mr. dickey. one of the most formative people in my life. he was a brilliant man. i grew up on a farm, fought in world war ii, was a fabulous student of literature and he had conservative values. he said to me one day, sessions, you are a good young guy, you've got a future ahead of you. you need to be armed before you get to college. they will lead you astray if you don't watch it. you need to be prepared. so he encouraged me to read the conservative national review. so every two weeks, i would wake up -- break up my $9 and started reading it with my dictionary. william buckley was such a brilliant commentator and great group of writers that he assembled. when the trends were going the other way, the big government trends went full force and they were just a little group of intellectuals that appealed to me. and captured my imagination. i was interested in it. i kept up with it. you wouldn't be here if you didn't have some of the same approaches to life. they said it was such a tough time, really in many ways,'s conservatism had left that's less influence than it