But Enough About You: Essays (59 page)

Freeh, Louis J.,
22
–23

freighter: Buckley’s adventures on,
15
–17

French Revolution,
189
,
334
,
344

Frost, David,
176
–78

gaffe,
383
–91

gardens,
35
–36

Gates, Bill,
251
,
252
,
412

Georgetown set,
163

Gibson, Mel,
39
,
40
–41,
90
,
433

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader,
60
,
61

Glin Castle (Ireland): O’Moyne–Buckley trip to,
89
,
94
–95,
97

Goldwyn, Samuel,
249
–50,
355

Gore, Al,
171
,
213

Gottlieb, Robert,
207
–8,
210
,
259
,
260
,
266
–67

graduation speeches,
25
–27,
363
–65

Greene, Graham,
126
,
292
–96

Hadow, Douglas,
50
–51,
52

Halberstam, David,
190
,
264

Halloween,
37
–38

Halsey, William Jr. “Bull,”
399
–400

Hanoi, Vietnam: Buckley’s trip to,
125
–30

Harvard University,
3
,
38
,
101
,
190
,
220
,
311
,
360
,
362

Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
9
,
310
,
315
,
316
–17,
318
–19

Heller, Erica,
261

Heller, Joseph: Buckley first meets,
7
; Buckley letters to/from,
200
–216;
Catch–22
by,
7
,
201
,
208
,
211
,
241
,
242
,
254
–61,
293
;
Closing Time
by,
200
,
205
; “Czech, Please” by,
208
,
209
; death of,
199
–200; “Five Meals That Changed History” by,
201
,
202
;
God Knows
by,
213
; Hitchens and,
228
–29,
258
; illness of,
204
–5,
209
;
No Laughing Matter
by,
199
;
Now and Then
(memoir) by,
201
,
210
,
211
,
255
,
259
; Rome story by,
203
,
204
,
205
,
206
,
208
,
211
; S
omething Happened
by,
207
–8,
209
,
260
; Vidal compared with,
8
; Vonnegut and,
241
–42,
260
; in World War II,
200
,
241
,
255

Heller, Ted,
215
,
216
,
261

Heller, Valerie,
199
–206,
209
–12,
214
,
216
,
261

Hemingway, Ernest,
40
,
256
,
268
,
271
,
272
,
294
,
329
,
330
,
331
,
332
,
333
,
433
n

Henry V (king of England),
227
,
431
–33

Higgs boson particle,
377
–79

history: of billionaires,
76
–78; of bug zapper,
65
–68; of directions,
98
–100; of hotel alarm clocks,
146
–50; of hotel minibars,
115
–17; of pep talks,
428
–41

History, Secretary of,
191
–93

Hitchens, Carol,
323
,
325

Hitchens, Christopher,
10
,
11
,
222
–23,
224
–30,
258
,
281
,
321
–25

Hitler, Adolf,
141
,
148
,
302
,
304
,
416
–17,
435

Ho Chi Minh,
127
,
297

Holmes, Oliver Wendell,
298
,
318

Horne, Alistair,
141
,
334

horoscope,
83
–86

hotels: history of alarm clocks in,
146
–50; minibars in,
115
–17

“How to Write a Book”: Congdon–Buckley relationship and,
198

Hudson, Charles,
49
–50,
52

humor: Buckley’s comments about writing,
1
–5; and definition of laughter,
384
–85; money as root of,
249

Hussein, Saddam: and pep talks,
435
,
436
,
437
,
439
; possible successors to,
372
–74

Huston, John,
92
,
96
–97,
266
,
272

Ibn Khaldoun,
297
,
298

Iditarod Trail sled dog race,
110
–14

Incas,
103
–9

Iraq,
165
–66,
190
,
192
,
224
,
372
–74,
436
–37,
439
–40

Ireland: and Buckley’s heritage,
35
; O’Moyne–Buckley rambles through,
89
–97

Japan: Bush (George H. W.) vomiting in,
202
,
389
; SAT about,
374
–77

Johnson, Lyndon,
384
,
388
,
416
,
422

Joy of Sex
(Comfort),
233
,
234
–36,
268

Joyce, James,
89
–90,
311

Kennedy, John F.,
149
,
218
,
298
,
303
,
306
,
415
,
434
–35,
434
n

Kennedy, John Jr.,
216
–18

Kennedy, Joseph Patrick,
300
–306

Kenney, Douglas,
275
,
278

Kesey, Ken,
260
,
263

King, Stephen,
266
,
271
,
274

Kissinger, Henry,
10
,
177
,
203
,
225
,
226
,
237
–40,
299
,
410

labels: warnings on,
391
–93

Lady Liberty (archetype),
392
–93

Langella, Frank,
175
–78

Larkin, Philip,
233
,
324

Lauer, Matt,
309
–10

Leale, Charles,
181
,
185
,
186

Lenin, Vladimir: corpse of,
400
–403

Lennon, John,
91
,
100
,
197

Lincoln, Abraham,
116
,
181
–87,
231
,
290
–92,
297
,
411
,
424

Lincoln, Mary Todd,
183
,
185
,
186
,
291

Lincoln Memorial,
179
,
186
–87

lobster bib,
62
–64

London, England: plaques in,
151
–52; Remembrance Day in,
140
–42

Luggala (Ireland): O’Moyne–Buckley trip to,
89
,
91
–94,
97

Lunn, Arnold,
50
,
51
,
52

Machu Picchu: Melocotón–Buckley trip to,
100
–109

Mackey, Lance,
110
,
111
,
112
,
113
,
114

Mailer, Norman,
212
,
218

Mandela, Nelson,
121
,
123

Mann, Charles,
102
,
104
,
105

Mantle of Greatness cartoon,
3
,
172

Mao Zedong,
237
,
238
,
239
,
435
,
436

marijuana,
33
–34

married couple: on
Suzy Wong
sailboat,
33
–34

Martello tower (Ireland): O’Moyne–Buckley trip to,
89
–90

martinis,
426
–27

Matterhorn: Buckley’s trip to,
43
–54

Melocotón, Peaches; Buckley’s trips with,
100
–109,
118
–24,
329
–39

Melville, Herman,
8
,
15
,
260
,
268
,
310
–20,
312
n
,
438
. See also
Moby-Dick
(book/movie)

minibars, hotel: history of,
115
–17

Moby-Dick
(book/movie),
43
,
96
,
260
,
266
,
272
,
274
,
310
–20,
437
–38

money:
The New Yorker
cartoons about,
249
–54; Thompson and,
262

Morse, Samuel,
395
–96

movies: breaking into the,
39
–43. S
ee also specific movie

Murphy, Daniel J.,
29
,
30
,
167
–68

name-dropping,
404
–10

Nanny State,
226
,
393

Nasaw, David,
300
,
301
,
302
,
303
,
304
,
305

NATO countries: U.S. missiles in,
28
–29

Nazis,
284
–86,
304
,
309
.
See also
Hitler, Adolf

The New Yorker:
Buckley review of Heller novel in,
200
;
Catch–22
review in,
255
–56; elitist cartoons in,
189
; Mantle of Greatness cartoon in,
3
,
172
; money cartoons in,
249
–54; political cartoons in,
3
,
167
–72

Nimitz, Chester W.,
399
–400

Nixon, Richard M.,
175
–78,
315
,
383
–84,
411
,
419
,
424

Obama, Barack,
188
–89,
224
,
291
,
303
,
362

Olson, Charles,
315
–16,
317
,
319

O’Moyne, Maggie: Buckley’s trip to Ireland with,
89
–97

Orwell, George,
10
–11,
228
,
229
,
284

Our Man in Havana
(book/movie),
292
–96

outrage, populist,
188
–90

Pan American World Airways,
148
–49

Paris, France: Buckley’s visits to,
329
–39; Père-Lachaise cemetery in,
334
–39; Wodehouse in,
285

Parker Bowles, Camilla,
279
–80,
412

The Passion of Christ
(movie),
39
,
41

Patton, George,
438
–39

pep talks: history of,
428
–41

Père-Lachaise cemetery (Paris),
152
,
334
–39

Peru: Melocotón–Buckley trip to,
100
–109

Pitch, Anthony,
181
,
182
,
184
,
185

Political Correctness,
393

politics:
New Yorker
cartoons about,
3
,
167
–72

populism,
188
–90

Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man
(Heller),
261

Portsmouth Abbey School: Buckley’s speech at,
26
–27

Powell, Colin,
182
–83,
372
,
373

Prescott, William,
101
,
102
,
104
,
105
–6

protocol, state,
383
–91

Proust, Marcel,
40
,
311
,
334

Provence, France: Buckley’s trip to,
345
–50

“Quiet Car” (train),
20
–23

Ratcliffe, Sophie,
281
,
284
,
285
,
288

Reagan, Ronald,
28
,
159
–60,
163
–64,
166
,
171
–72,
182
,
224
,
296
–99,
384
,
411
,
417
,
428
–29,
436

Regan, Don,
424
–25

Rehnquist, William,
60
,
61

Reitman, Jason,
40
–41,
425

rejection letters, college,
359
–62

Remembrance Day (November
11
, 1918),
140
–42

Republicans: and hotel minibar hearings,
117
;
New Yorker
cartoons about,
168
,
171
–72

Robben Island (South Africa),
122
–23

Robertson, Pat,
245
–48

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
223
,
297
,
304
–5,
306
,
375
,
416
,
430
,
436

Roosevelt, Theodore,
9
,
53
,
181

Rose, Charlie,
176

royalty: errors about,
81
–82; gaffes of/about,
385
–87; name-dropping about,
405
–6,
407
–8,
409
.
See also specific person