Thanks very much for your tribute to Bill. I plan to purchase “Miles Gone By.”

In 1968 I was campaigning in New York for James Buckley (college credit) to the US Senate. The Richard Ottinger people were always asking me when the Buckleys were going to move from Connecticut to New York.

At the victory reception, which Bill attended instead of James, I asked him for an autograph. As he scratched it out, I made mention of the headaches ecountered by the Ottingerites.

He looked up, handed me the autograph and with a twinkle in his eye said, “Just tell them that when Jim becames Senator New York is going to annex Connecticut.”

An apex moment in my life, and there after without much reflectioon, I always assumed Bill Buckley would live forever.