William F. Buckley Jr. Dies at 82:
The erudite Ivy Leaguer and conservative herald who showered huge and scornful words on liberalism as he observed, abetted and cheered on the right’s post-World War II rise from the fringes to the White House, died Wednesday. He was 82.
“For people of my generation, Bill Buckley was pretty much the first intelligent, witty, well-educated conservative one saw on television,” fellow conservative William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, said at the time the show ended. “He legitimized conservatism as an intellectual movement and therefore as a political movement.” https://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8V2PN3O0&show_article=1
Bill Buckley Made It Okay to Be a Conservative By Robert Knight:
https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200802/COM20080227i.html
William F. Buckley, Jr., R.I.P.:
When Buckley started National Review — in 1955, at the age of 29 — it was not at all obvious that anti-Communists, traditionalists, constitutionalists, and enthusiasts for free markets would all be able to take shelter under the same tent. Nor was it obvious that all of these groups, even gathered together, would be able to prevail over what seemed at the time to be an inexorable collectivist tide. Before he was a conservative, Buckley was devoted to his family and his Church
https://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OTVlMTE4MDk3NTAyNjAwMzM4NWM5NTI2ZDg4ODVlMTM=
Conservative Author Buckley Dies at 82:
As an editor, columnist, novelist, debater and host of the TV talk show “Firing Line,” Buckley worked at a daunting pace, taking as little as 20 minutes to write a column for his magazine, National Review.
https://www.townhall.com/news/us/2008/02/27/conservative_author_buckley_dies_at_82
Rush Limbaugh: Buckley Was My Greatest Inspiration:
America’s No. 1 radio talk show host and most influential conservative Rush Limbaugh eulogized Bill Buckley — who died Wednesday — as his greatest inspiration and one of the “formulative forces” in his world view.
https://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/Rush_Limbaugh_Buckley/2008/02/27/76077.html