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By Bill Altreuter

I've read what William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal had to say about the famous exchange in which Vidal called Buckley a "crypto-Nazi", and Buckley offers to sock Vidal in the face, but I'd never seen it. This is why the World Wide Interweb is so great. I was looking for the "Maidstone" donnybrook between Mailer and Rip Torn(the link I had posted earlier had been taken down) and there it was. Great stuff-- political discourse really was conducted at a higher level back then, although it also included name-calling that I doubt anyone would get away with today. Buckley calls Vidal a queer, in addition to offering to sock him the the g-ddamned face-- "And you'll stay plastered...." he hisses. "Let the author of "Myra Breckenridge" go back to his pornography...."

Full post as published by Outside Counsel on November 12, 2007 (boomark / email).