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Article: Remembering Bill Buckley: Founder of the Movement
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- Human Events
- Article date:
- March 3, 2008
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Bill Buckley was the founder of the modern conservative movement Others clearly made major contributions-Russell Kirk, Milton Friedman, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, of course-but in the 1950s and 1960s Buckley, by his words and his actions, forced the reigning Liberal Establishment to acknowledge that a major new political force had emerged in America.
I say "actions" because the founding of National Review in 1955, the creation of Young Americans for Freedom in 1960, the birth of the Conservative Party of New York in 1962 and his campaign for mayor of New York City in 1965 were all political acts-with Bill Buckley the guiding force behind all of them.
Of course he was a master of ...