I used to watch Firing Line as a child. I'm sure this was partly due to my interest in what he and his panel had to say and partly as a result to my mother's regulations on watching PBS on the weekend so that no cooking show went unwatched. I watches as my Yan Can Cook as I did Mr. Buckley in all candor.
This quote from a Wall Street Journal article quite amused me and highlighted his rapier wit.
Throughout, Buckley was rarely angry or grim. A famous debate in 1978 with the Gipper on the Panama Canal included the following exchange: Reagan: "Well, Bill, my first question is why haven't you already rushed across the room here to tell me that you've seen the light?" Buckley: "I'm afraid that if I came any closer to you the force of my illumination would blind you."
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