we knew william f. buckley, jr. from television and had been subscribing to his magazine for half a year. perhaps that would be no. i took dear bob off of the beginning of my letter, added a conclusion and sent it away. months passed without a word from "national review". i assumed they had not like the submission and thrown away and this was standard procedure in journalism. and then after the new year i got a letter from the assistant managing editor. dear mr. burr kaiser -- mr. brookhiser please steel with their slowness in dealing with our manuscript it was buried on my desk. this i've learned is standard procedure in journalism. [laughter] bills older sister and managing editor, we have read it and are eager to publish it. he added, we do receive manuscripts from people your age but i am sure this will be the first we have never published. anyone who ever submit something for the approval of the world expects in some corner of his mind he will be approved. but when approval actually came i was startled. the wor

what do you think william f. buckleyandard bearer for the conservative party? i think a lot of this criticism is well deserved. unmentioned in this is max lemonthal piece in the "the nation" about the real reason for her doing this. there is talk, of course, of the investigation by federal authorities of contracts that she and her husband, or she has governor let out. these are only at the stage where we're hearing about this. but it does sort of fit in the missing piece in this mystery as to why she resigned in the middle of the fourth of july weekend. >> eric: palin people saying there is nothing to any of that. she's criticizing the media. she has a tweet this morning sayinging critics are spinning so hang in there, as they feed false information about -- or on the right decision. i mean she really pushes the buttons for these people. >> she does, but she asked for it herself, doesn't she? this is one of the rare cases where i think all the liberal stylists like maw rine dowd and gale collins and the rest of them real

in the 1950's and 60's buckley, william f. buckley, it isn't often remembered he really makes dramatic efforts to bring southerners' into the conservative coalition. he pans and editorial in 57 arguing that the denial of the vote to black citizens in the south is perfectly justifiable because these people haven't reached a level of civilization that would allow them to participate democratically so buckley is a mother figure. goldwater clearly is someone when he runs in 64l side of his own state of arizona only wins a handful of deep south states nowhere else in the nation is he a strong figure. >> why did he win those states? >> in the 1964 election one of the major issues was that the great civil-rights bill that johnson had proposed and goldwater's opposition to the civil rights bill was one of the things used by his other supporters over and over to try to get votes for him so it was in civil rights and south for him articulated as a kind of strong constitutionalism and states' rights and individual list ideology. >> what is the s

step forward and say this is over the line, it's inappropriate, not unlike in the '50s what william f. buckleyid with the -- >> well, it took him a long time to denounce someone like joe mccarthy who also poisoned our politics. what would it take, carlos? look what we heard. you have to ask what would it take? we've heard it already. you think a republican party has some semblance of desire to reassert itself as a force in american politics, certainly in a country with a a changing demographic. its future rests on speaking and in more tolerant ways and at the moment looking like political suicide if they don't speak out more broadly. >> let's bring in a senator after weeks of health care negotiations in the senate, are they about to yield some results? finance committee chairman max baucus says his bipartisan panel is closing in on agreement and that may win over some republicans but causing a major rift in the democratic caucus. barbara boxer joins us now. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> do you feel like a positive end is in sight? we hear lots of the back and forth but do you think a

in the 19 fifties and sixties buckley, william f. buckleymembered but he really makes erratic efforts to bring seven years into the conservative coalition, he pens an editorial in 57 arguing and that's dwarfed the denial of of the vote to black citizens in the south is perfectly justifiable because of these people have now reached a level of civilization that would allow them to participate democratically, goldwater clearly is someone not when he runs in 64 outside of his own state of arizona only wins a handful of deep south states, now or else in the nation is the strong figure. >> why did he win the state's? >> in the 1964 election one of the major issues was the civil rights bill and that johnson had proposed and goldwater's opposition to the civil-rights bill who was one of the things that was used by his other reporters over to try to get his votes. and so really it was of a rise in the south articulated as a strong constitutionalism and the states' rights, but an individual is kind of ideology. >> joseph lowndes, what is a southern st