Word: buchananism
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...interests also use the courts to nibble at Executive power. Environmentalists filed suit in 1971 to prevent Nixon from conducting an underground nuclear test on Alaska's Amchitka Island. The Supreme Court ruled 4 to 3 in the President's favor, but the battle left a bitter residue. Patrick Buchanan, then a White House aide, recalls asking Nixon what he would have done had the court gone against him. The President's angry response: "I was going to fire it anyway." That, perhaps, was a signal of troubles to come in Watergate, of Nixon's dark impulses to force...
...call Soviet legal procedures unacceptable when used against Soviet dissidents but appropriate for supporting charges against accused Nazis of Baltic or Ukrainian descent. An unlikely coalition shares that view, including liberal former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who is Linnas' lead counsel, and conservative ex-White House Aide Patrick Buchanan, who has called Soviet justice an "oxymoron." Leading the other side are Jewish organizations, committed to punishing perpetrators of the Holocaust, and the Justice Department, which says it sometimes has no choice but to settle for Soviet evidence. "The documents and the witnesses who lived through this period are still...
...longtime lieutenants, James Cannon and Tom Griscom, would play key roles. Baker selected A.B. Culvahouse, his former legislative counsel, to replace Peter Wallison as White House counsel. Baker swiftly disposed of one inherited personnel problem. He dismissed John O. Koehler, who had replaced Communications Director Pat Buchanan last month. Koehler's membership in a Nazi youth organization at the age of ten had embarrassed the Administration, but what sealed his fate was his arrogance, illustrated by a refusal to move out of Buchanan's office to make way for Cannon. "He was not a team player," said a Baker aide...
...hair stylist does not win them all. One of his best customers over these years has been Pat Buchanan, the White House's remorseless partisan. When Milt felt that the presidential fever was building in Buchanan, he gave him his best dark-horse trim, which is a cut that is short all over, even on the sides and top, and starkly etched at the edges. But such artistry was not enough. Buchanan withdrew from the fray and has even decided to quit his White House post. Milt shrugs, "He's still got a cutting edge...
...that he dodged combat duty in Korea. Robertson's favorable rating among Republicans and independents has dived 20 percentage points since last May, to 27%, and 56% of those familiar with Robertson now say they have a "generally unfavorable" impression of him. The combative White House communications director, Patrick Buchanan, who has been dropping hints about running for President, also has a high negative rating: 41% of Republicans and independents familiar with Buchanan have an unfavorable impression of him; 32% were favorable...