William F. Buckley Jr. died Wednesday at age 82. The conservative commentator is pictured in October 2005 at the White House, where President Bush was among the speakers at a tribute to Buckley and his National Review magazine. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press)
Buckley, pictured in 2004, could look back with pride on the growth of the conservative movement. “It’s not lonely the way it was 45 years ago,” he said in an interview with The Times a few years earlier, “when there was really nothing, certainly no journal of opinion on conservative thought. There are tons of people here now.” (Frank Franklin II / Associated Press)
