Word: patting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pat Buchanan's announcement that he was running for President was exactly in character. He was at pains to say how much he likes George Bush. He was communications director in the Reagan-Bush Administration and has dined with the current First Family in their private White House quarters. But Buchanan has his reasons for launching a full-frontal assault against the fellow Republican he likes so much. For Buchanan, Bush is insufficiently Buchanan- like -- not nativist, rightist, homophobic, authoritarian or anti-Israel enough...
...Buchanan reveres as his "spiritual guide" has taken Buchanan to the woodshed. In a 38,000-word essay in the National Review, William F. Buckley Jr., the godfather of conservatism, writes, "I find it impossible to defend Pat Buchanan against the charge that what he did and said during the period under examination amounted to anti-Semitism, whatever it was that drove him to say and do it; most probably an iconoclastic temperament...
...When Pat Riley was coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, he presented his team with an ultimatum...
Announcers, of course, were always the key. Play by Play, a rare multinetwork collaboration, brings together an all-star team of hosts (Jim McKay, Pat Summerall, Bob Costas, Curt Gowdy, Brent Musburger and Jim Lampley) and a Hall of Fame lineup of booth pioneers (Red Barber, Mel Allen, Lindsey Nelson) in clips and interviews. These men are full of anecdotes, good humor and the reverent glow of people who have witnessed incredible events. They seem like the happiest guys on earth...
...moment too soon. The expected primary challenge to Bush from conservative commentator Pat Buchanan is no trifling matter in New Hampshire. The state's first-in-the-nation primary has always been an outsized test of political strength, and Bush has always had difficulties here. Buchanan could easily capture 30% of the G.O.P. primary vote; anything higher will be interpreted as a setback for Bush even if, technically, he wins. A Buchanan victory could roil everything. Since 1952 -- when Harry Truman decided to retire after losing to Estes Kefauver -- no one has been elected President without first winning his party...