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Pat Buchanan
Patrick Joseph Buchanan is an American retired writer, political commentator, and political advisor. He was an assistant and special consultant to U.S. presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. An influential figure within paleoconservatism, a nationalist and traditionalist strain of conservatism in the United States, many observers consider Buchanan's politics a predecessor to Tru…
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business · American politician and commentator (born 1938) · columnist · journalist · speechwriter · politician · businessperson · non-fiction writer · also Pat Buchanan, Patrick Buchanan, Patrick J. Buchanan, Patrick Joseph Buchanan, Pitchfork Pat, Pat J. Buchanan
Born 2 November 1938 · Q149127
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2026· 3 entries
“When I took one look at that ballot on Election Night ... it”
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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”
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2025· 1 entry
The Daily Signal: Pugnacious, Principled, Patriot: Pat Buchanan Deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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2023· 2 entries
The Nation: Pat Buchanan’s Long Shadow
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Buchanan had been a frequent contributor to VDARE, a far-right website and blog founded by anti-immigration activist and paleo-conservative Peter Brimelow
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2016· 1 entry
Snopes.com rated the claim “Pat Buchanan said America was better when everybody "knew their place."” False.
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2012· 4 entries
The Atlantic: Pat Buchanan and MSNBC Officially Can't Stand Each Other
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That MSNBC's connection with Buchanan had ended
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Stating in an article that "Obama offers more of the stalemate America has gone through for the past two years" while "Romney alone offers a possibility of hope and change
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While the verdict had been overturned and was pending appeal
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2011· 1 entry
The Stranger: Pat Buchanan Isn’t Racist, but…
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2008· 1 entry
Supported Buchanan in 2000 because "he was for fair trade over free trade
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2006· 1 entry
Buchanan had been a frequent contributor to alt-right and anti-immigration website VDARE until his retirement in 2023
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2005· 1 entry
When the actual identity of the press leak was revealed as Federal Bureau of Investigation Associate Director Mark Felt, Buchanan called him "sneaky," "dishonest" and "criminal
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2004· 1 entry
KCRW: Pat Buchanan on Where the Right Went Wrong
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2002· 4 entries
Reuniting Buchanan and Press
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Buchanan co-founded The American Conservative magazine and launched a foundation named The American Cause
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Buchanan partnered with former New York Post editorial page editor Scott McConnell and journalist Taki Theodoracopulos to found The American Conservative, a new magazine intended to promote traditional conservative viewp
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A sociopath said he acted alone and DNA testing affirmed his guilt
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2000· 4 entries
2000 Reform Party nomination acceptance, August 12, 2000
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Campaign: 2000 presidential election.
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Campaign: 2000 United States presidential election.
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Was the Reform Party's presidential nominee
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1999· 2 entries
When contacted for a Salon article, "he makes subliminal appeals to prejudice
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And joined the Reform Party, founded by two-time independent presidential candidate Ross Perot
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1996· 2 entries
Winning three contests and garnering almost 21 percent of the vote; Kansas Senator Bob Dole ultimately won the party's nomination
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Ran against eventual Republican nominee Bob Dole, but withdrew after getting only 21 percent of Republican primary votes
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1993· 1 entry
However, the Supreme Court of Israel overturned Demjanjuk's war crimes conviction and sentence of death by hanging as a miscarriage of justice based on mistaken identity
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1992· 5 entries
Buchanan explained his reasons for challenging the incumbent, President George H
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“Like many of you last month, I watched that giant masquerade ball at Madison Square Garden—where 20,000 radicals and liberals came dressed up as moderates and centrists—in the greatest single exhibition of cross-dressing in American political history.”
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And 1996, Buchanan sought the Republican presidential nomination
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Ran against incumbent president George H
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Never before having sought elected office, Buchanan challenged incumbent president George H
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1990· 4 entries
Buchanan appeared on The McLaughlin Group and said: "there are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East – the Israeli defense ministry and its 'amen corner' in the United States
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Asserted: "Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory"
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Buchanan published a newsletter called Patrick J
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Said Buchanan had never contacted them, even when he was a government official
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1987· 1 entry
“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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1986· 2 entries
Buchanan said of the Reagan administration: "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 inexor
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While he was a senior figure in the Reagan administration, he was highly critical of the charges brought by the Office of Special Investigations (OSI), the Nazi war crimes unit of the Justice Department
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1985· 2 entries
Where among buried Wehrmacht soldiers were the graves of 48 Waffen SS members
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Career landmark: White House Communications Director (1985–1987).
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1978· 1 entry
“Listen up, me name be Buchanan, me knows enough things bout politics. Get involved, mack daddies. Y'all better realize, that nothing be a better way to get your kicks. West side, aight?”
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1974· 1 entry
Buchanan briefly stayed on as special assistant under incoming President Gerald Ford
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1972· 2 entries
And the summit in Moscow, Yalta and Minsk in 1974
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Buchanan himself had written in a memo to Nixon suggesting he should not "fritter away his present high support in the nation for an ill-advised governmental effort to forcibly integrate races
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1970· 1 entry
Nixon characterized Buchanan's attitude towards integration as "segregation forever
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1966· 1 entry
“s dedicated supporters, for which his colleagues soon nicknamed him Mr. Inside. Buchanan traveled with Nixon throughout the campaigns of 1966 and 1968. He made tours around Western Europe, Africa, and following the Six-Day War, the Middle East. During the course of Nixon”
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1965· 1 entry
Was executive assistant at Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander, and Mitchell, the law firm where Richard Nixon launched his political comeback following his losses in the 1960 presidential election and 1962 Califor
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1964· 1 entry
Buchanan was promoted to assistant editorial page editor, and he supported Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign that year, though the Globe-Democrat did not endorse Goldwater
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1960· 1 entry
Graduated with a bachelor's degree in English
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1938· 2 entries
Born 1938-11-02.
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To William Baldwin Buchanan (1905–1988), a partner in an accounting firm, and his wife Catherine Elizabeth Crum (1911–1995), a nurse and homemaker
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