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Some thoughts on Pat Buckley, 1926-2007

She and Bill were guests once at my house upstate. They had been driven all the way from Stamford to the eastern Catskills, a long way made longer by a wrong turn. Pat gazed from the backseat, through sunglasses, a King Charles spaniel on her lap. “Are we still in the United States?”

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Richard Brookhiser

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

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Some thoughts on Pat Buckley, 1926-2007

She and Bill were guests once at my house upstate. They had been driven all the way from Stamford to the eastern Catskills, a long way made longer by a wrong turn. Pat gazed from the backseat, through sunglasses, a King Charles spaniel on her lap. “Are we still in the United States?”