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Entry: William F. Buckley Jr. as I Knew Him Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/william_f_buckley_as_i_knew_him#18257 Post contents: For those of us disappointed with WFB’s political positions over the past decade and more, news of his death is doubly mixed with regret and nostalgia, with thoughts of what might have been. It always struck me that Taki’s friend WFB really lost his interest in politics decades ago. I’ve read that WFB was detached even during Reagan’s administration, which would prove to be the high point of anything remotely “conservative.” Thus one has to wonder what WFB would make of the prospect that he really outlived the conservative movement, which will likely be declared defunct this very year (and has in fact been nonexistent for some time previous). And considering the collapse of the dollar, the growing economic chaos and the foreign policy debacle that the Bush administration has been, it is possible that WFB will not have pre-deceased his country by long either. Sent at: 2008 08 08