Article: Remembering "Sir William"

That's how my late husband often began memos to Bill Buckley, and scads of memos there were, after Jim McFadden's cancer took his voice in 1996. Most though began "Dear Bill," and dear he was to our family-godfather to one of our daughters-and to all of us here. I suppose the Human Life Foundation and its Review could have happened some other way; maybe the Cold War could have ended without Ronald Reagan and JP II (and maybe Reagan could have happened without WFB and National Review) but it's reasonable to believe-as we realized again when we got the news about Bill's death-that without him there wouldn't be what's been called "the flagship of the anti-abortion movement."

It all began when ...

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