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November 24, 2014

Happy Birthday to the Other Wild Bill.

Happy Birthday to the world-changing conservative and libertarian--he called himself both--William F. Buckley, Jr., who died (on my own birthday) six years ago at the age of 82. He was born November 24 in 1925. No matter what our political views are or were, we wish he were still part of the American conversation. Boy wonder, Renaissance man, founder of the National Review, author of over 40 books and crafty Gore Vidal-fighter, Buckley was, for lack of a better word, exotic. His enormous talents, however, were often lost in the fireworks he quietly set off as a conservative visionary, writer and leader. He was a lightning rod. No American has ever had a better command of the English language, or reveled in the joy of words as he did. No one worked harder. No one enjoyed life more. And no one seemed to be on television more in the 60s or 70s, both on his own program and on the talk shows of others. One fun Buckley fact: English was his third language he did not begin to study it until he was about 7. His first languages were Spanish and French.

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Posted by JD Hull at November 24, 2014 09:04 PM

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