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William F. Buckley Jr., whose impish smile and rich diction defined American conservatism for half a century, died Wednesday at his waterfront home on Wallacks Point in Stamford. . . .

Little's last sailing junket with Buckley was on Long Island Sound, about five years ago. Buckley was beginning to slow down physically, but had not lost his plucky, contrarian wit.

"I remember Bill sitting in the back of that boat with a martini in one hand and a cigar in the other and he told us that he had been to see his doctor that day," Little said. "Buckley said: 'The doctor said no more smoking, no more drinking, no more stress. So don't [expletive deleted] stress me out."

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