Sam Tannenhaus
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Then next door is the Episcopal Church.
High Church.
High Church.
Down the street, the Methodist Little Lower Church.
You have to go practically into a back alley to find the Catholic Church.
And that's where the Buckleys worshipped.
The household servants got in the cars with them, and they drove to church together.
So who's worshipping at St.
Bernard's, the Catholic Church in Sharon, Connecticut?
It's the working class.
That's who Buckley saw.
Buckley was an altar boy.
He and his brothers were altar boys.
His father was an altar boy in Duval County, Texas.
The county that won, I have no air quotes here, but won the Lyndon Johnson Senate campaign in 1948.
Buckley's grandfather was a sheriff in that county.
So he comes out of that.
Make sure they count them right.
The living and the dead.
And so many more.