Politics: WFB

Happy Belated Birthday, WFB! He turned eighty on the 24th. The world is considerably better off thanks to him, as George Will so eloquently writes. My favorite quote from the article has to be:

Murray Kempton, the wonderful liberal columnist who later joined Buckley's eclectic legion of friends, wrote after Buckley's first news conference that the candidate "had the kidney to decline the usual humiliation of soliciting the love of the voters, and read his statement of principles in a tone for all the world that of an Edwardian resident commissioner reading aloud the 39 articles of the Anglican establishment to a conscript assemblage of Zulus." For conservatives, happy days were here again.