"Exercising may make your day; it would assuredly ruin mine." Source: If Not Us, Who? William Rusher, National Review, and the Conservative Movement...
Personal Dislike of Exercise
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William Rusher
Roy Cohn’s Alienation
"Few appointments were ever better calculated to arouse resentment on all sides. Everybody over 26 resented Cohn's youth. Everybody less clever …...
Buckley’s National Impact
"Bill Buckley's emergence onto the national stage … in the 1950s, and the impact of his striking personality … caused a lesion in the...
Expertise and Authority
""The world's foremost authority on widgets” or “the world's foremost authority on anything."" Source: If Not Us, Who? William Rusher, National...
Crusading Against the New Deal
"[He] prosecuted the New Deal as though it were a criminal, piling up irresistible mountains of logic, lancing it with swift strokes of sarcastic...
Reagan’s Unique Qualifications
"As for Reagan, I think that you are underrating the man. Essentially, there is no really good preparation for the Presidency, save perhaps being...
Goldwater vs. Kennedy and Johnson
"… Goldwater's popularity as a conservative candidate stemmed in very substantial part from the sharp contrast between his personal and political...
Video: Conversations with History: William A. Rusher
UC-Berkeley Interview (54 minutes) : Rusher reflects on his life and...
Video: President Reagan’s Interview with William Rusher on May 23, 1986
1986—Interview with President Reagan : Rusher discusses Reagan’s early career and his famous 1964...
Video: New Revolution for Liberty in America
1984 Republican National Convention : Rusher speaks on the founding of YAF and conservatism’s history (2:43–3:18)....
Video: The Conservative Movement Today
1999 Claremont McKenna Conference : Rusher speaks on conservatism’s present status from minutes 21–32. Duration: 1...
Video: The Reagan Legacy
1987 (University of Virginia) : Rusher discusses the Reagan presidency and the conservative movement. Duration: 32...