There were two bills at National Review and in the conservative movement, two bills. Bill Buckley Concha a brilliant shooting star who lit up the sky and bill rusher, and never wavering northstar by which conservatives learned to chart their political course. Now many have written about william f. Buckley junior, irresistible renaissance man but no one until david frisk has given us an indepth portrait of the other bill, william a. Rusher among his other salutary played a pivotal role in the life of the National Draft Goldwater Committee and that was critical, because if there had been no Draft Goldwater Committee there would have been no president ial candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964. And if there had been no candidate goldwater in 1964, there would have been no president elect Ronald Reagan in 1980. It was goldwater you see who approved reagans famous a time for choosing television address which made reagan a political star overnight and led to his running for governor of california