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1
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George Gilder
Self - Questioner
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1
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Ellen McGarrity
Self - Questioner
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1
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Groucho Marx
Self - Guest
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1
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Francis Plimpton
Self - Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
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1
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Dick Cruser
Self - Announcer
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1
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Charles Percy
Self - Republican Senator from Illinois
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1
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Joe McGinniss
Self - Guest
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1
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Ken Kuniyuki
Self - Panelist
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1
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Robert Wilson
Self - Panelist
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1
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Dianne Armstrong
Self - Panelist
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1
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Daniel Oliver
Self - Panelist
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1
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Roger Evans
Self - Panelist
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1
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William Kunstler
Self
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1
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Mike Taibbi
Self
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1
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Gerald Harvey
Self
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1
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Dick Polman
Self - Panelist
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1
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Madeline Breckinridge
Self - Panelist
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1
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Sue Shelton
Self
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1
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Paul McCloskey
Self - Guest
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1
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Richard Beer
Self - Panelist
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1
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Dotson Rader
Self
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1
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Arnold Beichman
Self
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1
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Ahmed Bulbulia
Self - Panelist
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1
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Ned Lebow
Self - Panelist
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1
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Jarol Manheim
Self - Panelist
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1
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Diana Armenakis
Self - Panelist
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1
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Richard Reeves
Self - Guest
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1
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Jeffrey Stafford
Self - Panelist
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1
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Ronni Stewart
Self - Panelist
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1
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Margaret Young
Self - Panelist
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1
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Arthur Goldstein
Self - Panelist
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1
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Gabe Pressman
Self - Guest
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1
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Malachi Martin
Self
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1
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Richard Skinner
Self - Panelist
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1
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Robert Musil
Self - Panelist
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1
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James Huchingson
Self - Panelist
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1
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George F. Chigi III
Self - Panelist
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1
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Judith Antinarella
Self - Panelist
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1
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Mary Perot Nichols
Self - Guest
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1
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Tom Seligson
Self - Panelist
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1
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Max Fine
Self
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1
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Fayez Sayegh
Self
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1
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Edward Korry
Self
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1
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Beverly Carl
Self - Questioner
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1
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Russell Roth
Self
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1
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Salah Almazani
Self - Panelist
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1
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Herber Stupp
Self - Panelist
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1
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Kathie Vogel
Self - Panelist
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1
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Julia Lorsch
Self
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1
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James Brasfield
Self
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1
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William Orbach
Self - Panelist
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1
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James Buckley
Self
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1
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Cliff Thompson
Self - Questioner
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1
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Joseph Onek
Self
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1
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Lynn Greenberg
Self - Panelist
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1
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Patricia Villella
Self
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1
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Suzannah Lessard
Self
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1
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Patricia Hewitt
Self - Panelist
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1
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James K. Galbraith
Self - Panelist
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1
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Peter Riddell
Self - Panelist
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1
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Mark Felt
Self
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1
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Ralph Cavanagh
Self - Panelist
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1
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Jonathan Kaufman
Self - Panel
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1
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Ely Brand
Self - Panel
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1
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Seth Lerner
Self - Panelist
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1
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Friedrich von Hayek
Self - Nobel Prize Economist
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1
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George C. Roche III
Self - President Hillsdale College
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1
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Peter Kaye
Self - Examiner
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1
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Pat Buchanan
Self - For the Negative
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1
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George F. Will
Self - For the Affirmative
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1
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John S. McCain Jr.
Self - For the Negative
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1
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Theodore H. White
Self - Writer
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1
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Ellsworth Bunker
Self - For the Affirmative
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1
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Elmo Zumwalt
Self - For the Affirmative
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1
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James Burnham
Self - For the Affirmative
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1
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Charles Corddry
Self - Questioner
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1
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Roger Fontaine
Self - For the Negative
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1
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Sylvan Meyer
Self - Examiner
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1
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Ed Koch
Self
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1
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1
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Ernest F. Hollings
Self
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1
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Jan Beyea
Self
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1
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Stephen Solarz
Self
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1
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Bernard Cohen
Self
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1
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Edward Teller
Self
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1
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Tony Benn
Self
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1
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Harold Evans
Self
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1
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Peter Duignan
Self
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1
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Richard Felix Staar
Self
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1
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Michael J. Sobran
Self - National Review
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1
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Joe Sobran
Self - Panelist
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1
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G. Robert Blakey
Self - Guest
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1
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Cord Meyer Jr.
Self - Former CIA Agent
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1
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David W. Belin
Self - Guest
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1
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James Rossant
Self - Guest
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1
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Frank Snepp
Self - Former CIA Agent
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1
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Julian Simon
Self - Guest
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1
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Al Smith
Self - Examiner
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1
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Tibor Machan
Self - Guest
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1
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Norma Gabler
Self - Co-founder of Educational Research Analysts, Inc.
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1
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Pamela Bonnell
Self
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1
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Mel Gabler
Self - Founder of Educational Research Analysts, Inc.
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1
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Morton Kondracke
Self - Guest
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1
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Thomas Szasz
Self - Guest
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1
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Richard Vatz
Self - Guest
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1
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Lee Weinberg
Self - Guest
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1
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Eugene McCarthy
Self - Guest
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1
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John Kenneth Galbraith
Self - Guest
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1
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Harriet F. Pilpel
Self - Guest
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1
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Barbara Bush
Self
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1
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Pat Robertson
Self
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1
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Laura Bush
Self
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1
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Bob Dole
Self
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1
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Alexander Haig
Self
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1
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Midge Decter
Self - Guest
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1
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Allan Bloom
Self - Guest
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1
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Dede Robertson
Self
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1
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Patricia Hague
Self
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1
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Jack Rains
Self
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1
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Pierre S. DuPont IV
Self
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1
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Gary Hart
Self - For the Negative
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1
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George McGovern
Self - For the Negative
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1
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Jeane Kirkpatrick
Self - For the Affirmative
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1
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Paul Warnke
Self - For the Negative
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1
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Christopher Hitchens
Self
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1
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Charles Rangel
Self - For the Negative
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1
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Robert Sweet
Self - For the Affirmative
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1
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William von Raab
Self - For the Negative
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1
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Michael Tigar
Self
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1
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John O'Sullivan
Self
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1
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Richard Dennis
Self - For the Affirmative
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1
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Lester Thurow
Self - For the Negative
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1
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Dick Armey
Self - For the Affirmative
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1
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Richard Gephardt
Self - For the Negative
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1
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Jim Fallows
Self - For the Negative
|
1
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Ronald Walters
Self - For the Negative
|
1
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David Horowitz
Self - For the Affirmative
|
1
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Robert Bork
Self - For the Affirmative
|
1
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Linda Greene
Self - For the Negative
|
1
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Leon Botstein
Self - For the Negative
|
1
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John Ripley
Self - For the Affirmative
|
1
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Heather Wilson
Self - For the Negative
|
1
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Catharine Stimpson
Self - For the Affirmative
|
1
|
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Wilma Vaught
Self - For the Negative
|
1
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Elaine Donnelly
Self - For the Affirmative
|
1
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Lino Graglia
Self - For the Affirmative
|
1
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Michael Paulsen
Self - For the Affirmative
|
1
|
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Charles Sanders
Self - Guest
|
1
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Ward Kurad
Self - Guest
|
1
|
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Ruti Teitel
Self - For the Negative
|
1
|
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Richard John Neuhaus
Self - For the Affirmative
|
1
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Norman Dorsen
Self - For the Negative
|
1
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Richard Janeway
Self - Guest
|
1
|
|
John Perry Barlow
Self - For the Negative
|
1
|
|
Susan Estrich
Self - For the Negative
|
1
|
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Edward N. Luttwak
Self - For the Negative
|
1
|
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Cathleen Cleaver
Self - For the Affirmative
|
1
|
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Esther Dyson
Self - For the Negative
|
1
|
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Andy Stern
Self - For the Negative
|
1
|
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David Levy
Self - For the Affirmative
|
1
|
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Robert Hormats
Self - For the Affirmative
|
1
|
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Robert Shrum
Self - Moderator
|
1
|
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Reid Hoffman
Self - For the Affirmative
|
1
|
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Ann Coulter
Self
|
1
|
|
Larry Craig
Self - For the Affirmative
|
1
|
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Gary Bauer
Self - For the Affirmative
|
1
|
|
Trent Lott
Self - For the Affirmative
|
1
|
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Carl Pope
Self - For the Negative
|
1
|
|
Richard Schmalensee
Self - For the Affirmative
|
1
|
|
Eugene Linden
Self - For the Negative
|
1
|
|
Jim Barksdale
Self - For the Affirmative
|
1
|
|
G.M. Woodwell
Self - For the Negative
|
1
|
|
Tim Hutchinson
Self - For the Negative
|
1
|
|
William Simon
Self
|
1
|
|
Sean Penn
Self
|
1
|
|
Sheryl Sandberg
Self
|
1
|
|
Susan Rice
Self
|
1
|
|
Bakari Sellers
Self
|
1
|
|
David Miliband
Self
|
1
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