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To: mishedlo who wrote (290398)	7/7/2004 3:15:51 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 436258

Buckley has really grown, ethically. He started in the 50s as a straight conservative, fighting civil rights and integration with every issue of his nasty little rag. Even after Nixon resigned, he said "If I'd been Chief of Staff, I would have burned the incriminating White House tapes no matter what the President said." I never agreed with much that he said, but admired his steel trap logic. My favorite thing was on his tv show when he used his yellow legal pad and would take notes of what a guest was saying. Then, after the goof prattled on, he would catch him and rifle back through the pages and say "but you said back here that you were...". It was true ambush journalism, but fun to watch. Though he has grown, I think John Kenneth Galbraith, a good friend of his, summed it up best: "I have an easy time being right all the time. All I have to do is totally disagree with everything Bill Buckley says and I am never wrong." <G>