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..., January 27), it was William F Buckley Jr, the American conservative writer, who quipped: “I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 people...
...If his 1968 debates with the conservative William Buckley Jr still grip us, it is because of the two men’s underlying oneness, not the superficial Democrat vs Republican framing.Best of Enemies, James Graham...
...But that benign conclusion was never likely to result from the series of encounters between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr during the explosive US political party conventions of 1968, the true story...
...In this case it’s 1968 and the launch of a series of late-night television debates between the maverick liberal author Gore Vidal and the arch conservative commentator William F Buckley Jr....
...It seems a fair bet that the philosophical revivalists of American conservatism in the 1950s and ’60s — political theorist and social critic Russell Kirk and William F Buckley Jr, the National Review editor...
...It focuses on the barbed late-night TV debates in 1968 between the maverick liberal author Gore Vidal and the arch-conservative commentator William F Buckley Jr, which catapulted the struggling ABC network...
...In the political uproar and shaking certainties, the US television network ABC tries to boost poor ratings with a series of late-night debates between arch-conservative William F Buckley Jr and maverick...
...Well, news flash: the train of history is not stopping, not for William F Buckley Jr, and not for me. Indeed, the pandemic has caused it to accelerate....
...One sizzling recent example was James Graham’s Best of Enemies at London’s Young Vic, which dramatised genuine debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr....
...“I’m positive whatever decision he makes, there will be people that will publicly disagree with him,” says Daniel R Alonso, a lawyer at Buckley in New York, who once served as Mr Vance’s top deputy....
...In a now inconceivable piece of broadcasting, the ABC network set the writers William Buckley and Gore Vidal against each other in a saga of debates....
...“I would have expected flipping Weisselberg to be an uphill battle,” says Daniel R Alonso, who served as Vance’s top assistant and now practises at Buckley, noting that the New York state law the DA upholds...
...If Trump loses but it’s a close race, they probably lose too: the next Republican presidential candidate, in 2024, will be a Trumpist, perhaps even Ivanka Trump or Donald Jr....
...George Buckley: The MPC’s marginal tool of policy easing currently is the asset purchase facility....
...No one has yet proved Bill Buckley Jr’s thesis that he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people selected at random from the Boston telephone directory than the faculty of Harvard....
...Even the conservative polemicist, William F Buckley, was lost in admiration for his use of words....
...Buckley. Left and right writer-orators respectively, they duelled on American TV during the 1968 party-nomination conventions....
...In 1979 “To Love Somebody” received an earnest rendition by Hank Williams Jr, giving it country credibility....
..., Jr, among others....
...It’s as if Jeff Koons went to France and returned with sculptures of Edith Piaf and Maurice Chevalier. The piece, whatever it’s called, has its moments....
....” ——————————————- Letters in response to this report: Putin may have made a valuable opening gambit / From Maurice Mason Russia, if properly handled, can be US’s ally in the Middle East / From Gregory...
...This month his chief business adviser, Maurice Newman, described climate change as a plot by the UN to grab “concentrated political authority”....
...demanded Maurice M. Taylor Jr, boss of Titan International, after Arnaud Montebourg had suggested that the tyremaker might take over part of a Goodyear plant in northern France....
...On one level, Robin’s is simply a more strident version of William F Buckley, Jr’s sympathetic definition: “A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop.”...
...Buckley Jr, the equally patrician doyen of the rising right wing....
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