Summary
It happened on Aug. 28, 1968. Robert Kennedy was dead and so was the Democratic Party. Still, they staged a convention in Chicago, where protesters tangling violently with police would help push moms and dads horrified by the behavior of their own children into the law-and-order Nixon camp.
Into this volatile mix the bright boys at ABC threw in decidedly unmatched color commentators William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal. Buckley, who died Wednesday at age 82, was the articulate conservative playing against the beyond-liberal Vidal. Who, by the way, was Jackie Kennedy's sort-of stepbrother - sharing a common stepfather in Hugh Auchincloss, who had been married at different times to both their moms.See the full content of this document
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Having a Beer with William F. Buckley Jr.
Worse, they put these highly educated sons of famous blue-blood families in the same room, alone. Which is how a relatively insane evening turned into a blue-blood bath with Vidal saying of Buckley, "As far as I'm concerned, the only pro- or crypto-...
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