Posted on 05/15/2008 4:38:39 AM PDT by moderatewolverine
Like thousands before and after me, I first met William F. Buckley because of Yale.
©Steve Schapiro/Corbisbuckley
A group of us from the Yale Political Union had invited the conservative magazine editor R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. to come talk to us. Tyrrell generously accepted -- and asked if he could bring his friend Bill Buckley along with him. We students were thrilled, of course, and on the appointed date Tyrrell and Buckley rocketed up from Sharon together. "Rocket" is really the word. Driving was one unique activity where Bill made up in speed for what he lacked in exactness and subtlety. Tyrrell stepped out of the car looking a little wobbly.
For dinner, we students had booked a restaurant on Chapel Street called the Old Heidelberg (long-ago, and deservedly, extinct). Buckley, presciently distrustful of undergraduate taste, had taken the precaution of bringing with him -- not his dinner, he would take his chances on that -- but his wine: six bottles of 1967 Haut-Brion.
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Bill Buckley is an icon as far as I am concerned. There will never be another like him! He was always a pleasure to see on ‘Firing Line’. Anticipation of his enunciations was a real kick!
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