under false colors and it was a very bill-like thing -- i mean, it's related to dear arthur or dear barfer. you know, you're saying you're doing something else. this is what you're doing. and i'm going to tell everybody that this is it. and, you know, maybe the final point is that you can do that but it doesn't mean you have to burn the place down or never cross the stores again and obviously, there was -- i think he still had a connection to skull and bones, the senior society he was in. there were certainly friends he made at yale who were his dear friends he had all his life. it was a complex picture but he would never have forsworn the truth that he told in yale back in 1951. yes, sir. >> michael myers. i wonder since you were his protege and he was his mentor and how many sleepless nights did you have after that and how do you deal with it in terms of not lashing out at your mentor but my question question is, i remember bill buckley as a conservative and in terms of movements of him during his life he was really reticent and maybe not a johnny-come-lately to the use of federal power

and he replied how would you like if i called you dear arthur or dear barfer. if you ever need to slap down a pulitzer prize historian that's how you do it. you're 5. this is what it's like and cut it out. i mean, it's just a brilliant little arabesque in one sentence. another things to recover about bill was his passion for talent, and he looked for everywhere, literally everywhere. he would go to the big names. he offered even $5,000 a year to be a columnist for "national review" when it started out. and wall wrote back unless i get -- unless you get much richer or i get much poorer which i'm afraid will happen sooner, i can't take you up on this offer. but he also grabbed it when he saw it in unknowns. he hired gary wells out of a jesuit seminary. gary wells had left the seminary, never written anything for anyone. sent four articles; bill was the first one to write him back and that was the beginning of gary's career. he hired john leonard as a harvard dropout and then he sent him to cuba to do a story on one of castro's early prisoners. john was 19 years o