Word: buchananism
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...inaugural address. After maintaining a low silhouette since the election, he was anxious to set the right note with which to begin the exercise of leadership. The process began several weeks ago with requests for drafts from three of his speech writers and idea men, William Safire, Patrick Buchanan and Raymond Price. Nixon himself had read every previous inaugural address, picking as his favorites Lincoln's second inaugural, both of Wilson's, F.D.R.'s first three, the Kennedy speech and?surprisingly?the baroque oratory of Democrat James K. Polk. A favorite Nixon motto is "Forward Together," and Polk...
...EVENTUALLY MANAGED to talk to Nixon, on his campaign plane after a speech in the northern part of the state. As the plane took off that night a plump young man named Patrick Buchanan (who was soon to earn a certain fame as the author of Nixon's law and order speeches) came back to where I was sitting and said pleasantly, "So you want to speak to the Boss?" I said I did and after a little screening, I was invited to the front of the cabin, where Nixon was sitting back with his feet up on the window...
Raymond K. Price Jr., 38, and Patrick J. Buchanan Jr., 30, will be special assistants. During the campaign both served as speechwriters and idea men. They are expected to do much the same work in the White House. Price was once a LIFE reporter, later joined the old New York Herald Tribune and rose to become its chief editorial writer. Buchanan was an editorial writer for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat...
...Chester A. Arthur, James Buchanan, Grover Cleveland, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, William McKinley, James Knox Polk and Woodrow Wilson...
...Booth Tarkington, remarks that James Whitcomb Riley was "more of a devotee of the glass than the typewriter," and notes that "we had Theodore Dreiser, who wrote Sister Carrie and scared everybody in Indiana right out of their wits." He brings up that other literary figure, one James Buchanan Elmore, author of the lines: "My wife has gone ahunting/ Horseradish for her meat." Branigin pauses after that recitation, as if savoring the image, then observes: "This did not sell well...