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How Is Ronald Reagan Doing?

by Wm. F. Buckley Jr.

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Los Angeles. It is generally conceded that Ronald Reagan will announce his candidacy for governor of California in the early future, and the guns are being oiled to shoot him down. The Democrats are not saying anything yet, at least not publicly; but they are passing around the word that Reagan will be easy to take.

It must be understood that they would pass around the word that Abraham Lincoln would be easy to take, it being in the nature of the political business that one should scoff at the possibilities of the challenger, particularly a challenger the sound of whose name sends the butterflies of the stomach into hyperactivity.

William F. Buckley Jr.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

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