The Libertarian Candidate

Taped on Jan 19, 1988 (New York City, NY) Dr. Paul, a former Republican, is the Libertarian Party's candidate for President, and he proves, in this energetic exchange, to be a well-spoken exponent of the libertarian creed. WFB: "As somebody who occasionally calls himself a libertarian, I regret the extent to which the libertarian position is discredited by a kind of reductionism that is simply incompatible with social life. You want to destroy the FBI, for instance. Why?" RP: "Well, we could point out, first, that the first 125 years of this country existed without an FBI. That came about, I believe, during the First World War. The CIA is a really recent phenomenon, 1947." WFB: "Well, we existed 125 years without an airplane, too." - The Firing Line Archives @ The Hoover Institute, Stanford University http://hoohila.stanford.edu/firingline/programView2.php?programID=1168 YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UyzrYJtJ6Vc