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The Thomas Nelson company sent me AmSpec alumnus Jeremy Lott’s William F. Buckley. I will write a full review later, but I have just begun the book and can already tell that Lott is going to bring attention to some underappreciated territory.
His hook is that Bill Buckley was more or less a prophet. His aim is to show how Buckley’s faith influenced his life and his politics.
Only nine pages in I have been treated to the following quote by JFK in response to a Harvard speaker who crowed that the school had never graduated either an Alger Hiss or a McCarthy. JFK roared, “How dare you couple the name of a great American patriot with the name of a traitor!” (Whatever happened to the Kennedy’s?)
Of course, the book is not about JFK, but about WFB, and I am sure from what I have read so far that the effort will be a worthy one.
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S.L. Toddard| 9.4.10 @ 3:08PM
"We have got to accept Big Government for the duration–for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged... except through the instrumentality of a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores."
- William F. Buckley
Truth to Power| 9.4.10 @ 3:15PM
Today Buckley, another time Schlussel, Toddard will say anything.
kingsmill| 9.4.10 @ 9:11PM
Truncated quote from an article in the early 50s, appeared in Commonweal, before the founding of NR.
WFB was talking about the threat of international communism. Buckley never questioned the need for a national security state against communism. He would have energetically opposed "Big Government" as constituted today, a tool of the leveling Left.
S.L. Toddard| 9.5.10 @ 1:56PM
You mean because he would have realized that the United States face no threat even remotely comparable to the USSR? While I agree with the objective truth that the United States face no significant, existential threat any more, I do not believe Buckley argued for the dismantling of the National Security State which replaced our Republic in the 20th century as a bulwark against the Soviet menace. Buckley never argued against Big Government's unchecked expansion when that expansion redistributed wealth from American citizens to vast military corporations.
yarrrr| 9.4.10 @ 7:19PM
JFK roared, "How dare you couple the name of a great American patriot with the name of a traitor!"
Now, I know JFK was close with McCarthy, but where does this quote come from... is it verifiable?
Hunter Baker| 9.4.10 @ 8:23PM
Lott drops a footnote to Chris Matthews' Kennedy & Nixon for the quote.
Die_Rechte_Ecke| 9.5.10 @ 10:56AM
Here you go SL"Socialist"Retard - choke on this -
FDR: “A program, whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried.”