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Article: Conservative Admirers Remember Bill Buckley
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- Human Events
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- March 3, 2008
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Following the death of William F. Buckley, Jr. last week, many commentators and politicians offered their condolences and their gratitude for his work for the conservative movement. Here are a few remembrances from conservatives who knew Mr. Buckley.
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AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION CHAIRMAN DAVID KEENE:
Bill Buckley was there at the beginning. In fact, in many ways he was the beginning of the modem conservative movement. His God and Man at Yale was the first real assault on the liberal secularist domination of American Academe and the founding of National Review in 1955 is the event from which all else flows.
In those days there was, as Lionel Trilling and other liberals almost exuberantly ...