americaneekend, history tv is joining our broadband partners to showcase the history of shawnee, oklahoma. to learn more about the cities on our current tour, visit www.c-span.org. we continue now with our look at the history of shawnee. >> we took a driving tour of the city manager. >> thank you so much for agreeing to show us around here today. justin: i am happy to be here. thank you so much for joining me. >> where are we now? we are on the interstate, heading into town. justin: we are heading east into shawnee, and we will get off , to our west is oklahoma city, about a 35-mile drive from shawnee. as we are crossing this hill, you can see it is fairly developed along the interstate. shawnee just went through a rebranding, and the line is great things on the horizon. coming into the community, we are quite noticeable. >> how many people live in shawnee? just in: 31,000. a little over 70,000 in the county, so our original population is probably 70,000 to 100,000, but the city proper you are right around 31,000. >> what are the economic drivers? who does it draw? justin: we are far enou

americaneekend, history tv is joining our broadband partners to showcase the history of shawnee, oklahoma. to learn more about the cities on our current tour, visit www.c-span.org. we continue now with our look at the history of shawnee. >> we took a driving tour of the city manager. >> thank you so much for agreeing to show us around here today. justin: i am happy to be here. thank you so much for joining me. >> where are we now? we are on the interstate, heading into town. justin: we are heading east into shawnee, and we will get off , to our west is oklahoma city,

americaneekend on history tv, the national review institute looks at they life and legacy of william avenue ugly who-- william f buckley jr. died in 2008. here is a preview. bill as a debater was first-class. as we have said, he was fair. he let the other point of view be presented and his view was, i'm going to give the other fellow enough rope to hang himself. sometimes the other fella was good enough to hang bill. he did face occasional to beat and that is when you are a fair-minded debater. defeat and that is when you are a fair-minded debater. how are we going to develop people in this media environment who are going to be able to take on the other side, give them a fair hearing and then beat the living daylights out of them because that is what will did -- bill did. we can create circumstances in which people develop these abilities and in which they're giving a hearing to take on the other side -- they are given a hearing to take on the other side. answered byhave stating his cardinal role that you never debate someone you cannot respect. if you're going to debate them, you ha