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- well, i think, i agree with buckley in that things have changed an awful lot since '73 and that we used to have leaders that would actually judge things based on the facts and make decisions. and you've referenced it. and my dad was the one who i've learned a lot about integrity in public service from my dad, who was the very first... he was a nixon supporter, but when he saw all of the evidence, he became the first republican to come out for nixon's impeachment. nixon resigned 11 days later. they were going to remove him from office. and the senators, republican senators, went to the white house to tell him that. now, it's, like, they use it as a weapon, as he said, it's just, like, back and forth where, you know, "we're going to impeach you." "we're going to impeach you." "we're going to impeach you back." and now, it's lost a lot of its teeth. but i just think no man is above the law, not even the president of the united states. so that's what my dad said in 1974 and it's what i still believe. but i think what happened was we didn't have folks on either side taking it seriously.

buckley jr. hosted a discussion on impeachment and t question of how to hold a president accountable. take a look at this clip from 1973. - there's no sense in trying to treat the president like everybody else because he's not like everybody else. the evolution of our institutions are such as to have fused the office of chief of state and the office of chief of government. the impeachment instrument, in my opinion, ought to be used not to punish a president, but to remove him. if you think that the safety of the state requires that the president be removed, then you invoke it, but you don't invoke it for high crimes and misdemeanors without recognizing that the principal casualty is ourselves rather than the president. - this debate about impeachment and removal from office coincided with a time where your father was the first republican to stand up to richard nixon in the house of representatives and say that he should resign from office because of the watergate scandal. my question actually to you is about how donald trump ced impeachment twice and was not removed from office. and s

he was very close with william f buckley. he was a senior leader in the john birch society through the mid 1960s. you know, so and for me, that posed a question of, okay, well, that means something. it doesn't mean that, you know, the conservative movement is fascistic necessarily, but it does mean that they're adjacent in intertwined, interconnected in ways that i don't think. certainly not at the time. this is before trump rose to national prominence. most people fully sort of appreciate it or understood so i can i think about trumpism in 2024 as the acceleration of trends that had been existing in politics and in the conservative political tradition in a very for a very long time. nancy. i'm sure i'm not going to talk how we got here. i'm going to talk about the here because could because i think that what our book governing is identifying destination and happy destination that hasn't been acknowledged as a unified thing as opposed to popular authoritarianism or what it's going to talk about. so on governing is an unfamili

he was very close with william f buckley. he was a senior leader in the john birch society through the mid 1960s. you know, so and for me, that posed a question of, okay, well, that means something. it doesn't mean that, you know, the conservative movement is fascistic necessarily, but it does mean that they're adjacent in intertwined, interconnected in ways that i don't think. certainly not at the time. this is before trump rose to national prominence. most people fully sort of appreciate it or understood so i can i think about trumpism in 2024 as the acceleration of trends that had been existing in politics and in the conservative political tradition in a very for a very long time. nancy. i'm sure i'm not going to talk how we got here. i'm going to talk about the here because could because i think that what our book governing is identifying destination and happy destination that hasn't been acknowledged as a unified thing as opposed to popular authoritarianism or what it's going to talk about. so on governing is an unfamili

pronounced degree anti-intellectual ism in conservative politics, you know, very famously, william f buckley said that he would rather be ruled by the first thousand people in the boston phonebook than by the faculty at harvard. you know, the difference i think one of the important differences, though, is that there's still was a a degree of committee meant to, again to go back to reveal oliver, the fact that he had a ph.d. in classics and taught at a major american university. that's something that john birch society very deliberately cultivated. they loved having him despite the fact that he was a lunatic, in addition to being a neo-nazi, claimed one point that jfk was assassinated by, the communist conspiracy. because kennedy himself was a communist and was not delivering america to communism fast enough. this wrote this in 1964, shortly after the it almost got him fired from his tenure position. but it still mattered that he had sort of academic credentials and expertise. and i think you're right that something changed in i was talking this with a friend of mine actually in the greenroom

the conservative movement friends and proteges of buckley works at national review. he would make attacks or serious attempts to distance from them sometimes, but those would be halfhearted and and get watered down later. and this is a pattern i think you could see the history of the conservative movement. it's notable, for instance, i mean, you know, the national review dedicated entire issue to attacking pat as an anti-semite and then pat buchanan, just a of months later. pat buchanan is running for running office. i mean, he's running his primary bush and the national review him a kind of tactical endorsement. so it's strange to spend time saying that this person is, you know, tantamount to being a nazi, but we're going to endorse him anyway. and in that repeated itself, when pat buchanan, you know, had quite a successful run that bush and they spent all their time saying, oh, he's he's, you know, another duke and tried to connect him to the the extreme right all the time was a fair attack. he was to those people. and then they invited him to the convention to giv

and i think that that most dramatically it started around william f buckley jr and nash the founding of national review now this happened in the 1950s because of of several of the of the early shimmering that were happen happening you know as a direct result of the of the new deal world war two etc., etc. and i won't into that today but i believe firmly that by the 1960s there was a a substantial and growing pushback. and and i think that that bill buckley, the editors of national review and, many of of their allies in real time did something very important both in politics and culture. i would argue that without national review, there may well never, never have been a reagan presidency, but i also think there are many unstated cultural successes that, national review and that nascent growing conservative movement successfully employed. the second thing is that, and i write about this in stumbling toward utopia is that many of the people i mentioned a moment ago were very well funded by by very famous americans. i write about them at length and i'll use just one example. the rockefel

this is captain buckley. he's actually a kron. 4 viewer who was watching the news growing up. so james and ari is not here, but >> he really likes our kron show. talk a little bit about this week. what's it mean to from the bay walnut creek? >> good morning. captain buckley, united states marine corps on originally from walnut creek, california, grown up my family. i would try to get a grisly ph up in the hills and watch the blue angels and that come to town. i was really big deal for me as a kid. fairly take your eyes off when they're up the overhead. and i was definitely aspiring to myself becoming aviator i which i am now i fly the huey, which is safe utility platform and the marine corps to helicopter and stationed down in camp pendleton. now. >> and we appreciate your service and talk a little bit about this week. you know what? we're going to pan the camera. look at all the different things that we have going on here at this expo. we've got sfpd weve got fire out here. you know, what is it like and why should people come we? >> so encourage everybody to come out. interac

buckley i read the national review. during my junior year i read aboutt the describes it and i told her i did one here by the end i thought the word sounded so that was the da vinci brought a speaker who talked about libertarianism and i thought that seresto conservative i could vote for that and by my last year at northwestern i took a seminar on libertarianism so at that point byni my senior yer in college i was a libertarian and as the book explains i had written a fan letter and when i went to harvard law school he gave it to a classmate of mine and they met the whole libertarian intellectual circle and eventually joined the board all while i was a law student. i've been a libertarian for a long time. >> what the difference between being ade conservative and beina libertarian? >> it depends on what kind of conservative youou are. it's very amorphous for a lot of different reasons. if you want to oversimplify things there's a liberty-based conservatism that are traditionalist religious-based c conservative. first the

the conservative movement friends and proteges of buckley works at national review. he would make attacks or serious attempts to distance from them sometimes, but those would be halfhearted and and get watered down later. and this is a pattern i think you could see the history of the conservative movement. it's notable, for instance, i mean, you know, the national review dedicated entire issue to attacking pat as an anti-semite and then pat buchanan, just a of months later. pat buchanan is running for running office. i mean, he's running his primary bush and the national review him a kind of tactical endorsement. so it's strange to spend time saying that this person is, you know, tantamount to being a nazi, but we're going to endorse him anyway. and in that repeated itself, when pat buchanan, you know, had quite a successful run that bush and they spent all their time saying, oh, he's he's, you know, another duke and tried to connect him to the the extreme right all the time was a fair attack. he was to those people. and then they invited him to the convention to giv

and s nicole looked part in that as well as the uss buckley.ust an interesting thing from the pentagon briefing. and i think this is a major moment and i don't sense from the israelis that anything is going to stop what they have been doing which is systematically dealing with their threats to the state of israel. >> martha: yeah, it seems clear that benjamin netanyahu the prime minister has decided that although obviously this is his most important alliance with the united states, here to do what he has to do. and he has been doing that over the last several weeks in a huge weight. and want to play this montage about president biden has said over the last several months and asked whether or how he would confront iran primarily in our adversary. watch this. >> president joe biden: i have one word, don't. >> what is your message to hezbollah and its act! backer iran? >> president joe biden: don't. don't. don't. don't. don't. don't. don't. >> what is the message to iran? >> don't. >> ruggiero might be launching unlimited operation into iran? are

buckley jr. and he appeared at a time when there was a tide of isolationism in the united states and he made the case for democracies. take a look at what he said. - short of the size and geography, there are many similarities in the way the united states was created and israel was born, the same spirit, the same convictions, the same outlook, and the same desire to do a positive service to other people. the russians are here, trying to take over the middle east, trying to make the middle east a new page in the russian glories, in the russian history. and israel, a tiny little nation, is standing in the face of soviet russia, without losing her nerves, without demanding that anybody else to fight instead oher, but simply to maintain the necessary strength so she won't be overcome by either threats nor by arms. - how does defending democratic nations abroad strengthen our country here at home? - the united states is not just a territory or a nationality, it's an idea. and that idea is that human b

that repeal prohibition did 60 years ago, people from george shultz and milton friedman, william buckley on the right to the mayors of baltimore or in hartford, connecticut, and the aclu on the left and many other people in the middle from police chiefs to prosecutors to treatment, people it's also and it's primary, in fact, a framework of analysis. what legalization is in 1990 is an approach that says, let's look at current drug prohibition. let's see what are the costs? what are their benefits? let's those with the cost and benefits of other prohibition policies and other legalization policies and choose the policy is most successful. the conclusion come to is that a policy which emphasize these public health approaches and rights of individuals over criminal justice approaches is in all likelihood going to be the more successful policy. if that is what you mean by legalization with respect to a drug such as cocaine, emphasizing the public health approach, wouldn't that emphasis and the withdrawal all of to some degree criminal sanctions lead to a dramatic increase in cocaine or heroin

so in mice, nick is it's an issue of either a challenge, even for the small scale jim, my son buckley of co founder patrick's they don't get is regularly on sites of to 5 years. you'd have pauses are rarely found, the mind still isn't financially viable, but he remains optimistic. we're making partnerships with companies that focus on empowering sustainable mining. i mean that's, that's the future. everyone wants to know where the trace evidence to be able to trace where this building is coming from. and minds like i was going to be the minds of the future. or the woman already taking re not to ration measures and planting trees once a month. big painted 1800 cds. but many having survived the bananas into pious, have thrived and the woman will soon be harvesting them. the carving not a more sustainable future, not just in the gym mine, but here in the fields to from no guns in probably too close to somalia. we're pretty used to charging out foods weighed at wherever we need to. but imagine live in some way with no electricity. what would you do when by treat arouse out? that's just on

this little band of cloud here, let's just buckley its way and that's pushing up towards shanghai some heavier, right? just coming through here, whether the down towards the se, system a little drive, it's way across the east trying to say towards the fall, south of south, or talk to some showers to just coming into what japan as we go through us on the road. the more expensive for time on monday, then fresh or clear weather just talks in behind. a dry weather into a northern parts of china by this dice. wanted to show us down towards the south and plenty of showers as make a way across the south trying to say here is the tropical storm. try me making a bit of a utah. it is a slow one this so it start purpose sunday. take a look at monday, pretty much in the same position. but like turning in those hankle, they say that rain stop for, for a couple of days, some heavy rain that will cause widespread flooding before it drift back out towards the feel of peace, fresh house across the philippines, somewhat drive across malaysia and indonesia. and so i'm gonna try the flights across a good

let's just buckley way and that's pushing up toward shanghai some heavier rain just coming through here, whether the down towards the se, system a little drive, it's way across the east. china say towards the fall south of south bridge tosses some showers to just coming in to what japan as we go through us on the road. the more expensive for time on monday. then fresh a clear weather just talks in behind a dry weather into a northern parts of china by this stage one or 2 showers down towards the south and plenty of showers. just make a way across the south trying to say here is such a goose boom. try me, making a bit of a utah it is a slow on this, so it's stuck purpose sunday. take a look at monday. pretty much in the same position. but like turning in those tank of a so that rain stuck with for a couple of days. some heavy rain that will cause widespread flooding before it drifts back out towards the philippines. fresh showers across the philippines. some what drives us malaysia and indonesia. and so i'm gonna try the flights across the good parts of south asia. the remnants of our ol

this little band of cloud, hey, let's just buckley way and that's pushing up towards shanghai some heavier, right? just coming through here, whether they're down towards the se, system a little drive it's way across the east trying to see what was the fall south of south korea, thomas, i'm showers to just coming into what japan as we go through s sunday. rather, more expensive for time on monday and fresh or clear weather. just talk. same behind the dry weather into a northern parts of china by this stage one or 2 shelves down towards the south and planning a shower. does this make a way across the south trying to say here is the trunk goose boom. try me making a bit of a utah. it is a slow one. this. so it start purpose sunday. take a look at monday. pretty much in the same position, but like turning a nose hank away, so that rain stopped there for a couple of days. some heavy rain that will cause widespread flooding before it drifts back out towards the philippines. fresh house close to the philippines. somewhat dr. malaysia and indonesia, and so i'm gonna try the flights across the good

a flushing its own in france using economic buckley the broadcasting 247. for most schools, this is your r t international hello and welcome to the news hour. we begin 11 on where israel is continuing its attacks on the country's capital. this friday smoke could be seen rising over pay roots already around the i the half targets. what it says is because bullet infrastructure, israel has also claimed to have killed another of the militant groups commanders, a figure looted as the next head of his bullock. although there's been no official confirmation on not the idea of ads that it struck an underground tunnel as well. crossing the lebanese border into syria, the and this was the skyline in the early hours house. these really are a forest carried on dozens of strikes near bay roots international reports, black smoke, same building right across the capital. lebanese officials reported 37 people killed and over a 100 wounded. in the attacks was tensions in the middle east store, the uranian supreme leader has addressed his nation, um citizens of 11 on in a rel

i knew he was right and so i was a very passionate conservative i was a william f buckley. i read national review. and then when i got to college during my junior year, i ran across libertarianism. the book tells the story about how i became introduced to libertarianism actually at first a friend of mine told me about it and i told her, you know, i'd want to hear about this. and the reason why is that the word was weird weird, and i thought it sounded so that was it. but then she brought a speaker to the residential college. we in who would explain libertarianism. i was listening to it and i thought, wow, a rational conservatism. i could go for that. and by my last year, northwestern, i taught a student accredited on libertarian, libertarian ism. so at that point, by my senior year of college i was a libertarian then the book, as the book explains where i went as a first year law student, i had written fan letter to murray rothbard, and when i went to harvard law school, he gave it to a classmate of mine. that guy brought me down to new york and i met the whole libertarian

you recall our government friend william f buckley wrote many years ago. a nation would religion is sunk. families without religion are sunk. it breaks the whole country, he never said which, die tie dei is not a higher power. that is the problem here. >> free society, you have to have two wings, one is freedom the other is virtue, without freedom the other does not work. a couple years ago republican electives were scscared of this issue, suddenly the light bull be bulb went off. larry: this is a common sense view if you ask me, biological men should not play in women's sports, is that asking too much? it is not a religious issue, this is a common sense issue eit is a losing issue for those who support it those in brown and one in wisconsin, tester, in montana that is not montana values, i am kissing him good by, the other is more interesting they are stuck with that, that is is a bad losing issue. >> so bad in texas calling allred who got attacked in senate campaign over ted cruz over this issue had to cut a new ad saying i'm not in favor. >> he said boy

janus henderson's jeremiah buckley. prices higher as tensions in the middle east continue energy now on pace for the biggest weekly jump since january. traders are working through the possible escalation risk between israel and iran in the coming days we did get to 72 today, libya is putting on full production once again. people are watching call options in the usos. >> that's right. you've seen this inventory build in the u.s. to your point as well, so -- and then we've got stimulus in china. so again, we talk about cross currents in the equity market, cross currents in the oil and energy markets as well the geopolitical tensions are making defense stocks a key focus this week. lockheed market, rtx outperforming the s&p. they're all trading at all-time or multiyear highs lockheed on pace for its best week since august, even though we're seeing a breather today. hiking its dividend and stock buyback and basically intensifying conflict in the middle east putting technologies particularly missile defenses to the test it a

that the right tells itself and a tells people how the new republic the often talked about william buckleys prohibition on the johnjo birch society and their projection of certain anti-semites so your book kind of undermines that narrative right? >> absolutely. a lot of other really good looks that come out recently that cold hammer's book about the right-wing mediaki have really thrown a lot of cold water on theco conventional conservative narrative that there were all these purges being p pushed out the. many of the people in my book we are always on the extreme far right are members in good standing and worked at the national review. he would make attacks or distance himself. those of the half-hearted and get watered down later. that's the history of the conservative movement. it's notable for instance i mean the national review attacked pat buchanan is an anti-semite and a couple of months later pat buchanan is running for office and in these primary in with bush and to give them a tactical endorsement. it's strange to spend time but it is a and we will endorsement away. that pattern re

interceptor missiles fired from two guided missile destroyers in the eastern mediterranean, uss cole and buckley. they employed the ballistic missile defense system to shoot down some of the incoming missiles. lloyd austin spoke multiple times to his israeli counterpart yesterday issuing the following statement. we condemn this outrageous act of aggression by iran and call on iran to halt any further attacks, including from its proxy terrorist groups. we will never hesitate to protect our forces and interests in the middle east and to support the defense of israel and our partners in the region. a message echoed by president biden. >> president biden: the attack appears to have been defeated and ineffective. and this is testament to israeli military capability and u.s. military. make no mistake, the united states is fully, fully, fully supportive of israel. >> the pentagon saw signs that iran was preparing for a ballistic missile attack when it began moving missile launchers following the killing of hezbollah leader nasrallah last friday. all of the 181 ballistic missiles were fired from iranian

in washington, where huge crowds gather, greet the return of president truman and president elect buckley this is a proper tribute to the fighting campaign and won by harry truman the people's choice as their for the next four years. and. of course, here is that icon of an inaccurate chicago tribune headline, dewey defeats truman. harry truman seemed to revel in that headline, didn't he andrew busch? oh, absolutely absolutely. he reveled in it. and as i as i mentioned, he was he was probably the only person who was not surprised by it. there's an interesting story behind that, that headline, too, which is that there was a a printers strike type typesetter strike that was going on at the chicago tribune. so they had replacement type setters who didn't entirely know what they were doing. and the the tribune that they needed to get their headline set early because they couldn't count on the the type setters to to do it speedily. so they they made a guess about the headline be. and that's that's i wound up that way. but that was everyone's assumption. and here again are, the 1948 election res

in washington, where huge crowds gather, greet the return of president truman and president elect buckley this is a proper tribute to the fighting campaign and won by harry truman the people's choice as their for the next four years. and. of course, here is that icon of an inaccurate chicago tribune headline, dewey defeats truman. harry truman seemed to revel in that headline, didn't he andrew busch? oh, absolutely absolutely. he reveled in it. and as i as i mentioned, he was he was probably the only person who was not surprised by it. there's an interesting story behind that, that headline, too, which is that there was a a printers strike type typesetter strike that was going on at the chicago tribune. so they had replacement type setters who didn't entirely know what they were doing. and the the tribune that they needed to get their headline set early because they couldn't count on the the type setters to to do it speedily. so they they made a guess about the headline be. and that's that's i wound up that way. but that was everyone's assumption. and here again are, the 1948 ection resul

washington where huge crowds gathered to greet the return of president truman and vice president-elect buckleyaged and one by harry s. truman, the people's choice as their leader for the next four years. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> and, of course, here is that iconic and an accurate "chicago tribune" headline, dewey defeats truman. harry truman seen too revel in that headline, didn't he, andrew busch? >> absolutely. absolutely, he reveled in it. and p as i mention he was probay the only person who was not surprised by it. there's an interesting story behind that headline, too, which is that there was a printers strike, typesetter strike those going on at the "chicago tribune" so they replacement typesetters who didn't entirely know what they were doing, and so the tribune decided that he needed to get their headline set early because they couldn'ton count on the typesetters to do it speedily. so they made a guess about what the headline was going to be, and that's why it wound up that way. but that was everyone's assumptions. and here again the 1940 election results with the parties involved. harry truman 49.5%

later in 1960 three a similar announcement over the loudspeaker in our school room in new york at buckleyool. hemingway with such a towering name in our family. my father was his last publisher. and was close to him. not a best friend like his own father, my grandfather had been. they really were best friends. my father was a generation younger. he was his publisher during the difficult years of the 1950's when hemingway's health was beginning to fail. the poor man survived two near fatal plane crashes in africa. he had a lot of challenges. but i tell the story and again, my father used to say to me writing is a heuristic experience. what he meant by that -- a greek word -- you make discoveries you are not aware of when you actually set them down on a page in writing. the discovery i made was a conclusion that had never been mentioned by my dad. he told a story that toward the end of hemingway's life, hemingway and trusted his handwritten last will to him. it was in a valise. hemingway was renting an apartment half a mile up fifth avenue from scribner's. he said lock it in your office saf

cole" and uss buckley fired 12. some iranian missiles got through.it civilian structures as well as air bases israel says its air force capability is unaffected. at today's emergency u.n. security council meeting with the israeli ambassador watching, iran's ambassador defended the attack. >> a necessity to restore balance and must understand that each act of invasion it makes it's not unpunished and will be met with consequences. >> weighing retaliation to the second direct attack from iran, the chiefs of israel's defense establishment met in the cure i can't. israel's region of the pentagon. >> we have the capabilities to reach and strike any point in the middle east. and those of our enemies who have not yet understood this will soon understand. >> still cautious about escalation, u.s. president joe biden said he would not support an israeli strike on iranian nuclear facilities. instead, he promised sanctions and called for a meeting of g-7 leaders. >> all seven of us agree that they have a right to respond. they should respond in proportion. >> an

the william buckley jr.p program of an organization dedicated to promoting intellectual diversity and open political discussions at yale. we've posted lectures, seminars, debates and annual conference every year since 2011. by providing yale students with a forum to engage meaningfully with serious conservative thought, the program has become an institution on yale's campus and a symbol for a more open and representative political atmosphere, especially at a university where the mission is the cultivation and creation of new knowledge, buckley fellows believe all perspectives must be heard and examined in good faith. you can learn more about the program and how to become a fellow on our website. before we begin tonight's program, i want to emphasize the buckley programs commitment to freedom of speech. disruption of an event is not consistent with yells policies on freedom of expression as outlined in the report. i would ask that each of you respect the right of our speakers to be heard and the right of your

buckley fired in defense of israel.t's notable that the cole was attacked by al-qaeda terrorists port in yemen 24 years ago a precursor to 9/11. the pentagon and state department says the u.s. was not given a heads up by iran in advance of today's attack. >> it's something that we have been monitoring. certainly this was a significant attack, probably about twice the size in terms of scope. of what we saw early. >> a u.s. official tells fox news iran has been at a state of readiness to launch an attack on israel 12 to 24 hours since early august following the july 31st assassination of hamas leader ismail haniyeh in tehran, bret? >> bret: jennifer griffin in tehran. thanks. >> this is a significant escalation by iran and significant that we were able to step up with israel and create a situation in which no one was killed. >> we're still playing defense with these guys. it makes no sense whatsoever. 200 ballistic missiles is significant and i don't see how the israelis can ignore that and just go -- punch back lightly.

he was very close with william f buckley. he was a senior leader in the john birch society through the mid 1960s. you know, so and for me, that posed a question of, okay, well, that means something. it doesn't mean that, you know, the conservative movement is fascistic necessarily, but it does mean that they're adjacent in intertwined, interconnected in ways that i don't think. certainly not at the time. this is before trump rose to national prominence. most people fully sort of appreciate it or understood so i can i think about trumpism in 2024 as the acceleration of trends that had been existing in politics and in the conservative political tradition in a very for a very long time. nancy. i'm sure i'm not going to talk how we got here. i'm going to talk about the here because could because i think that what our book governing is identifying destination and happy destination that hasn't been acknowledged as a unified thing as opposed to popular authoritarianism or what it's going to talk about. so on governing is an unfamili

our dear french chris buckley couldn't make it to speak. his father's class of 50. as expected. i think of you often as i cover the white house in the 21st century and remember fondly your many kindnesses. and a sign at ann compton who has never emailed a president. dear and. the next day. it is wonderful from you. i'd like the youngest the best. all is well. and this what i love about this. this letter. it's not about portraits and history. all is well by the sea. tomorrow is, bp's 85th birthday, big day in her life. i am giving her a small surprise party tomorrow night at one of our favorite restaurants. i was assuming it was mabel's. but i don't know. otherwise, this. this. i'd like other white 150 people. but that's story. a small surprise party. that's good to know. it was not at mabel's. even prince bandar. anyway, go ahead. was no doubt that he was alive. the president. otherwise, all quiet at walker's point. the kids and the grandkids will start arriving soon. and then will no longer be quiet. mainly, i will sit. and watch the chaos. we rarely go out anymore and live a v