70 Year Magazine Archive

On the Right

by Wm. F. Buckley, Jr.

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New York, Dec. 12—If Senator Kennedy keeps it up at the present rate, we should consider federal aid for Truth Squads. Alternatively, I volunteer to write Senator Kennedy’s speeches and coach him through his press conferences, in return for which all I ask for is free medicine.

Said Mr. Kennedy on December 3, 1979, while working the Mountain States and California: “The Shah had the reins of power and ran one of the most violent regimes in the history of mankind.” And again, “This nation must [not] condone the Shah and the record of his regime.” And again, “The United States [must not] condone the repressive dictatorship of the Shah as ruler of Iran.” And, finally, “How can we justify, in the United States, on the one hand accepting that individual because he would like to come here and stay here with his umpteen billions of dollars that he’s stolen from Iran and, at the same time, say to Hispanics who are here legally that they have to wait nine years to bring their wives and children to this country?”

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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