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...there were not a William F. Buckley, U.S. editors would have to invent a James Jackson Kilpatrick. The need for a columnist and commentator with a conservative view and a gift for language has never been more apparent than in these Nixon-Agnew days; Kilpatrick fills that need for 170 newspapers via the Washington Star Syndicate and for Washington's WTOP...
...struck, we marched, we picketed until our feet almost fell off. And what did we have to show for it? Four kids lying shot apart at Kent State. Then this fall, some of us worked for people like Ottinger or Goodell, and what did we get for that? James Buckley and more war, that's what. So now, I just don't think people really think there's anything that can be done...
...course, about to embrace the Democratic liberals or make a willy-nilly alliance with the G.O.P. left. For the sake of both appearances and tactics, the President must hold his right flank. Among the first politicians he saw after the election were leaders of Senator-elect James Buckley's New York Conservative Party. Last week Spiro Agnew was still refighting the campaign, arguing that the only mistake was that "we undersold our message...
...introducing the master of ceremonies of the evening not once but twice as "Al Clap." Cartoonist Capp ignored that, launching into a brief monologue that included the evening's best one-liners: "Who would ever have thought you could elect a conservative from New York [Senator-elect James Buckley]? It used to be that you only admitted to being a conservative to your rabbi or priest or family doctor. Now it is legal to practice conservatism between consenting adults...
...race for the Senate, Democrat Richard Ottinger, backed primarily by his mother, spent $3,500,000; Republican Charles Goodell, who found himself cut off from some of the party's biggest contributors, invested $1,000,000. Conservative James Buckley, the first third-party Senator elected in 30 years, spent $1,500,000. Three unsuccessful contenders for the Democratic nomination increased the campaign inflation by $234,000, bringing the total spent in the Senate race to over...