Notes & Asides

Remarks by WFB at a dinner honoring Robert L. Bartley, October 17. The master of ceremonies was Daniel Oliver, and other speakers were David Frum, Christopher Buckley, Tom Wolfe, and Paul Gigot. Christopher Buckley’s toast is reproduced first:

When my father asked metobeon the program I happily agreed, for I feel that it is now safe for the world to know about the Other Bob Bartley. Not Bob Bartley, the great writer of editorials, or Bob Bartley, the scourge of liberals, or Bob Bartley, the 34-year- old wunderkind, but—as the character Max Bialystock in the movie and play The Producers put it—“the Führer with a song in his heart.”