Before Ronald Reagan announced his campaign for the 1976 presidential nomination--seeking to topple the detentist incumbent, Gerald Ford--National Review wrote editorially that his positions would be good, if they were "consistent with his well-known predilections.".

* Before Ronald Reagan announced his campaign for the 1976 presidential nomination--seeking to topple the detentist incumbent, Gerald Ford--NATIONAL REVIEW wrote editorially that his positions would be good, if they were "consistent with his well-known predilections." His predilections were well-known to us because we shared them. We said, time and again, as we said in 1975, that "Mr. Reagan is a man of honor, courage, and intelligence." When we opened our Washington office in 1983, President Reagan, who attended our reception, returned the compliment by calling us his "favorite magazine." Two years later, at our 30th-anniversary dinner in New York, Reagan predicted that "pundits and analysts" would one day "realize something, not only about this journal, but about its founder and editor," Bill Buckley: They "changed our country, indeed our century." You did that, sir. But NATIONAL REVIEW, its supporters and subscribers, its founder, and his successors and colleagues are honored to have helped.