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  A Third Choice in 1996
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The Heart and Soul of Conservatism
Aired 3/21/1996

The battle of the Republican nomination appears to have ended, but a different struggle over the nature of conservatism rages on. Which ideas will flourish in the Republican Party? Which vision might capture the imagination of Americans?
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  Bill Kauffman
    author of America First: Its History, Culture and Politics
  Christopher DeMuth
    president of the American Enterprise Institute.
  David Brooks
    senior editor of The Weekly Standard, editor of Upward and Backward: the New Conservative Writing
  John Judis
    senior editor of The New Republic, author of William F. Buckley: Patron Saint of the Conservatives

Originally Aired: 3/21/1996

   
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