[Semper Paratus]

WFB wrote a very good eulogy for his friend that praises his humanity but doesn't let him off the hook for his economics.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1625902/posts

[robowombat]

WFB is a more generous man than many. But then he was an Ivy League grad and recognized as the tolerated house 'conservative intellectual' by the cognoscenti.

To many 'average' Americans who had to deal with JKG in some mundane way they found him a haughty, snobbish, contemptuous boor. He clearly believed he was put on earth to lead the swinish masses to something better than TV and air conditioned suburban housing. What exactly was never stated but I always had the idea it was 'high density housing', 'public transportation, and subsidized 'educational programs' sort of like PBS only more 'high culture'.

JKG was a snob and boor and no friend of normal Americans.