Sorry, and you're right. My remark was meaningless without context, which I failed to establish.
My point was that I've been following conservative thought since I was 19, when I was introduced to Ayn Rand by a college classmate. That was almost exactly fifty years ago. A few years later I encountered National Review for the first time, and became a consumer and subscriber to that magazine.
I thought I was aware of all the main currents (so to speak) of conservatism as it developed in the years after the Kennedy assassination. Admittedly, there were some writers whom I thought boring; either because I couldn't relate to their point of view, or because I thought they were stating the obvious without adding anything useful. Joe Sobran and Pat Buchannan were two of those. Perhaps Sam Francis was another.
My father was a dedicated reader of “The Remnant” Catholic newspaper. Because of that I became very familiar with Joseph Sobran and Samual Francis, among others.