A Troublemaking Dad

William F. Buckley’s dad, a sharp-tongued Texan who always spoke his mind, reviled Mexican revolutionaries as south-of-theborder Bolsheviks in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Dec. 13, 1919. The millionaire oilman and father of the conservative intellectual with the same name was born in 1881 at Washington-on-the-Brazos to Irish immigrants, who came to Texas by way of…