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Article: Buckley Retires As Editor; National Review Founder Steps Down After 35 Years
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- The Washington Post
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- October 6, 1990
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Thirty-five years ago, William F. Buckley Jr. founded National
Review, a conservative magazine that set itself a preposterously
ambitious goal. "It stands athwart history yelling Stop," the
magazine said of itself in its first editorial.
Yesterday, 2,750 issues later, Buckley quietly said Stop
himself and announced that he was stepping down as National Review's
editor in chief.
In financial terms, the announcement was without significance.
Buckley will continue to hold all of the National Review stock,
which, he noted, "commercially is about as valuable as Confederate
bonds." And he pledged to look over the shoulders of his editors to
keep the magazine on track, lest he risk "being ...