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...Twelve gurus of the right, editors and officials of conservative groups headed by National Review Editor William F. Buckley Jr., expressed their "personal admiration" and "affection" for Nixon, then said: "In consideration of this record, we, who have heretofore generally supported the Nixon Administration, have resolved to suspend our support of the Administration...
...House in 1968 -for a cocktail party last week. They included John Tower of Texas, Paul Fannin of Arizona, Robert Dole of Kansas. They met for an hour, exchanged cordial remarks and received presidential gifts. The same day, Nixon held another meeting, this one with New York Senator James Buckley. Neither would discuss the details of the meeting, but the President more than likely sought to answer affirmatively the question Brother Bill had posed about him in a recent magazine article...
...interview with TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo last week, Senator Buckley noted some pluses in Nixon's conservative ledger, especially his Supreme Court nominations. But there is disenchantment: "A rush to embrace China without counting the cost to the United States has created too high expectations here. A full-employment-budget type of thinking removes the discipline of red ink and black ink." The political alternatives open to dissident conservatives, according to Buckley: "They can stay home. They will not go out and win new votes through their enthusiasm. This is very important, because it is the conservatives who hustle...
...strongest arguments against the rescue was made by New York Senator James Buckley, a conservative Republican. Said he: "If the inefficient or mismanaged firm is insulated from the free-market pressures that other business firms must face, the result will be that scarce economic and human resources will be squandered on enterprises whose activities do not meet the standards imposed by the marketplace...
None of these remarks furnished any sensible explanation of what Buckley was trying to prove. The National Review, with a 111,425 circulation and chronically losing money, has long been useful as a generally urbane and articulate exponent of conservative views, a field in which it has all too little competition. But its reputation will hardly be enhanced by last week's strange exercise, which in the end looked like little more than an elaborate schoolboy prank...