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Originally Posted by rhadin
Both were knowledgeable and actually discussed the merits and demerits of ideas without resorting to screaming, shouting, and soundbites.
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Christopher Buckley on His Father's Old Nemesis, Gore Vidal
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If you look closely at the footage of the 1968 TV contretemps between WFB and Vidal, you’ll see WFB trying to rise out of his chair at the moment of maximum heat. If you look very closely, you’ll see him physically straining, but something holding him back.
A few days before, he was sailing in Long Island Sound when a Coast Guard cutter zoomed past his sailboat, knocking him to the deck, breaking his collarbone. During the Chicago debates, he was wearing a clavicle brace. It’s possible that the brace prevented the moment from being truly iconic.
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The excellent obituary Buckley mentions
is here. I read it on my K3 thanks to the Kindle's killer app, the
New York Times Latest News Blog.