Īlso in 1961 “The New America: Politics and Society in the Age of the Smooth Deal” by Karl E. Adams, a member of the Board of Advisors of the New York Committee for Democratic Voters (commonly known as the Lehman-Roosevelt group) would all have places in Washington. Buckley has proposed a much more lively administration than we, and perhaps he, would have suspected.Īaron The Accordionist, Joey Adams, the comedian, and Francis W. We don’t know Aach, Albert, but many names among the first two thousand indicate that Mr. “Aach, Albert” was the first person listed: 1961 April 13, The Reporter: The Magazine of Facts and Ideas, Volume 24, Number 8, Edited and published by Max Ascoli, The Reporter’s Notes: The First Shall Be First, Start, Quote … Continue reading The April 1961 the remark was noticed and reprinted in “The Reporter: The Magazine of Facts and Ideas” which was edited and published by Professor Max Ascoli of the New School for Social Research.īuckley did not specify a city for the directory in the initial citation hence, “The Reporter” selected the Manhattan telephone directory to see who might be included in Buckley’s suggested administration. “I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory,” he said, “than by the Harvard University faculty.”īelow are additional selected citations in chronological order. Buckley, Jr.: Portrait of a Complainer by Dan Wakefield, Quote, Esquire, Inc., New York. The earliest instance located by QI appeared in a profile and interview of Buckley in “Esquire” magazine in January 1961: 1961 January, Esquire magazine, William F. Buckley attended Yale University as an undergraduate, and he wrote critically about the institution in his book “God and Man at Yale” however, a different school of higher learning appeared in his saying about governance.

Could you please help me to find a citation? I do not recall if the phone book was for a particular city, and I do not know whether a specific university was named. I would rather be governed by the first 1,000 people listed in the phone book than by the faculty members from an Ivy League University. Dear Quote Investigator: I am trying to verify a quotation from the conservative commentator and novelist William F.

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