Best known as the publisher of National Review, the Conservative periodical, but also is a syndicated political columnist.
One of 10 children of Aloise Josephine Antonia (Steiner) and William Frank Buckley, Sr. His father was born in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to parents from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, who were both of Irish descent. His mother was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, of German, Swiss-German, and Irish ancestry.
Brother of James Buckley , the U.S. senator from New York, who represented the Conservative Party.
Often imitated by Robin Williams.
Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 133, pp. 120-128. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
Father of author Christopher Buckley.
Served as godfather for three of friend E. Howard Hunt s children. Also served as executor of the estate of Hunts wife, Dorothy Wetzel Hunt, after she perished in a mysterious plane crash near Chicago in December 1972
Responding to Edward R. Murrow s public attacks on him, Joseph McCarthy challenged Morrow to debate Buckley about Communists within the U.S. Government. Morrow refused.
Served in the CIA as a Political Action Officer.
Uncle of Brent Bozell. He and Bozell father, L. Brent Bozell Jr., were roommates at Yale and his wife, Patricia Taylor, and his sister (and Bozells mother), Patricia Buckley, were roommates at Vassar.
(May 2009) Release of the book, "Losing Mum and Pop: A Memoir" by Christopher Buckley.
Liberals are people who will believe anything. . . twice.
Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation,because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize,the nation because the people are so rich.
The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to,say anything less that that they are god-awful. They are so,unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically,insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as the crowned,heads of anti-music.
The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute,hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of,marijuana makes no sense.
I should sooner live in a society governed by the first 2,000 names in,the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the 2,000,faculty members of Harvard University.
I would rather be governed by the first three hundred names in the Boston telephone book than by the Faculty of Harvard University.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
