Word: buchananism
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...first he kept an uncharacteristically low profile, quietly seething over / the press and congressional reaction to Iranscam. But eventually and probably inevitably, Patrick Buchanan, the White House's bombastic director of communications, could contain himself no longer. Having served Nixon during the dark days of Watergate, he feels he knows how best to handle the current scandal. "These crises have a certain rhythm," says the old pro. "First it's a news story, then a policy controversy, then an investigation -- and then it turns into a political war. When it goes political, you've got to go into it full...
...first salvo was a Washington Post op-ed piece condemning Republicans for abandoning the President who "brought us back from Watergate," and praising Oliver North. If he broke the law, Buchanan said, it was comparable to such illegal but noble acts as running escaped slaves up the Underground Railroad...
...What they could not accomplish at the ballot box, the president's opponents are trying to accomplish on the evening news," Buchanan said Monday night. "We know what they are after, and who they are after...
...Buchanan said the president had asked him Monday morning to attend the rally, which was billed by organizers as the first mass show of support since disclosure of the sale of U.S. arms to Iran and the diversion of funds to rebels fighting Nicaragua's government...
...Buchanan criticized The Washington Post, saying it had given a "windfall" of information to the Soviet Union by uncovering details of the scandal...