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I received this week a dozen or so Russian academic works selected from a nice catalogue—Imported Publications, Inc., Chicago. I’ve long felt provincially deficient in the Russian written product. On first glance it seems a fairly dreary literature; one is N. Sivachyov and E. Yazkov, History of the U.S.A, since World War I. If by chance you have not seen it I’ll note the reference to your influence in these parts:

. . . the transition [of Mr. Ford] to the more responsible job demanded a broadening of social outlook. It was no accident that William F. Buckley, the main ideologue of the reactionary direction in current U.S. political life, was soon to write an article in which he asserted that Richard Nixon had betrayed the hopes of the ‘-’conservatives” (this is what the reactionaries call themselves) and called on his many supporters “to press on Mr. Ford the relevance of the conservative vision.”

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William F. Buckley Jr.

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

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I received this week a dozen or so Russian academic works selected from a nice catalogue—Imported Publications, Inc., Chicago. I’ve long felt provincially deficient in the Russian written product. On first glance it seems a fairly dreary literature; one is N. Sivachyov and E. Yazkov, History of the U.S.A, since World War I. If by chance you have not seen it I’ll note the reference to your influence in these parts:

. . . the transition [of Mr. Ford] to the more responsible job demanded a broadening of social outlook. It was no accident that William F. Buckley, the main ideologue of the reactionary direction in current U.S. political life, was soon to write an article in which he asserted that Richard Nixon had betrayed the hopes of the ‘-’conservatives” (this is what the reactionaries call themselves) and called on his many supporters “to press on Mr. Ford the relevance of the conservative vision.”