I've been mildly amused by Buckley over the years. I'd have been more impressed if I hadn't generally come away with the thought that beneath it all, he was his biggest fan.
I do like these comments.
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(However I did love his novel, "Spytime: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton" though.)
This was sweet, did anyone post Larry Miller's from Weekly Standard? I'll check and see.
It's pretty clear everybody loved Johnny, and why not, he didn't go poking his finger in the eye of the public every two minutes.
I searched and didn't find, here's the link to my post of Mr. Miller's piece. Very show-biz and amusing.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1328584/posts
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William F. Buckley-the man who made me a conservative. In the early 60's I was in the Rock recording business and one morning I was recovering from a particularly rough night on the town. I happened into a Times Square Horn and Hardarts automat (anybody remember those?). On the table where I was eating was a copy of National Review which I started reading-and the rest is history.