And the King said unto his servants, “Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel.” (II Samuels 3:38)
This is the feeling about my oldest friend, Dr. Lee Edwards, who went to his heavenly reward Dec. 12, 2024. A prince and a great man.
In the summer of 1961, I went to New York City to become the executive secretary of Young Americans for Freedom, the rag tag group of college conservatives who met at William F. Buckley’s house in Sharon, Connecticut, in 1960 to launch the modern-day conservative movement. Lee was a founding member of Young Americans for Freedom and a member of the board of directors.
Thus began a lifelong, deep, and strong friendship.
We had so much in common—same age, both strong, conservative, anti-Communist, Catholics—consumed with saving Western civilization.
In early 1975, I mailed promotion letters…
