Word: patting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jewish. And Buchanan has condemned anti-Semitism, once comparing it to pornography. Yet there are times when he's not averse to showing some cleavage, enough to lead William F. Buckley Jr., the paterfamilias of modern conservatism, to conclude four years ago that "it is impossible to defend Pat Buchanan against the charge [of anti-Semitism...
...POLES OF SUPPORT holding up Pat Buchanan are polar opposites. Bay, sister, spitfire campaign chairman, is the prototype of the postfeminist woman. She works round the clock, rears three kids on her own, yet insists that she's a traditionalist. Shelley, wife, constant campaign companion, is an unrepentant prefeminist. She defines herself almost exclusively through her husband and prefers it that way. For a premodern man like Pat, independence may be tolerable in a sister but never in a spouse...
...campaign chairman, the tall and taut Bay is mostly behind the scenes, plotting strategy, raising money, orchestrating commercials. Pat calls her every 30 minutes to check in. Bay is the personification of his barking inner voice, goading him to run for President, something she has been doing for a decade. Whereas Bay talks nonstop in her brother's rat-a-tat style, Shelley is painfully reticent. Her only public role is to smile serenely, sit behind the candidate onstage and form the visual punch line to one of his biggest applause getters: "I want to introduce the lady I intend...
...sense, the two women correspond to the yin and yang of Buchanan's own personality. The slash-and-burn, take-no-prisoners campaign chairman reflects Pat's public persona, while the gracious lady of the house reflects the private Pat, whom his former colleague Michael Kinsley once described as "gentle" and almost everyone else considers amiable...
...Buchanan clan was next to godliness. Bay, whose given name is Angela, the younger daughter in a family of seven boys and two girls, gets her nickname from the mispronunciation of her older brothers: she was the "bay-bay." Within the family, Bay was more the rebel than Pat. After getting her master's degree in mathematics and working on Nixon's re-election committee, she was so disillusioned by Watergate that she upped and moved to Australia. When she converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and married a Mormon lawyer in 1982, her devoutly...