Posted on 02/27/2008 8:14:31 AM PST by Borges
Dead at 82
RIP Mr. Buckley; prayers for his family. I will miss his wit.
RIP
Editor-at-Large William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955. He is the author of more than 40 books, and was the host for more than 30 years of the television show Firing Line. His newspaper column, "On the Right," is syndicated to more than 300 newspapers. His most recent books are Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches and the novel Elvis in the Morning.
Buckley received a B.A. with honors (political science, economics, and history) from Yale University in 1950. In 1965 he ran for mayor of New York City and received 13.4% of the vote on the Conservative party ticket. He has received numerous and diverse awards, including Best Columnist of the Year, 1967; Television Emmy for Outstanding Achievement, 1969; The American Book Award for Best Mystery (paperback) for Stained Glass, 1980; the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award, 1989; the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1991; the Adam Smith Award, Hillsdale College, 1996; and the Heritage Foundation's Clare Boothe Luce Award, 1999.
Buckley married Patricia Taylor of Vancouver, B.C., in 1950, and is the father of Christopher Taylor Buckley.
God bless him.
What a brilliant and witty man.
Who knows where the conservative movement would be without him now?
Rest in peace, WFB.
First Conservative Book read “God and Man at Yale”. RIP, bury him with that pencil.
His use of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 (BMV 1047), 3d movement (Allegro Assai) as the theme for Firing Line gave me my first (childhood) appreciation of orchestral music (and especially in this case, the Baroque).
Didja ever notice there's nothing on Andy Rooney when you look?...
‘God and Man at Yale’ Well done, good and faithful servant.
Rest in peace, Mr. Buckley.
Yes. He used to leave me in stitches, watching him debate any liberal. Nobody could do it like he did. He could intellectually disembowel somebody, and do it so effortlessly and elegantly that they wouldn't even realize it happened.
Oh No! Rest In Peace, good gentleman!!!!
Thank you for Ronnie, National Review, the lack of Birchers, wit, family.
RIP and thanks.
He made conservatism look intellectually honest and sophisticated, and put together NR at a time when the Right was a national laughingstock. He is also largely responsible for taking the Right from a position of isolationism toward an informed internationalism, something the Buchananites will never forgive
Thanks, I thought that was the least that we could do to honor this great conservative. It seems rather fitting that his death would come at the time that conservatism is being rejected by the Republican Party.
Godspeed to one of the greatest leaders conservatism has ever known.
Rest in peace, Mr. Buckley.
Ah geez.
I was just telling my daughter last night how William F. Buckley was the guy that led me to Conservative thought when I was in my early teens back in the 60’s.
RIP Mr. Buckley and thank you.
Mr. Buckley, along with my Dad, got me involved in conservativism back in the 60s. RIP
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