Conservatives of a certain vintage will all be tipping their caps March 9 to the much-loved James Buckley, former US senator, high-ranking StateDept official & federal appeals court judge, on the occasion of Buckley’s 100th birthday, QuinHillyer writes.
Deservedly so. Buckley, who is still reportedly healthy and sharp, is a national treasure. Longtime American Enterprise Institute public opinion specialist Karlyn Bowman, who served on Buckley’s Senate staff in the early 1970s, described him to me as “an extraordinary individual, highly principled, very decent, thoughtful, resolute… very learned, and just a delight.
The letter’s putative purpose, in the end, was to urge Giddens’s support for President Ronald Reagan’s reelection, but mostly it was a personal reflection on what Buckley experienced while directing the U.S. radio services. It is charming. “Pravda denounced me as a notorious hawk, ‘obscurantist’ , and an ‘enemy of democracy and détente,’” Buckley wrote. “I try to keep a stiff upper lip. But frankly, sometimes it hurts. As when I was recently charged with being a ‘double-eyed reactionary’ and ‘windbag’ who is in charge of a ‘vile vipers’ nest’ of ‘airwave bandits’ and ‘kept women of the CIA.’”
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