that dog won't hunt, monsoignor

At the 1968 Republican Convention:

During the first day of the convention, Tony Dolan, a young Yale undergraduate who had interviewed [William F.] Buckley for the Yale Daily News, visited him at his room at the Eden Roc Hotel, and confidently predicted that Reagan would win the nomination and the election and create a “Roosevelt-like” change in the country. Buckley raised his hand and said no, the conservatives did not have an intelligentsia to run the country. “Where are the assistant professors?” Buckley asked Dolan.

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