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Article: Remarks at a gala. (William F. Buckley Jr., recipient of Shelby Cullom Davis Award) (transcript)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- December 31, 1986
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Remarks at a Gala Mr. President, Dr. Lefever, ladies and gentlemen.
I've never made a screen test, nor been called upon to pass judgment on a screen test, so I think I need to let air out of this wonderful, Montgolfieran balloon by observing that wonderful though you have all been as performers, none of you would meet the requirements of cinema verite in depicting me as you have. I am greatly blessed in this world, in wonderful ways, notable among them the generosity of my friends. But I think it appropriate privately to confess--the bishops having recently reaffirmed that collective acts of penitence are to be avoided--that in my public life I have in almost ...