Former federal appeals court judge and New York Senator James Buckley has died at age 100
WASHINGTON — — Former New York Sen. James Buckley, an early agitator for Richard Nixon's resignation and winner of a landmark lawsuit challenging campaign spending limits, died Friday at age 100.
His younger brother called his win"the crystallization of counterrevolutionary impulses" and often referred to James as"the sainted junior senator from New York." In March 1974, Buckley shocked New York Republicans when he called on President Richard Nixon to resign to pull the nation"out of the Watergate swamp" and save the office of the presidency.
Buckley had gained his first wide notice in the political world in 1968 when he attracted more than a million votes as the Conservative Party challenger to liberal Republican Sen. Jacob Javits. At the time it was the best showing for a minor party candidate in state history. Javits won, with help from the state's Liberal Party.
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