richard burr kaiser remembers the life of the magazine's founder, william s. buckley. >> we will talk with clark kent irvin, henry farrell, and ken walsh. "washington journal" starts at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. no available is c-span's book "abraham lincoln, great american historians on our 16th president. it is in hardcover at your favorite bookseller and now in digital audio to listen to any time, available where digital audio is sold. >> author of williame eggers spoken sentences go about his book. this is just over an hour. >> it is wonderful to be here in beautiful sunny california. a lot of my cousins are here. it really means a lot to me. we can put a man on the moon. how many times have you heard that phrase. if we can put a man on the moon, why can we not hear homelessness. if we can put a man on the moon, why can we not fixed schools. if we can put a man on the moon, why can we not make killer robot police? >> before this decade is out, landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. no project will be more impressive to mankind or more

remembering the lies of william s. buckley jr.. -- lidfe of william f. buckley jr. he address new air safety regulation proposals. one would increase the flight experience required of commercial airline pilots. the hearing came days before an announcement that the federal government was limiting the amount of time passengers can be held on the tarmac. this is one hour and 50 minutes appear. >> we have had hearings on safety and fatigue. this hearing is to discuss a wide range of issues with the administrator. mr. babbitt will be talking about what he has been involved in. they are involved in the number of actions after he was sworn in as the administrator of the faa. he held a call to action meeting. that brought in regional air carriers, pilots, unions, and many others to discuss and improve safety and to reduce risk. the call to action initiatives have led the faa to seek voluntary commitment from air carriers, quality insurance is, and safety action programs. we will talk about that today. . faa as may progress in a number of areas. they held a hearing recently.

remembering the lives of william s. buckley jr.. >> up next on c-span, the ceo of sesame workshops on keeping sesame street relevant to children after 40 years on the air. this is about an hour. >> good afternoon. welcome to the lunch impetus i am president -- welcome to the lunch. i and the president. where the world's leading professional organization for journalists. we are committed to a future of journalism. we foster a free press worldwide. for more in formation, please visit our web site greta: . . . >> and not necessarily from the working press. i would now like to introduce our table guests, and stand briefly when your names are called. from the right, the washington bureau chief. ed lewis, strategic communications for toyota in north america. jerry szerimski, past president of the national press club. dr. wilson of the school for communication in journalism at the university of southern california, and chairman of the board for the corporation for public broadcasting. cheryl hampton, director of recruiting at national

remembering the lives of william s. buckley jr.. >> up next on c-span, the ceo of sesame workshops on keeping sesame street relevant to children after 40 years on the air. this is about an hour. >> good afternoon. welcome to the lunch impetus i am president -- welcome to the lunch. i and the president. where the world's leading professional organization for journalists. we are committed to a future of journalism. we foster a free press worldwide. for more in formation, please visit our web site greta: . . . >> and not necessarily from the working press. i would now like to introduce our table guests, and stand briefly when your names are called. from the right, the washington bureau chief. ed lewis, strategic communications for toyota in north america. jerry szerimski, past president of the national press club. dr. wilson of the school for communication in journalism at the university of southern california, and chairman of the board for the corporation for public broadcasting. cheryl hampton, director of recruiting at national

richard burr kaiser remembers the life of the magazine's founder, william s. buckleyk with clark kent irvin, henry farrell, and ken walsh. "washington journal" starts at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. no available is c-span's book "abraham lincoln, great american historians on our 16th president. it is in hardcover at your favorite bookseller and now in digital audio to listen to any time, available where digital audio is sold. >> author of williame eggers spoken sentences go about his book. this is just over an hour. >> it is wonderful to be here in beautiful sunny california. a lot of my cousins are here. it really means a lot to me. we can put a man on the moon. how many times have you heard that phrase. if we can put a man on the moon, why can we not hear homelessness. if we can put a man on the moon, why can we not fixed schools. if we can put a man on the moon, why can we not make killer robot police? >> before this decade is out, landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. no project will be more impressive to mankind or more important for th

william f. buckley jr., richard weaver and russell kirk were riding in the 1950's and early 1960's, the number of publicly active professing conservative intellectuals in the united states was minuscule. today, how can we even begin to count? since 1980, prosperity has come to american conservatism and with that a multitude of niche markets and specialization on 8,000 friends. the fruit of a generation of successful conservative institution building has reached a critical mass that seems unlikely to crumble anytime soon. this augurs well for the continued influence of conservatism in our national conversation. a third source of their ability for conservatives is this. on the home front, the cohesion that was once supplied by cold war anticommunism has increasingly come from another war, the so-called culture wars. pitting an alliance of conservative roman catholics, evangelical protestants and orthodox jewish believers against a's judeo-christian, even anti-christian secular elites who they perceive to be aggressively hostile to their deepest convictions. every day, fresh tremors break out along