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A personal retrospective: NR and its founder.(comments on retirement of editor William F. Buckley, Jr.)(Cover Story)
What follows is a loose assortment of published and broadcast commentary on the retirement of WFB, who, on June 29, turned his voting stock in National Review, Inc., over to a not-forprofit corporation. Ed Capano is publisher and CEO, Thomas Rhodes is board chairman, and I am editor. I begin this selfimposed (but nevertheless welcome) assignment by reproducing the note from WFB which accompanied the bulky material on the theme of his retirement and of NATIONAL REVIEW's history, from which I have put this feature together. It reads, "Rich: If you think this is bad, imagine what you'll have to go through when I die! Best, Bill."
I BEGIN by excerpting a few words ...
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