Pat Buchanan

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• Born: 2 November 1938
• Birthplace: Washington, D.C.
• Best Known As: Pugnacious political talker on CNN

A famously outspoken conservative, Pat Buchanan was a speechwriter and political advisor to President Richard Nixon and later served as communications director for president Ronald Reagan. In 1982 Buchanan began a long association with the Cable News Network as a political commentator. He took leaves of absence from that job to work for Reagan and to run for president himself in the elections of 1992, 1996, and 2000. Buchanan won the New Hampshire Republican primary in 1996 before losing the overall GOP nomination to Bob Dole. In 2000 he broke from the Republican party to run as the nominee from the Reform Party. Since then he has continued as an on-air commentator and syndicated columnist. In spite of Buchanan's conservative pedigree, he has been fierce critic of many of the policies of President George W. Bush.

(b. Washington, DC, 2 Nov. 1938) US; politician Born into a large Roman Catholic family of Irish origins, Buchanan was educated at Georgetown University and the Columbia School of Journalism. His early career was spent working for the St Louis Globe Democrat; but in 1966 he became associated with Richard Nixon's presidential bid working for him first as a researcher and speech writer, then moving into the White House as a special assistant. During his time in the Nixon White House Buchanan dealt with media issues and spearheaded the conservative attack on the liberal news media.

When Nixon left office Buchanan remained but he began to promote his own conservative agenda through widely syndicated newspaper columns, radio, and television. That agenda emphasized the need to reduce radically the role of government in the economy and welfare and took a very conservative line on social issues such as abortion and school prayer. On foreign policy, Buchanan was a militant anti-Communist; but with the end of the Cold War he moved towards an isolationist position which fitted well with his nativist populism.

Buchanan's conservative activism made him an enthusiastic supporter of President Reagan but he sometimes found it difficult to adapt his shrill views to the realities of government. Thus in 1985 when Buchanan became Director of Communications at the White House, his ideological interpretation of the role frequently brought him into conflict with Reagan's more pragmatic advisers and indeed exacerbated relationships with Congress.

When Reagan retired, Buchanan increasingly projected himself as the spokesman of the conservative movement. In 1992 he ran against Republican candidate George Bush in the primaries and although he won 37 per cent in New Hampshire he lost in all of them. Yet his invocation of "a cultural and religious war" generated substantial organizational and financial support and put in place a network of activists loyal to him rather than the Republican Party. In 1996 he ran again on a populist "America First" ticket which emphasized anti-abortion and curbs on imports. He achieved just under 22 per cent of the popular vote and lost the Republican nomination to Robert Dole. Although Buchanan was clearly not enthusiastic about Dole's candidacy he rejected the idea of supporting third-party candidate Ross Perot, or mounting an independent candidacy himself.

Buchanan remains one of the most visible leaders of the conservative movement. But he is also divisive and he has to date failed to translate his support into a successful candidacy for major elective office.

Commentator, journalist, and presidential candidate Patrick Joseph Buchanan (born 1938) represented the hard-line conservative wing of the Republican Party.

Patrick Buchanan was born in Washington, D.C., on November 2, 1938. His father, William Baldwin Buchanan, was a partner in a Washington, D.C., accounting firm. His mother, Catherine Elizabeth (Crum) Buchanan, was a nurse, an active mother, and a homemaker.

Buchanan traced his father's family as coming from Scotland and Ireland and settling in the southern region of America in the late 1700s. He related how some of his ancestors fought for the Confederacy, while another family branch lived in the North. His mother's side of the family were of German immigrant heritage and had settled in the Midwest.

Buchanan grew up in an energetic household. He was the third of nine children. He had six brothers and two sisters. He learned his combatative personality from his father. The elder Buchanan encouraged good manners, debates, sibling rivalries, and fisticuffs.

As did all his siblings, he attended a local Catholic elementary school. He went on to Jesuit-run Gonzaga High School, following in the steps of his father and brothers. Deciding to stay in Washington and to continue at a Catholic school, he enrolled in Georgetown University in 1956 on a scholarship. While there, Buchanan majored in English, lived at home, and had an active social life. He joined intramural boxing and tore the cartilage in his knee during a fight. The damage was later to keep him out of military service.

In his senior year he received a traffic violation. Believing that his ticket was wrongfully given, he verbally and physically assaulted the police. He was arrested, fined, and had a minor police record. The incident had a marked effect on his life. The university suspended him for a year. During that period he learned accounting and took a serious look at his future. He decided on a career in journalism and returned to complete his undergraduate education with a more mature attitude. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, in 1961.

Buchanan entered the journalism school at Columbia University with a fellowship. He enjoyed writing, but disliked studying the technical side of newspaper publishing. He earned his Master of Science degree in 1962.

The future media personality began his career as a reporter with the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. He quickly became an editorial writer for this conservative Midwest newspaper. He was appointed the paper's assistant editorial editor in 1964. Thinking it would be years before he could become an editor, and wanting some challenges in his life, he thought about a new career direction.

In 1966 he arranged a meeting with Richard Nixon, whom he impressed with his conservative outlook and aggressive political style. Nixon hired him as an assistant. At that time the former vice-president (1953-1961) was a partner in a New York City law firm, was involved in Republican Party activities, and was anticipating a run for the 1968 presidential nomination. Buchanan assisted Nixon on his speeches, newspaper articles, study tours, and campaign.

Following Nixon's 1968 election, Buchanan joined the new presidential administration as a special assistant. He wrote speeches for Nixon and for Vice President Spiro Agnew. He helped plan strategies for the 1972 reelection campaign. During this time he met Shelly Ann Scarney, who was a receptionist at the White House. They married in 1971.

In 1973 Buchanan was appointed a special consultant to President Nixon. He devoted his attention to the Watergate crisis, which revolved around political sabotage in the 1972 presidential campaign. He testified before the Senate Watergate Committee later that year. Although he was not accused of any wrongdoing by the committee members, Buchanan denied suggesting or using any illegal or unethical tactics.

After Nixon's resignation from office in August 1974, Buchanan stayed on for several months as an adviser to President Gerald Ford. Buchanan then left the White House and became a syndicated columnist and lecturer. He later worked as a radio and television commentator on political and social issues. With his style and viewpoints, he became nationally known as a spokesman for a right-wing conservative philosophy.

He returned to the White House in 1985 as director of communications at the start of President Ronald Reagan's second term. His sister, Angela Marie Buchanan-Jackson, had served as treasurer of the United States in Reagan's first term. Buchanan took a major loss of income in his switch back to public service. He stayed only two years, then went back to broadcasting, writing, and lecturing.

In 1992 Buchanan declared his candidacy for the Republican Party presidential nomination. His campaign against President George Bush, who sought reelection, was designed to position himself as an "outsider" and to promote a strong conservative program. He ran with an "American First" theme, arguing that the country should limit its obligations abroad in the post-Cold War decade.

Buchanan attracted attention from a public facing an economic recession, lay-offs of workers, depressed real estate values, increased taxes, and general frustration with government. He spoke against abortion on demand, homosexual rights, women in combat, pornography, racial quotas, free trade, and an activist U.S. Supreme Court. He spoke for aid to religious schools, prayer in public schools, and curbs on illegal immigrants. Buchanan called his political beliefs "street corner" conservatism, which he learned at the dinner table, soaked up in parochial schools, and picked up on the street corners of his youth.

In the early 1992 New Hampshire primary he won 37 percent of the votes. That was his highest percentage of support. The figure dropped in each succeeding primary. In some primaries where Republican voters could vote uncommitted, "uncommitted" finished ahead of Buchanan. He found it difficult to maintain a campaign organization and to raise funds, but he pressed on through the spring and summer.

Buchanan vied for the White House a second time in 1995, basing his campaign on conservatism. However, he lost once again. Buchanan also founded and directs The American Cause, an educational foundation that emphasizes his political beliefs.

Further Reading

Buchanan has written a lively autobiography, Right from the Beginning (1988), which describes the life and times of growing up in Washington, D.C., and attending Catholic schools in the mid-to-late 20th century. His conservative call to arms is colorfully written in his book Conservative Votes, Liberal Victories: Why the Right Has Failed (1975). The 1992 election campaign can be reviewed in the 1992 Congressional Quarterly weekly reports. Many facts about Buchanan can be obtained from his Web site entitled "The Buchanan Brigade" available at .

American professor of psychology and medical science born in Frankfort, Kentucky, on December 11, 1814. He became dean of the faculty and professor in the Eclectic Medical Institute (which practiced natural medicine) in Covington, Kentucky, and a pioneer researcher in the field of psychometry.

The discoverer of "phrenomesmerism," Buchanan published in 1843 a neurological map, a new distribution of the phrenological organs. He anticipated Prof. Ferrier's "center of feeling" by localizing as early as 1838 the "region of sensibility" in which, in a state of high development, he found traces of an unknown psychic faculty for which in 1842 he coined the word "psychometry," the measuring of the soul.

Episcopal Bishop Leonidas Polk (General Polk during the Civil War) told him of his curious sensitivity to atmospheric, electric, and other physical conditions. If he touched brass in the dark, he immediately knew it by its influence and the offensive metallic taste in his mouth. Buchanan began to experiment and soon found out that these sensations were not restricted to the sense of taste alone. Students of a Cincinnati medical school registered distinct impressions from medicines held in their hands. To eliminate thought transference, the substances were wrapped up in paper parcels and mixed.

Slowly the conviction forced itself on Buchanan that emanations might be thrown off by all substances, even by the human body, which certain sensitives might feel and interpret in their normal state. He was staggered by the implication of such a possibility and asserted: "The past is entombed in the present, the world is its own enduring monument; and that which is true of its physical is likewise true of its mental career. The discoveries of Psychometry will enable us to explore the history of man, as those of geology enable us to explore the history of the earth. There are mental fossils for psychologists as well as mineral fossils for the geologists; and I believe that hereafter the psychologist and the geologist will go hand in hand, the one portraying the earth, its animals and its vegetation, while the other portrays the human beings who have roamed over its surface in the shadows, and the darkness of primeval barbarism. Aye, the mental telescope is now discovered which may pierce the depths of the past and bring us in full view of the grand and tragic passages of ancient history."

To the subtle emanation given off by the human body he gave the name "nerve aura." In the Journal of Man, which succeeded S. B. Brittan's Shekinah, one of the first Spiritualist monthlies, he published a complete exposition of his system of neurology, or anthropology. The paper was mainly devoted to his psychometric experiments, in the course of which he came to believe that an actual clue, something belonging to the person of whom reading is given, is not always necessary and that an index, which leads the mind of the psychometer to the subject, may suffice. He observed: "Acting upon this view I wrote the name of a friend and placed it in the hands of a good psychometer, who had no difficulty, notwithstanding her doubts of so novel a proceeding, in giving as good a description of the character of Dr. N. as if she had made the description from an autograph. After that experiment I was accustomed to extend my inquiries to ancient and modern historical characters, public men and any person in whose character I was interested, as well as localities I wished to have described."

Buchanan regarded psychometry as a human faculty that did not involve the intervention of spirits. L. A. Coffin, however, in her preface to Buchanan's Manual of Psychometry (Boston, 1889) admitted that she was often impressed by spirits. This was not incongruous, as Buchanan himself was an avowed Spiritualist. He published an astounding narrative of his own experiences in the Light of Truth, Columbus, Ohio, in 1899.

He stated that from 1849 to 1855 he was the only medical scientist to defend the Fox Sisters and repel their assailants. He told his friends that he was "as well acquainted with the spirit world as they were with Europe." This knowledge was derived from instructions given by direct voices through Mrs. Hollis-Billing (Mary J. Hollis) and from direct scripts. He was further helped by psychometric explorations that he began in 1879-80 through Cornelia H. Buchanan. "The past was to her as open a book as the present, and during the years in which she portrayed historic characters of whom I knew nothing, I never found her deviating from the truth as far as I could discover."

In the course of these investigations, Buchanan received a direct penciled message signed by "St. John." This was followed by startling communications which, after having been held in reserve for 17 years, were published in 1897 under the title Primitive Christianity: Containing the Lost Lives of Jesus Christ and the Apostles and the Authentic Gospel of St. John. Buchanan stated that he tested the St. John script, properly concealed, through three psychometrists: Cornelia H. Buchanan, Mrs. W. R. Hayden, and Dr. James M. Peebles, and that all three agreed as to its source, giving similar descriptions of a great spirit devoted personally to Jesus Christ. The book was also adorned by an engraving of the spirit form of St. John, which Buchanan received between his own pair of slates held in his hand.

On other occasions but in a similar manner, he claimed to obtain between his slates a portrait of Moses and the Tables of Law, pictures of Aaron, Helen of Troy, and John the Baptist, and communications from Confucius. He asserted that subsequent psychometric reading bore out, in each instance, the genuineness of the manifestation. Buchanan died December 26, 1899, in San Jose, California.

Political commentator, White House appointee, and presidential candidate Patrick Joseph Buchanan is a leader of far-right conservatism. From modest beginnings as a journalist in the early 1960s, Buchanan became an influential voice in the Republican party. He served in a public relations capacity under three presidents—Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, and Ronald Reagan—before running for president himself in 1992. His hard-line positions on abortion, immigration, and foreign aid, as well as his battle cry for waging a "cultural war" in the United States, failed to wrest the nomination from George Bush. Buchanan tried for the Republican nomination again in 1996, this time losing to Bob Dole. Often the subject of controversy for his writings and speeches, Buchanan is the founder of a political organization called the American Cause, whose slogan is America First.

Born November 2, 1938, in the nation's capital, Buchanan was the third of nine children of William Baldwin Buchanan and Catherine E. Crum Buchanan. He grew up under the resolute influences of Catholicism and conservatism, both the hallmarks of his father, a certified public accountant. Buchanan's brilliance at the Jesuit Gonzaga College High School earned him the honor of class valedictorian and a scholarship to Georgetown University. In his senior year of college, the English and philosophy major was already developing the sharp, confrontational style that would mark his professional life. He broke his hand scuffling with police officers over a traffic incident and was suspended from Georgetown for a year. He nonetheless finished third in his class in 1961. He received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1962.

Like other conservative politicians of his generation, notably Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) and President Reagan, Buchanan began with a career in the media, which led into politics. He spent three years writing conservative editorials for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat before being introduced to Nixon at a dinner party. The politician soon hired the twenty-eight-year-old as an assistant in his law firm. Buchanan wrote speeches for Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign, worked as his press secretary, urged him to choose Spiro T. Agnew as a running mate, and, after the election, became his special assistant. This last position involved reporting on what the news media said about the administration. It was an increasingly thankless job. Buchanan believed that bad news about the Vietnam War, youth protest, and the Watergate scandal was the work of a biased liberal media. He fought back, and is widely thought to have written Vice President Agnew's famous antipress speech in 1969 attacking the "small and unelected elite" whose opinions were critical of the president.

Buchanan escaped the taint that brought down Nixon, in part because he refused to help Nixon aides in their so-called dirty tricks campaign. Buchanan declined to smear Daniel Ellsberg—the former defense analyst who leaked the classified documents known as the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times, and whose psychiatrist's office Nixon aides broke into, helping set in motion the Watergate scandal. In fact, Buchanan later strongly defended the president and denounced the conspirators at U.S. Senate hearings. This testimony saved his career: he was seen as loyal and, more important, as evidently knowing little about the vast extent of the administration's illegalities. Unlike other Nixon insiders, he did not need to rehabilitate his reputation after Nixon left office. He remained in the White House under President Ford until 1975. See also Watergate.

Between 1975 and 1985, Buchanan established a national reputation. He wrote a syndicated column that criticized liberals, gays, feminists, and particularly the administration of President James (Jimmy) Carter. He also made forays into radio and television broadcasting, founding what would later become the political debate program Crossfire on the Cable News Network (CNN). He rarely pulled punches; liberals and even some conservatives regarded him as a reactionary, but he won an audience with his appeals to traditional values. Although he was earning a reported annual income of $400,000 for his writing and work in radio and television, Buchanan jumped at the offer to serve as director of communications during the second term of President Reagan. The job was a conservative activist's dream: besides shaping Reagan's public image, Buchanan had constant access to the president's ear. Buchanan reportedly used this access to spur Reagan on to taking tougher positions—such as vetoing a farm bailout bill and lavishly praising the anti-Sandinista Contra rebels fighting in Nicaragua as "the moral equal of our Founding Fathers."

Presidential aspirations drew Buchanan into the 1992 race. He was even better known than in the 1980s as the result of his nightly appearances on CNN's Crossfire, where he sparred with his liberal colleague Michael E. Kinsley. President Bush's popularity among Republicans was waning, especially in light of a sluggish economy. Moreover, Buchanan offered a clearly tougher platform than Bush, whom he considered a tepid moderate. "It seemed to me that if we're going to stand for anything," he told the Washington Times, "conservative leaders had to at least raise the banner and say, ‘This is not conservatism.'" Buchanan's campaign combined populism, nationalism, and social conservatism: he advocated limits on immigration, restrictions on trade, and isolationism in foreign policy, while opposing abortion rights, gay and lesbian rights, and federal arts funding. As he always had in his role as a pundit, the candidate provoked. He ran TV ads featuring gay dancers, and he toured the South criticizing the Voting Rights Act (42 U.S.C.A. § 1971 et. seq. [1965]) and reassuring southerners that hanging the Confederate flag from public buildings was acceptable free expression.

Buchanan's critics also did not pull their punches. Liberals accused him of xenophobia, racism, and homophobia. Conservatives sometimes came to his defense, but not always. Michael Lind, editor of the conservative journal the National Interest, wrote that Buchanan represented "conservatism's ugly face." Charges of anti-Semitism followed Buchanan's use of the phrase "Israel and its amen corner" in attacking U.S. intervention in the Persian Gulf War, and among those critical of him was the prominent conservative author and Catholic William F. Buckley, Jr. Buchanan denied the charges: he said he was being tarred for supporting John Demjanjuk, who was accused, then later cleared, of being the Nazi war criminal Ivan the Terrible.

Small flaps attended the Buchanan campaign regularly—one day he was announcing that English immigrants would assimilate better than Zulus, and the next calling for beggars to be removed from the streets. The most severe criticism came in August 1992 after his speech at the GOP national convention. First he knocked the Democratic party's convention as a gathering of "cross-dressers." Then he called for a "cultural war" in which U.S. citizens, like the National Guard putting down the Los Angeles riots, "must take back our cities, and take back our culture, and take back our country." Typical of the liberal response was an editorial in the New Republic criticizing Buchanan for advocating "militarized race war" (Washington Times 19 July 1993). Mario M. Cuomo, former governor of New York, confronted him on the CBS program Face the Nation, asking, "What do you mean by ‘culture'? That's a word they used in Nazi Germany." William J. Bennett, former secretary of education, accused him of "flirting with fascism." Buchanan defended himself, blaming secular humanism, Hollywood, the National Endowment for the Arts, and public schools for creating an "adversary culture" contrary to traditional values.

Despite Bush's winning the nomination handily, Buchanan's influence did not wane. Two years later, the themes of his candidacy found expression in the Contract with America's insistence on a constitutional amendment allowing school prayer and in a call for a crackdown on immigration. Moreover, in 1995, his "cultural war" message could be heard from nearly every Republican presidential candidate, especially Bob Dole. Meanwhile, Buchanan announced a second run for the White House campaigning on the same strong conservative positions he had advanced in his campaign in 1992. Though he stayed in the race until the end, Buchanan lost the Republican nomination for president to Dole by a large margin. See also elections.

Quotes:

"Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children."

"Defeat has its lessons as well as victory."

"If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators."

"I think that in the minds of many, the press is being seen less and less as a neutral observer in the impeachment enterprise and more and more as participants, or even collaborators. [On Media's Participation In Watergate]"

"Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up."

"Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual."

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Pat Buchanan
Pat Buchanan in 2008
Born	November 2, 1938 (1938-11-02) (age 71) Washington, D.C., United States
Occupation	Writer, political commentator
Political party	Republican (1960s–1999, 2004–present) Reform (1999–2000)
Religious beliefs	Traditionalist Catholic
Spouse(s)	Shelley Ann Scarney
Parents	William Baldwin Buchanan II and Catherine Elizabeth Crum Buchanan

Patrick Joseph "Pat" Buchanan (born November 2, 1938) is an American conservative political commentator, author, syndicated columnist, politician and broadcaster. Buchanan was a senior advisor to American presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan, and was an original host on CNN's Crossfire. He sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996. He ran on the Reform Party ticket in the 2000 presidential election.

He co-founded The American Conservative magazine and launched a foundation named The American Cause.^[1] He has been published in Human Events, National Review, The Nation and Rolling Stone. He is currently a political commentator on the MSNBC cable network including the show Morning Joe and a regular on The McLaughlin Group.

Contents 1 Personal life 2 Professional career 2.1 St. Louis Globe-Democrat Editorial Writer 2.2 Work for the Nixon White House 2.3 News Commentator 2.4 Work for the Reagan White House 3 Political career 3.1 1992 presidential primaries 3.2 Off the campaign trail 3.3 1996 presidential primaries 3.4 2000 presidential campaign 4 Return to private life 4.1 MSNBC Commentator 4.2 The American Conservative Magazine 4.3 Other Activities 5 Political positions 6 Electoral history 7 In popular culture 8 See also 9 References 10 Books and articles 10.1 Books 10.2 Major speeches 10.3 Selected articles 10.4 Interviews 11 External links 11.1 Buchanan-affiliated 11.2 News and analysis 11.3 Campaign materials 11.4 Supporting views 11.5 Opposing views 11.6 Miscellaneous

Personal life

Buchanan was born on November 2, 1938, in Washington, D.C., a son of Catherine Elizabeth (née Crum) (Charleroi, Washington County, Pennsylvania, December 23, 1911 – Oakton, Fairfax County, Virginia, September 18, 1995), a nurse and a homemaker, and William Baldwin Buchanan (Virginia, August 15, 1905 – Washington, D.C., January 1988), a partner in an accounting firm, who married on December 28, 1936.^[2][3] Buchanan had six brothers (Brian, Henry, James, John, Thomas, and William Jr.) and two sisters (Kathleen Theresa and Angela Marie, nicknamed Bay).^[4] Bay served as U.S. Treasurer under Ronald Reagan. Buchanan has English, German, Scots Irish, and Irish ancestry.^[2] He had a great-grandfather who fought in the American Civil War on the Confederate side. He is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans^[5] and admires Robert E. Lee.^[6]

Buchanan was baptized into the Catholic Church and attended Blessed Sacrament School, the Jesuit-run Gonzaga College High School, and Georgetown University.

While studying at Georgetown, Buchanan served in ROTC and received his draft notice in 1960. However, a District of Columbia draft board rejected him from military service due to reactive arthritis, declaring him 4-F. After Georgetown, Buchanan earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia in 1962. He wrote his master's project at Columbia on the expanding trade between Canada and Cuba.

Buchanan married White House staffer Shelley Ann Scarney in 1971. They have no children.^[7]

Professional career

St. Louis Globe-Democrat Editorial Writer

Buchanan joined the St. Louis Globe-Democrat at age 23. The first year of the United States embargo against Cuba in 1961, Canada-Cuba trade tripled. The Globe-Democrat published a rewrite of Buchanan's Columbia master's project under the eight-column banner "Canada sells to Red Cuba - And Prospers" eight weeks after Buchanan started at the paper. According to Buchanan's memoir Right from the Beginning, this article was a career milestone. However, Buchanan later said the embargo strengthened the communist regime and he turned against it.^[8] Buchanan was promoted to assistant editorial page editor in 1964 and supported Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign. However, the Globe-Democrat did not endorse Goldwater and Buchanan speculated there was a clandestine agreement between the paper and President Johnson. Buchanan recalled: "The conservative movement has always advanced from its defeats. . . I can't think of a single conservative who was sorry about the Goldwater campaign."^[6] According to the foreword (written by Pat Buchanan) in the most recent edition of Conscience of a Conservative, Buchanan was a member of the Young Americans for Freedom, and wrote press releases for that organization. He served as an executive assistant in the Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander, and Mitchell law offices in New York City in 1965.

Work for the Nixon White House

The next year, he was the first adviser hired to Nixon's presidential campaign;^[9] he worked primarily as an opposition researcher. For his speeches aimed at dedicated supporters, he was soon nicknamed "Mr. Inside."^[10]

Buchanan traveled with Nixon throughout the campaigns of 1966 and 1968. He made a tour of Western Europe, Africa, and in the immediate aftermath of the Six-Day War, the Middle East. When Nixon took the Oval Office in 1969, Buchanan worked as a White House adviser and speechwriter for Nixon and vice president Spiro Agnew. Buchanan coined the phrase Silent Majority and helped shape the strategy that drew millions of Democrats to Nixon; in a 1972 memo he suggested the White House "should move to re-capture the anti-Establishment tradition or theme in American politics."^[11] His daily duties included developing political strategy, publishing the President's Daily News Summary, and preparing briefing books for news conferences. He accompanied Nixon on his trip to China in 1972 and the summit in Moscow, Yalta, and Minsk in 1974. He suggested to Nixon to label Democratic opponent George McGovern as an extremist and burn the White House tapes.^[10]

Buchanan remained as a special assistant to the president through the final days of the Watergate Scandal. He was not accused of wrongdoing, though some mistakenly suspected him as Deep Throat. When the actual identity of the press leak was revealed as FBI Associate Director Mark Felt in 2005, Buchanan called him "sneaky," "dishonest," and "criminal."^[12] Due to his role in the Nixon campaign's "Attack Group," Buchanan appeared before the Senate Watergate Committee on September 26, 1973. He told the panel:

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The mandate that the American people gave to this president and his administration cannot and will not be frustrated or repealed or overthrown as a consequence of the incumbent tragedy.[10]

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When Nixon resigned in 1974, Buchanan briefly stayed on as special assistant under incoming President Gerald Ford. Chief of Staff Alexander Haig approved Buchanan's appointment as ambassador to South Africa, but Ford refused it.^[10]

Buchanan remarked about Watergate:

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The lost opportunity to move against the political forces frustrating the expressed national will ... To effect a political counterrevolution in the capital — ... there is no substitute for a principled and dedicated man of the Right in the Oval Office.[10]

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Long after his resignation, Nixon called Buchanan a confidant and said he was neither an anti-Semite nor a "hater," but a "decent, patriotic American." Nixon said Buchanan had "some strong views," such as his, "isolationist" foreign policy, with which he disagreed. While the former president did not think Buchanan should become president, he said the commentator "should be heard."^[13]

News Commentator

Buchanan returned to his column and began regular appearances as a broadcast host and political commentator. He co-hosted a three-hour daily radio show with liberal columnist Tom Braden, called the Buchanan–Braden Program. He delivered daily commentaries on NBC radio from 1978 to 1984. Buchanan started his TV career as a regular on The McLaughlin Group and CNN's Crossfire (inspired by Buchanan-Braden) and The Capital Gang, making him nationally recognizable. His several stints on Crossfire occurred between 1982 and 1999; his sparring partners included Braden, Michael Kinsley, Juan Williams, and Bill Press.

Work for the Reagan White House

Buchanan served as White House Communications Director from 1985 to 1987. To help garner opposition to Nicaragua's Sandinista government and support of the opposing rebels he coined the phrase I'm a contra too.

Buchanan supported President Reagan's plan to visit a German military cemetery at Bitburg in 1985, where among buried Wehrmacht soldiers, were 48 buried Waffen SS members. Over the vocal objections of Jewish groups, the trip went through. In an interview, author Elie Wiesel described attending a White House meeting of Jewish leaders about the trip:

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The only one really defending the trip, was Pat Buchanan, saying, 'We cannot give the perception of the President being subjected to Jewish pressure.'[14]

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Buchanan accused Wiesel of fabricating the story in an ABC interview in 1992:

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I didn't say it and Elie Wiesel wasn't even in the meeting. [...] that meeting was held three weeks before the Bitburg summit was held. If I had said that, it would have been out of there within hours and on the news.[15]

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In a speech to the National Religious Broadcasters in 1986, Buchanan said about the "Reagan Revolution,"

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Whether President Reagan has charted a new course that will set our compass for decades — or whether history will see him as the conservative interruption in a process of inexorable national decline — is yet to be determined.

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A year later, he remarked "the greatest vacuum in American politics is to the right of Ronald Reagan."^[10] While her brother was working for Reagan, Bay Buchanan started a "Buchanan for President" movement in June 1986. She said the conservative movement needed a leader, but Buchanan was initially ambivalent.^[10] After leaving the White House, he returned to his column and Crossfire. Out of respect for Jack Kemp he sat out the 1988 race, although Kemp later became his adversary.^[11]

Political career

1992 presidential primaries

In 1990, Buchanan published a newsletter called Patrick J. Buchanan: From the Right; it sent subscribers a bumper sticker reading: "Read Our Lips! No new taxes."^[16]

In 1992, Buchanan explained his reasons for challenging the incumbent, President George H. W. Bush:

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If the country wants to go in a liberal direction, if the country wants to go in the direction of [Democrats] George Mitchell and Tom Foley, it doesn't bother me as long as I've made the best case I can. What I can't stand are the back-room deals. They're all in on it, the insider game, the establishment game — this is what we're running against.[6]

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He ran on a platform of immigration reduction, and social conservatism, including opposition to multiculturalism, abortion, and gay rights. Buchanan seriously challenged Bush (whose popularity was waning) when he won 38 percent of the seminal New Hampshire primary. In the primary elections, Buchanan garnered three million total votes.

Buchanan later threw his support behind Bush, and delivered a keynote address at the 1992 Republican National Convention, which became known as the culture war speech, in which he described "a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America." In the speech, he said of Bill and Hillary Clinton:

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The agenda Clinton & Clinton would impose on America — abortion on demand, a litmus test for the Supreme Court, homosexual rights, discrimination against religious schools, women in combat units — that's change, all right. But it is not the kind of change America needs. It is not the kind of change America wants. And it is not the kind of change we can abide in a nation we still call God's country.[17]

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The enthusiastic applause he received prompted his detractors to claim that the speech alienated moderates from the Bush/Quayle ticket.^[18]

Off the campaign trail

Buchanan returned to his column and Crossfire. To promote the principles of federalism, traditional values, and anti-intervention, he founded The American Cause, a conservative educational foundation in 1993. Bay Buchanan serves as the Vienna, Virginia-based foundation's president and Pat is its chairman.^[19]

Buchanan returned to radio as host of Buchanan and Company, a three-hour talk show for Mutual Broadcasting System on July 5, 1993. It pitted him against liberal co-hosts, including Barry Lynn, Bob Beckel, and Chris Matthews, in a time slot opposite Rush Limbaugh's show. To launch his 1996 campaign, Buchanan left the program on March 20, 1995.

1996 presidential primaries

1996 saw Buchanan's most impressive attempt to win the Republican nomination. With a Democratic President (Bill Clinton) seeking re-election, there was no incumbent Republican with a lock on the ticket. Indeed, with defeated President George H. W. Bush having made clear he was not interested in re-gaining the office, the closest the party had to a front-runner was the Senate Majority leader Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas, who was considered to have many weaknesses. Buchanan sought the Republican nomination from Dole's right, voicing his opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Other candidates for the nomination included Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas, former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander and the multi-millionaire publisher Steve Forbes.

In February, the liberal Center for Public Integrity issued a report claiming Buchanan's presidential campaign co-chairman, Larry Pratt, appeared at two meetings organized by white supremacist and militia leaders. Pratt denied any tie to racism, calling the report an orchestrated smear before the New Hampshire primary. Buchanan told the Manchester Union Leader he believed Pratt. Pratt took a leave of absence "to answer these charges," "so as not to have distraction in the campaign."^[20]

Buchanan defeated Senator Bob Dole by about 3,000 votes to win the February New Hampshire primary, getting his campaign off to an energetic start. He went on to win three more states (Alaska, Missouri and Louisiana), and finished only slightly behind Dole in the Iowa caucus. His insurgent campaign used his soaring rhetoric to mobilize grass-roots right wing opinion against what he saw as the bland Washington establishment (personified by Dole) which he believed had controlled the party for years. At a rally later in Nashua, he said:

“

We shocked them in Alaska. Stunned them in Louisiana. Stunned them in Iowa. They are in a terminal panic. They hear the shouts of the peasants from over the hill. All the knights and barons will be riding into the castle pulling up the drawbridge in a minute. All the peasants are coming with pitchforks. We're going to take this over the top.[21]

”

While campaigning, Buchanan used a slogan with his supporters, "The peasants are coming with pitchforks", occasionally appearing with a prop pitchfork, thus earning him the nickname "Pitchfork Pat."

In the Super Tuesday primaries, however, Dole defeated Buchanan by large margins. Having collected only twenty one percent of the total votes in Republican primaries, Buchanan suspended his campaign in March. He declared however that If Dole were to choose a pro-choice running mate,^{[citation needed]} he would run as the U.S. Taxpayers Party (now Constitution Party) candidate. However, Dole chose Jack Kemp and he received Buchanan's endorsement. After the 1996 campaign, Buchanan returned to his column and Crossfire. He also began a series of books with 1998's The Great Betrayal.

2000 presidential campaign

Buchanan announced his departure from the Republican Party in October 1999, disparaging them (along with the Democrats) as a "beltway party." He sought the nomination of the Reform Party. Many reformers backed Iowa physicist John Hagelin, whose platform was based on transcendental meditation. Party founder Ross Perot did not endorse a candidate, but his former running-mate Pat Choate endorsed Buchanan.

Supporters of Hagelin charged the results of the party's open primary, which favored Buchanan by a wide margin, were "tainted." The Reform Party divisions led to dual conventions being held simultaneously in separate areas of the Long Beach Convention Center complex. Both conventions' delegates ignored the primary ballots and voted to nominate their presidential candidates from the floor, similar to the Democratic and Republican conventions. One convention nominated Buchanan while the other backed Hagelin, with each camp claiming to be the legitimate Reform Party.

Ultimately, when the Federal Elections Commission ruled Buchanan was to receive ballot status as the Reform candidate, as well as about $12.6 million in federal campaign funds secured by Perot's showing in the 1996 election, Buchanan won the nomination. In his acceptance speech, Buchanan proposed U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations and expelling the U.N. from New York, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Department of Housing and Urban Development, taxes on inheritance and capital gains, and affirmative action programs.

As his running mate, Buchanan chose African-American activist and retired teacher from Los Angeles, Ezola B. Foster. Buchanan was supported in this election run by future Socialist Party USA presidential candidate Brian Moore, who said in 2008 he supported Buchanan in 2000 because "he was for fair trade over free trade. He had some progressive positions that I thought would be helpful to the common man."^[22] On August 19, the New York Right to Life Party, in convention, chose Buchanan as their nominee, with 90% of the districts voting for him ^[23].

In the 2000 presidential election, Buchanan finished fourth with 449,895 votes, 0.4% of the popular vote. (Hagelin garnered 0.1 percent as the Natural Law candidate.) In Palm Beach County, Florida, Buchanan received 3,407 votes — which some saw as inconsistent with Palm Beach County's liberal leanings, its large Jewish population and his showing in the rest of the state. As a result of the county's now-infamous "butterfly ballot," he is suspected to have gained thousands of inadvertent votes. Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer stated, "Palm Beach county is a Pat Buchanan stronghold and that's why Pat Buchanan received 3,407 votes there." However, Reform Party officials strongly disagreed, estimating the number of supporters in the county at between 400 and 500. Appearing on The Today Show, Buchanan said:

“

When I took one look at that ballot on Election Night. . . it's very easy for me to see how someone could have voted for me in the belief they voted for Al Gore.[24]

”

Some observers said his campaign was aimed to spread his message beyond his white base, while his views had not changed.^[25]

Following the 2000 election, Reformers urged Buchanan to take an active role within the party. Buchanan declined, though he did attend their 2001 convention. In the next few years, he identified himself as a political independent, choosing not to align himself with what he viewed as the neo-conservative Republican party leadership. Prior to the 2004 election, Buchanan announced he once again identified himself as a Republican, declared that he had no interest in ever running for president again, and reluctantly endorsed Bush's 2004 re-election, writing:

“

Bush is right on taxes, judges, sovereignty, and values. Kerry is right on nothing.[26]

”

Return to private life

MSNBC Commentator

Buchanan being interviewed in 2008

Although CNN decided not to take him back, Buchanan's column resumed.^[27] A longer variation of the Crossfire format was aired by MSNBC as Buchanan and Press on July 15, 2002, reuniting Buchanan and Press. Billed as "the smartest hour on television", Buchanan and Press featured the duo interviewing guests and sparring about the top news stories. As the Iraq War loomed, Buchanan and Press toned down their rivalry, as they both opposed the invasion. Press claims they were the first cable hosts to discuss the planned attack.^[28] MSNBC Editor-in-Chief Jerry Nachman once jokingly lamented this unusual situation, saying:

“

So the point is why does only Fox [News Channel] get this? At least, we work at the perfect place, the place that's fiercely independent. We try to have balance by putting you two guys together and then this Stockholm syndrome love fest set in between the two of you, and we no longer even have robust debate.[29]

”

Just hours after his talk show debuted, Buchanan was a guest on the premiere of MSNBC's ill-fated Donahue program. Host Phil Donahue and Buchanan debated the separation of church and state. Buchanan called Donahue "dictatorial"^[30] and teased that the host got his job through affirmative action.^[31]

After MSNBC President Eric Sorenson canceled Buchanan and Press on November 26, 2003, Buchanan stayed at MSNBC as a political analyst. He regularly appears on the network's talk shows. He occasionally filled in on the nightly show Scarborough Country during its run on MSNBC. Buchanan is now a frequent guest and co-host of Morning Joe as well as Hardball, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and The Rachel Maddow Show.

In September 2009, MSNBC removed a Buchanan opinion column from its website after receiving complaints from Jewish organizations.^[32] Buchanan had used the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the German invasion of Poland to argue that Britain should not have declared war on Germany.^[33]

The American Conservative Magazine

In 2002, to start a new magazine featuring conservative viewpoints on the economy, immigration and foreign policy, Buchanan joined with former New York Post editorial page editor Scott McConnell and financier Taki Theodoracopulos. The American Conservative's first issue was dated October 7, 2002. Paid circulation in April, 2004, was 12,600.^[34] Buchanan is currently listed as Editor Emeritus on the masthead.

Other Activities

He has been interviewed on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' radio program.^[35]

Political positions

Main article: Political positions of Pat Buchanan

Electoral history

Main article: Electoral history of Pat Buchanan

In popular culture

• Hunter S. Thompson considered Buchanan a friend. Buchanan was among dozens who offered a statement in Rolling Stone after the journalist's suicide in 2005.^[36] About Buchanan, Thompson once wrote, "We disagree so violently on almost everything that it's a real pleasure to drink with him."^[37]
• The 1992 Bush re-election campaign ran a TV ad in Michigan that mocked Buchanan's economic nationalism. In it, a voiceover read, "Pat Buchanan tells us 'America First.' But while our auto industry suffers, Pat Buchanan chose to buy a foreign car, a Mercedes-Benz. Pat Buchanan called his American cars 'lemons.'"^[38] At the time Buchanan said he bought it in 1989 "for the missus" and that unloading it would be an empty gesture.^[39] He later sold the car back to its previous owner.^[40] In 2002, he said he drove a Lincoln Navigator and a Cadillac STS.^[41]
• Garry Wills mentioned Buchanan in his 1968 book Nixon Agonistes. "As usual he has a black overcoat on," he wrote. "with the collar wrapped up around his lumpy raw face -- a 40-year-old torpedo, hands on the iron in his pockets? No, he is 29, a writer, one of Nixon's fresh batch of intellectuals." Buchanan memorized the description.^[6]
• Buchanan was portrayed by actor James M. Connor in the 2009 film Watchmen taking part in a fictionalized news debate.
• During the campaign for the 2000 Presidential elections, the comic strip Doonesbury included a story line where Buchanan is implied to be a neo-Nazi, using dirty tricks to keep the Doonesbury character Uncle Duke from becoming a competitor for the Reform Party of the United States of America nomination.
• Underground Post-Punk band Le Rug has a song called Pat Buchanan which opens with the line "I wanna be Pat Buchanan." and later has a hook with the line "Deregulate, Deregulate the market, put those profit margins right on target."
• He was interviewed by impersonator Ali G (Sacha Baron Cohen) on the 2004 election and discussion of WMDs (called "BLTs" by G). Ali G said that Buchanan "did a good rap".

See also

• Antifeminism
• Constitution Party (United States)
• Culture war
• Ezola B. Foster
• Globe-Democrat
• Non-interventionism
• Old Right (United States)
• Populism
• Protectionism
• Reform Party of the United States of America

References

1. ^ Foley, Michael (2007). American credo : the place of ideas in US politics. Oxford University Press US. p. 318. ISBN 0199232679. 
2. ^ ^{a b} The Ancestry of Pat Buchanan
3. ^ "Pat Buchanan Biography". Thomson Gale. http://www.notablebiographies.com/Br-Ca/Buchanan-Pat.html. Retrieved 2006-11-01. 
4. ^ "Pat Buchanan". NNDB. http://www.nndb.com/people/053/000023981/. Retrieved 2006-11-01. 
5. ^ Why Do the Neocons Hate Dixie So?
6. ^ ^{a b c d} "The Iron Fist of Pat Buchanan". The Washington Post. 1992-02-17. 
7. ^ "About Pat Bunchanan". Creators Syndicate. http://www.creators.com/opinion/pat-buchanan-about.html. Retrieved 2007-01-21. 
8. ^ "Buchanan Is Right On Trade Sanctions". Daily Policy Digest. National Center for Policy Analysis. 2000-01-03. http://www.ncpa.org/pd/trade/pd010300a.html. 
9. ^ Bruan, Stephen (1994-12-18). "A Trial By Fire In The '60s". Los Angeles Times. 
10. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} Blumenthal, Sidney (1987-01-08). "Pat Buchanan and the Great Right Hope". Washington Post: p. C01. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A41745-2004Sep22. Retrieved 2006-11-01. 
11. ^ ^{a b} Paulsen, Monte (1999-11-22). "Buchanan Inc.". Nation. http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=19991122&s=paulsen. Retrieved 2006-11-01. 
12. ^ "Nixon aides say Felt is no hero". MSNBC. 2005-06-01. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8060320/. Retrieved 2006-11-01. 
13. ^ 1992 Nixon Interview - Part 2, Bush's Foreign Policy, CNN, April 23, 1994 and Larry King Live Transcript #1102 (R-#469), CNN, April 23, 1994.
14. ^ Is Buchanan Courting Bias? The Washington Post, February 29, 1992.
15. ^ quoted by Crossfire, CNN, February 24, 1992, Transcript # 514
16. ^ Charlotte Hays column, The Washington Times July 27, 1990.
17. ^ Buchanan, Pat (1992-08-17). "1992 Republican National Convention Speech". Internet Brigade. http://www.buchanan.org/pa-92-0817-rnc.html. Retrieved 2006-11-04. 
18. ^ Kuhn, David Paul (2004-10-18). "Buchanan Reluctantly Backs Bush". CBSNews.com. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/18/politics/main650023.shtml. Retrieved 2006-12-06. 
19. ^ "The American Cause: About the Cause". The American Cause. http://www.theamericancause.org/about.htm. Retrieved 2006-11-04. 
20. ^ Buchanan Aide Leaves Campaign Amid Charges, The Union Leader" February 16, 1996
21. ^ Republicans Wind Up Bare-Fisted Donnybrook in New Hampshire, by Brian Knowlton, International Herald Tribune, Tuesday, February 20, 1996
22. ^ "Q&A with Socialist Party presidential candidate Brian Moore". Independent Weekly. 2008-10-08. http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A266409. 
23. ^ (2000-08-01) Right To Life Party Picks Buchanan, Ballot Access News.
24. ^ Tapper, Jake (2000-11-10). "Buchanan camp: Bush claims are "nonsense"". Salon. http://dir.salon.com/story/politics/feature/2000/11/10/buchanan/. Retrieved 2008-11-30. "Both McConnell and Cunningham say that they agree with the comments of Buchanan himself on Thursday's "Today" show" 
25. ^ Salon News | Not standing Pat
26. ^ Third parties seen as thread to Bush, Steve Miller, Washington Times September 10, 2004
27. ^ Kurtz, Howard (2006-05-01). "Tony Snow's Washington Merry-Go-Round". Washington Post: p. C01. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/30/AR2006043001185.html. Retrieved 2006-12-05. 
28. ^ Bill Press. "Making Air-Waves". http://www.billpress.com/television.html. Retrieved 2006-12-05. 
29. ^ Buchanan and Press, November 19, 2002 broadcast.
30. ^ Full quote: "Cut it out, Phil. What you want done is, I say no Jewish kid can be put in a Nativity play. What you want done is no Nativity play, no Pledge of Allegiance, no Bible in school, no Ten Commandments. You are dictatorial, Phil. You're a dictatorial liberal and you don't even know it."
31. ^ Acosta, Belinda (2002-07-26). "The Phil-ing Station". Austin Chronicle. http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/column?oid=oid%3A98320. Retrieved 2006-12-05. 
32. ^ MSNBC removes Buchanan column defending Hitler Jewish Telegraphic Agency 3 September 2009
33. ^ MSNBC removes Buchanan column from site POLITICO 3 September 2009.
34. ^ The American Conservative Offers Treason at FindArticles
35. ^ ""Alex Jones Interviews Pat Buchanan"". http://buchanan.org/blog/audio-alex-jones-interviews-pat-buchanan-128. Retrieved October 13, 2009. 
36. ^ Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Remembered, Thrashers Blog Friday, March 11, 2005
37. ^ letter to Garry Wills (October 17, 1973); published in Fear and Loathing in America (2000) ISBN 0-684-87315-X
38. ^ 30-second politIcs, Washington Post, March 14, 1992.
39. ^ A Rebuff for Buchanan ,Newsday March 17, 1992
40. ^ The American Enterprise Pat Buchanan, by Bill Kauffman, JULY/AUGUST 1998
41. ^ BUCHANAN & PRESS For September 5, 2002 MSNBC September 5, 2002.

Books and articles

Books

• Churchill, Hitler, and The Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World (May 27, 2008) ISBN 0-307-40515-X
• Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart (November 27, 2007) ISBN 0-312-37696-0
• State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America (August 22, 2006) ISBN 0-312-36003-7
• Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency (2004) ISBN 0-312-34115-6
• The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization (2002) ISBN 0-312-28548-5
• A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny (1999) ISBN 0-89526-272-X
• The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy (1998) ISBN 0-316-11518-5
• Right from the Beginning (1988) ISBN 0-316-11408-1
• Conservative Votes, Liberal Victories: Why the Right Has Failed (1975) ISBN 0-8129-0582-2
• The New Majority: President Nixon at Mid-Passage (1973)

Major speeches

• 1992 Republican National Convention keynote, August 17, 1992
• 1996 campaign announcement, March 20, 1995
• 1996 campaign speech, Georgia primary stump speech February 29, 1996
• 2000 campaign announcement, March 2, 1999
• 2000 Reform Party nomination acceptance, August 12, 2000
• The Cultural War for the Soul of America, September 14, 1992
• Death of The West, Commonwealth Club speech January 14, 2002
• Free Trade, Chicago Council on Foreign Relations speech November 18, 1998
• A Time for Truth about China, Commonwealth Club speech April 5, 1999
• To Reunite a Nation, Richard Nixon Library speech on immigration January 18, 2000

Selected articles

• Blowback From Bear Baiting, column August 15, 2008
• PJB: A Brief For Whitey, column March 21, 2008
• The Dark side of Diversity column May 1, 2007
• The Aggressors in the Culture Wars, column March 8, 2004.
• The Death of Manufacturing, American Conservative August 11, 2003.
• The Death of the West, book excerpt on MSNBC.com, Oct 30, 2003.
• Ghostbusting the Smoot-Hawley Ogre, column October 20, 1993
• 'Ivan The Terrible' - More Doubts, column March 17, 1990
• A Lesson in Tyranny Too Soon Forgotten, column August 25, 1977
• The Old Right and the Future of Conservatism, by Patrick J. Buchanan. Foreword to the second edition of Justin Raimondo's 1993 book, Reclaiming the American Right
• The Sad Suicide of Admiral Nimitz, column January 18, 2002
• Response to Norman Podhoretz, letter to The Wall Street Journal November 5, 1999
• Time for Economic Nationalism, column June 12, 1995
• True Fascists of the New Europe, column April 30, 2002
• What Do We Offer the World?, column May 19, 2004
• Whose War?, American Conservative March 24, 2003
• Where are the Christians?, column July 18, 2006

The American Cause archives several years of Buchanan's newspaper columns. VDARE archives many articles written by Buchanan.

Interviews

• Ten Questions for Pat Buchanan by Jeff Chu, Time, Aug. 20, 2006
• Is This the Face of the Twenty-First Century?, by Bill Kauffman, The American Enterprise, July/August 1998.
• Pat Buchanan Defends Controversial Immigration Comments Fox News partial transcript, Hannity & Colmes," August 22, 2006
• Republicans: Whitman, Buchanan and Terror, "Open Source" public radio show. (audio)
• Pat Buchanan discusses his book State of Emergency on Book TV, August 24, 2006 (Video)

External links

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Buchanan-affiliated

• Buchanan.org
• Buchanan blog
• Buchanan's twice-weekly column
• Pat Buchanan archive on LewRockwell.com
• Podcasts of Buchanan's recent articles
• Pat Buchanan Podcast Interview with Fred Flannigan from WKRS 1220AM WKRS.com
• Pat Buchanan Podcast Interview with The Right Perspective
• The American Cause
• Pat Buchanan Features, from Creators Syndicate, distributor of Buchanan's columns
• Traditional Americans are Losing Their Nation by Pat Buchanan, October 20, 2009

News and analysis

• Right Wing Populist, by Eyal Press, The Atlantic Monthly, February, 1996.
• The Voice of Economic Nationalism, by Steven Stark The Atlantic Monthly, July, 1998.
• Buchanan claims Reform Party nomination, CNN.com August 12, 2000
• Buchanan 2000: What Went Wrong, enterstageright.com.
• Buchanan and Palm Beach county controversy, Salon.com.
• Buchanan attacked with salad dressing, video April 1, 2005
• Buchanan sees 'war' within conservatism, by Ralph Z. Hallow. Washington Times, May 17, 2005.
• Buchanan warns of flood of illegals, by Eric Pfeiffer. Washington Times, August 22, 2006
• Pat Buchanan and the Great Right Hope by Sidney Blumenthal, The Washington Post, January 8, 1987
• Pat Buchanan Book Hits Amazon No. 1 Spot, NewsMax, August 23, 2006.
• Pat Buchanan, Populist Republican, by Robert Novak, National Review August 14, 1995
• Reform Party Split Deepens, BBC News August 12, 2000
• Third Party presidential candidates in 2000, PBS.org
• Ezola Foster: Pat Buchanan's Far Right Hand by Peter Carlson, The Washington Post September 13, 2000
• Reagan Joins Kohl in Brief Memorial at Bitburg Graves by Bernard Weinraub, The New York Times May 6, 1985

Campaign materials

• Articles, Essays and Speeches, from 1991 to 2000
• Buchananism or Barbarism, by Justin Raimondo, Reform Party Nominating Convention speech August 12, 2000
• On the Issues from Buchanan's 2000 campaign.
• Press Releases from Buchanan's 2000 campaign.
• Reclaiming America’s Destiny, Pat Buchanan for President 2000 Campaign Brochure
• Setting the Record Straight on Anti-Semitism, Buchanan campaign press release March 1, 1996

Supporting views

• Buchanan Is Right On Trade Sanctions, by Bruce Bartlett, column January 3, 2000
• Learning to Love Pat Buchanan by Knute Berger, Seattle Weekly, October 13, 2004.
• The Anti-Buchanan Hysteria, by Burton S. Blumert, LewRockwell.com, November 1, 1999.
• Buchanan is Right about the Right, by Darrell Dow.
• Pat Buchanan, antiwar candidate by Lenora Fulani, WorldNetDaily, December 28, 1999.
• My Guy: Paul Gottfried on Patrick Buchanan, Policy Review, Summer 1995.
• Buchanan: The Epilogue, by Scott McConnell, VDARE, November 26, 2000.
• Portrait of an American Nationalist, by Justin Raimondo, Antiwar.com, August 16, 1999.
• Pat Buchanan and The Menace, Murray Rothbard, 1990 libertarian defense of Buchanan.
• Is Patrick Buchanan an anti-Semite?, by George Szamuely, New York Press, November 4, 1999.
• Lies, Myths, and Vicious Slander, Archived "Students for Buchanan" Illinois site from 2000; contains collection of links
• Pat Buchanan profile by Derek Wallace, virtuemag.org.

Opposing views

• Know Your Right-Wing Speakers: Pat Buchanan, CampusProgress.org
• Pat Buchanan's Skeleton Closet, RealChange.org.
• Overview and critique of Buchanan's diesel engine assertion
• Pat Buchanan on Jews and Israel, Anti-Defamation League, September, 1999.
• Pat Buchanan in His Own Words, FAIR press release February 26, 1996
• Buchanan's White Whale by Lawrence Auster, Frontpagemag.com March 19, 2004
• Will The Real Pat Buchanan Please Stand Up?, by Bill Barnwell, Lew Rockwell.com, May 15, 2000.
• The Truth About Trade in History, by Bruce Bartlett, Cato's Center for Trade Policy Studies, n.d.
• The Buchanan Doctrine, by John Judis, New York Times, October 3, 1999.
• Who's afraid of Pat Buchanan?, by Jake Tapper, Salon, September 4, 1999.
• Buchanan and Market, by Jeffrey A. Tucker, Lew Rockwell.com, March 23, 2002.
• Glimpses of the Decline Photo essay featuring young Buchanan supporters, July/August 1996
• Hawking Racism -- Pat Buchanan's latest book is a White Nationalist Screed, by Alexander Zaitchik, for Afro Articles, March 12, 2007.
• The Young Turks commentary 'Pat Buchanan Defends Hitler'.

Miscellaneous

• Buchanan ancestry through nine generations.
• Draft Buchanan 2008
• On The Issues listens dozens of Buchanan's stated positions.
• Pat Buchanan at the Internet Movie Database
• NNDB.com profile
• Pat Buchanan talks about his book State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America video

Party political offices
Preceded by Ross Perot	Reform Party Presidential candidate 2000 (4th)	Succeeded by Ralph Nader

v • d • e United States Reform Party Presidential nominees Perot • Buchanan • Nader • Weill

v • d • e United States presidential election, 1992 Democratic Party 1992 Democratic National Convention · Primaries Candidates Agran · Brown · Casey · Clinton (campaign) · Tom Harkin · Kerrey · McCarthy · Tsongas · Wilder · Woods VP Candidates Cuomo · Gephardt · Gore · Graham · Kerrey · Kerry · Hamilton · Wofford Republican Party 1992 Republican National Convention Candidates Buchanan · Bush · Duke · Stassen VP Candidates Quayle Third party Independents Candidate Ross Perot VP Candidate James Stockdale

v • d • e United States presidential election candidates, 2000 Democratic Party Straw polls · Primary polls · General polls · Debates · Primaries · Results · Delegates · Convention Candidates Bill Bradley (campaign) · Al Gore (campaign) · Lyndon LaRouche (campaign) VP Candidate Joe Lieberman Republican Party Straw polls · Primary polls · General polls · Debates · Primaries · Results · Delegates · Convention Candidates Lamar Alexander · Gary Bauer · Pat Buchanan · George W. Bush (campaign) · Elizabeth Dole · Steve Forbes · Orrin Hatch · John Kasich · Alan Keyes · John McCain (campaign) · Dan Quayle · Robert C. Smith VP Candidate Dick Cheney Constitution Party Convention · Howard Phillips · Herb Titus  · Mathew Zupan Green Party Convention · Jello Biafra  · Stephen Gaskin · Joel Kovel · Ralph Nader (campaign) Libertarian Party Convention · Harry Browne · Don Gorman · Jacob Hornberger · Barry Hess · David Hollist Reform Party Pat Buchanan · John Hagelin · Donald Trump Natural Law Party John Hagelin Other candidates Cathy Gordon Brown · Earl F. Dodge  · Charles E. Collins · James Harris · Isabell Masters · Monica Moorehead · L. Neil Smith

v • d • e MSNBC personalities Daytime Anchors Contessa Brewer • Christina Brown • Melissa Francis • Tamron Hall • Dan Kloeffler • Monica Novotny • David Shuster • Alex Witt Hosts Mika Brzezinski • Willie Geist • Rachel Maddow • Chris Matthews • Andrea Mitchell • Keith Olbermann • JJ Ramberg • Dylan Ratigan • Joe Scarborough • Ed Schultz • Nancy Snyderman, M.D. Correspondents, Commentators, and Substitute Hosts Mike Barnicle • Dara Brown • David Gregory • Savannah Guthrie • John Harwood • Courtney Hazlett • Chris Jansing • Lawrence O'Donnell • Norah O'Donnell • Milissa Rehberger • Alison Stewart • Chuck Todd Political and Legal Analysts Dan Abrams, Chief legal analyst • Steve Adubato, Media analyst • Jonathan Alter, Political analyst • Michelle Bernard, Political analyst • Pat Buchanan, Political analyst • Craig Crawford, Political analyst • Susan F. Filan, Esq., Senior Legal analyst • Howard Fineman, Political analyst • Harold Ford, Jr., Political analyst • Mike Murphy, Political analyst • Eugene Robinson, Political analyst • Jonathan Turley, Legal analyst • Richard Wolffe, Political analyst Military Analysts Lt. Col. Rick Francona, (Ret.), Military analyst • Col. Jack Jacobs, (Ret.), Military analyst • Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, (Ret.), Military analyst • Gen. Montgomery Meigs, (Ret.), Military analyst • Clint Van Zandt Intelligence analyst

Persondata
NAME	Buchanan, Patrick Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	American politician and commentator
DATE OF BIRTH	November 2, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Washington, D.C., United States
DATE OF DEATH	living
PLACE OF DEATH

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