I always enjoyed hearing Gore Vidal on TV, and this clip is an example of why. It happens to make Dick Cavett look pretty good, too, in contrast with a pugnacious Norman Mailer.
Gore Vidal, dead at 86. There goes one of the greats.
BTW, I was disappointed to see a silly, utterly ernest, young TV news chick report the “news” that Vidal had not gone all religious at the end. This was before the CBC network lost its mind later in the day, feverishly interviewing itself over its regaining of Olympic broadcast rights years from now.
So really, no excuse.