Word: buchananism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Buchanan attended a party for Richard Nixon given by a Globe cartoonist; after fortifying himself with several Scotches, he collared Nixon and reminded the former Vice President that he had once caddied for him at Maryland's Burning Tree Country Club. (As Buchanan recalls in his memoirs, "The whole time out, I stayed close to the Vice President. When he relieved himself in the bushes, I stepped up alongside and did the same, even though we caddies were supposed to go off separately or wait until we got back to the bench area.") A month later Buchanan was newly installed...
...Onstage Buchanan plays the Victorian gallant when introducing his wife Shelley. "I want to introduce the lady I intend to nominate to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton," Buchanan says. Shelley sits onstage with a dreamy, sphinxlike smile. It was during Nixon's 1968 campaign that Buchanan worked shoulder to shoulder with Nixon's shy but capable secretary Shelley Scarney. He married the only child of a Detroit ophthalmologist...
...White House speechwriter, Buchanan was a kind of in-house agent provocateur, seeking to move Nixon away from the moderate center. His mission, then as now, was to make conservatism the dominant strain of the Republican Party. Buchanan sought to capture George Wallace's constituency for the Republican Party. As early as 1970, he was advising Nixon to exploit the roiling economic anxieties of the middle class for political gain, the same voters to whom he is singing his siren song now. "We should aim our strategy primarily at disaffected Democrats, at blue-collar workers, and at working-class ethnics...
...Nixon's re-election effort was booting up, Nixon aides John Ehrlichman, Charles Colson and H.R. Haldeman asked Buchanan to launch a secret "plumbers" squad to investigate the President's enemies. But Buchanan spurned the offer, saying it was better to duke it out face to face than deliver a sucker punch. "I have yet to be shown what benefit this would do for the President--or for the rest of us, other than a psychological salve," Buchanan wrote in a July 8, 1971, memo now in the National Archives. After leaving the White House, Pat returned to the typewriter...
...Buchanan returned to the West Wing at the beginning of President Ronald Reagan's second term as head of the White House speech-writing machinery. He bolstered Reagan with the Republican right wing, who worried that moderates like Jim Baker were restraining Reagan from being Reagan. But according to former Reagan press secretary Larry Speakes, Buchanan was more trouble than he was worth, and White House aides routinely spent hours cutting hard-line rhetoric from the speeches prepared by his shop...