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Death and legacy
Buckley liked to go yachting, twice crossing the Atlantic himself, and playing the harpsichord. He married Patricia Alden Austin Taylor in 1950.
Buckley liked to go yachting, twice crossing the Atlantic himself, and playing the harpsichord. He married Patricia Alden Austin Taylor in 1950.
Buckley died of a [[heart attack]] in 2008.
==Death and legacy==
Buckley died of a [[heart attack]] in 2008, he was 82.<ref>[http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-buckley28feb28-story.html William F. Buckley Jr., 82; author and founder of modern conservative movement]</ref>
Historian [[George H. Nash]] wrote of him that ''William F. Buckley Jr. was arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century. For an entire generation he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure. He changed minds, he changed lives, and he helped to change the direction of American politics.''<ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/article/223788/simply-superlative-george-h-nash Simply Superlative]</ref>
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