Word: buchananism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bird builds the nest" and that women are "less equipped psychologically" to succeed in the workplace seems to be dominated by two females. But those observers miss the point, for to the candidate, the issue is not gender but loyalty. From both Bay and Shelley, he receives unquestioned fidelity. Buchanan has referred to his sister as "my Bobby Kennedy." Says Chavez: "This isn't a job to Bay. This is family." For Shelley, it's not a job; it's her life...
Loyalty in the Washington home of the Buchanan clan was next to godliness. Bay, whose given name is Angela, the younger daughter in a family of seven boys and two girls, gets her nickname from the mispronunciation of her older brothers: she was the "bay-bay." Within the family, Bay was more the rebel than Pat. After getting her master's degree in mathematics and working on Nixon's re-election committee, she was so disillusioned by Watergate that she upped and moved to Australia. When she converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and married...
...traveled with his unsuccessful 1960 presidential campaign. One of her many jobs: at airports, she would call Washington, take down the day's news clippings in shorthand, then type them up on the plane on a portable manual typewriter. She also traveled with Nixon's victorious 1968 campaign. Buchanan and his future wife met in New York City in 1967 when both worked at Nixon's law firm. In 1969 she became the presidential gatekeeper ("Now the place had a touch of class," recalls Pat). They were married in 1971 with President Nixon in attendance. They have no children...
...Reported by Nina Burleigh with Buchanan, and Mark Thompson/Washington
PRIMARY RACES, ESPECIALLY the early ones, look so earnest and earthy it is easy to mistake them for truly democratic exercises. When Pat Buchanan walked away with New Hampshire last week, he took pleasure in arguing that The People had found their voice, jostled the conventional wisdom, spooked the party elders and voted their hearts...