pleasure to talk to you today about william f. buckley, and maybe most speakers don't begin by telling you their political affiliation, but i think that that's important and necessary. i have to be a liberal, and i know i'm speaking about a conservative icon, and the figure who is beloved by millions of people. so i think it's important that i confess my apostasy first to i happen to admire buckley tremendously, and many, many ways, but i also disagree with many of his ideas and that may come through. but i wanted to be up front with you about that. historians debate whether history ...