This is John Batchelor.

Conversation with my colleague Victor Davis Hanson.

He's a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Our memories of National Public Radio appearances,

mine in the 20th century.

Victor's, I don't know if it dates to the 20th. It sounds it from his presentation.

It was a pleasant experience for me and Victor says the same, once upon a time.

What's changed at NPR? Well this controversy about one side of the

ship only, one argument only. It's odd. I don't recall anything like this.

Conversation, very nice man named Hawkenberry.

I believe.

Victor has his own memory.

Here's Victor Davis Hanson on remembering National Public Radio. It was, yes,

yes, Democratic, yes, liberal, but at the same time polite and expansive,

and expansive, once upon a time. More of this tonight.

Yeah, I, when I had books they usually had me on and just to take one example I think there was a talk of the nation host I

think he did it for well over a decade and I think he was in NPR for maybe 30 years.

Neil Conan, he was kind of a household name for a while and he was what you would call a traditional

Democratic liberal.

But if you were a conservative author, you were writing about World War II or your civil war or

culture. In my case, he often had me on talking about farming. And he would give you 30 or 40

minutes of an interview and exchange ideas.

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