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Fresh Air from WHYY, February 28, 2008 ยท Conservative icon William F. Buckley, Jr., died Wednesday. He was 82. Fresh Air remembers the founder and longtime editor of the National Review with excerpts from a 1989 interview.
Above all, his son Christopher Buckley recalled Wednesday, William Buckley sought to make it respectable to be a conservative.