Pat Buckley, RIP
Patricia Taylor Buckley, wife of William F. Buckley and mother of Christopher, died yesterday at age 80. NRO has posted an obituary that it describes as a "primary document," from which I infer that it is by by WFB. The NRO obituary takes us back to the days before Mrs. Buckley became a public figure:
Mrs. Buckley went from being a glamorous debutante to a vacuum cleaner-wielding wife of a junior faculty member of Yale. She and Mr. Buckley lived in Hamden, Connecticut, while he wrote his first book, God and Man at Yale while working as a junior instructor in the Spanish department. After Mr. Buckley did a brief stint in Mexico City with the Central Intelligence Agency — working for E. Howard Hunt, later of Watergate break-in fame — he and his wife settled in Stamford, Connecticut, their home ever since.The New York Times obituary rounds out the picture of "a commanding presence at designer fashion shows and big charitable and social events, [who] attained that distinction not only by her social clout and force of personality." RIP.
