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Article: The party at the Plaza. (National Review Thirtieth Anniversary Dinner)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- December 31, 1985
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THERE IS a wonderful confluence of events at work here, as the President has returned from his historic and successful meeting with Gorbachev in time to be here to NATIONAL REVIEW'S Thirtieth Anniversary Dinner. For, thirty years ago when NATIONAL REVIEW was being founded, democratic socialism was still the accepted world view of most Western intellectuals. But we stand here tonight at a time when it is democratic capitalism, and not democratic socialism, that is the model for the world.
A great many people have dedicated themselves to the conservative revolution in this country, many of them sprinkled throughout this august crowd. But still, in ...