Word: buchananism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Buchanan on race? In 1970 Richard Nixon was weighing the wisdom of enforcing court orders that required the desegregation of Southern public schools, by busing if necessary. A lot of people didn't like the idea. Buchanan was one. As he told Garment, he was working on a speech for Vice President Spiro Agnew that would "tear the scab off the issue of race in this country." In a White House memo, Buchanan argued that "the ship of integration is going down; it is not our ship; it belongs to national liberalism; and we ought not to be aboard...
...none of those things" is something like what Buchanan says to nearly every charge that's thrown against him. What contradicts him, however, is much of what he's said in the past. He also still insists he's a Republican, though one who sounds like he's having second thoughts...
...Reported by Jeffrey H. Birnbaum/Manchester, Nina Burleigh with Buchanan and Mark Thompson/Washington
...POLES OF SUPPORT holding up Pat Buchanan are polar opposites. Bay, sister, spitfire campaign chairman, is the prototype of the postfeminist woman. She works round the clock, rears three kids on her own, yet insists that she's a traditionalist. Shelley, wife, constant campaign companion, is an unrepentant prefeminist. She defines herself almost exclusively through her husband and prefers it that way. For a premodern man like Pat, independence may be tolerable in a sister but never in a spouse...
...sense, the two women correspond to the yin and yang of Buchanan's own personality. The slash-and-burn, take-no-prisoners campaign chairman reflects Pat's public persona, while the gracious lady of the house reflects the private Pat, whom his former colleague Michael Kinsley once described as "gentle" and almost everyone else considers amiable...