71 Facts About Pat Buchanan

Patrick Joseph Buchanan is an American paleoconservative author, political commentator, and politician.

Pat Buchanan was an assistant and special consultant to US presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan.

Pat Buchanan is an influential figure in the modern paleoconservative movement in America.

In 1992 and 1996, Buchanan sought the Republican presidential nomination.

At the 1992 Republican National Convention, Pat Buchanan delivered his "culture war" speech in support of the nominated President Bush.

Pat Buchanan's campaign centered on non-interventionism in foreign affairs, opposition to illegal immigration, and opposition to the outsourcing of manufacturing from free trade.

Pat Buchanan selected educator and conservative activist Ezola Foster as his running-mate.

Pat Buchanan has been published in The Occidental Observer, Human Events, National Review, The Nation, and Rolling Stone.

Pat Buchanan's father was of Irish, English, and Scottish ancestry, and his mother was of German descent.

Pat Buchanan had a great-grandfather who fought in the American Civil War in the Confederate States Army, which earned Buchanan membership in the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

William Baldwin Pat Buchanan was the name given to my father and by him to my late brother.

Pat Buchanan subsequently received his draft notice, but the District of Columbia Draft Board exempted Buchanan from military service because of reactive arthritis, classifying him as 4-F.

Pat Buchanan then attended the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, where he wrote his thesis on the expanding trade between Canada and Cuba and was awarded a master's degree in journalism in 1962.

In 1964, Pat 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.

Pat Buchanan authored the forward to several editions of Goldwater's book, The Conscience of a Conservative.

Pat Buchanan was a member of Young Americans for Freedom and wrote press releases for the organization.

The highly partisan speeches Pat Buchanan wrote were consciously aimed at Richard Nixon's dedicated supporters, for which his colleagues soon nicknamed him Mr Inside.

Pat Buchanan traveled with Nixon throughout the campaigns of 1966 and 1968.

Pat Buchanan made toured Western Europe, Africa and, following the Six-Day War, the Middle East.

Early on during Nixon's presidency, Pat Buchanan worked as a White House assistant and speechwriter for Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew.

Pat Buchanan coined the phrase "Silent Majority," and helped shape the strategy that drew millions of Democrats to Nixon.

Pat Buchanan accompanied Nixon on his trip to China in 1972 and the summit in Moscow, Yalta and Minsk in 1974.

Pat Buchanan suggested that Nixon label Democratic opponent George McGovern an extremist and burn the White House tapes.

Pat Buchanan later argued that Nixon would have survived the Watergate scandal with his reputation intact if he had burnt the tapes.

Pat Buchanan remained as a special assistant to Nixon through the final days of the Watergate scandal.

Pat Buchanan was not accused of wrongdoing, though some mistakenly suspected him of being Deep Throat.

Pat Buchanan told the panel: "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".

When Nixon resigned in 1974, Pat Buchanan briefly stayed on as special assistant under incoming President Gerald Ford.

Pat Buchanan returned to his column and began regular appearances as a broadcast host and political commentator.

Pat Buchanan co-hosted a three-hour daily radio show with liberal columnist Tom Braden called the Buchanan-Braden Program.

Pat Buchanan delivered daily commentaries on NBC radio from 1978 to 1984.

Pat Buchanan started his TV career as a regular on The McLaughlin Group and CNN's Crossfire and The Capital Gang, making him nationally recognizable.

Pat Buchanan appeared most Sundays alongside John McLaughlin and the more liberal Newsweek journalist Eleanor Clift.

Pat Buchanan served as White House Communications Director from February 1985 to March 1987.

Pat Buchanan said the conservative movement needed a leader, but Buchanan was initially ambivalent.

Pat Buchanan failed to win any primaries, but finished a strong second in the New Hampshire primary and was regarded as forcing Bush to walk back his economic policies.

Pat Buchanan ran on a platform of immigration reduction and social conservatism, including opposition to multiculturalism, abortion, and gay rights.

The contents of Pat Buchanan's speech prompted his detractors to claim that the speech alienated moderate voters from the Bush-Quayle ticket.

Bay Buchanan serves as the Vienna, VA-based foundation's president and Pat is its chairman.

Pat Buchanan returned to radio as host of Pat Buchanan and Company, a three-hour talk show for Mutual Broadcasting System on July 5,1993.

Pat Buchanan was endorsed by conservative Phyllis Schlafly, and others.

Pat Buchanan told the conservative Manchester Union Leader he believed Pratt.

Pat Buchanan won three other states, and finished only slightly behind Dole in the Iowa caucus.

Pat Buchanan declared that, if Dole were to choose a pro-choice running mate, he would run as the US Taxpayers Party candidate.

Pat Buchanan began a series of books with 1998's The Great Betrayal.

Ultimately, when the Federal Elections Commission ruled Pat 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, Pat Buchanan won the nomination.

Pat Buchanan had some progressive positions that I thought would be helpful to the common man.

Pat Buchanan supported the nomination of Donald Trump, who ran on many of the same positions that Pat Buchanan ran on twenty years prior, as Republican presidential candidate for the 2016 presidential election.

Just hours after his talk show debuted, Pat Buchanan was a guest on the premiere of MSNBC's short-lived Donahue program.

Host Phil Donahue and Pat Buchanan debated the separation of church and state.

Pat Buchanan called Donahue "dictatorial" and said that the host got his job through affirmative action.

Pat Buchanan occasionally filled in on the nightly show Scarborough Country during its run on MSNBC.

Pat Buchanan was a frequent guest and co-host of Morning Joe as well as Hardball and The Rachel Maddow Show.

In September 2009, Pat Buchanan wrote an MSNBC opinion column arguing that Adolf Hitler did not want war and the Allied powers' actions were unnecessary.

Pat Buchanan had used the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the German invasion of Poland to argue that the United Kingdom should not have declared war on Nazi Germany.

In October 2011, Pat Buchanan was indefinitely suspended from MSNBC as a contributor after the publication of his book Suicide of a Superpower.

In 2002, Pat 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 viewpoints on economic, immigration and foreign policies.

From 2006 until his retirement in 2023, Pat Buchanan had been a frequent contributor to VDARE, a far-right website and blog founded by anti-immigration activist and paleo-conservative Peter Brimelow.

Around 1982, Pat Buchanan began to defend Cleveland auto-worker John Demjanjuk against the charge that Demjanjuk was a Nazi war criminal nicknamed "Ivan the Terrible" responsible for the mass murder of Jews at Treblinka.

Pat Buchanan claimed Demjanjuk was the victim of mistaken identity and possibly the victim of a deliberate frame-up by the Soviet Union.

Pat Buchanan supported President Reagan's plan to visit a German military cemetery at Bitburg in 1985, where among buried Wehrmacht soldiers were the graves of 48 Waffen SS members.

Pat Buchanan once argued Treblinka "was not a death camp but a transit camp used as a 'pass-through point' for prisoners".

When George Will challenged him on the issue on TV in December 1991, Pat Buchanan did not reply.

Pat Buchanan called for the civilizing of "barbarians" by putting the "fear of death" in them.

All sentences of the Central Park Five were vacated that same year, 13 years after Pat Buchanan called for the public hanging and horsewhipping.

Pat Buchanan married White House staffer Shelley Ann Scarney in 1971.

Pat Buchanan identifies as a traditionalist Catholic who attends Mass in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite, and strongly defended Summorum Pontificum.

Pat Buchanan lost each contest, but received nearly 40 percent of the vote in the New Hampshire primary and ultimately received about 23 percent of the primary vote.

Pat Buchanan again sought the GOP presidential nomination in 1996, winning three contests and garnering almost 21 percent of the vote; Kansas Senator Bob Dole ultimately won the party's nomination.

Pat Buchanan left the Republican Party in 1999 and joined the Reform Party, founded by two-time independent presidential candidate Ross Perot.

Pat Buchanan received more than 25 percent of the popular vote in the primary, then secured the nomination at the convention, selecting conservative activist Ezola Foster for his running mate.