Moments before the taping began, Mrs. Friedan told WFB that she had saved one of his sisters from disciplinary action at Smith College thirty years earlier. Thus handicapped he has trouble gaining momentum against this force of nature, who sweeps through the economics of housekeeping, the liberation of men from "the masculine mystique" of "bear-killing, big-muscle Ernest Hemingway," and the "right of every woman to control her own body."

A luminous discussion of the ethics and practicalities of nuclear deterrence with a man who is as much a philosopher as a physicist.

For this first installment of Firing Line broadcast on public television, we have as our guests two men actively seeking to dump President Nixon. Mr. Lowenstein's organization had voted in favor of impeaching him for high crimes and misdemeanors-no, not Watergate, which was still more than a year away, but rather his conduct of the war in Vietnam. For the same reason, Mr. McCloskey had announced that he would challenge the President for the 1972 Republican nomination.

In his 1971 State of the Union message, President Nixon had proposed his revenue-sharing plan--federal grants to the individual states, as opposed to the Federal Government's continuing to run local programs.

Mr. Buckley begins by telling us that he had recently received a letter from three Marine officers stationed at Quantico, Virginia, all Vietnam veterans, all concerned about media coverage of "atrocities and war crimes allegedly committed in the Republic of Vietnam." The three officers, our guests on this show, state that they never witnessed or were told at close hand of any such incidents.

As WFB relates in his introduction, MIT had decided in 1969 that no one who had defended Lyndon Johnson's policies in Vietnam could continue to claim the privileges of academic freedom there, and so Mr. Rostow had gone off to Texas, where he was working on a book about President Johnson.

A few days ago at the United Nations, Mr. Buckley begins, "the General Assembly made a decision which has been widely acknowledged as the most important in its history": to admit Communist China and expel Taiwan.