Notes on a Twentieth Anniversary

To Remark the Fifteenth Anniversary of national review Magazine [the invitation read], Nika Standen Hazelton and the Committee of Sponsors Request the Pleasure of Your Company at a

And there we all are at New York’s Tavern-on-the-Green. It’s November 12, 1970. Nixon has been President two years. Daniel Ellsberg and Watergate lie ahead. A week earlier a conservative was elected to the United States Senate—from New York—on a third party ticket! Whooping cheers as a tired but jubilant Jim Buckley addresses the crowd: “Greetings, fellow nightriders of the Right” (the New York Times’ designation); and merrily he quotes from a Newsday columnist:

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To Remark the Fifteenth Anniversary of national review Magazine [the invitation read], Nika Standen Hazelton and the Committee of Sponsors Request the Pleasure of Your Company at a

And there we all are at New York’s Tavern-on-the-Green. It’s November 12, 1970. Nixon has been President two years. Daniel Ellsberg and Watergate lie ahead. A week earlier a conservative was elected to the United States Senate—from New York—on a third party ticket! Whooping cheers as a tired but jubilant Jim Buckley addresses the crowd: “Greetings, fellow nightriders of the Right” (the New York Times’ designation); and merrily he quotes from a Newsday columnist: