For the World War II generation there was clarity. The attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941, united the nation as it had never been before — in the conviction that Japan must be smashed, no matter how long it took or how many lives it cost. After the defeat …
Tom Woods – Tom Woods Podcast When Pat Buchanan was barely 30 years old, a U.S. president would regularly ask, “What does Buchanan think about this?†Pat shares some interesting stories of his years inside the Nixon White House. “Pat, you know I do the show five days a week …
By Eleanor Clift – The Daily Beast The old keeper of the GOP’s American First flame considers the man carrying that torch today. A conservative firebrand, Pat Buchanan worked in the Nixon and Reagan White Houses, filling a role much like the one that Steve Bannon is in today. They’re …
By Joe Klein – The New York Times Patrick J. Buchanan is a merry troglodyte, a naughty provocateur. He still calls homosexuality “sodomy,†just to get the goat of a community he will only reluctantly call “gay.†He writes that he wanted to be named ambassador to South Africa by …
For two years, this writer has been consumed by two subjects. First, the presidency of Richard Nixon, in whose White House I served from its first day to its last, covered in my new book, “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America …
In December 1964, a Silver Age of American liberalism, to rival the Golden Age of FDR and the New Deal, seemed to be upon us. Barry Goldwater had been crushed in a 44-state landslide and the GOP reduced to half the size of the Democratic Party, with but 140 seats …
By James Rosen at The National Interest… “I DID not understand then, nor do I now, why we did what we did,†writes Patrick J. Buchanan towards the end of Nixon’s White House Wars, the second of two volumes chronicling the decade he spent with the thirty-seventh president as a …
Saturday’s White House Correspondents Association dinner exposed anew how far from Middle America our elite media reside. At the dinner, the electricity was gone, the glamor and glitz were gone. Neither the president nor his White House staff came. Even Press Secretary Sean Spicer begged off. The idea of a …
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