Word: jims
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...When Jim goes to Washington...
...years for our dear Jim...
...shorthand rhetoric of a campaign, the judgments are often buttressed by soundly reasoned arguments. Even on campuses, his personality won attention for ideas that were anathema. He holds doors open for strangers and carries suitcases for traveling companions. His brother, the contemporary conservative Voltaire, is high on him: "Jim's mild mannered, much less abrasive than I. And he has the happy faculty for not antagonizing people ever." Though his tone is less acerbic than William's, James' wit is an effective weapon. Describing deposed Senator Charles Goodell's switch from conservatism to liberal anti-Nixonism...
...there were more than 70 of them. The pupil later had his own smaller, but equally renowned zoo at Yale: one boa constrictor. Buckley has made two trips to the Arctic on scientific expeditions, and once considered becoming an ornithologist. On that, Brother William reverts to form: "Jim used to get up at 4 in the morning, when he was at Yale, to bird watch. Always struck me as ludicrous...
...wife appeared on the campaign trail only at its end, and shared in his satisfying moment of victory. A private person, she could not have taken much comfort from a friend's comment: "I have the strange feeling we've seen Jim as a private person for the last time...