Moments after his infamous televised dust-up with Gore Vidal, William F. Buckley encountered a livid Paul Newman, who told him that Buckley calling Vidal a "queer" on national television was the most disgraceful thing he'd ever seen. Not even Buckley reminding Newman that Vidal had started the ball rolling by calling him a "crypto-Nazi" lessened the actor's rage. "That was political, yours was personal," Newman replied.
