| 00:00:28 | THOOPURPOSE OF THE CONSERVE'VE WOMEN'S NETWORK EVENT IS TO HIGHLIGHT THE MOST OUTSTANDING CONSERVATIVE WOMEN IN AMERICA T. |
| 00:00:37 | GIVES ME GREAT PLEASURE TODAY TO INTRODUCE ONE OF THESE OUTSTANDING WOMEN PRISCILLA BUCKLEY WHOSE NEW BOOK IS TITLED LIVING IT UP WITH "NATIONAL REVIEW", A MEMOIR. |
| 00:00:48 | IT'S A WONDERFUL BOOK. |
| 00:00:49 | I READ IT THIS WEEKEND. |
| 00:00:51 | AND I REALLY ENJOYED IT. |
| 00:00:53 | I THINK PRISCILLA WOULD PROBABLY AGREE THAT IT'S THE UNOFFICIAL HISTORY OF "NATIONAL REVIEW" AS IT INCLUDE SOME MEMORABLE EVENTS IN THE MAGAZINE'S HISTORY THAT WON'T NECESSARILY GET MENTIONED IN THE OFFICIAL HISTORIES. |
| 00:01:09 | PRISCILLA'S BROTHER WILLIAM F. |
| 00:01:11 | BUCKLEY WRITES IN THE FORWARD TO HER BOOK THAT AFTER HE FOUNDED "NATIONAL REVIEW" HE REACHED OUT FOR AN EXPERIENCED EDITORIAL HAND DRAGGING PRISCILLA FROM AN EXOTIC LIFE AS A REPORTER AND EDITOR IPPARIS INTO THE INDIGGANT BILLET OF A STRUGGLING TO BE BORN VENTURE IN OPINION JOURNALISM. |
| 00:01:31 | PRISCILLA RETURNED FROM PARIS IN 1956 TO WORK ON BROTHER BILL'S BRAND NEW WEEKLY MAGAZINE "NATIONAL REVIEW". |
| 00:01:39 | BUT FIRST PRISCILLA TOOK A MONTH OFF TO DO WHAT SHE LOVED BEST, QUAIL HUNTING IN THE MORNING, GOLFING IN THE AFTERNOON, AND PARTYING WITH GOOD FRIENDS AT NIGHT. |
| 00:01:51 | PRISCILLA BUCKLEY GRAD WAITED FROM SMITH COLLEGE IN 19 FRY AND WORKED FOR A YEAR AS A COPY GIRL AND SPORTS WRITER FOR UNITED PRES. |
| 00:02:02 | SHE SPENT FOUR YEARS AS A RADIO REWRITE STAFFER NEXT SHE LIVED IN PARIS FRENS -FRANCE WHERE SHE WAS A UNITED PRESS CORRESPONDENT AND SHE HAS A WONDERFUL BOOK OF STRING OF PEARLS WHICH TELLS OF THOSE YEARS IN PARIS SHE ALSO WORK TRD THE CIA FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS IN THE 1950s. |
| 00:02:21 | NOW WHEN HER BROTHER ASKED HER TO BECOME MANAGING EDITOR AT "NATIONAL REVIEW" SHE WRITES IIN HER BOOK IF I AGREED TO BE MANAGING EDITOR IT WOULDY LONG-TERM, A CAREER AT "NATIONAL REVIEW" AGREAT DEAL OF RESPONSIBILITY AND VERY LITTLE MONEY. |
| 00:02:36 | SHE DECIDED WHAT WOULD MAKE THE MIX PALATABLE WAS PLENTY OF TIME OFF TO TAKE THE KIND OF VACATIONS MANY OF THEM OFF BEAT THAT SHE REALLY ENJOYED. |
| 00:02:46 | SO SHE TOLD HER BROTHER SHE WOULD TAKE THE JOB PROVIDING IT WAS UNDERSTOOD THAT SHE WOULD HAVE SIX WEEKS OFF EVERY YEAR TO VABS HOWEVER SHE LIKED AND HE WISELY AGREED AND SHE SHARES DETAILS OF SOME OF THE MOST FASCINATING VACATIONS AND TRIPS SHE TOOK DURING HER SIX WEEKS A YEAR AND IT READING THEM JUST MAKE MISE CIYAKKING VACATIONS IN MAINE SEEM VERY DUG. |
| 00:03:12 | I WAS VERY INVIES. |
| 00:03:14 | SHE INCLUDES THE BIG NEWS STORIES OF 50 YEARS OF "NATIONAL REVIEW" INCLUDING THINGS LIKEBERRY GOLDWATER'S NOMINATION TO BE PRESIDENT IN 1964 AND PRESIDENT REAGAN'S ELECTION TO THE PRESIDENCY IN 1980 SHE WRITES ABOUT THE EXCITEMENT WE FELT WHEN THERBROTHER JIM BUCKLEY WAS ELECTED TO THE U. |
| 00:03:32 | S. SENATE ON THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY LINE IN THE 1970s WHAT WAS A GREAT AND RARE VICTORY THAT WAS BEFORE OUR SIDE STARTING WINNING THINGWISE REAGAN AND HAVING RUSH LIMBOW AND BEFORE WE HAD VOICES OF FAIRNESS AND BALANCE IN THE MEDIA AND WE'RE DELIGHTED JIM'S WIRE IS -- WIFE IS HERE WITH US TODAY. |
| 00:03:52 | THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING TODAY BUT PRISELLA TELLS OF THE SMALLER AND IMPORTANT EVENTS TODAY. |
| 00:03:59 | SOME MANY CURRENT LEADER OF OUR NATION, COMMUNICATION WRITERS AND POLICY STARTED CAREERS AS INTERNS AND EDITORIAL ASSISTANCE AND CORSPODDANTS AND "NATIONAL REVIEW" AND SHE TELLS LOVELY AND HEART WARKING STORIES ABOUT THESE YOUNG PEOPLE SHE WRITES OF THE MONEY -- MANY WONDERFUL LEADERS WHO WORK TO MAKE "NATIONAL REVIEW" A SUCCESS AND TO FINALLY TURN A PROFIT. |
| 00:04:23 | SHE TELLS OF THE CHALLENGES OF WORKING WITH WHAT SHE CALLS A BRILLIANT BUT COMABOUT THEBUSTIBLE CAST OF CHARACTER, THE INTELLECTUALS AND WRITERS AND STATESMAN WHO BUILT THE MOST FORMIDABLE MOVEMENT, THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT. |
| 00:04:38 | THE COVER PHOTO, LET ME HOLD IT UP FOR YOU AGAIN, SHOWS A LOVELY DONKEY THAT "NATIONAL REVIEW" THAT THE STAFF SENT TO LIBERAL HARVARD PROFESSOR ARTHUR SCHREGS CHINGER JUNIOR AS A PRIZE WHEN HE PREDRIKTED MOST CLOSELY, THEY HAD A CONTEST FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL PROMMARY NUMBERS AND THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE SO THEY SENT HIM THIS DUNKY TOOK A PICTURE BEFORE HANDCH HE DIDN'T CARE FOR THE GIFT AND SENT THE DONKEY BACK BY RETURN MAIL, BUT HIS BROTHER JIM AND ANNE HERE TOOK THE DONKEY HOME TO THEIR FARM WHERE FOR A TIME THE CHILDREN ENJOYED PLAYING WITH THE LIBERAL PROFESSOR'S JACKASS. |
| 00:05:25 | [LAUGHTER] LASTLY, ONE OF MY FAVORITE STORIES IN THE BOOK IS ABOUT A COUCH. |
| 00:05:31 | THERE A CERTAIN VERY BRILLIANT BUT DIFFICULT POLITICAL PHILOSOPHERFER WHO WROTE AND WAS INVOLVE WOULD "NATIONAL REVIEW" FOR A TIME. |
| 00:05:40 | PRISCILLA WRITES THAT HIS PRIVATE DEVILS KEPT HIM FROM PRODUCING THE BODIES OF SERIOUS WORK HE WAS CAPABLE OF BUT HE DID LEAVE A CONCRETE MARK OF SORTS. |
| 00:05:52 | SOMEWHERE IN THE CURRENT, BRIGHT AND MODERN NEW "NATIONAL REVIEW" OFFICE IN NEW YORK SIT SITS A BROKEN DOWN LEATHER SOFA KNOWN TO THE OLD TIMERS AS THE WILL MORE KINDLE OR ALTERNATIVEAL, MEMORIAL COUCH. |
| 00:06:08 | SUZANNE HAD ARRIVED IN THE OFFICE EARLY ONE DAY TO TAKE CARE OF PRESSING EDITORIAL MATTERS ONLY TO FIND WILL MORE AND THE ASSISTANT COPY EDITOR ENGAGED OF A BUSINESS OF QUITE A DIFFERENT SORT ON HER COUCH. |
| 00:06:22 | THAT MORNING WHEN BILL BUCKLEY HAD JUST SETTLED HIMSELF AS HIS TYPE WRITER HIS OFFICE DAR WAS FLUNGOPEN AND SUZANNE STORMED IN THUNDERING THERE WILL BE NO FORNICATION IN MY OFFICE. |
| 00:06:35 | [LAUGHTER] AND THE ASSISTANT COPY EDITOR WAS FIRED. |
| 00:06:38 | YOU GET A SENSE THAT THROUGHOUT THE YEARS THE PEOPLE IN THE KNOW UP THERE WOULD PROBABLY COME INTO THE ROOM WHERE THE MEMORIAL COUCH SAT AND GIVE IT A SIDELONG GLANCE AND SMILE. |
| 00:06:51 | RUMOR HAS IT THAT THE COUCH WAS ON LOAN IN THE 1990s TO THE CLINTON WHITE HOUSE. |
| 00:06:56 | I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S TRUE. |
| 00:06:59 | [LAUGHTER] THIS IS A WONDERFUL BOOK WRITTEN BY A WONDERFUL LADY WHOSE LED A REMARKABLE LIFE AND WRITES ABOUT THE EVENTS OF HER LIFE IN A TRULY ENGAGING AND DELIGHTFUL -- DELIGHTFUL WAY. |
| 00:07:13 | PLEASE JOIN ME IN CELLCOMING A GREAT CONSERVATIVE WHO'S SENT SPENT HER LIFE WORKING FOR OUR LIVES AND BELIEVES. |
| 00:07:21 | THE ATHER OF -- PRISCILLA BUCKLEY. |
| 00:07:32 | [APPLAUSE] >> GOOD AFTERNOON. |
| 00:07:34 | IT'S A GREAT PLEASURE TO BE HERE TODAY. |
| 00:07:37 | AND IT'S NOT GOING TO BE A VERY SERIOUS TALK. |
| 00:07:42 | [LAUGHTER] WHEN "NATIONAL REVIEW" CELEBRATED ITS 50th ANNIVERSARY HERE IN WASHINGTON LAST NOVEMBER, IT WAS AT A HUGE BANQUET AT THE NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM. |
| 00:07:54 | EARLIER THAT DAY, BILL BUCKLEY WAS GIVEN A WHITE HOUSE RECEPTION, AND HE AND HIS WIFE PAT HAD A PRIVATE LUNCH WITH PRESIDENT AND MRS. |
| 00:08:03 | BUSH. A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGAZINE EDITORS, THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS ORGANIZATION IN THE FIELD, GAVE BILL ITS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD. |
| 00:08:16 | THIS WAS A FAR CRY, INDEED, FROM "NATIONAL REVIEW"'S EARLY RECEPTION BY THE THEN LIBERAL INTEL JENSIA, THE PEOPLE GEORGE WALLACE CALLED THE POINTY HEADS. |
| 00:08:31 | BACK THEN IN THE MID-1950s CONSERVE T. |
| 00:08:35 | WAS CONSIDERED DEAD, DEAD AS THE ETSL. |
| 00:08:40 | LINM TRILLING PROVIDED AN OFF HAND OBITUARY OF IT WRITING THAT QUOTE IN THE UNITED STATES AT THIS TIME, LIBERALISM IS NOT ONLY THE DOMINANT BUT EVEN THE SOLE INTELLECTUAL TRADITION. |
| 00:08:53 | A DISMISSAL OF SUCH OLYMPIAN DIMENSIONS THAT THE NAME OF THE DECEASED AMERICAN CONSERVATISM WAS NOT MENTIONED SO IRRELEVANT THAT IT DID. |
| 00:09:05 | THE ESTABLISHMENTS "NATIONAL REVIEW" WAS TO IGNORE IT. |
| 00:09:08 | WITH ANY LUCK, IT WOULD FOUNDER BECAUSE AFTER ALL, THE FILL OSRAPHY WAS PREPOSTEROUS, BUT NR REFUSED TO GO AWAY. |
| 00:09:16 | IT WAS BECOMING AN ACTIVE ANOWANCE; THUS SIX MONTHSO SO AFTER ITS ARRIVAL ON THE SCENE IN NOVEMBER, 1955, THE LIBERALS ROLLED OUT THEIR BIG GUNS, A TRIPLE SELL VOE INTENDED TO BLAST THE INTELOPER OUT OF THE WATER. |
| 00:09:39 | BOOM WENT JOHN FISHER. |
| 00:09:41 | EDITOR OF HARPER'S LENGTHY AND PONDEROUS CRITIQUE. |
| 00:09:46 | BOOM, BOOM, FOLLOWED DWIGHT McDONALD ALL CONDESCENSION AND COMMENTARY. |
| 00:09:52 | BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, WENT MARY KEMPTEN, BRINGING THE 18 POUNDERS TO BEAR IN WHAT WAS INTENDED AS THE CUE DEGRAU. |
| 00:10:01 | THEY ALL CAME TO THE SAME CONCLUSION. |
| 00:10:04 | CAN CONSERVATIVE JOURNAL WAS NEEDED, BUT "NATIONAL REVIEW" WAS NOT IT. |
| 00:10:09 | EAR AS BILL SUMMED IT UP IN HIS REPLY, IN THE AUGUST 1, 1956 ISSUE OF NR, ALL THREE OF THE JURNLS HARPERS COMMENTARY, THE PROGRESSIVE, SEEMED TO REPRESENT THE MERE EXISTENCE OF "NATIONAL REVIEW", NOT UNDERSTANDING AS THEIR INTOLERANT OF DESCENT THERE IS NOTHING THEY WOULD WELCOME MORE THAN NOT GENUINE DESCENT BUT BECAUSE IT PAINS THEM TO BE BORED BY IT AND WHEN THEY ARE NOT BE BORED BY IT, THEY ARE BEING AFRAUNTED BY ITS VULGARITARIO APPALLED BY ITS INSOUCKYANCE AND DISPLAYED BY ITS IGNORANCE. |
| 00:10:48 | NOTHING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IS MORE ABSOLUTELY NEEDED THAN A REAL CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE BUT ALLAH LAS OURS IS NO SUCH THING AND THEY MUST ACCORDINGLY SCAN THE HEAVENS FOR IT. |
| 00:11:01 | BUT "NATIONAL REVIEW" STILL REFUSED TO GO AWAY OR TO BE INTIMIDATED. |
| 00:11:06 | IN YOUNG DAVID SLING THERE WAS A WEAPON THE LIBERAL ESTABLISHMENT AS ABESTABLISH WAS --MENT WAS INCAPABLE OF HANDLING OR DISMISING IT WAS IN A WORD "NATIONAL REVIEW"'S INPRP AT ANY TIME NNS ITS ABILITY TO HOLD UP TO RIDICAL MANY THINGS LEBBERALS HELD DEAR. |
| 00:11:27 | TO MAKE FUN OF SUBJECT AS THE PEACE MOVEMENT AND AS HAND MAIDEN DISARMAMENT. |
| 00:11:34 | WHEN A BREAK DOWN IN ANOTHER SERIES OF DISARMAMENT TALKS WAS REPORTED BILL ASSIGNED AN EDITORIAL ON IT OO A YOUNG STAFF MEMBER TIM WHEELER WHO CAME UP WITH THE FOLLOWING, QUOTE, DISARMAMENT TALKS RECESSED AT GENEVA AFTER SEVEN MONTHS OF FRUITLESS NEGOTIATIONS DISARMAMENTS IS FRULESS AFTER SEVEN TAUKS OF NEGOTIATE ASS DEARMED TO TALK LESS AND SEVEN FRUITS WERE RECESSED IN GENEVA AND EVERYBODY RENEWED HIS LEASE FOR JANUARY. |
| 00:12:08 | [LAUGHTER] WELL THE KENNEDY ADMINISTRATION TRIED TO PUT A GOOD FACE ON THE DETERURATINGINDO CHINA SITUATION, "NATIONAL REVIEW"'S COMMENTS COMMENT WAS, HAVING LOOKED AND LOOKED AND LOOKED FOR THE NEW FRONTIER WE FINALLY SPOTTED IT LAST WEEK WHEN THE NEGOTIATATORS FORGATHERED IN JEANINEA -- NEVA TO SEAL THE FATE, LAOS 500 MILES CLOSER THAN THE OLD FRONTIERS THESE PUT DOWNS BAFFLED THE LIBERAL KEEPLES AND WE YOUNG TURKS GIGGLED AT THIR DISARAMT "NATIONAL REVIEW" HAS OF COURSE RECEIVED THE ATTENTION IT DESERVES FOR ITS MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS. |
| 00:12:49 | IN PROVIDING THE INTELLECTUAL SCAFFOLDING FOR THE MODERN AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT THAT BROAD RONALD REAGAN TO THE WHITE HOUSE AND WITH HIM THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION AND THE END OF THE COLD WAR. |
| 00:13:03 | GEORGE GNASH WOET A -- WROUT WROTE A BOOK ITS EARLY YEARS AND SENIOR EDITOR PUBLIC THE MAKER OF THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MIND "NATIONAL REVIEW" AND ITS TIMES. |
| 00:13:18 | ISI HAS ALSO IN RECENT YEARS BROUGHT OUT TWO BIOGRAPHIES OF TWO OF THE MOST INFLULGS OF ITS EDITORS JAMES BURNHAM AND FRANKS. |
| 00:13:28 | MEYER ALL OF WHICH IS GOOD AND PROPER AND A WELL DESERVED EARNING TRIBUTE TO "NATIONAL REVIEW"'S SUCCESS BUT I'M MUSED ON IT SEEMED TO ME THAT SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT IN THE NR STORY WAS MISSING FROM THESE OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS AND THAT WAS THE SPIRITED NATURE OF THE EARLY ENTERPRISE, WHAT A ROLLER COASTER RIDE IT HAD BEEN. |
| 00:13:49 | WE WHO RAN NR BACK THEN WERE VERY YOUNG AND WERE WE EVER FULL OF BEANS. |
| 00:13:55 | WE RELISHED STICKING OUR THUMBS IN THE BIG DOMES IN THE ACADEMY. |
| 00:14:02 | THAT WE WERE HAVE AGWHALE OF A GOOD TIME HAD GONE UNREPORT IN THE OFFICIALISTRIES AND BIOGRAPHIES WHICH IS WHY IT OCCURS MOO TO ME AS A LONGTIME MANAGING EDITOR I SHOULD WRITE A BOOK ABOUT WHAT FUN IT WAS TO WORK AT "NATIONAL REVIEW". |
| 00:14:16 | IT WOULD INCLUDE HIJINKS AND JOKES TELL A BIT ABOUT THE CHARACTERS WHO TROUPE UNDER TO OUR QUARTERS ON EAST 35th STREET IN NEW YORK, THE ARTISTS, CARTOONISTS AND POET. |
| 00:14:30 | THE ODD BALL CONTRIBUTORS SWEET AND UNSWEET DISPOSITION. |
| 00:14:35 | THE STREAMS OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO DID TEDIOUS LIFTING THAT PUBLISHLISHING A BIWEEKLY MAGAZINE REQUIRES. |
| 00:14:42 | MANY OF THESE LATER WENT ON TO DISTINGUISH CAREERS. |
| 00:14:46 | GEORGE WHEEL, THE COLUMNEST AND PULILITIESER PRIZE WINNER, TONY DOLN, AND HEAD SPEECH WRITER FOR RONALD REAGAN, PETER RAURENSON WHO WROTE THE MR. |
| 00:15:00 | GARB CHOEFB TEAR DOWN THIS WALL SPEECH. |
| 00:15:04 | MONA SHERATON, PAUL, EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR OF THE "WALL STREET JOURNAL" DAVID BROOKS NIMS COLUMNIST AND MARK SHIELDS' SPARRING PARTNER. |
| 00:15:19 | RICHARD BROOK HUSBANDER THE DISTINGUISHED HISTORIAN OF FOUNDING FATHERS: WASHINGTON, HAMILTON, ADAMS AND MARLIN. |
| 00:15:27 | AND LONGTIME BALLET CRITIC FOR THE NEW YORKER THE LIST GOES ON AND ON. |
| 00:15:33 | BUT I WOULD ALSO TALK ABOUT THE MANY OTHERS LESS KNOWN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC WHO ATED A DASH OF TABASCO TO WHAT BECAME THE MAGAZINE'S TRADEMARK. |
| 00:15:44 | AS OFTEN IRREVERENT EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS MOST IMPORTANT AMONG THESE LATTER WERE BILL RICKEN BALKER CHRIS SIMMONS AND JOE SOEB RN. |
| 00:15:56 | BILL RICKEN BALKER WHO WROTE TWO WEEKS AFTER LBJ BECAME PRESIDENT, THE EDITORS OF "NATIONAL REVIEW" REGRETFULLY ANNOUNCE THAT THEIR PATIENCE WITH PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON IS EXHAUSTED. |
| 00:16:09 | [LAUGHTER] WHICH "TIME" MAGAZINE CHARACTERIZED AS THE IMPETUOSITY OF THE WEEK. |
| 00:16:14 | IT WAS JOE SOBURN WHO COMMENTED IN THE ISSUE CELEBRATING RONALD REAGAN'S ELECTION WITH THE ELECTION OF RONALD REAGAN, GNASH REVIEW ASSUMES A NEW IMPORTANCE IN AMERICAN LIFE. |
| 00:16:26 | WE'VE BECOME AS IT WERE AN ESTABLISHED ORGAN. |
| 00:16:29 | AND WE FEEL THAT ONLY APPROPRIATE TO ALTER OR DEMEANOR ACCORDINGLY. |
| 00:16:34 | THIS IS A THEREFORE THE LAST ISSUE IN WHICH WE SHALL INDULGE IN LEVITY. |
| 00:16:41 | CONNOISSEURS OF HUMOR WILL HAVE TO GET THEIR YUCKERS ELSEWHERE. |
| 00:16:45 | WE HAVE A NATION TO RUN. |
| 00:16:46 | THIS LAST SHOULD HAVE BEEN LABEL WOULD A J FOR JOKE BECAUSE A NUMBER OF MORE SOBER READERS TOOK IT SERIOUSLY. |
| 00:16:54 | [LAUGHTER] PERHAPS MY FAVORITE OF ALL PARAGRAPHS WAS TIM WHEELER'S LIGHTHEARTED COMMENT ON THE MOINT MT. |
| 00:17:06 | ST. HELLENS ERUPTION IN 1980 QUOTE, I'M SORRY I MADE AN ASH OF MYSELF. |
| 00:17:12 | LAWA -- LAVA COME BACK TO ME. |
| 00:17:15 | LOVE, HELEN. |
| 00:17:16 | I WOULD CALL MY BOOK LIVING IT UP WITH "NATIONAL REVIEW" SO THAT NO ONE WOULD CONFUSE IT BEA SERIOUS HISTORICAL WORK AND ADD TO THE TITLE THE WORDS A MEMWAR WHICH WOULD ALLOW ME TO INCLUDE IN IT A NUMBER OF NONMAGAZINE RELATED TRIPS AND ADVENTURES THAT HAD COME MY WAY IN THE SIX WEEKS VACATION I TOOK EVERY YEAR. |
| 00:17:39 | SOME OF THEM SUCH AS EXPLORING THE RUINS OF AN CORE WATT, FLOWING DOWN THE RIVER, LANDING THIS WAS LANDED IN THE MIDDLE OF SAULSBERING IN A HOT AIR BALLOON AND HUNTING IN MOZAMBIQUE MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT BILL'S SENSITIVITY AND DIPLOMACY IN MANAGING THE BRILLIANT BUT COMBUSTIBLE FOUNDING EDITORS OF "NATIONAL REVIEW" AND OF HIS OTHER PULEMICAL AND INTELLECTUAL SKILLS BUT IN MY OPINION HIS GENIUS AS EDITOR HAS BEEN UNDERRATED AS A MAJOR FACTOR IN THE SUCCESS OF THE ENTERPRISE. |
| 00:18:21 | IT WAS IN HIS ROLE AS EDITOR THAT I WORKED MOST CLOSELY WITH HIM AND COULD EVAULT HIS EFFECTFNESS. |
| 00:18:30 | WHAT WAS OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE TO HIM IN EDITING "NATIONAL REVIEW" WAS THAT THE WRITING BE DISTINGUISHED. |
| 00:18:36 | IT SEEMED TO HIM MORE IMPORTANT THAT A WRITER WRITE BEAUTIFUL PROSE THAN THET HE BE A MOVEMENT CONSERVATIVE. |
| 00:18:43 | INDEED SOME OF THE PEOPLE WE PUBLISH NEVER WERE CONSERVE CONSERVEATIVE. |
| 00:18:49 | YOUNG JOHN LEONARD LATER EDITOR OF THE SUNDAY "NEW YORK TIMES" BOOK REVIEW CERTAINLY WAS NOT AND IS NOT. |
| 00:18:56 | SOME STARTED OUT AS CONSERVATIVE OR PERHAPS NONIDEOLOGICAL AND ENDED UP AS LIBERALS GARY WELLS, JOAN DIDDIAN AND HER HUSBAND JOHN GREGORY DUNN AMONG THEM. |
| 00:19:08 | WHAT THEY HAD IN COMMON WERE ALL OF THEM WERE PRO-STYLIST AND NR PRAUCHTED FROM THEIR SKILLS AT LEAST FOR A WHILE. |
| 00:19:17 | FINALLY WHAT BILL HAD WAS THE COLONEL OF HIS EDITORIAL CONVICTIONS -- KURJS OF HIS EDITORIAL CONVICTIONS AND A SPARK THAT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE THE HIGHLY COMPETITIVE MAGAZINE WORLD. |
| 00:19:29 | HE DID ON ONE OCCASION WHEN HE THOUGHT IT IMPORTANT DEVOTE AN ENTIRE ISSUE OF THE MAGAZINE TO MICHAEL NOVAC'S REBUTTAL OF THE CATHOLIC'S BISHOP POLICY PAPE ORP JUST WAR. |
| 00:19:44 | HIS DIVISION TO WRITE HIS OWN SET OF PENTAGON PAPERS TO COUNTER THE DANIELELSBERG VERSION THAT "THE NEW YORK TIMES" AND "THE WASHINGTON POST" HAD SPLASHED ALL OVER THEIR FRONT PAGES TOOK COURAGE AND PANACHE. |
| 00:19:57 | THE IDEA CAME TO HIM AS HE TOLD AN ENRAGED PRESS -- WHEN BEN BAG DIGGIAN, EDITOR OF THE WAUPS "THE WASHINGTON POST" PROFESSED SHOCK,ER AND SERIOUS LACK OF PROFESSOR IN HIS PENTAGON PAPERS BILL BUCKLEY RESPONDED AMIABLY. |
| 00:20:20 | DR. MR. , IN AS MUCH AS YOU PUBLISHED 2000 WORDS FROM THE PAPERS WOULD YOU AGREE THE REPRINT FEE? |
| 00:20:28 | I WOULD SUGGEST $150. |
| 00:20:33 | [LAUGHTER] BILL'S PRECISION AS AN EDITOR LED TO ONE OF OUR MORE SUCCESSFUL CAPERS WHAT CAME TO BE CALLED THE SWISS EDITION. |
| 00:20:41 | BILL HAD JUST LEFT FOR HIS ANNUAL TWO WEEKS IN SWITZERLAND WHERE HE WROTE HIS ANNUAL BOOK, AND IN A HEADY MOMENT WE DECIDED TO CRAFT TWO PAGES OF EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS CONTAINING THOSE ELEMENTS THAT WOULD MAKE BILL THE EDITOR CURL UP INSIDE AND DIE. |
| 00:20:59 | A GRAMMATICAL IRER A STYLISTIC ABERRATION, TOO MANY EXCLUMMIMATION POINTS AIVAL GRISM, AN OVERWORKED CLISHAY, AN INEPT FOREIGN REVERENCE A TINGE OF COOKERY, A MENTION OF HIMSELF. |
| 00:21:15 | THE BOGUS PARAGRAPHS CHOSEN FROM ENTRY BY EVERY MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL STAFF WERE PASTE UNDER TO TWO COPIES OF THE ISSUE OF MARCH 15, 1974, BY ART DIRECTOR JIMMY ORIEN AND DISPATCHED. |
| 00:21:30 | A FEW DAYS LATER FRANCE SIS BRAWNSON BILL'S SECRETARY WAS ON THE WIREANE STATE OF SHOCK. |
| 00:21:37 | BETTER BRACE YOURSELVES SHE SAID. |
| 00:21:39 | SHE HAD -- A MEMORANDUM HAD COME IN FROM BILL LIKE NOTHING SHE HAD EVER SEEN. |
| 00:21:44 | IT WAS A -- THE PARAGRAPHS IN THE MARCH 15 ISSUE HE WROTE ARE TRULY APPALLING. |
| 00:21:53 | HOW COURSE TO REFER TO PROXMIRE'S HAIR REPLANT OPERATION. |
| 00:21:59 | [LAUGHTER] THE CONCLUDEING SENTENCE IS A RHETORICAL DISASTER WHY ON EARTH MAKE FUN OF JUSTICE DOUGLAS'S ARTIFICIAL HEART I WISH I COULD DESTROY EVERY COP OAF THF THIS ISSUE. |
| 00:22:13 | TO BRING SHAP QUITTIC ON THAT COMMENT OVER JOHN'S EXCITEMENT OVER A PRIZE FIGHT WHAT I THINK SHOULD BE BLUE PENCILED THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY MAGAZINE. |
| 00:22:24 | THE SEIZURE OF IN THIS SECTION IS QUITE IMPOSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND. |
| 00:22:29 | THE PARAENTHETICAL REMARK IS ON A LEVEL OF GOVERNOR MALCOLM WILSON NO RELATION TO HAROLD AND MAKES ME WEEP. |
| 00:22:37 | WHY THE EXCLAMMATION POINT? |
| 00:22:39 | BY THE WAY THE CUMULLIVE COUNT ON THIS PAGE IS NOW FIVE. |
| 00:22:44 | I'M VERY SAD. |
| 00:22:47 | [LAUGHTER] WE HAD SUCCEEDED BEYOND ALL EXPECTATIONS. |
| 00:22:51 | BUT WE WERE NOT ALTOGETHER PLEASED WITH OUR SELVE. |
| 00:22:54 | THE HURT HAD BEEN TOO DEEP, EVEN THOUGH BILL WAS ASSURED THAT HE AND ONLY HE HAD SEEN THOSE PARTICULAR PARAGRAPHS. |
| 00:23:04 | AL WHEN BILL CONSIDERED HE HAD BEEN TOO LONG OUT OF COLLEGE TO CONTINUE PIS ORIGINAL NR COLUMN CALLED THE IVY TOWER, HE CAME UP WITH AN INNOVATIVE IDEA FOR A COLUMN THAT WOULD BE NEW AND VERY DIFFERENT. |
| 00:23:19 | HE CALLED IT NOTES INSIDES WHAT IT WAS WAS AN ONGOING DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE EDITOR AND HIS READERS WITH NO SUBJECT OUT OF BOUNDS OR TOO -- TO BE CONSIDERED. |
| 00:23:32 | THIS GAVE THE READERS A LOOK NOT ONLY AT THE INNER WORKERS OF NR BUT ALSO A FEELING THAT THEY BY THEIR COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS WERE MAKE AGCONTRIBUTION TO THE ENTERPRISE ONE SUGGESTIONANE LETTER TO NOTES AND AICIDES RESULTED IN THE INSTITUTION OF A TWO-PAGE CARTOON SPREAD. |
| 00:23:52 | ANOTHER RESULTED IN AN NR'S ADOPTION OF THE SERIAL COMMA IN ITS STYLE BOOK YET ANOTHER BROUGHT THE TALENTED LINDA BRIDGES TO BILL'S ATTENTION AND SHE'S BEEN A MAIN STAY OF NR EVER SINCE. |
| 00:24:07 | NOTES AND AICIDES WAS MORE THAN JUST FUN AND GAMES, BUT FUN AND GAMES WERE WHAT GAVE IT ITS PIZAZZ. |
| 00:24:14 | FOR INSTANCE, VERY SHORLY AFTER JIM BUCKLEY WAS ELECTED TO THE SENATE, BILL BUCKLEY APPEARED THONROIN AND MARTIN LAUGHIAN SHOW ON TELEVISION. |
| 00:24:24 | EVERYONE BUT EVERYONE TUNED IN ON THE SHOW ON SATURDAY NIGHTS THOSE DAYS, INCLUDING A LAWYER IN BUFFALO NEW YORK. |
| 00:24:32 | HE WENT SCREAMING FROM HIS TV SET TO HIS TYPE WRITER AND WROTE A LETTER TO THE HONORABLE QUESTION MARK SENATOR JAMES L. |
| 00:24:41 | BUCKLEY. |
| 00:24:42 | WHICH WAS RECEIVED -- WHICH WAS RECORD ITS NOTES AND ASIDES TWO WEEKS LATER. |
| 00:24:47 | SIR, NOW THAT MY NAUSEA HAS SUBSIDED AFTER ACCIDENTLY OBSERVING YOUR APPEARANCE ON LAUGH IN LAST EVENING, AS AS ONE OF YOUR CONSTITUENTS AND FORMER ADMIRERS AM CONTRAINED TO COMMENT YOUR SILLY GRIN AS THE INNANE AND VULGAR QUESTIONS WERE ASKED DMO YOUR EQUALLY INNANE REPLIED WERE LESS THAN WORTHY OF THE SENATOR OF THE UNITED STATES. |
| 00:25:12 | THE FACT THAT YOU APPEARED ON THAT PROGRAM A ALL WAS AN INSULT TO THE DECENT PEOPLE WHOM YOU REPRESENT. |
| 00:25:19 | THE DISGUSTING EPISODE IN WHICH YOU FREELY PARTICIPATED AND APPARENTLY ENJOYED AS AN ACCOMPLICE IN LENDING YOUR POSITION TO A DISGRACEFUL PROGRAM IS AN AFFRONT TO THE DIGNITY OF THE SENATE, TO YOUR FAMILY, TO YOUR CHURCH, AND TO YOUR CONSTITUENCY. |
| 00:25:38 | I TRUST THAT YOU ARE ACTING THE CLOWN -- I TRUST THAT YOU'RE ACTING THE CLOWN. |
| 00:25:45 | ENSURE THE ADDICTS OF THE PROGRAM WHO UNDOUBTEDLY ENJOY ITS INDECENCY. |
| 00:25:51 | I TRUST TOO THEY ARE IN A MINORITY. |
| 00:25:54 | I AM. |
| 00:25:55 | JIM'S REPLY. |
| 00:25:56 | SYR, I HAVE FORWARDED YOUR LETTER TO MY BROTHER THE COLUMNIST WILLIAM F BUCKLEY, JR. |
| 00:26:03 | IT WAS HERE NOT I WHO APPEARED ON LAUGH IN. |
| 00:26:07 | I CANNOT HELP BY BUT CURIOUS WHY YOU CONSENTS TODAY WATCH A PROGRAM OF WHICH YOU SO STRONGLY DISAPPROVE SINCERELY JAMES L. |
| 00:26:16 | BUCKLEY FOLLOWED BY BILL'S CLARIFICATION TO THE LAWYER SIR IT IS TYPICAL OF MY BROTHER TO ATTEMPT TO DECEIVE HIS CONSTITUENTS [LAUGHTER] |
| 00:26:25 | IT WAS, OF COURSE, HE, NOT I, WHO APPEARED ON LAUGH IN. |
| 00:26:30 | JUST AS YOU SUSPECTED. |
| 00:26:32 | ON THE OTHER HAND YOU HAVE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. |
| 00:26:35 | THE GREATEST DECEPTION IS AS YET UBDISCOVERED IT WAS I NOT HE ELECTED TO THE SENATE. |
| 00:26:44 | [LAUGHTER] SO YOU SEE YOU HAVE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. |
| 00:26:48 | YOU ARE REPTEDED IN THE SENATE BY A RESPONSIBLE TRUEFUL MAN. |
| 00:26:53 | YOURS, WILLIAMF. |
| 00:26:58 | BUCKLEY. |
| 00:26:59 | IN ONE ISSUE IT MIGHT CONTAIN OUTRAGE SUCH AS THE ABOVE OR PERHAPS AN EVEN SHORTER AND SPICIER ATTACK. |
| 00:27:07 | DEAR MR. |
| 00:27:08 | BUCKLEY, YOUR SYNTAX IS HORRIBLE, ROY KELLY, ILLINOIS. |
| 00:27:13 | TO WHICH BILL REPLIED, DR. |
| 00:27:16 | MR. KELLY, IF YOU HAD MY SIN TAX, YOU'D BE RICH FRMENT WFB. |
| 00:27:21 | OR PERHAPS A BIT OF WUMIES THAT STRUCK OUR FRIEND AS HE PERUSED THE DAILY NEWS. |
| 00:27:28 | DEAR MR. |
| 00:27:29 | BUCKLEY, I SEE THAT THE SENATOR FROM SOUTH DAKOTA MADE A SPEECH IN A CHURCH. |
| 00:27:33 | DO YOU SUPPOSE WE COULD GET HUBERT HUMPHREY AND JACOB JABTS TO DEBATE IN A TEMPLE? |
| 00:27:41 | THAT WOULD BE A CASE OF A DEMAGOGUE AND A PEDAGOGUE HAVING A DIALOGUE IN A SYNAGOGUE. |
| 00:27:49 | OR BILL MIGHT USE NOTES AND ASIDES TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT AS HE DIDDANE LETTER TO SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE COLUMNIST. |
| 00:28:00 | CONHAD WRITTEN IT WAS TO PETER MARS'S LOVELY SAD EYE'S WIFE AUDRY THAT BILL BUCKLEY SAID WHAT IS THE SECRET BEHIND THOSE SAD EYES. |
| 00:28:10 | DEPARTING HASTILY WHEN AUTEDRY RELY SAID IT IS THE SADNESS OF A SOCIALIST LOOKING AT A FASCIST REPUBLICAN. |
| 00:28:18 | BILL'S REPLY, A, I HAVE NEVER LAID EYES ON MRS. |
| 00:28:24 | MOSS AS FAR AS I KNOW. |
| 00:28:25 | B, I HAVE SAID TO ANYONE WHAT IS THE SECRET BEHIND THOSE SAD EYES AND C, IF MRS. |
| 00:28:32 | MAUS OR ANYONE ELSE HAD PROFFERED SUCH AN EXPLANATION TO ME, HER TROUBLE WOULD NOT BE SAD EYES BUT BLACK AND BLUE EYES. |
| 00:28:40 | [LAUGHTER] A YOUNG BLOND AND AT THAT POINT ROLLY POLLEE CHRISTOPHER SIMANS JOINED THE STAFF IN 1967. |
| 00:28:49 | HE WAS AMAZINGLY VERSATILE, BRIGHT AND ARRESTING WRITER AND COMPETENT IN ALL SORTS OF FIELDS. |
| 00:28:56 | HE SOON TOOK CHARGE OF A NUMBER OF AN SLARY PRODUCTS INCLUDING WHAT BECAME A BURGEONING BUSINESS FOR NR, THE SAIL OF CUSTOM MADE POLITICAL BUTTONS COMMENTING ON EVERYTHING FROM SUPPORT FOR MIS CHAUMBY OF CUTONGO. |
| 00:29:16 | IN THIS CAPACITY IN NOTES AND AICIDES TO THE EDITOR FROM THE MINISTER OF BUTTONS OR ANTIMORATORIUM BUTTONS ARE THE BIGGEST HIT YET. |
| 00:29:26 | >> Guest: BIGGER EVEN THAN THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO HORSE WHIP DREW PEFRSON. |
| 00:29:31 | HE HAD SAID SOMETHING UGLY ABOUT. |
| 00:29:36 | OUR SHIPPAL DEPARTMENT MAILED OUT 4 ,757 BUTTONS SO FAR AND THEREDDERS CONTINUE TO COME IN. |
| 00:29:43 | SOME BUTTON BUYERS CAUSE TROUBLE BY ONE, WRITING MESSY UNDECIPHERABLE NAMES AND ADDRESSES AND TWO FORGETTING TO INCLUDE PAYMENT THESE MAKE LIFE DIFFICULT FOR THE SHIPPING DEPARTMENT WHO HAS CONSETED TO MARRY ME SO OF COURSE I WANT TO KEEP HER HEALTHY AND HAPPY. |
| 00:30:04 | IT'S ONLY NATURAL OR NOTE OR NOTES AND ASIDE MIGHT PROVE USEFUL IN LETTING ON THE TENSIONS FROM TIME TO TIME. |
| 00:30:13 | AS INDICATED IN AN ITEM THAT APPEAREDDANE SUMMAL ISSUE IN 1968 PRIOR TO THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. |
| 00:30:23 | THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO SEE A GENTLY MUTINOUS MEMRANDOM ADDRESSED TO HIS COLLEAGUES AND WRITTEN AFTER RECEIVING ONE MEMORANDUM FROM THE PUBLISHER CAREFULLY EXPLAINING WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN MIAMI FROM WILLIAM F. |
| 00:30:41 | RICKEN BOMBER DATED 7/15/62, 3, 30, 68, 5 THREE, 68, 531, 68, I OWE IT TO YOU TO MAKE MY POSITION IRREFRACABLY CLEAR. |
| 00:30:59 | IF ROCKEFELLER FAILS ON THE FIRST BALLOT, ROMNEY SQUARES WITH PURSY, AND NODERTY AND RUSSIA REMAIN ABOVE THE CONFLICT THEN McKINLEY IS A SHOE IN. |
| 00:31:11 | IF, HOWEVER, STATSON AND DEWEY ANNOUNCE FOR NIXON BEFORE THE THIRD BALLOT, CHRIST WHITE SWEARS OFF MARTINIS, MAHONY ARRIVE AT AN UNDERSTANDING WITH NIXON, AND ROCKEFELLER UNDERCUTS REAGAN'S EARLY STRENGTH BY DIVORCING HAPPY AND REMARRYING THE FORMER MS. |
| 00:31:31 | CLARK THEN IT SEEMS ENTIRELY POSSIBLE THAT THE CLAUDE CLERK OF FORD AND CHARLES PURSY OF ILLINOIS WILL BE THE IMMEDIATE BUT BY NO MEANS FINAL BENEFICIARIES. |
| 00:31:43 | THERE REMAINS A POSSIBILITY OF PREMATURE COMBINATION BETWEEN A ROCKEFELLER, NIXON, ROMNEY, SCRANTON, LINDY, AND SPINOSEA TO THWART THE RAPIDLY EXPANDING PRESIDENTIAL AMBITIONS IN THIS EVENT QLED LOOK FORWARD TO A BROKERED CONVENTION. |
| 00:32:03 | [LAUGHTER] WHAT FUN WE HAD, WHILE NEVER FORGETTING OUR GOAL. |
| 00:32:07 | TO MAKE CONSERVATISM INTELLECTUALLY ACCEPTABLE, TO RID IT OF ALL TAINT OF IRRATIONAL PRESDOUS OF RACEM AND ANTI-SEMITISM TO DEPLORE FANATICISM THAT LED LIBERALS IN THE WESTERN WORLD TO EMBRACE COMMUNISM AND THE UTOPIANISM THAT SOLD THEM ON SOCIALISM. |
| 00:32:33 | -- ABERRATIONS WHETHER THE CONSBERACY THEORIES OF THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY OR AN RAND'S PAEANS TO A GODLESS DOLLAR WORSHIPPING SOCIETY WE WERE FOR A WHOLESOME SOCIETY IN THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE TRADITION AND OUR HEROES WERE BIG HEARTED MEN OF THE WEST BARRY GAULEDWATER AND RONALD REAGAN. |
| 00:32:57 | THOELED LIBERAL PUNDITS SCANNING THE HEFB FRNS A GENUINE CONSERVATIVE MALG SWREN ALL THOSE MANY YEARS AGO NEVER RECOGNIZED THE GENUINE ARTICLE WHEN IT CAME MARCHING DOWN THE PIKE BUT HERE WE ARE 50 YEARS LATER LUNCHING AT THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION AT A MEETING SPONSORED BY THE CLAR BOTH LUIS INSTITUTE. |
| 00:33:22 | IN A CITY THAT -- A WEEKLY CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE, AND -- BILL MIGHT SAY, A POWERFUL NATIONAL CONSERVATIVE CABLE NEWS NETWORK. |
| 00:33:33 | THE TOTE BOARD AFTER THE LAST COUPLE OF ELECTIONS TELLS US ONE MORE THING. |
| 00:33:39 | TODAY 50 YEARS LATER, THERE ARE A LOT FEWER OF THEM, THE LIBERALS AND A LOT MORE OF US, AND HELPING TO BRING ALL THIS ABILITY WAS A BLAST. |
| 00:33:50 | THANK YOU. |
| 00:33:54 | [APPLAUSE] ANY QUESTIONS? |
| 00:33:59 | >>> WE'RE SO HAPPY YOU WROTE THIS HISTORY. |
| 00:34:01 | WHAT A FUN HISTORY IT IS. |
| 00:34:03 | >> THANK YOU. AND MS. |
| 00:34:04 | BUCKLEY HAS AGREED TO ANSWER A FEW QUESTIONS DO WE HAVE A MIKE HERE? |
| 00:34:11 | OH, GOOD. |
| 00:34:12 | OKAY. |
| 00:34:13 | I'LL LET YOU CALL ON PEOPLE IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND GIVE YUGOSLAVIA NAME AND UFLGDS. |
| 00:34:22 | AFFILIATION. |
| 00:34:23 | >> GO AHEAD,. |
| 00:34:25 | >> WELL SHE'S GOING TO TAKE THE MIKE TO ANYBODY WHO HAS A QUESTION. |
| 00:34:28 | >> OH, I SEE, OKAY. |
| 00:34:31 | >> LET ME ASK ONE. |
| 00:34:33 | >> OKAY. |
| 00:34:34 | >> CLARE BOOTH LUCE, IN ALL THOSE YEARS AT "NATIONAL REVIEW", YOU HAD FUN TIMES I KNOW WITH HER. |
| 00:34:40 | WOULD YOU TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT MRS. |
| 00:34:43 | LUIS? |
| 00:34:45 | >> YEAH, SHE AS A MATTER OF FACT, BILL HAS A WONDERFUL STORY ABOUT ONE TIME GOING TO HAVE DINNER WITH CLARE AND HARRY LUCE AND FINDING HIM EDHIS ARTICLE. |
| 00:35:06 | THEY WANTED TO GIVE IT THE RIGHT GLOSS SHE CAME TO US AND WANTED TO WRITE FOR US AND THE FIRST PIECE SHE WROTE FOR US WAS ABOUT MRS. |
| 00:35:17 | NEW IN VIETNAM AND SHE CALLED IT THE LADY'S NOT FOR BURNING THE DRAGON LAID ZPE IT WAS A WONDERFUL PIECE UNFORTUNATELY IT CAME JUST ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE DAYS BEFORE THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION WHICH FOLLOWED NEWS ASSASSINATIONS. |
| 00:35:34 | BUT SHE WAS VERY VERY KIND TO US AND VERY HELPFUL AND SHE WROTE FOR US A GREAT DEAL AND JUST TELL YOU ANOTHER LITTAL STORY. |
| 00:35:45 | I ONCE VISITED THE -- PATRICIA BALDERAGE IN ROAM WHEN C LARE WAS THE AMBASSADOR THERE AND I GOT THIS WONDERFUL INVITTITATION GOLD EMBOSSESED IT WAS THE THE AMBASSADOR AND MRS. |
| 00:36:05 | LUCE INVITED YOU -- AND IT WAS A RECEPTION FOR FOUR CARDINALS WE WERE ALL THERE AND THE CARDINALS WERE ALL THERE AND SHE CAME IN JUST A MINUTE LATE AND SHE WAS DRESSED IN THE MOST BUM -- BEAUTIFUL CREAM LACE GOWN. |
| 00:36:22 | VERY SIMPLE, BUT IT HAD A CRIMSON CARDINAL SASH AND CRIMSON SLIPPERS. |
| 00:36:28 | [LAUGHTER] SHE MADE THE EVENING: ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? |
| 00:36:46 | >> MY NAME IS AIR CUI'M WITH THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION. |
| 00:36:50 | AND I STILL FIND THAT AS A CONSERVATIVE WOMAN I'M ALWAYS EXPECTED TO BE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF POLITICS JUST AS A WOMAN IN GENERAL EVEN THOUGH THE MOVEMENT HAS GROWN SO MUCH AND WE HAVE LUNCHEONS LIKE THIS WHICH ARE WONDERFUL BUT I WOULDN'T WHAT IT WAS LIKE WHEN YOU BEGAN YEARS AGO AS A WOMAN AND A CONSERVATIVE PARTICULARLY YOUR EXPERIENCES AS A WOMAN ESPECIALLY AS A MANAGING EDITOR AND I WOULD IMAGINE YOU DIDN'T HAVE TOO MANY FEMALE MAIL COLLEAGUES AT THAT POINT SOSHGS SNE NO, I DID NOT. |
| 00:37:24 | I ALWAYS THOUGHT OF IN A STRANGE SITUATION THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT BECAUSE ONE OF MY DEAREST FRIEND AT SMITH COLLEGE WAS BETTY FORDAN. |
| 00:37:35 | SHE WAS THE EDITOR OF THE PAPER AND I WAS WORKING ON THE COLLEGE NEWSPAPER. |
| 00:37:42 | AND IN FACT, WHEN BETTY SET UP THE MEETING TO ESTABLISH THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN, SHE PHONED ME AND ASKED ME IF I WOULD LIKE TO BE ONE OF THE FOUNDING MOTHERS AND I SAID, BETTY, TELL ME ONE THE -- ONE THING, IS THE MAIN THING THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT ABORTION AND SHE SAID YES, AND I SAID I'M NOT GOING TO BE A FOUNDING MOTHER. |
| 00:38:06 | BUT [LAUGHTER] I WAS VERY SYMPATHETWALK BETTY WAS WHEN I STARTED WORKING WITH IN DURING THE WAR, THE SECOND WORLD WAR, THINGS WERE SO ANT TI-WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE THAT FOR INSTANCE IF I HAD GONE TO NEW YORK CITY STRAIGHT FROM SMITH COLLEGE AND GONE TO TIME, LIFE, AND FORTUNE LOOKING FOR A JOB AND MY BROTHER JIM HAD GONE AT THE SAME TIME LOOKING FOR A JOB, I COULD'VE APPLIED FOR A JOB AS A RESEARCHER, AND JIM COULD'VE APPLIED FOR A JOB AS A WRITER BUT NO WOMAN WOULD HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED FOR THAT DAY AS RESEARCHER SO THINGS WERE -- WERE VERY DIFFERENT SO I -- I WAS MORE SYMPATHETIC TO FEMINISM UNTIL THEY WENT CRAZY WHICH THEY DID AND BUT -- YOUR POINT IS OF COURSE IF YOU'RE A WOMAN THEY THINK YOU MUST BE PRO-ABORTION AND PRO--- EQUAL PAY FOR THE KIND OF JOB ANDLIFE OTHOSE OTHER THINGS. |
| 00:39:13 | AND OF COURSE I THINK MOST WOMEN ARE NOT. |
| 00:39:16 | ESPECIALLY NOW THAT THEY FOUND THAT BEING A CAREER WOMAN AND A MOTHER IS NOT ALL THAT EASY TO DO. |
| 00:39:31 | >> MY NAME ISIVA SELLERS AND I'M HERE WITH HUMAN EVENTS AND I JUST HAVE A QUESTION I'M WONDERING WHO DO YOU SEE AS LEADERS OF THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT TODAY WITHIN THE POLITICAL REALM, EITHER IN OFFICE OR OUT? |
| 00:39:46 | >> OH, GEE. |
| 00:39:49 | [LAUGHTER] I DON'T KNOW. |
| 00:39:51 | I CAN'T -- WELL, YOU HAVE THE COLUMNISTS AND THE WRITERS. |
| 00:40:00 | BUT I CAN'T THINK IN POLITICS OF ANYONE THAT I PARTICULARLY ADMIRE. |
| 00:40:05 | [LAUGHTER] CERTAINLY NOT NANCY PELOSI. |
| 00:40:10 | THAT'S AN INTERESTING QUESTION. |
| 00:40:14 | CAN ANYONE ELSE HAVE A -- [LAUGHTER] |
| 00:40:16 | HAVE A SUGGESTION? |
| 00:40:20 | >> I THINK THE KIND OF WORK THAT THIS FOUNDATION IS DOING IS WONDERFUL TO -- TO PRODUCE THE KIND OF WOMAN -- AS A MATTER OF FACT LIEU EASE, ALL OF HIS -- OLIVER'S MOTHER IS THE KIND OF WOMEN I WOULD LIKE TO SEE SERIOUS IN POLITICS SHE IS NOW THE AMBASSADOR TO UNESCO IN PARIS AND SHE'S DONE THAT ALL ON HER OWN OF BEING JUST TERRIFIC. |
| 00:40:44 | BUT SHE'S THE KIND OF WOMAN I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN POLITICS. |
| 00:40:49 | >> ANYONE ELSE? |
| 00:41:00 | AL. |
| 00:41:01 | >> GLORIA VAN CO I'VE RETIRED FROM FOUNDATION HERITAGE AND I JUST THOUGHT YOU WOULD KNOW THIS, WE HAVE SUBSCRIBE TO "NATIONAL REVIEW", YOU KNOW, PROBABLY INITIALLY, AND 15 YEARS OUTSIDE OF THE PHILADELPHIA AREA, WE NEVER RECEIVED AN ISSUE THAT DIDN'T HAVE THE COVER TORN. |
| 00:41:22 | >> NO [LAUGHTER] >> I THINK THEY WERE TRYING TO SEND US A MESSAGE. |
| 00:41:25 | >> GOOD HEAVENS. |
| 00:41:33 | >> WELL, WE WANT TO THANK YOU SO MUCH. |
| 00:41:41 | [APPLAUSE] I WANT TO GIVE YOU A COPY OF OUR CLARE BOOTH LUCE POLICY INSTITUTE COFFEE MUG WITH HER FAMOUS SAYING NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED AND THIS IS A COLLECTION OF SPEECHES OF OTHER LADIES THAT HAVE SMOKEN HERE AT THE CONSERVE FFB WOMEN'S NETWORK EDITED BY YOUR SISTER. |
| 00:41:59 | >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. |
| 00:42:01 | >> I'M HAPPY FOR YOU. |
| 00:42:04 | >> FROM THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION, ED FULLNER SO WANTED TO BE WITH US TODAY AND HE'S AT A NEW YORK SPEAKING ON HIS NEW BOOK GETTING AMERICA RIGHT BUT HE WANTED US TO BE SURE TO PRESENT THIS INSCRIBE COPY AND WE'RE PRESENTING IT WITH HIS ADMIRATION AND AFFECTION SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. |
| 00:42:21 | >> HE'S A LOVELY GUY. |
| 00:42:23 | HE'S WONDERFUL GUY. |
| 00:42:24 | >> THANKS AGAIN FOR JOINING US. |
| 00:44:10 | [APPLAUSE] >> PRES |
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