William F. Buckley, Irrepressible Conservative

Fresh Air

Published February 28, 2008 at 10:14 AM EST

Conservative icon William F. Buckley, Jr., died Wednesday. He was 82. Fresh Air remembers the founder and longtime editor of the National Review with excerpts from a 1989 interview.

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