National Review founder and conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr. was found dead Wednesday in the study of his Stamford, Connecticut, home, officials at the magazine said.
The death of National Review founder and conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr., 82, Wednesday in Stamford, Connecticut, drew responses from CNN.com readers running the gamut of political philosophies. Many recalled seeing him speak on TV and reading about his love of sailing, and said they will miss his presence in the world.
Fifty years ago, when a 29-year-old Yale graduate named William F. Buckley Jr. funded National Review magazine, conservatism was a small insurgency, fighting the dominant tide of liberalism that had governed the United States for a quarter century.
Reportedly, following the replacement of Andy Card as White House Chief of Staff by Joshua Bolten more changes of Administration personnel are expected. Also there are the sudden openings at the White House, namely the vacancy Bolten leaves at the Office of Management and Budget and the need to replace Claude Allen as domestic policy adviser. The problem the president and his staff have is finding replacements with "stature." That is the word used in the media, "stature."
Dear Statperson: At the present inst., I still count myself a survivor of the Yale class of 1950. This was the first big postwar gathering, and because of all the veterans, the oldest ever. (Median...
National Review founder and conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr. was found dead Wednesday in the study of his Stamford, Connecticut, home, officials at the magazine said.
The death of National Review founder and conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr., 82, Wednesday in Stamford, Connecticut, drew responses from CNN.com readers running the gamut of political philosophies. Many recalled seeing him speak on TV and reading about his love of sailing, and said they will miss his presence in the world.
Fifty years ago, when a 29-year-old Yale graduate named William F. Buckley Jr. funded National Review magazine, conservatism was a small insurgency, fighting the dominant tide of liberalism that had governed the United States for a quarter century.
Reportedly, following the replacement of Andy Card as White House Chief of Staff by Joshua Bolten more changes of Administration personnel are expected. Also there are the sudden openings at the White House, namely the vacancy Bolten leaves at the Office of Management and Budget and the need to replace Claude Allen as domestic policy adviser. The problem the president and his staff have is finding replacements with "stature." That is the word used in the media, "stature."
Dear Statperson: At the present inst., I still count myself a survivor of the Yale class of 1950. This was the first big postwar gathering, and because of all the veterans, the oldest ever. (Median...
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