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Submitted by Ron Mortensen, Mar 3, 2008 16:55

My introduction to Conservatism was through the YAF Chapter at Iowa State University in 1959, William Buckley was our hero and guru. Thanks much for what you have written about Mr. Buckley who was miles above this humble engineer intellectually.


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