“If only WFB had socked this queer in his GD face and he had stayed plastered.”
I was a freshman in high school and watching FL with my dad. We were both disappointed Buckley didn’t slug him ;-)
I was about two years from being born, but watched him on Firing Line when I was a kid. Of course I read about this exchange later in life, but it was only a few years ago that I found the clip online: