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Talk:James L. Buckley

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''he graduated in 1943 and joined the navy in 1942 .. this needs to be clarified'' - during the war, a lot of people signed up before finishing school, then entered the service once they had graudated. RickK 20:50, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)

"Draft Buckley" and Jesse Helms
Is there a source for the information about Jesse Helms and the 1976 convention? I had never heard this. Indeed, Jesse Helms' support in the 1976 primary in North Carolina is generally credited with keeping Reagan's campaign going into the convention. (See the Wikipedia entry for Jesse Helms.) The statement about "Draft Buckley" may thus need to be clarified (or even removed).

Appropriate citations added. I also added a website link for the hypercurious -- NBC news transcript from 1976: http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1976-8/1976-08-11-NBC-2.html

"(Studio) Reagan forces say Buckley's move not stop-Ford plot by their people. North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms says he urged Buckley to enter race, but without Reagan's knowledge."

Jkp1187 16:14, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

"Last Senator not representing a major party"
Is this accurate? Isn't Jim Jeffords "not reprsenting a major party". (True, JLB was elected as a "Conservative", but he clearly had very strong ties to GOP....and since Jeffords bolted the GOP, but did NOT switch to Democratic Party, arguably he was more 'independent'.) Thoughts? Jkp1187 16:17, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

 * The passage has been changed to "He was the last Senator to be elected from a party other than the Democrats or Republicans." It's still inaccurate, though, because Lieberman was elected in 2006 as the candidate of the Connecticut for Lieberman Party, not as an independent. I don't see that the point is very important to Buckley's bio anyway, so I'm going to remove the paragraph. JamesMLane t c 10:44, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

In addition to Lieberman, there is another senator now serving who was elected as a third party candidate-- Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is a member of the Socialist Party. He caucuses with the Democrats, but he runs as a Socialist, as he did when he was mayor and a member of the House. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brooklynite (talk • contribs) 15:55, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

 * Agree re Sanders. I dropped the curious half-sentence and argumentative footnote. This line of argument does not belong in the lede. I don't think it's well enough supported by secondary RS to be in the main text of the article. Maybe a 'third party' article where the possible contenders can be covered. Rjensen (talk) 07:49, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Spliting the liberal vote?
There is some evidence that Buckley did not really split the liberal vote. =Rather, according to Buckley, a NY Post poll after the election showed that Buckley received a large portion of the blue colar vote, which in the context of the time was socially conservative (for example, middle aged union members not happy with the counter culture). Goodell, the Republican said that he did not drop out of the race because much of his support came from Republicans who otherwise would have voted for Buckley. Buckley recounted this in his recent oral history. Back in college (I attended school in New York in the late 1980s) one of my poli-sci professors felt that Buckley would have won a two way race. --Amcalabrese 16:54, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Bot-created subpage
A temporary subpage at User:Polbot/fjc/James Lane Buckley was automatically created by a perl script, based on this article at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. The subpage should either be merged into this article, or moved and disambiguated. Polbot (talk) 16:50, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

This must be wrong . ..
The first entry in Buckley's table of political offices suggests that Daniel Patrick Moynihan preceded him as Conservative party senate nominee, presumably in 1964. I suspect that the actual nominee was J. Daniel Mahoney, and someone got confused. WHPratt (talk) 14:58, 16 February 2010 (UTC) I checked the New York Times archives (Sept. 7, 1964, page 5 being a case in point). The Conservatives had hoped to run Claire Booth Luce for the U.S. Senate, but she backed out, and Henry Paolucci was the eventual nominee. The party had a quandary, as they were not permitted to cross-list the Republican electors for Barry Goldwater, and thus feared dividing Goldwater's vote. See NYT, Dec. 8, page 89 for the vote totals. J. Daniel Mahoney was the party's state chairman, and I still think that someone distorted his name into Daniel Patrick Moynihan's. I'll correct the listing. WHPratt (talk) 01:47, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Books addendum
A few years after being elected to the U.S. Senate, he wrote a book about his experiences entitled If Men Were Angels .... WHPratt (talk) 19:58, 13 August 2012 (UTC) Sorry about that, the title is listed in another section. It just seemed strange to credit him with three books in a sentence and then name only one, but no need for a revision. WHPratt (talk) 00:30, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Catawba Corporation
Is this the same company listed in the drop-down menu as 'Catawba Power Company' (which redirects to 'Duke Energy')? Harfarhs (talk) 21:39, 6 March 2014 (UTC) Buckley's wife Ann died in 2010. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AHopton (talk • contribs) 12:15, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

Tags
I have tagged the section on Buckley's U.S. career (which needs more sources) and the section on his post-Senate career (which needs expansion). Also, a statement in the lede needs a better source. SunCrow (talk) 05:44, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Sorry: False alarm! ********* WHPratt (talk) 16:05, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

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Igor Volk

Igor Petrovich Volk (Игорь Петрович Волк, Ігор Петрович Волк; 12 April 1937 – 3 January 2017) was a Russian test pilot and former Soviet cosmonaut in the Buran programme.

Military and test pilot
Volk became a pilot in the Soviet Air Forces in 1956. After graduation from the Fedotov Test Pilot School in 1965, he has joined the Gromov Flight Research Institute. He logged over 7000 flight hours in over 80 different aircraft types. Over the years, he flew on all types of Soviet fighters, bombers, and transport aircraft. He showed outstanding abilities in complex tests of various airplanes at critical angles of attack, stall, and spin. He was the first who tested aircraft behavior at high super-critical angles of attack (around 90°) and performed aerobatics such as the "cobra" maneuver.

Space program
Igor Volk was selected as a cosmonaut on 12 July 1977 and subsequently assigned to the Buran programme. As part of his preparations for a space shuttle flight, he also accomplished test-flights with Buran's counterpart OK-GLI aircraft.

In July 1984, Volk flew aboard Soyuz T-12, intended to give him some experience in space. With Volks's participation as research cosmonaut on the 7th expedition to Salyut 7, one goal of the mission was to evaluate the effects of long-duration spaceflight on a pilot skills and ability to fly and land an aeroplane safely (in order to prove Volk's ability to control Space Shuttle Buran atmospheric segment of flight). At the time of the Soyuz T-12 mission the Buran program was still a state secret. The appearance of Volk as a crew member caused some, including the British Interplanetary Society magazine Spaceflight, to ask why a test pilot was occupying a Soyuz seat usually reserved for researchers or foreign cosmonauts.

After his orbital flight, Volk served as the head of pilot-cosmonaut training department for the Buran program and later (after the project's cancellation) worked for the Gromov Flight Research Institute as a Flight Tests Deputy Chief before retiring in 1996. He previously served as President of the National Aero Club of Russia and Vice President of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. As recognition for his contributions as a test pilot and cosmonaut he was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union on 29 July 1984.

Social work

 * Member of the City Council of the city of Zhukovsky (1984-1987)
 * President of the All-Union Tennis Federation of the USSR (1986-1990)
 * President of the Federation of Aviation Fans (since 1988)
 * Member of the Executive Committee of the Green Movement (since 1989). An active supporter of the environmental movement in the USSR and Russia.
 * First Vice-President of the Federation of Cosmonautics of Russia (FKR), Chairman of the Executive Committee of the FKR (2003-2005)

Since April 1990, Volk has been a member of the editorial board of the Wings of the Motherland magazine. He participated in the transcontinental flight Moscow - Canberra - Moscow on a Yak-18T aircraft (November 12, 1991 - February 2, 1992).

On 21 November 2013, he signed an open letter to the President criticizing the United Aircraft Corporation and its leader Mikhail Pogosyan for curtailing the program for the production of the Tu-334 aircraft. Also, in this letter, the Superjet project is directly criticized.

In May 2016, Volk supported the program of environmentalists in the elections and primaries of United Russia in the Moscow Oblast. He actively supported the environmental projects of the EkoGrad magazine.

Other accomplishments
Volk was an inventor. He also supported a number of startups like four-person concept flying car, etc.

Personal life
Volk was married and had two children. He died on 3 January 2017 while on holiday in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He is buried together with his daughter at the Bykovskoye Memorial Cemetery in Zhukovsky.

Honours and awards

 * Hero of the Soviet Union
 * Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR
 * Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR
 * Zhukovsky Honorary Citizen
 * Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 4th class
 * Order of Lenin
 * Order of the Red Banner of Labour
 * Order of Friendship of Peoples
 * Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"

Memory
Bust of Igor Volk is installed at Solnechnaya Street in the city of Zhukovsky.

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