Mailer and Buckley Talk on 'Open End'
Brief NYT article describing another debate between Mailer and William F. Buckley Jr. on David Susskind's 'Open End' television program, in which Buckley was the apparent winner. When Mailer asked Buckley why he appeared with him if he thought Mailer was a freak, Buckley said: 'You are a magnetic field in this country.'
“Mailer and Buckley Talk on ‘Open End.’” New York Times, 3 February 1964. Article. Brief article describing another debate between Mailer and William F. Buckley Jr. (after the September 1962 Chicago debate, 62.13a and 62.13b, and the Playboy transcript 63.22) — this time on David Susskind’s Open End television program — in which Buckley was the apparent winner. When Mailer asked Buckley why he appeared with him if he thought Mailer was a freak, Buckley said: “You are a magnetic field in this country.”
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