Conversations with Clare Booth Luce; Public Leadership
Description:
In this program Mrs. Luce asserts that American leadership is suffering because of a lack of understanding of modern technology. She says the technological revolution was the most important revolution of the century and yet the nations leaders have almost no real understanding of science. The subject of leadership carries the conversation to the topics of Vietnam, American ghettos, the Presidency, and Mrs. Luces advocacy of a mandatory retirement age for members of Congress. Conversations with Clare Boothe Luce Public Leadership is a presentation of National Educational Television, produced by NETs affiliate station of Arizona State University, KAET. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche) In this series, Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce, author, playwright, former ambassador to Italy, former congresswoman, and widow of publisher Henry R. Luce, discusses herself and her late husband and offers her views on current national and international issues. The 4 half-hour episodes that comprise this series were originally recorded in color on videotape. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)