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Abrams, Elliott, 274, 300, 310 Ashburn, Frank, 23 Acheson, Dean, 40, 45 Ashton, Michael, 273 Actors Theatre of Louisville, 268–269 Atwater, Lee, 264, 265 Agnew, Judy, 296 Auden, W. H., 53, 58 Agnew, Spiro T., 127–129, 135–136, 145, 150–155, 188, 192, 227; NR Babcock, Catherine, 60 supporters of, 150–155, 295–296; Baker, Howard, 201, 209, 213 Senate bust of, 295 Bakshian, Aram, Jr., 152, 166, 226, 228, Alexander, Lamar, 294, 304–305 234 Alexandra, Empress, 180 Baldwin, Chris, 231 Alito, Samuel, 325 Barnes, Fred, 307 Allen, Henry, 219 Barnett, Frank, 164 Allen, Richard V., 207, 231–232, 258 Bartley, Robert L., 128, 198 Allen, Steve, 61, 96 Batchelor, C. D., 40 Allison, Wick, 261–262, 269, 270, 271, Batista, Fulgencia, 63–64 274, 298 Bauer, Gary, 295 Allott, Gordon, 151 Bayh, Birch, 222 Almond, Mark, 274 Bay of Pigs, 69, 70 America First, 13, 310 Beame, Abraham, 92, 93, 96 American Conservative Union, 138, 153, Becker, Gary, 245 164, 263 Begin, Menachem, 236 American EnterpriseCOPYRIGHTED Institute, 164 Beichman, MATERIAL Arnold, 44, 254 American Mercury, 24, 28, 29, 41 Bell, Bernard Iddings, 28 American Spectator, 198 Bell, Daniel, 110 Amiel, Barbara, 274 Bell, Jeffrey, 138 Anderson, John, 213, 214, 215, 221, 306 Belloc, Hilaire, 44, 119 Andropov, Yuri, 246 Bennett, William, 253, 279, 310 Angleton, James Jesus, 293 Berger, Brigitte, 310 Arkes, Hadley, 274, 300 Berger, Peter, 310 Arlington House, 126–127 Bergin, Thomas, 15 Armstrong, Bill, 293 Berkeley. See University of California Ashbrook, John, 138–139, 174 Berlin airlift, 25

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Berliner, Harold, 312 291, 301; resignation as NR Berlin Wall, 69, 268; Reagan’s response managing editor, 260; on Firing to, 208, 258–259, 267 Line, 301–302; on Iran-Contra, 255 Bernstein, Leonard, 118 Brookhiser, Robert, 197 Berra, Yogi, 107 Brooks, Cleanth, 28, 40 Berrigan, Daniel, 119 Brooks, David, 198, 237 Berrigan, Philip, 119 Brown, Edmund G. (Pat), 64, 103–104 Bethell, Tom, 300 Brudnoy, David, 58 Biden, Joe, 264, 265 Brunauer, Esther, 30, 31 Bing, Rudolf, 74 Bryan, Joseph, III, 36 Birch, John. See John Birch Society Buchanan, James M., 199 Bishop, Maurice, 235 Buchanan, Patrick J., 127, 128, 134–135, Bitburg cemetery, 249–251 160, 161, 200, 228, 270, 271, Blackmun, Harry, 126, 149 278–280, 293, 294, 305, 306, Black Panthers, 78, 109, 111, 117, 118 310–312 Blair, Tony, 311, 313 Buckley, Aloïse (Allie) (sister), 8, 10, 11, Blunt, Anthony, 252 12, 13, 30, 31, 41, 88, 90 Bohemian Grove, 130, 308–309 Buckley, Aloïse Steiner (mother), 7–13, Bond, Ward, 34 30, 37, 55–56, 72, 87, 144, Boorstin, Daniel, 136 242–243 Booth, Julian, 99 Buckley, Ann Cooley (sister-in-law), 31, Borch, Fred, 136 242 Boren, David, 256 Buckley, Ann Harding (sister-in-law), 31, Bork, Robert H., 255, 256 88 Botton, Raymond de, 98, 148 Buckley, Caitlin (granddaughter), 266, Bouchex, Jeanne (Mademoiselle), 9, 10 304 Bozell, L. Brent, Jr., 16, 19, 29–32, 40, Buckley, Carol (sister), 11, 12, 139, 157 42, 44, 48, 50, 58, 69, 74, 76, 102, Buckley, Christopher Taylor (son), 1, 33, 113, 143, 234; Carlism and, 78, 34, 61, 97, 98, 101, 118, 131, 139, 122–123; Goldwater and, 64, 71, 144, 178, 325; birth of, 24, 30; 76, 77; personal problems of, 123; career of, 208–209, 216, 227, 251, on Warren Court, 78, 123 252, 303–304; marriage and family Bozell, L. Brent III, 300 of, 241, 242, 266, 304; sailing and, Bozell, Michael, 293 173, 174, 304; WFB’s relationship Bozell, Patricia (Trish) Buckley. See with, 265–266, 273, 303; works of: Buckley, Patricia (Trish) Florence of Arabia, 304; Steaming Bradford, M. E., 253 to Bamboola, 227; Thank You for Bradley Foundation, 302 Smoking, 304; The White House Mess, Bramwell, Austin, 1 252 Bratton, William, 299 Buckley, Claude (nephew), 326 Brezhnev, Leonid, 69, 179, 181, 232, 246 Buckley, Claude (uncle), 6–7 Brezhnev, Viktoria, 247 Buckley, Conor (grandson), 304 Brezhnev Doctrine, 120, 236, 267 Buckley, Edmund (uncle), 6–7 Bricker Amendment, 52 Buckley, Elizabeth (niece), 55 Bridges, Linda, 121, 133, 181, 197, 202, Buckley, Elizabeth Howell (Betsey) 211, 219–220, 226, 249, 269, 273, (sister-in-law), 31, 55, 78 274, 276, 299, 302, 323 Buckley, F. Reid (brother), 10, 11, 14, Brimelow, Peter, 274, 300 28, 31, 55, 78, 129, 303, 326 Bronson, Frances, 1, 121, 156–157, 158, Buckley, F. Reid, Jr. (Jobie) (nephew), 55 168, 169, 176, 179, 212, 269, 323 Buckley, James L. (Jim) (brother), 8–9, Brookhiser, Richard, 197, 202, 220, 221, 10, 11, 12, 13, 31, 91, 94, 178, 227, 235, 240, 248–249, 273, 274, 212, 220, 226, 242, 255, 324; bindex.qxd 2/20/07 4:46 PM Page 345

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Senate and, 128–130, 135, 138, 326–327; critics of, 23, 26, 237, 158–159, 176, 195 297; dogs and, 139–140; early Buckley, Jane (sister), 9, 10, 11, 12, career of, 19, 22–23, 24, 29–30, 34; 16–17, 31, 100, 148, 180, 269, 285 editorial management style of, 249, Buckley, John W. (brother), 8, 9, 10, 11, 272, 273, 309; eightieth birthday of, 12, 13, 14, 31, 196, 242, 243, 312 272, 273, 322–326, 328; e-mail Buckley, John (grandfather), 5–6 and, 265–266, 324; eye problem of, Buckley, John (uncle), 6 149; family background of, 5–13; on Buckley, John Alois (nephew), 243 father’s death, 56; few people Buckley, Lee (niece), 312 despised by, 14; on Ford’s debate Buckley, Lucy Gregg (daughter-in-law), gaffe, 192; friends’ deaths and, 98, 241, 242 312–313; friendship and, 14, 15–16, Buckley, Mary Ann (sister), 9, 88 304; homes of, 24, 97–100, 132; on Buckley, Mary Ann Langford Iraq war, 326–327; language and, (grandmother), 5–6 9–10, 101, 128, 157–158; lecture Buckley, Maureen (sister), 9, 11, 39, 44, circuit and, 60–62, 131, 172, 173, 49, 50, 59, 77, 87–88, 325 277, 302, 327; lifestyle of, 237; Buckley, Patricia Taylor (Pat) (wife), 1, literary autobiography of, 2, 73, 98, 11, 22, 24, 31, 32, 61, 77, 97, 98, 303–304, 313–316; mannerisms of, 135, 139, 140, 144, 149, 208, 227, 130; marijuana views of, 146–147; 247, 251, 265, 269, 292, 303, 324; marriage of, 20–21, 30; McCarthy charity events and, 131; fashion and, and, 19, 29, 30, 31–32; Messiah 131, 148; hip replacements of, Party of, 45, 99; mother’s death 241–242; marriage and family of, and, 242–243; motorscooter of, 97, 20–21, 30; personality of, 20, 100, 131–132; musical interests of, 2, 10, 242; sailing and, 172, 173–174, 45, 98, 99, 269, 308, 315; New 217, 259–260; social life of, 45, York mayoral bid of, 91–95, 96, 98–99, 100–101, 225, 281 104, 127, 135; Nixon obituary by, Buckley, Patricia (Trish) (sister), 9, 10, 11, 283–284; as novelist, 168, 175–176, 12, 16, 19, 30, 31, 42, 78, 122, 143 181–185, 243–244, 292–293, Buckley, Priscilla (aunt), 6 320–322; NYC police speech by, Buckley, Priscilla L. (sister), 8, 10, 11, 12, 90–91; on Panama Canal treaty, 31, 44, 72, 76, 77, 87, 88, 100, 199–202; personal traits of, 50, 130, 130, 143, 148, 166, 168, 197, 202, 131, 211, 244, 284–285, 309, 218–221, 231, 233, 235, 243, 260, 315–316, 323–324; popular culture 264, 269, 274, 285, 325; memoir and, 107, 130; retirement and, 2–3, by, 137; at NR, 2, 49, 50, 52–54, 260, 271–272, 277–278, 301, 302, 56, 57, 59, 62, 92, 108, 109, 308–309; routine of, 131–134; 132–134, 141–142, 156–158, sailing and, 44, 108–109, 131, 170–173, 177, 179, 202, 247–249, 172–174, 208, 211–212, 215–217, 256, 323; at UPI, 19, 33–34 259–260, 266, 278, 284, 284–285, Buckley, Tasa (sister-in-law), 243 308, 309, 316, 323; schooling of, Buckley, William F., Jr.: accomplishments 10, 11, 13; SEC battle with, of, 327–329; on anti-Semitism, 195–196; Sixties clarity of, 115–21, 16–17, 41, 250–251, 270–271; 124; skiing and, 44, 61, 99, 101, awards to, 130, 183, 278, 302, 303; 280–81, 282, 285, 308; social circle bêtes noires of, 157–158; birth of, 9; of, 44–45, 98–99, 100–101, Catholic policies and, 78, 106; 277–278; Swiss writing retreat of, celebrity status of, 95, 97, 130–131; 61, 79, 95, 99–101, 131, 147, CIA post of, 19, 22–23; on Cold 168–169, 173, 277, 280–281, 292; War’s end, 276–277; as conservative, syndicated column of, 2, 74, 79, 3, 5, 26, 65, 75, 85–86, 197, 322, 131–133, 172, 236, 277; television bindex.qxd 2/20/07 4:46 PM Page 346

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and (see Firing Line); as UN Bukovsky, Vladimir, 177, 299 delegate, 155–156, 226; Vidal run- Bumpers, Dale, 300–301 ins with, 73, 96, 111–113; Bundy, McGeorge, 70 Watergate and, 147–148, 150; Bunker, Ellsworth, 200 World War II service of, 13–14; Yale Burger, Warren, 126 and, 13, 14–18, 20–21; works of: Burgess, Guy, 251 Airborne, 173, 174, 216; Atlantic Burke, Edmund, 27, 41, 122, 197, 312 High, 216, 325; Brothers No More, Burnham, James, 19, 35–37, 58, 59, 73, 69, 292–293; The Committee and 74, 82, 137, 138, 145, 159, 160, Its Critics (ed.), 73; Cruising Speed, 171, 191, 200, 226; as former 130–131, 183, 196, 237; Elvis in the Trotskyist, 28, 33, 35–36, 42, 43, Morning, 293; Four Reforms, 149; 179, 254; health problems/death The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 2, 69, of, 202–203, 260; NR and, 40, 267, 276, 309; Getting It Right, 46–54, 62, 64, 65, 69, 108, 132, 293; God and Man at Yale, 5, 22, 146, 158, 172; Pentagon Papers 23–24, 26, 32, 79, 230, 315; High spoof and, 141; Presidential Medal Jinx, 242, 251–252; “In Search of of Freedom to, 233; on Vietnam Anti-Semitism,” 270; Last Call for War, 107, 125–126; on Watergate, Blackford Oakes, 2, 30, 181, 309, 147 312, 320–322; Let Us Talk of Many Burnham, James B., 141 Things, 74, 98, 269, 302; Marco Burnham, Marcia, 35, 36–37, 178, 203, Polo, If You Can, 244; McCarthy 233 and His Enemies (with Bozell), 29, Burnham, Philip, 40 30–31, 32, 79, 315; Miles Gone By, Bush, Barbara, 291 2, 73, 98, 303–304, 309, 313–316, Bush, George H. W., 15, 103, 209, 327–328; Nearer, My God, 293; 227, 241, 252, 264–265, 267, Nuremberg: The Reckoning, 13, 293; 268, 269–270, 286, 291–292, On the Firing Line, 258, 268; 312, 320; conservatives’ view of, Overdrive, 237, 296; The Redhunter, 274–276, 278–280; Reagan debate 15, 31–32, 293; Rumbles Left and with, 213–215; Reagan funeral and, Right (collection), 73, 74; Saving 313 the Queen, 15, 22, 100–101, Bush, George W., 161n, 280, 286, 305, 182–183, 226, 244, 321; See You 306, 316, 318–319; conservatives’ Later Alligator, 69, 243–244, view of, 307–310, 311, 312, 320, 321; Spytime, 293; Stained Glass, 324–325, 326, 327 183–185, 244, 268–269, 321; The Story of Henri Tod, 69; Tucker’s Caddy, Douglas, 72 Last Stand, 292; United Nations Calhoun, Robert, 17 Journal, 156; The Unmaking of a Callaghan, James, 204, 208, 210 Mayor, 94, 95, 132; Up from Campbell, Roy, 40 Liberalism, 61–62, 79, 89, 104; Camp David Accords, 204 A Very Private Plot, 257–258, 292, Capano, Edward A., 1, 179, 298, 324 320; Will Mrs. Major Go to Hell? Capano, Margaret Ann, 179 (ed.), 88; WindFall, 265, 284–285 Carlism, 78, 122–123 Buckley, William Frank (Will) (father), Carlson, Allan, 310 6–14, 16, 17, 20–22, 30, 37, 39, Carr, Patricia, 108 52, 55–56, 88, 203, 211, 243, 244, Carranza, Venustiano, 8 271, 323 Carroll, Lewis, 302 Buckley, William Huntting (Hunt) Carson, Johnny, 182 (nephew), 55 Carter, Amy, 219 BuckPAC, 231 Carter, Jimmy, 167, 186, 188, 190–193, Bukharin, Nikolai, 142n 195, 199, 206, 210–211, 215, 221, bindex.qxd 2/20/07 4:46 PM Page 347

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222, 239, 252, 257, 291, 310; Coffin, William Sloane, 118–119 presidential problems of, 203–205, Cohen, Eliot, 274 217–219, 223 Colbert, Claudette, 225 Carville, James, 280 Conant, James B., 17 Casey, William, 37, 214, 226, 232 Connally, John, 151, 152, 186, 213 Castro, Fidel, 64, 73, 187 Conquest, Robert, 199 Catawba, 39, 44, 63, 196 Conservative Caucus, 211 Catholic Eye (periodical), 150 Conservative Party. See New York CBS News, 318 Conservative Party Chafee, John, 256–257 Constantine, King, 100, 227 Chamberlain, John, 22, 27, 28, 29, 34, Constitutional Enterprises Corporation, 1 40, 42, 51, 254 Contract with America, 286–290 Chamberlin, William Henry, 27, 28–29, Contras, 232, 255 40 Cooney, Tom, 131 Chambers, Whittaker, 19, 28, 29, 42, 46, Coors, Joseph, 164 65, 254, 282; NR and, 33, 34, 53, Copley, Gregory R., 269, 308 67, 132; Presidential Medal of Cornuelle, Richard, 102 Freedom to, 237–238; WFB essay Countryman, Vern, 32 on, 73, 315 Cowan, Richard, 146–147 Charen, Mona, 198, 300 Coyne, John R., Jr., 121, 136–137, 145, Charter 77, 224 152, 153–154, 160, 166, 186, 188, Cheney, Dick, 286, 316, 319 197, 276; The Kumquat Statement, Cheney, Mary, 319 115–116, 136 Cherne, Leo, 96 Crane, Phil, 209, 213, 214, 215 Chernenko, Konstantin, 246–247 Croce, Arlene, 122 Chetwynd, Lionel, 300 Crocker, George N., 73 Chiang Kai-shek, 19 Crosby, Bing, 34 Chodorov, Frank, 21, 27, 42 Crosby, John, 62 Chomsky, Noam, 105 Crozier, Brian, 203, 236 Chou En-lai, 69, 142 C-SPAN, 270 Church, Frank, 190, 222 Cuban Missile Crisis, 69, 240 Churchill, Winston, 25, 301 Cuban Revolution, 63–64 CIA, 19, 22–23, 35, 36, 37, 45–46, 70, Curtis, Lewis, 17 179, 190, 226, 293; novels’ portrayals of, 181–84, 244 D’Amato, Al, 299 Civil Rights Act of 1964, 83, 89 Danforth, John, 313 Clarity, James F., 156 Darman, Richard, 275, 276, 278, 279 Clark, Eugene, 143–144 Dartmouth Review, 230–231, 322 Clark, Wesley, 317 Dartmouth University, 122, 198, Clark, William P., 231–232 230–231 Clay, Lucius D., 25 Davenport, Guy, 57–58 Cleaver, Eldridge, 109, 117 Davenport, John, 27 Clinton, Bill, 279–280, 286, 291, Davis, Forrest, 29, 71 293–298, 319; immoral behavior of, Dawson, Bob, 2 300–301, 306, 307; political skills Day, Robin, 16 of, 279, 288–290, 294 Dean, Howard, 316–317 Clinton, Hillary, 295, 296–298, 300 Decter, Midge, 164, 310 Clurman, Richard M., 216, 284–285 Demjanjuk, John, 270 Coard, Bernard, 235 Democratic National Convention (1968), Coase, Ronald, 245 111, 112, 119 Cobb, Georgia, 87 Democratic National Headquarters Coffin, Henry Sloane, 23 break-in (1972), 145–146 bindex.qxd 2/20/07 4:46 PM Page 348

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Denton, Jeremiah, 222 Falwell, Jerry, 210 Derso, Alois, 40 Fanon, Frantz, 110 Devlin, Barbara, 256 Farmer, James, 96 Díaz, Porfirio, 7, 8 Fasciani, Henry, 180 Didion, Joan, 58 Faubus, Orval, 62 Dixiecrats, 25 Faulk, John Henry, 96 Dizard, John, 274 FBI, 119, 226–227 Dodd, Christopher, 166 Felker, Clay, 208, 209 Dodds, Harold, 17 Fence Club, 15, 16–17 Doenitz, Karl, 143 Ferguson, Andrew, 307 Dohrn, Bernardine, 109 Ferman, Irving, 73 Dolan, Terry, 163, 211 Feulner, Edwin J., Jr., 102, 164, 227, 303 Dolan, Tony, 163, 226, 228, 234, 258 Fino, Paul, 127 Dole, Bob, 209, 213, 264, 294–295, 304 Finucane, John, 216 Donahue, Francis, 15, 119 Finucane, Kathleen Taylor (Bill), 121, Dos Passos, John, 40 173–174, 216 Doubleday, 168, 176 Firing Line (TV program), 14, 16, 105, Douglas, William O., 149 113–115, 117, 118, 131, 132, 136, Doyle, Liz, 220 142n, 172, 174, 176, 199–201, Draper, William H., III, 326 208, 211, 236, 259, 277, 290, 325, D’Souza, Dinesh, 231 327; Emmy award to, 130; ending Dubcek, Alexander, 120 of, 301–302, 308; launching of, Dukakis, Michael, 264–265 95–97, 103 Dulles, Allen, 26, 45, 184–185 Fischer, John, 43 Dulles, John Foster, 26, 45, 48, 64 Fisher, John, 164 Dunbar, Will, 198 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 122 Dunn, Mike, 153 Fleming, Thomas, 310 du Pont, Pete, 264, 279 Flynn, Rose Caniano, 52 Fontaine, Roger, 200 East, John, 222 Forbes, Malcolm S., 303 Eastland, James, 76 Forbes, Steve, 293, 294, 305 Eastman, Max, 28, 41–42 Forbes FYI (later ForbesLife), 1, 303, 304 Edison, Thomas A., 283 Ford, Gerald, 154, 161, 165–168, 169, Edwards, John, 316, 317, 319 186–192, 204, 206–207, 209, 215, Edwards, Lee, 72, 286, 287, 288, 289, 223, 291 290, 307–308, 309 Fortas, Abe, 126 Ehrlichman, John, 127, 146, 162 Foster, LeBaron R., 102 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 17, 25–26, Frank, Anne, 252 45–47, 67–70, 286; conservatives’ Franke, David, 72 view of, 46, 47, 64, 65, 71 Freeman (periodical), 24, 28, 29, 32–33, Eliot, T. S., 122 34, 35, 39, 40, 42 Ellis, Gary, 17 Freeman, Neal B., 94, 95 Ellsberg, Daniel, 140 Friedman, Milton (economist), 27, 102, Elmlark, Harry, 74 246, 312 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 291 Friedman, Milton (speechwriter), 167 Engler, John, 293, 299 Frost, David, 167 Epstein, Joseph, 317–318 Frum, David, 311–312, 313 Ervin, Sam, 147, 200 Frye, David, 130, 301 Evans, Harold, 259 Evans, Medford S., 71, 72 Gairy, Eric, 235 Evans, M. Stanton (Stan), 72, 73, 254, Galbraith, Catherine A. (Kitty), 100, 324 174 bindex.qxd 2/20/07 4:46 PM Page 349

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Galbraith, Evan G. (Van), 1, 172, 216, Gregg, Lucy. See Buckley, Lucy Gregg 226, 244, 257, 269, 285, 299 Gregg, Margaret, 241 Galbraith, John Kenneth, 14, 99–100, Grenada invasion, 235, 236, 270 302, 312 Griswold v. Connecticut, 149 Galbraith, Marie Hélène (Bootsie), 269 Grunwald, Henry, 312 Gallagher, Maggie, 198, 249, 300 Gstaad, atmosphere of, 99–101, Gallico, Paul, 324 280–281 Garvey, Jerry, 131–132, 139–140, 237 Guinzberg, Thomas H., 16–17, 95 Gaulle, Charles de, 67, 135 Gulf War, 269–270, 275, 278–280 Gavin, William, 127, 162 Gunning, Rosemary, 93, 94 Gelernter, David, 299 Genn, Roman, 296, 298, 317 Habsburg, Otto von, 44 Gephardt, Richard, 264, 316 Haldeman, H. R., 127, 135, 146, 162 Gergen, David, 160–161 Hall, Fawn, 255 Germino, Dante, 199 Hanighen, Frank, 28–29 Gifford, Marjorie Otis. See Otis, Marjorie Hannaford, Peter, 208, 258 Gigot, Paul, 198, 231 Hannah, Norman B., 204 Gilder, George, 244 Harcourt (publisher), 2, 309 Gillespie, Ed, 317 Harlan, John Marshall, 81 Gingrich, Newt, 276, 285–290, 294, Harper, Fowler, 32 325 Harrigan, Anthony, 138 Ginsberg, Allen, 96, 301 Harriman, Averell, 246 Glasser, Ira, 15 Harriman, Pamela, 246 Glazer, Nathan, 94 Hart, Ben, 231 Gleason, Jackie, 93 Hart, Gary, 166, 264 Goebbels, Joseph, 143 Hart, Jeffrey, 58, 122, 125, 132, 146, Goeglein, Timothy S., 324 150–151, 162, 171, 178, 179, 198, Goering, Hermann, 143 230, 231, 235, 249, 253 Gold, Vic, 128 Harvard Krokodiloes, 326 Goldwater, Barry M., 3, 60, 64, 67, 82, Havemeyer, Loomis, 15 97, 115, 123, 178, 218, 290, 305; Hawkins, Jack, 70 Conscience of a Conservative, 71, 83; Hayakawa, S. I., 110, 117, 153 as Mr. Conservative, 76; Nixon Hayden, Tom, 89 resignation and, 159, 160; Hayek, F. A., 26–27, 46, 123, 199, 246 presidential campaign of, 72, 75–77, Haynsworth, Clement, 126 82–88, 101–103, 113, 138, 163, Hazelton, Harold, 180 188, 241 Hazelton, Nika, 180 Goodell, Charles, 128, 129 Hazlitt, Henry, 27, 28, 246 Goodman, John, 286 Hearst, William Randolph, Jr., 141 Goodnough, Robert, 98, 237 Heath, Aloïse Buckley. See Buckley, Aloïse Gorbachev, Mikhail, 176, 247, 250, 257, (Allie) 258, 267, 276, 290, 313, 320 Heath, Edward (Ted), 204, 224, 229 Gorbachev, Raisa, 247 Heath, Benjamin W., 13, 14, 30, 31 Gore, Al, 264, 280, 296–298, 306–307, Heflin, Howell, 256 308 Heller, Joseph, 303 Gore, Tipper, 306 Helms, Jesse, 151, 188, 189, 213 Gramm, Phil, 293 Helsinki Accords, 205, 227 Green, Mark, 301 Hemingway, Ernest, 122, 281 Greene, Graham, 182, 321–322 Herberg, Will, 122, 254 Greenfield, Jeff, 80–81 Heritage Foundation, 102, 164, 227, Gregg, Donald, 241 229, 298, 302, 303; Policy Review, Gregg, Hugh, 213, 214 198, 261, 287 bindex.qxd 2/20/07 4:46 PM Page 350

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Herschensohn, Bruce, 300 Jackson, Jesse, 264, 265 Hess, Karl, 40, 42, 73, 123, 310 Jackson, Henry M. (Scoop), 151, 190 Hess, Rudolf, 143 Jaffa, Harry V., 83–84, 197, 253 Heston, Charlton, 247, 300 Jastrow, Robert, 233 Himmelfarb, Gertrude, 310 Javits, Jacob, 73 Hiss, Alger, 19, 46, 73, 238 Jefferson, Thomas, 291 Hitler, Adolf, 62, 252, 271, 290, 297 John XXIII, Pope, 78 Hobbs, Charles D., 169 John Birch Society, 71, 74–75, 123, 134, Ho Chi Minh, 64, 107 135, 293 Hoffman, Ross, 243–244 John Paul I, Pope, 205, 206 Hofstadter, Richard, 110 John Paul II, Pope, 206, 225, 277 Hollings, Fritz, 256 Johnson, Lyndon B., 74, 83, 85, 86–87, Hollywood, 33–34, 41, 161n, 175, 104, 107, 120, 126, 167, 186, 228–229, 300 223–224, 241 Holshauser, James, 188–189 Johnson, Paul, 254 Honecker, Erich, 267, 268 Johnson, Samuel, 122 Hook, Sidney, 35, 36 Jones, John, 138 Hoover, Herbert, 199 Jones, Paula, 300 Hoover, J. Edgar, 109 Jones, Sam M., 40, 46, 234 Hoover Institution, 199, 245 Joyce, James, 122 Horne, Alistair, 13, 61, 101, 249, 324 Juan Carlos, King, 100 Horne, Renira, 61 Judd, Walter, 71 Horton, Rosamond (Reggie), 39 Judis, John, 16, 20 House Committee on Un-American Jutzeler, Anita. See Matti, Anita Activities, 60, 73, 97 Huang, John, 296, 301 Karmal, Babrak, 225 Hubbell, Webster, 301 Kasten, Robert, 222 Huerta, Victoriano, 7–8 Keating, Barbara, 163–164 Hughes, Charles Evans, 149–150 Keats, John, 202 Huie, William Bradford, 28, 29 Keene, David, 153 Humphrey, Hubert H., 107, 145, 190 Kefauver, Estes, 25 Hungarian revolt, 47–48, 50, 120, 261, Kelling, George, 299 276 Kelly, Grace, 183 Hunt, E. Howard, 19, 36, 148 Kemp, Jack, 209, 228, 245, 247, 264, Hunt, Jim, 189 279 Hussein, Saddam, 269–270, 275, 308, Kempner, Nan, 281 309, 311, 312, 326 Kempton, Murray, 43, 105 Hyde, Henry, 166 Kendall, Willmoore, 19, 21–22, 26, 35, 40, 42, 53, 54, 63, 69, 73, 78–79, Independence Party, 174–175 113, 203, 230, 260, 269; Ingraham, Laura, 231 descriptions of, 58–59; WFB’s Intercollegiate Society of characterization of, 315 Individualists/Intercollegiate Studies Kennan, George, 24–25 Institute, 27, 71, 101–102, 164, Kennedy, Edward M., 100, 190, 214, 198, 230, 302 217, 256, 317 Iran-Contra, 255, 256, 300 Kennedy, John F., 70, 74, 82, 83, Iranian hostage crisis, 193, 204–205, 107–109, 120, 162, 240 215–216, 217, 223 Kennedy, Robert F., 105, 107–109, 117, Iraq war, 308, 309–310, 318, 320, 120, 149, 162 325–327; conservative opponents of, Kenner, Hugh, 79, 120–121, 162–163, 270, 271, 309, 311–312, 326. See 216, 312 also Gulf War Kenny, Herbert A., 312 bindex.qxd 2/20/07 4:46 PM Page 351

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Kenyon, Dorothy, 238 Leary, Timothy, 96 Kerr, Clark, 80, 105 Leggett, Anthony, 216 Kerry, John, 316, 317–318 Lejeune, Anthony, 224 Kesler, Charles, 197–198 Lenin, V. I., 36, 137, 180 Keyes, Alan, 293–294, 305 Lenkowsky, Leslie, 230 KGB, 181, 182, 184, 246 Leo, John, 197 Khachigian, Ken, 161, 228 Leonard, John, 53–54 Khalifa al-Thani, Hamad bin, 269 Lerner, Max, 221 Khomeini, Ruhollah, 204, 255 Lerner, Michael, 111 Khrushchev, Nikita, 63, 64, 67, 68–69, LeRoy, Dan, 322 70, 73, 176, 246, 291 Levin, Bernard, 176 Khrushchev, Nina, 247 Levison, Stanley, 81–82 Kilpatrick, James Jackson (Kilpo), 81, libertarians, 13, 35, 41, 42, 58, 123, 146, 107–108, 145, 178, 197, 324 249, 310, 328; classical vs. radical, Kimball, Roger, 324 26–29 King, Florence, 274 Liberty Federation, 210 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 81–82, 107, Liberty radio stations, 232 109, 120–121 Lieberman, Joseph, 231, 306–307, 319 King, Nicholas, 171 Liebman, Marvin, 72, 73, 77, 123, 139, Kinsley, Michael, 211, 301 180 Kirk, Russell, 26, 27–28, 40–43, 46, 58, Limbaugh, Rush, 97, 325 80, 102, 103, 108, 198; parody of, Lincoln, Abraham, 104, 253, 283 178; on Welch, 71, 75 Lindbergh, Charles, 13 Kirkpatrick, Jeane, 145, 264 Lindsay, David, 91, 93 Kissinger, Henry, 14, 126, 137, 165, Lindsay, John, 91, 92, 95, 96, 135 171, 188, 246, 257, 277–278, 283, Lipsett, Don, 101–102 315, 324 Little, Christopher, 216 Kissinger, Nancy, 277–278, 326, 328 Liuzzo, Viola, 90 Knowland, William, 46, 64, 103 Lodge, Henry Cabot, 25, 46, 70 Koestler, Arthur, 254 Lodge, John Davis, 103 Kohl, Helmut, 229–230, 249, 250 Lowry, Rich, 296, 298–299, 301, 302 Kolomytseva, Luba, 296 Luce, Clare Boothe, 70, 97, 99, 233, Kravchenko, Viktor, 252 247, 283, 302 Kreuttner, John, 40 Luce, Henry, 29 Kristol, William, 198n, 301, 310 Lüchow’s, 39 Kristol, Irving, 136, 164, 310 Lunn, Sir Arnold, 284, 285 Kudlow, Larry, 274 Lynch, Kevin, 157, 171, 202, 248–249 Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Erik von, 30, 44, 48, Lynd, Staughton, 96 134, 197 Lyons, Eugene, 42 Kunen, James Simon, 115 MacArthur, Douglas, 25, 45 Laffer, Arthur, 228, 244–245 Macaulay, Thomas Babbington, 290–291 Laffer Curve, 244–245 Macdonald, Dwight, 32, 36, 43; La Follette, Robert, 35 “Scrambled Eggheads,” 58 La Follette, Suzanne, 28, 35, 42, 49, Machel, Samora, 225 53–54, 59 Mackenzie, Ross, 73 Lamb, Brian, 301 Maclean, Donald, 251 Laugh-In (TV program), 130, 134, 301, Macmillan, Harold, 249 325 Macomber, John D., 17 Leahy, Patrick, 166 Maddox, Lester, 174 Learsy, Carol Buckley. See Buckley, Carol Madero, Francisco, 7 Learsy, Raymond J., 139–140 Maguire, Russell, 29, 41 bindex.qxd 2/20/07 4:46 PM Page 352

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Mahoney, J. Daniel, 72–73, 92, 94, 135, Meyer, Elsie B., 32, 56, 57, 77, 157, 138 170–171, 202, 203, 284 Mailer, Norman, 160 Meyer, Frank S., 32, 40, 42, 43, 50, 53, Malcolm, Noel, 274 69, 73, 74, 77, 91, 102, 113, 119, Mano, D. Keith, 178, 180 122, 123, 132, 145, 254, 260, 274; Mano, Jo, 180 Catholic conversion of, 143–144, Mansfield, Mike, 147 170, 284; eccentricities of, 56–58; Manzi, Jim, 180 on Nixon policies, 137–138 Mao Tse-tung, 19, 64, 69, 143 Meyer, Eugene B., 144, 170, 171 Marani, Vicki, 170–171, 179, 198, 256 Meyer, John, 170 Marcuse, Herbert, 105, 110 Michel, Bob, 286–287 Margolis, Jack, 162–163 Micklethwait, John, 263, 288, 289, Marine barracks bombing (Beirut), 236 306 Markey, Hugh, 93 Miers, Harriet, 324–325 Marshall, George, 29, 71 Milione, E. Victor, 102, 230 Marshall Plan, 25 Milliken, Roger, 71 Martin, David, 176–177 Milosz, Czeslaw, 252 Martin, Malachi, 206, 234 Miner, Brad, 274, 295, 299 Mason, Robert, 135 Mises, Ludwig von, 26–27, 246 Masur, Kurt, 268 Mitchell, Jonathan, 40, 49 Matsu, 64 Mondale, Walter, 239–241, 292 Matthews, Herbert, 73 Moore, Roger, 262, 280, 281 Matti, Anita, 101, 285 Moore, Roger Allan, 262 Matti, Peter, 101 Moral Majority, 210 Mattingly, Mack, 222 Morley, Felix, 28–29 Mayagüez affair, 192 Moro, Aldo, 204 Mayer, Robert, 130 Mortimer’s, 227 McCaffrey, Neil, 138 Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 94, 156, 195 McCain, John (senator), 305 Muggeridge, Malcolm, 176 McCain, John (admiral), 200 Murdoch, Rupert, 90, 261 McCarthy, Eugene, 107, 186, 305, 316 Murrow, Edward R., 31 McCarthy, Joseph, 5, 19, 29, 30, 31–32, Muskie, Edmund, 83, 145, 190 33, 36, 40, 43, 46, 60, 62, 96, 105, 238, 245, 293 Nabokov, Dmitri, 244 McCartney, Dorothy, 257, 269, 273 Nabokov, Vera, 244 McCloskey, Paul, 138 Nabokov, Vladimir, 9–10, 79, 244 McDonald, Forrest, 199 Nader, Ralph, 280 McFadden, James P., 44, 52, 54, 63, 73, Nagy, Imre, 120 77, 108, 132, 133, 134, 150, 179, Nash, George H., 177, 199 261, 298, 312 Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 47, 63 McFarlane, Robert C. (Bud), 255 National Review, 1, 34, 39–60, 75, 105, McGovern, George, 145, 146, 190, 222, 150–155, 160–163, 166, 169, 310 218–222, 228, 234–235, 236, McGurn, William, 273 278–279, 295–296, 307; book McKinley, William, 320 section, 40, 56–58, 119, 122, 157, McLaughlin, John, 234 295; as book publisher, 274; Bozell’s McNamara, Robert, 70, 126, 232 resignation from, 78; Burnham Meacham, Jon, 314 memorial, 260; Carnegie Hall rally, Meese, Edwin, III, 226, 227 68–69, 73; circulation drop, 162, Menjou, Adolphe, 33–34, 71 195; circulation rebound, 270; Mencken, H. L., 28 computerization of, 220; Merritt, Daniel, 101, 174, 211–212, 216 conferences, 299–300; as bindex.qxd 2/20/07 4:46 PM Page 353

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conservative flagship, 327; as Neuhaus, Richard John, 310 conservative-thought spectrum, New Conservatives, 26, 42, 328 41–43, 48, 123, 153, 254, 328; New Economic Policy, 137, 167 controversial Clinton/Gore New Jewel Movement, 235 caricature, 296–298; day-to-day New Journalism, 118 functioning, 173; editorial last- New Left, 72, 111, 117–118, 124 minute changes, 108–109; editorial New Right, 72, 211 lunches, 44, 299; editorial weekly Newton, Huey, 109 routine, 132–134; editor-in-chief New York Conservative Party, 72–73, successors, 271–273, 298–299, 302; 91–93, 128–130, 135, 138, 154, fifteenth anniversary, 135; fiftieth 159 anniversary, 2, 80–81, 322, 323, New York mayoral races, 73, 91–95, 96, 324–326; finances, 33–35, 54–55, 104, 127, 135 60; first issue, 5, 40–41, 46; forty- New York Police Department, 90–91, fifth anniversary, 33, 97; forums, 94 67–68, 302; founding of, 5, 32–37, New York Yacht Club, 39 39–44, 214; Goldwater rally and, Ngo Dinh Diem, 69, 70 76–77; humor and pranks at, 40–41, Ngo Dinh Nhu, 69 76, 157–158, 178; Iraq war Nicholas, Tsar, 180 position, 311–312; major editors of, Nickels, Don, 222 62; New York elections and, 91–92, Nickerson, Hoffman, 44 129–130; offices, 2, 39, 51, 62–63, Nickerson, Jane Soames (Bonnie), 44 297; page count, 272; Pentagon Niemeyer, Gerhart, 50, 103, 141 Papers spoof, 140–142; picketers Nisbet, Robert, 28 against, 296–297; Publisher’s Niven, David, 98, 100, 281 Statement, 5, 41; regular columnists, Nixon, Julie, 160, 296 273; religions of editors of, 122; Nixon, Richard M., 76, 103, 112, 117, “SDI Watch” feature, 233; Sixties 125–164, 167–168, 186, 200, 217, violence and, 115–116; social life 224, 228, 257, 291, 296, 301, 306, and, 15, 44–45; Soviet dissidents 318, 319; China initiative of, 69, cover story, 177; staff changes, 137, 142–143, 165; conservatives’ 52–54, 170–172, 260–262, 302; view of, 46–47, 64, 69, 70, 87, staff positions, 42, 43, 48–49, 113–114, 126, 127, 134–135, 78–79, 121–122; staff’s Soviet trip, 137–139, 145, 146, 147, 151–152, 176, 177, 179–181; summer 154, 160, 161–162, 165–166, 172, editorial assistants, 197–199; 226–227, 307, 310; death of, thirtieth anniversary, 3, 247–248; 282–283; impeachment threat to, thirty-fifth anniversary, 98, 271, 159, 161; mysteries in persona of, 327; twentieth anniversary, 177–179, 162, 282–284; pardon of, 165, 168; 252; twenty-fifth anniversary, 3, presidential campaigns of, 113–116, 219, 220, 222, 225; Vietnam War 125, 127, 135, 138–139, 145–146, position, 125–126; Washington 172; resignation of, 153–154, 159, office, 234, 298; on Watergate, 160–161; White House tapes of, 147–148; Watergate’s impact on, 159–160, 162, 163 162–163; WFB’s retirement Nixon, Thelma (Pat), 296 announcement and, 98, 271–272; Nixon, Tricia, 160, 296 WFB stock divestiture and, 1–3, 308, Nock, Albert Jay, 13, 21, 27, 28, 35 309, 313; WFB’s voting stock in, Noonan, John P., 150 33; Young Writers Contest, 298–299 Noonan, Peggy, 275 Nazis, 249–252, 270 Nordlinger, Jay, 302 neocons, 253–254, 270–271, 279, 280, North, Oliver, 255, 256 310–312 Novak, Michael, 234, 310 bindex.qxd 2/20/07 4:46 PM Page 354

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Novak, Robert, 174, 275, 311 Pentagon Papers, 140–142 NSDD-75, 232–233, 277 Percy, Charles, 113 Nutter, G. Warren, 102 Perelman, Lawrence, 98 Perez, Leander, 114–115 O’Beirne, Kate, 298 Perot, Ross, 280, 306 Obregón, Alvaro, 8 Philadelphia Society, 102–103, 245, O’Bryan, James W., 133, 158 253–254, 256, 302, 310, 312 O’Connor, John Cardinal, 299, 303 Philby, Kim, 251, 321, 322 O’Connor, Sandra Day, 255 Phillips, Howard, 211 O’Dell, Hunter Pitts (Jack), 82 Phillips, Kevin, 127, 135, 150, 191 O’Doherty, Kieran, 72–73, 94 Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, 269, Oliphant, Pat, 298 323 Oliver, Daniel, 1, 94–95, 157–158, 170, Pike, James A., 96 181, 226 Pionzio, Dino, 244 Oliver, Louise, 181 Podhoretz, John, 310 Olson, Walter, 249 Podhoretz, Norman, 248, 270, 310 O’Neill, Eugene, Jr., 170 Poetry of Richard Milhous Nixon, The O’Neill, John, 318 (Margolis), 162–163 O’Neill, Richie, 15 Pollard, Jonathan, 250 O’Neill, Thomas P. (Tip), 289 Pol Pot, 205 Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 58 Ponnuru, Ramesh, 294, 298–299, 325 O’Reilly, Gerald, 87, 325 Possony, Stefan, 102, 269 O’Reilly, Maureen Buckley. See Buckley, Potsdam conference, 24, 276 Maureen O’Reilly, Priscilla, 87 Pound, Ezra, 122 O’Reilly, Seton, 325 Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 94 Orlov, Yuri, 205 Powell, Colin, 273 O’Rourke, P. J., 303 Powell, Lewis, 255, 256 Orwell, George, 36, 254 Powers, Francis Gary, 68 Osterweis, Rollin, 16 Prague Spring, 120 O’Sullivan, John, 246–247, 260–261, Presidential Medal of Freedom, 233–234, 269, 271–274, 276, 278, 287, 237–238, 278, 291 290–291, 296–300, 309, 310 Presley, Elvis, 293 Otis, Marjorie (Old Lady), 10, 12, 312 Primakov, Yevgeny, 267 Oxford, Earl of, 270 Pulling, Edward, 11 Putnam’s, 73, 130, 168 Paar, Jack, 73, 105 Puwalski, Helen, 180 Pacem in Terris (encyclical), 78 Packwood, Bob, 256–257 Qaddafi, Muammar al-, 308 paleocons, 280, 310–312, 313 Quayle, Dan, 222, 264, 295, 305 Palestine Liberation Organization, Quemoy, 64 235–236 Panama Canal treaty, 189–190, 199–202, “Radical Chic” (Wolfe), 118 213 Rago, Joseph, 231, 316, 322 Panero, James, 231 Raimondo, Justin, 310, 311 Panov, Valery, 156 Rainier, Prince, 100 Paone, Nicola, 44, 312 Ramsay, Alston, 231 Paone’s (restaurant), 2, 44, 132, 170, Rand, Ayn, 42, 293 203, 261, 284 Rather, Dan, 318–319 Parker, Jay, 163 Read, Leonard, 27, 29 Parry, Stanley, 58, 102 Reagan, Nancy, 207, 225, 228, 247, 248, Pataki, George, 299 291, 313 Paul VI, Pope, 205 Reagan, Ronald, Jr., 207 bindex.qxd 2/20/07 4:46 PM Page 355

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Reagan, Ronald, 17, 37, 112, 117, 135, Rockwell, Lew, 310, 311 138, 159, 175, 185–190, 223–262, Roe v. Wade, 126, 149 275, 276, 290–292, 295; age issue Romanoff, Prince Nicholas, 100 and, 207, 239–241, 292; Alzheimer’s Romney, George, 113 revelation by, 292; assassination Roosevelt, Eleanor, 62, 97, 156 attempt on, 228; as California Roosevelt, Franklin D., 25, 26, 222, 240, governor, 103–104, 105, 169, 185; 283, 287, 288 Clinton compared with, 279; Cold Rosenthal, A. M. (Abe), 129–130, 312 War’s end and, 277; conservative Roth, William, 245 legacy of, 263; conservative Rothbard, Murray, 310 movement and, 3, 103–104, 113, Rove, Karl, 264, 320 114, 169–170, 174, 188–189, 201, Rovere, Richard, 62 220–221, 257–258, 280, 290; Rowley (spaniel), 139–140 famous lines of, 214, 218–219, 228, Rusher, William A., 45, 57, 69, 68, 74, 235, 241, 258–259, 267; funeral of, 81–82, 87–88, 91, 97, 123, 132, 313; NR and, 34, 75, 105, 170, 138, 139, 165, 176, 178, 179, 187, 178–179, 234–235, 247–248, 325; 191, 197, 202, 215, 234, 323; Panama Canal treaty and, 199, 200, background of, 76; on Gingrich, 201, 202; persona of, 219; 287–288, 289, 290; Goldwater presidential campaigns of, 206–208, campaign and, 64, 76, 77, 82, 87; 209, 213–215, 217–222, 239–241, on Nixon, 113–114, 127, 134–135, 319; presidential library dedication 145, 146, 154, 160, 162, 226–227, and, 290–291; presidential primary 282; on NR founding, 42, (1976) and, 179, 186–190, 191; 328–329; as NR publisher, 51, 52, presidential program of, 226–234, 54, 62; on paleocons, 312; practical 239, 270, 307; Thatcher’s bond joke played on, 76; on Reagan- with, 224, 229, 230, 239, 313; Carter debate, 219; on Reagan win, WFB’s friendship with, 3, 207, 221; religious right and, 210–211; 225–226, 234–235, 315, 329 retirement of, 261, 262; third-party Reasoner, Dean, 33 plan of, 174–175; Will article and, Red Cross, 20, 144, 174 152–153 Reed, John, 142n Rusk, Dean, 70 Regnery, Eleanor, 315 Russell, Bertrand, 14 Regnery, Henry, 2, 22, 23, 26, 29, Ryskind, Allan, 54, 138 30–31, 42, 61, 309, 315 Ryskind, Morris, 33, 41, 54 Reiss, Tom, 327, 328 religious right, 190, 191, 204, 210–211, Sadat, Anwar al-, 167, 204 217, 263, 294, 305; neocons and, Safire, William, 128, 161 310 Saigon airlift, 167 Reston, James, 136 Sakharov, Andrei, 176, 277 Reynolds, Alan, 157–158 Sandinistas, 225, 232 Rhodes, Thomas L. (Dusty), 1, 2, 324 Sandoz, Ellis, 58, 199 Rhodes, John, 160 Savage, Tony, 212, 312 Rickenbacker, William F., 73, 74, 76, 87, Savimbi, Jonas, 232 121–122, 175–176, 274 Savio, Mario, 80 Ritchie, Daniel, 197 Saxon, Glenn, 15 Robertson, Pat, 264 Scali, John, 155–156 Robinson, Peter, 231, 258, 301, 323 Schabowski, Günther, 268 Roche, James, 136 Schiff, Dorothy, 90 Roche, John P., 245–246, 257 Schiffren, Lisa, 274 Rockefeller, Nelson, 46, 64, 73, 91, 113, Schlafly, Phyllis, 163 123, 128–129, 165 Schlamm, Steffi, 32 bindex.qxd 2/20/07 4:46 PM Page 356

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Schlamm, William S. (Willi), 29–34, 40, Stalin, Josef, 19, 24, 35–36, 57, 62, 42, 47–54, 64, 65, 260, 297 142n, 177, 179, 184, 199, 311 Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 41, 42, 43, 62, Starr, Peter, 173, 196, 323 74 Starr Broadcasting, 173, 196 Schmidt, Agatha, 95, 132 Stassen, Harold, 17, 25, 26 Schmidt, Godfrey, 95 Steibel, Warren, 96 Schneller, Nina, 101, 277 Stein, Ben, 161 Schoenman, Ralph, 14 Stein, Herbert, 161n Scholem, Fred, 291 Steiner, Aloïs, 7 Schroeder, Patricia, 264 Steiner, Aloïse. See Buckley, Aloïse Scott, Hugh, 160, 161 Steiner Scott, Otto, 127 Steiner, Inez, 7 Scully, Matthew, 295 Steiner, James, 7 Seale, Bobby, 109 Steiner, May Wassem, 7 Sears, John, 186, 187, 188–189, 207, Steiner, Vivian, 7 214 Steorts, Jason, 325 Securities and Exchange Commission, Stevenson, Adlai, 25, 26, 42, 46 195–196 Stewart, Potter, 255 Seligman, Dan, 327–328 Stewart, Samuel, 231 Sennott, Robert F., Jr., 179 Stigler, George, 102 September 11 (2001) attack, 308, 311, Stoops, Reginald, 174, 216, 266 320 Strategic Defense Initiative, 233, 290 Seymour, Charles, 17, 18 Strauss, Leo, 28 Shakespeare, William, 270 Strausz-Hupé, Robert, 102 Sharon, Ariel, 236 Students for a Democratic Society, 80, Shawcross, Hartley, 143 89, 105, 111, 116, 124, 125 Shultz, George, 137, 257, 267 Stuhr, David P., 95, 102 Sikorski, Radek, 274 Suez crisis, 47, 48, 63 Simon, Paul, 166, 264 Sullivan, Andrew, 300 Sinclair, Ward, 201, 202 Sununu, John, 275 Skull & Bones, 15 Supreme Court, U.S.: Bush (G.H.W.) Smith, Gordon, 199 appointee, 278; Bush (G.W.) Smith, Jane Buckley. See Buckley, Jane appointees, 324–325; liberal rulings Smith, Warren, 242 by, 64, 78, 81, 149–150; Nixon Smith, William F., 31 appointees, 126, 149; Reagan Snow, C. P., 74 appointees, 255, 256–257 Sobran, M. J. (Joe), 157, 202, 206, 235, Susskind, David, 96 249, 250, 252, 270, 271 Swanson, Gloria, 33–34 Solarz, Stephen, 166 Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, 317, Solidarity, 225, 232, 267 318, 319 Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 156, 176, 277 Sykes, Charles, 274 Somoza, Anastasio, 225 Symms, Steve, 222 Sonnenfeldt, Helmut, 171 Szamuely, George, 311 Soros, George, 175 Soustelle, Jacques, 67 Taft, Robert A., 25, 26, 42, 290 Southern Agrarians, 28, 41, 42, 253 Talese, Gay, 118 Soviet dissidents, 176–177, 205, 277 Taliban, 308, 311 Sowell, Thomas, 245 Taylor, Austin C., 20–21, 30, 139, 144 Specter, Arlen, 256–257 Taylor, Austin G. E. (Firpo), 44, 172, Speer, Edgar, 136 266, 312 Spencer, Stuart, 186 Taylor, Kathleen (Babe), 20–21, 30, 139, Stafford, Robert, 256–257 144, 174 bindex.qxd 2/20/07 4:46 PM Page 357

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Taylor, Kathleen (Bill). See Finucane, Valenti, Fernando, 98, 99 Kathleen Taylor (Bill) van den Haag, Ernest, 44, 261 Taylor, Patricia. See Buckley, Patricia Vatican II, 105–106, 131, 143 Taylor (Pat) Vaughan, Jo, 269 Tchernavin, Vladimir, 252 Vaughan, Samuel S., 168, 176, 269, 321 Teague, Randal, 138 Velasco, Cecilio, 6, 243–244 Teresa, Mother, 301 Victoria, Queen, 291 Thatcher, Denis, 208 Vidal, Gore, 14, 73, 96, 111–113 Thatcher, Margaret, 208–210, 219, 220, Viereck, Peter, 26, 42, 328 226, 228–230, 236, 239, 246–247, Vietnam War, 69, 97, 107, 110, 114, 257, 261, 275, 277; Conservative 119, 140, 141, 147; antiwar defeat and, 287; eulogy for Reagan movement and, 80, 89, 97, 105, by, 313 111, 119, 125, 126, 145, 197; Theodoracopulos, Taki, 134, 244, 281, failure of, 167–168, 200–201; 282, 310, 328 Kerry/G.W. Bush service records Thomas, Clarence, 278 and, 317, 318–319 Thomas, Norman, 96 Vigilante, Richard, 249 Thompson, Hunter, 118 Viguerie, Richard, 211 Thompson, Tommy, 293 Viking, 95 Toledano, Ralph de, 34, 56, 73 Vivas, Eliseo, 58, 102 Tolstoy, Lev, 227 Voegelin, Eric, 27–28, 77, 199 Tonkin Gulf Resolution, 167 Vogt, Gertrude, 39–40, 59, 121, 323 Tonsor, Stephen, 253–254, 312 Voisin, 39 Torrijos, Omar, 199 von Dreele, W. H. (Bill), 275 Tower, John, 76, 138 Trewhitt, Henry, 240–241 Wacker, Jeanne, 63 Triumph (Catholic magazine), 122 Wagner, Robert, 73 Trotsky, Leon, 35, 36, 142n, 289, 290 Walesa, Lech, 225, 277 Trotskyists, 28, 35, 36, 43, 179 Wallace, George, 113–115, 190 Truman, Harry, 24–25, 45, 152 Wallace, Henry, 25 Truman Doctrine, 25, 45 Wallace, Lois, 168 Trump, Donald, 306 Wallace, Mike, 14 Tuccille, Jerome, 123–124 Wallace, Tom, 73, 168 Tuck, Edward, 99, 148, 292 Wallen, Charles, 312 Tuck, Edward (uncle), 99 Wallop, Malcolm, 293 Tullock, Gordon, 199 Wall Street Journal, 128, 198, 322 Tureck, Roalyn, 98–99 Walsh, Lawrence, 300 Turpin, Ed, 9 Walters, Alan, 224 Tuttle, Holmes, 103 Walters, Barbara, 239 Tyrrell, R. Emmett, Jr. (Bob), 198, 254 Wanderer, The (Catholic newspaper), 271 Wanniski, Jude, 244–245 Udall, Morris, 190 Warren, Earl, 25, 64, 126 United Nations, 19, 25, 48, 69, Warren, Robert Penn, 28 155–156, 226, 269, 308 Warren Court, 64, 78, 123, 149 United States Information Agency, 130, Warsaw Pact, 120 176, 226, 300 Washington, Lacey, 198 University of California: Berkeley radicals, Wassem, John Henry, 7 79, 80, 89, 109, 110–111, 115, Watergate affair, 114, 145–148, 116, 117; Reagan reforms, 169; 150–153, 154, 159–160, 162–163, Regents Board, 105 165, 166, 168; phrases from, 159; University of Chicago, 23, 28, 237, 245 political fallout from, 191, 192, 211 Utley, Freda, 28, 40, 42 Wattenberg, Ben, 300 bindex.qxd 2/20/07 4:46 PM Page 358

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Waugh, Evelyn, 13, 210, 244 Wilson, Woodrow, 7–8, 240 Wayne, John, 34 WIN buttons, 167, 192 Weather Underground, 109, 111, 125 Winter, Tom, 138 Weaver, Richard, 28, 40, 42, 253 Wisner, Frank, 36 Wechsler, James, 67 Wojtyla, Karol. See John Paul II Wedgwood-Benn, Anthony, 16 Wolf, Markus, 246 Weekly Standard, 301, 305, 307, Wolfe, Tom, 118, 245 317–318 Wood, Mabel, 39, 122 Weeks, Steve, 297 Woods, Rose Mary, 160 Weicker, Lowell, 14, 231 Woodworth, Patricia, 299 Weinberger, Caspar, 300 Wooldridge, Adrian, 263, 288, 289, 306 Weiss, Victoria, 119 Wright, Jim, 285–286 Welch, Robert, 71, 75 Wu, Robin, 180 Wellstood, Dick, 247 Wyszynski, Stefan Cardinal, 206 Wendel, Thomas, 216, 312 Weyrich, Paul, 163, 164 Yale Class Council, 18 Wheeler, Timothy J., 134 Yale Club (New York), 39 Whelan, Elizabeth, 164 Yale Daily News, 15, 16, 17, 309 Whiffenpoofs, 15, 326 Yale Political Union, 17, 95, 172 White, F. Clifton, 82 Yale University, 28, 72, 91, 96, 146, 170, White, Theodore, 110, 142 171, 178, 190, 197, 207, 249, 252, White House tapes, 159–160, 162, 163 297, 326; Alumni Day speech, 18, Whittingham, Charles, 20 21; WFB-Coffin debate at, Wilde, Oscar, 301 118–119; WFB friendships from, 1, Wilkins, Sophie, 312 19, 73, 95; WFB’s critical book Will, George F., 3, 157, 162, 171–172, about, 5, 22, 23–24, 26, 32; WFB’s 200, 217, 247, 248, 324; “The experiences at, 13, 14–18, 19, Snicker Factor,” 151–153 21–22, 32, 284, 302 Willey, Kathleen, 301 Yalta conference, 24, 276 Williams, C. Dickerman, 73 Yeltsin, Boris, 276 Williams, Charles, 58 Young Americans for Freedom, 61, 71, Williams, Robin, 130, 301 72, 77, 78, 123–124, 138, 146, Williams, Walter, 245 153, 164 Williamson, Chilton, Jr., 172, 274, Young Republicans, 76, 138 310 Youth for Goldwater, 71, 78 Wills, Garry, 53, 118–120, 121 Zinoviev, Grigory, 142n Wilson, Henry Lane, 7–8 Wilson, James Q., 299 Zumwalt, Elmo, 200