Word: kilpatrick
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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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...
...share the Nixon-Agnew philosophy," says Kilpatrick, "but I don't sit on anybody's lap. I've opposed the President on lots of issues." Neither Nixon nor Agnew seems to mind Kilpatrick's opposition: the President has invited him to dinner and Sunday prayers and the Vice President once treated him to a lunch, "where we just yakked. He also made polite noises about my writing...
Harpies and Furies. The writing punches or pets with equal effectiveness. When the House of Representatives voted to approve a women's rights amendment to the Constitution, Kilpatrick screamed: "Gadzooks! Zounds! Horsefeathers! What in the world came over the House? This constitutional time bomb is the contrivance of a gang of professional harpies. The 346 who voted for this resolution, give or take a handful, had but one purpose in mind: to get these furies off their backs...
...President's use of FBI men on campuses, Kilpatrick declared on television: "I think oppression is needed. The more oppression the better. It is high time we cut down on the bums that are blowing up the campuses, as Mr. Nixon described them." On other issues, his approval is reluctant. "We wish Carswell towered, and he doesn't," he sighed. "But he is the President's choice, and if I were a Republican on the floor instead of a Whig in the gallery, I would, a little sadly, vote 'Aye.' " Kilpatrick calls himself a Whig...
Such situations arise from Kilpatrick's childhood. "I was brought up a white boy in Oklahoma City in the 1920s and 1930s. I accepted segregation as a way of life. But I've come a long way. Very few of us, I suspect, would like to have our passions and profundities at age 28 thrust in our faces at 50." After he became editor of the Richmond News Leader (he was 30), Kilpatrick became an effective spokesman for Southern conservatism. His editorials were rousing pieces that got him denounced at least once in almost every General Assembly. Says...