Buckley addressed his guests as "Mr." or "Mrs." He once called Margaret Thatcher "Margaret" because he thought she had addressed him as "Bill". He was embarrassed later when he saw the transcript and realized she had been referring to a legislative bill. He immediately wrote a personal letter of apology to the Prime Minister. For the show's 15th anniversary in 1981, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Vernon Jordan, Henry Kissinger, and Louis Auchincloss presided over a party for Buckley at the New York Yacht Club. Guests Prominent guests on the program included: Politicians and statesmen: Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, John Vorster, Harold Macmillan, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Enoch Powell, Ron Paul, George Wallace, Ian Smith, Jesse Jackson, Newt Gingrich, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Barry Goldwater, Clare Boothe Luce, John Kerry, George H. W. Bush Political activists: Saul Alinsky, Allen Ginsberg, Julian Bond, Timothy Leary, Allard K. Lowenstein, Huey Newton, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Frank Donatelli Academics: Noam Chomsky, B. F. Skinner, Mortimer Adler, Allan Bloom, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, Benjamin Spock, Paul Goodman Journalists: Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, Bernard Levin, Malcolm Muggeridge, Robert Kuttner Economists: John Kenneth Galbraith, Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Thomas Sowell Writers: Christopher Hitchens, Jorge Luis Borges, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Jack Kerouac, Walker Percy, Anthony Burgess, Truman Capote, Mark Lane, June Jordan, Ann Coulter, Mary McCarthy Religious figures: Billy Graham, Richard John Neuhaus, William Sloane Coffin, Mother Teresa, Dalai Lama, Fulton J. Sheen Television and film personalities: Steve Allen, Charlton Heston, Theodore Bikel, Groucho Marx, Woody Allen Others: Muhammad Ali, Hugh Hefner, Billy Taylor, Bernadette Devlin, Dwight Macdonald, William Shockley, Huey P. Newton, Richard Vatz, R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., Rush Limbaugh, Rosalyn Tureck Hoover tenure Revival Margaret Hoover is the current host of Firing Line reboot on PBS. The show premiered on June 2, 2018, on WNET, which serves the New York metropolitan area, and is the largest PBS market in the country. The show maintains the original format of deep exchange of ideas with a single guest on a single issue within its 26-minute runtime. It is produced weekly at the WNET Tisch Studios. Episodes The first fourteen episodes of the program featured guests representing a variety of sociopolitical ideologies, including Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Ohio Governor John Kasich, journalist Gretchen Carlson, Senator Jeff Merkley, "the rising star of the political Left", Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and "accidental icon of the conservative