On the Right

NEW YORK, FEB. 8

I am in favor of quixotic crusades, but it is also important to know when that is what you are being invited to engage in. And the campaign by Senator Jesse Helms to take possession of CBS for the American right wing is, really, a program to make the existing 24,000 stockholders of CBS a little richer than they now are by bidding up the price of their stock.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

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

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NEW YORK, FEB. 8

I am in favor of quixotic crusades, but it is also important to know when that is what you are being invited to engage in. And the campaign by Senator Jesse Helms to take possession of CBS for the American right wing is, really, a program to make the existing 24,000 stockholders of CBS a little richer than they now are by bidding up the price of their stock.