Word: buchananism
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Calling his hardest-lining (and fastest-working) speechwriter, Pat Buchanan, the President told him to work up a first draft from some dictated notes. As Buchanan typed into the evening, his boss kept dictating into his IBM recorder. Three more of the machine's recording tubes arrived that night. "It was the old man's speech," said Buchanan. "He knew just what he wanted...
...Woody Hayes and Lombardi, Stram is an inveterate innovator who likes to "put a new wrinkle into almost every game." Among Stram's inventions: the "moving pocket," which allows the quarterback to maneuver without abandoning his protection; the "triple stack" defense, which puts 290-lb. Tackle Buck Buchanan nose-on-nose with the offensive center and lets the linebackers work in tandem with the remaining three linemen. Even the Chiefs' basic formation is a wild piece of unorthodoxy: the "Tight I," in which the tight end lines up in the backfield behind the running backs, thereby preventing...
Spearhead Spiro. Last week the Administration again attacked its tormentors, real and imagined. Once more Vice President Spiro Agnew served as eager spearhead, delivering another speech written by Nixon Aide Pat Buchanan. The broadside came on a mission to Alabama as part of Agnew's attempts to protect the Administration's Southern flank. The White House would like to prevent George Wallace from recap turing the Governor's mansion, so Agnew had kind words for the incumbent, Democrat Albert Brewer. In his speech the Vice President continued and broadened the previous week's attack on television...
Again Richard Nixon was not far offstage. Like the first speech, the Montgomery message was written by Nixon Speechwriter Pat Buchanan and circulated around the White House before delivery. There were other similarities. As in Des Moines, some worthy targets loomed in Agnew's sights; as in Des Moines, his ammunition was faulty...
...Midwestern Regional Republican Conference in Des Moines. Last week, just two days before the meeting was to begin, Agnew suddenly reinvited himself. The conference chairman hastily hired the Fort Des Moines Hotel ballroom and scheduled Agnew as the klieg-light speaker. Agnew's words were written by Buchanan, who is a hard-line conservative, and vetted in the upper echelons of Nixon's personal staff...