Posted on 02/27/2008 2:08:24 PM PST by BJungNan
Buckley's primary intellectual achievement was to fuse traditional American political conservatism with libertarianism, laying the groundwork for the modern American conservatism of U.S. Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
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I had a photo of his desk, I think it was in Forbes FYI, that was taken from above and shows a nearly circular working area with a hole in the middle, a computer and some shelves. It was piled high with stuff.
It was like my smaller but equally cluttered desk.
The uncluttered desk is a sign of a too ordered to be creative mind.
http://www.nationalreview.com/flashback/2001200511220837.asp
Witness and Friends
Remembering Whittaker Chambers on the centennial of his birth.
By William F. Buckley Jr.
Editor’s Note: The White House convened a full house (140 guests) at the Executive Office Building on July 9, 2001, to recall Whittaker Chambers. Chambers’s son was present and brought in to display the Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Chambers by President Reagan in 1984. Also displayed, borrowed from the Library of Congress, was a copy of a “pumpkin paper” on which the case against Alger Hiss turned. A bizarre feature of the memorial event was that the White House excluded the press, so that the event had an aspect of a memorial ceremony in the catacombs. The speakers were introduced by presidential assistant Tim Goeglein. They were William F. Buckley Jr., Sam Tanenhaus (author of Whittaker Chambers: A Biography), Robert Novak, and Ralph de Toledano (co-author of Seeds of Treason: The True Story of the Hiss-Chambers Tragedy, author of Notes from the Underground: The Whittaker Chambers — Ralph de Toledano Letters). Herewith WFB’s speech, recalling a friendship with Mr. Chambers.
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A star has disappeared from the firmament of the heavens.
RIP
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Ah, but now God has someone who can discuss things on His level.
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Truly a great man loaded with great words to express great ideas.
Thanks.
Can you even imagine what it will be like in Heaven ‘if’ Ann Coulter gets there and Buckley hasn’t talked himself out? ...’Ah, ah um, precisely.’
Excellent Tribute
Thank You
Mr Buckley played a large part in my political education in the early 80s when I was actively involved in the political process.
We lost a good one today...may he forever rest in Peace.
Of course you can see it. It is called old Europe.
I remember Jonah Goldberg mentioning this in his column a few years ago. He put the crypto-homo Vidal in his place...
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Bump with gratitude. Rest in peace, Chairman Bill.
Thanks for the link. I just watched Buckley v. Chomsky. Fascinating to watch because of the debate between two obviously very smart people. Chomsky obviously the consummate anti-American, and pro-Soviet everything. When the Americans liberate France in WWII from the Nazis, he’s begrudgingly says that is OK. But Chomsky then claims that South Vietnam was just as guilty of trying to “invade” North Vietnam. I realize Chomsky is a communist, but he really got called on his inconsistency. I give Chomsky his due in that he is very intellectual, just criminally pro-communist.
To honor the life of the last of the Old Lions of the conservative movement, William F. Buckley, I’d like to contribute a video homage to him from a MICHIGAN friend of Buckley‘s, Clark Durant.
William F Buckley’s notes written in the covers of the book Clark Durant gave to his groomsmen; Whittaker Chambers’ Witness provides a touching story, an incredible lesson and insight into the men Buckley and Chambers were…. And, as always, pure poetry!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2651237646890768400
Or you Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cXOcFkqB6g
Clark made these comments two months before the night William F. Buckley died. He shared them with the participants of the New Centurion Program presented by the Conservative Institute in consultation with the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal.
The second video I’d like to offer is this video segment Gleaves Whitney discusses William F. Buckley’s role in the conservative movement.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4827212646234867822&hl=en%20
I have selected this video because it wonderfully encapsulates the great role Buckley played in the conservative movement. It’s also what everyone ought to know about WFB as taught by an incredibly accomplished professor of history and presidential studies.
A Buckley’s friend and disciple, Professor Gleaves Whitney, a writer, lecturer, and historian, was named the first permanent Senior Fellow of the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal and the Director of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential State at GVSU. Professor Whitney has delivered his presentation The Decline and Renewal of American Conservatism to New Centurions in Lansing, Grand Rapids and on the night this world lost Bill, his friend Gleaves would be sharing his magnificent lecture with the New Centurions in Detroit.
Who are the “New Centurions”
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1849274776910726733
Clark’s entire presentation;
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6451406818676616285
Why?
It was a bttt tribute.
For those that may not know, btt is FR for bump to top, meaning, move the thead back up into prominance.
Morphed one can also write Bump and further morphed when in agreement with another FReeper (arn’t we all) Bump to that means I agree with you.
You mean to be conservative, and I know no one who seems to me to have a better right to the term. I am not a conservative. I am a man of the Right. I shall vote the straight Republican ticket for as long as I live.And, always looking within the Marxist world for amplification, he found it. You see, I am an Orgbureau man. But if the Republican Party cannot get some grip of the actual world we live in and from it generalize and actively promote a program that means something to the masses of people-why somebody else will. Then there will be nothing to argue. The voters will simply vote Republicans into singularity. The Republican Party will become like one of those dark little shops which apparently never sell anything. If, for any reason, you go in, you find at the back an old man, fingering for his own pleasure some oddments of cloth. Nobody wants to buy them, which is fine because the old man is not really interested in selling. He just likes to hold and to feel. . . .
Thank you for posting this link.
Buckley in 2001, speaking of Chambers around 1959, yet it seems prophetic of our current tribulations. Goldwater and then Reagan did get some grip of the actual world we live in, only for us to let their realization slip from our fingers.
Rest now Mister Buckley! You were yourself, the salient point. We bank the fire and will only strive to keep the embers glowing.
RIP
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