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Mar 26, 2008 · Source: The New Republic. In the last years of his life, William F. Buckley Jr., who died on February 27 at the age of 82, broke with many of his fellow conservatives by pronouncing the Iraq war a failure and calling for an end to the embargo on Cuba. He even expressed doubt as to whether George W. Bush is really a conservative--and he asked ...
William Francis Buckley (May 30, 1928 – June 3, 1985) was a United States Army officer in the United States Army Special Forces, and a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) station chief in Beirut from 1984 [1] until his kidnapping and execution in 1985. Buckley's cover was as a political officer at the U.S. Embassy.
Feb 28, 2008 · He was born in New York City on Nov. 24, 1925, the sixth of 10 children of William Frank Buckley Sr., known as Will, and Aloise Steiner. His father, an oilman, saw to it that the Buckley children ...
Jun 27, 2023 · William Frank Buckley Sr. (July 11, 1881 – October 5, 1958) was an American lawyer and oil developer. He became influential in Mexican politics during the military dictatorship of Victoriano Huerta but was later expelled when Álvaro Obregón became president.
William Frank Buckley Jr. was the preeminent voice of American conservatism in the latter half of the twentieth century. He was born in 1925 in New York City, the son of Josephine Steiner and William F. Buckley Sr., an oil developer and lawyer. In 1944, Buckley Jr. graduated from U.S. Army Officer Candidate School and was commissioned a second ...
Nov 26, 2014 · William Frank Buckley, Jr., was born on Nov. 24, 1925 in New York City, the sixth of 10 children. His father, William Frank Buckley, Sr., was a Texas-born Irish-Catholic oil baron. His mother, Aloise Steiner Buckley, was a native of New Orleans. They wanted to name the baby after his father but the priest insisted on a saint’s name.
Feb 27, 2008 · Feb. 27, 2008 9:07 AM PT. Los Angeles Times Staff Writer. William F. Buckley Jr., the columnist, novelist, talk show host and tireless intellectual who founded the modern conservative movement and ...
