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- Died
- Birth nameWilliam Frank Buckley Jr.
- Nickname
- Bill
- Height6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
- William F. Buckley was born on November 24, 1925 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992), ...and Then There's Claude. (2009) and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967). He was married to Patricia Aldyen Austin Taylor. He died on February 27, 2008 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA.
- SpousePatricia Aldyen Austin Taylor(July 6, 1950 - April 15, 2007) (her death, 1 child)
- Children
- RelativesJames Buckley(Sibling)Brent Bozell(Niece or Nephew)
- Erudite vocabulary
- Patrician accent
- Often imitated by Robin Williams.
- Served in the CIA as a political action officer.
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 133, pp. 120-128. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
- Responding to Edward R. Murrow's public attacks on him, Joseph McCarthy challenged Murrow to debate Buckley about communists within the U.S. government. Murrow refused.
- Best known as the publisher of "National Review", the conservative periodical, but was also a syndicated political columnist.
- Liberals are people who will believe anything...twice.
- Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
- The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less that that they are god-awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as the crowned heads of anti-music.
- The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana makes no sense.
- I should sooner live in a society governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the 2,000 faculty members of Harvard University.
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