Word: patly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...portable manual typewriter. She also traveled with Nixon's victorious 1968 campaign. Buchanan and his future wife met in New York City in 1967 when both worked at Nixon's law firm. In 1969 she became the presidential gatekeeper ("Now the place had a touch of class," recalls Pat). They were married in 1971 with President Nixon in attendance. They have no children...
Shelley's Nixonian model was Pat, not Dick. For all her campaign experience, she seems to crave a privacy that is eluding her. Asked what type of First Lady she would be, she is hesitant, wary. "I would like to go back--I would not mind going back," she says in her soft voice. "I would be in more of a traditional role, but we would do some unique things." Like what? "I'd rather not describe them," she says, her voice trailing off, revealing as little as possible...
PRIMARY RACES, ESPECIALLY the early ones, look so earnest and earthy it is easy to mistake them for truly democratic exercises. When Pat Buchanan walked away with New Hampshire last week, he took pleasure in arguing that The People had found their voice, jostled the conventional wisdom, spooked the party elders and voted their hearts...
...sanctioned by the party. If all goes according to plan, Bob Dole should hobble Buchanan, the impetuous insurgent. But nothing so far has gone as planned, and party lawyers can imagine a scene like this: a fractured convention, with clumps of delegates nominally pledged each to Dole, Lamar Alexander, Pat Buchanan and Steve Forbes; more than half the delegates not legally bound to any candidate at all under various state rules; no clear sign of a nominee; the vice presidency up in the air; 20 or so Republican Governors pining for it; and open warfare between the centrists...
...oddly enough, money may not be paramount in a field where four or five candidates insist on dividing the anti-Pat vote. That's because the rules for selecting delegates are different in the primary states that come later in the race. Until now, the primary calendar has been an almost quaint exercise in good government. Almost all the delegates apportioned so far have been handed out fair and square, one man, one vote--the candidate with 30% of the vote got about 30% of the delegates...