Patrick J. Buchanan has been a senior advisor to three American Presidents. From 1966 through 1974, Pat Buchanan was confidant and assistant to Richard Nixon. In 1974, Pat Buchanan served as assistant to Gerald Ford. From 1985 to 1987, Pat Buchanan was White House Communications Director for Ronald Reagan. In December 1991, Pat Buchanan challenged President George Bush for the 1992 Republican presidential nomination. Buchanan ran in 33 state primaries, receiving 3 million Republican primary votes. Pat Buchanan's professional career began in 1962 when, at age 23, he was chosen as the youngest editorial writer on a major newspaper in the United States, the St. Louis Globe Democrat. His political career began three years later, when he signed on as the first full-time staffer in what would later be called "The Resurrection of Richard Nixon." During Buchanan's eight White House years, he traveled with President Nixon as one of the 15 member official delegation to open up the People's Republic of China, and he was present at Mr. Nixon's final Moscow-Yalta summit in the summer of 1974. Pat Buchanan was with President Reagan at both his first and second summits with Mikhail Gorbachev, at Geneva and Reykjavik. Pat Buchanan has written six books, including the New York Times best-seller, A Republic Not an Empire, and a Washington Post bestseller about growing up in the nation's capital, Right From the Beginning. His newest book, Death of the West, was released at the end of 2001. An honors graduate in English and Philosophy from Georgetown University Pat Buchanan received his master's degree from the Columbia School of Journalism in New York in 1962. Pat Buchanan's articles have appeared in publications ranging from Human Events and National Review to the Nation and Rolling Stone. Pat Buchanan has been a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist co-host of CNN's "Crossfire" and host of Mutual Radio's "Buchanan & Co." In February 1993, Pat Buchanan founded The American Cause, an educational foundation dedicated to the principles of freedom, federalism. limited government, traditional values and a foreign policy that puts America first. Pat Buchanan is married to the former Shelley Ann Scarney. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ For the Blue Dogs, Tuesday was a fire bell in the night. Virginia Republicans led by Robert McDonnell crushed the most conservative Democrat nominee in decades, rolling up a victory that rivaled Ronald Reagan's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/11/06/for_whom_the_bell_tolls e2bf5ab2-5148-488e-beed-ce107913e09a Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT When America is about to throw an ally to the wolves, we follow an established ritual. We discover that the man we supported was never really morally fit to be a friend or partner of the United States. When Chiang... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/11/03/the_american_way_of_abandonment 265533fa-f127-47b6-ac68-8626b471b5c9 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT If we had it to do over, would we send an army into Afghanistan to build a nation? Would we invade Iraq? While these two wars have cost 5,200 dead, a trillion dollars and a divided America facing an endless... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/10/30/the_fruits_of_intervention 846428c4-5e11-4ff2-977f-2af00d0b6d3b Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT "Sometimes party loyalty asks too much," said JFK. For Sarah Palin, party loyalty in New York's 23rd congressional district asks too much. Going rogue, Palin endorsed Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman over... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/10/27/newt,_sarah_and_a_new_gop 1e6c38dd-6a97-4551-a21b-8e06900fddd5 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Four decades ago, Lamar Alexander worked in Richard Nixon's White House. Sen. Alexander today says Barack Obama's White House reminds him of that place, that time, that mindset and those people. Intending no... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/10/23/nixon_and_obama_--_soul_brothers 7e218f0f-98df-4dbd-9388-3f8e035205c0 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT In the brief age of Obama, we have had "truthers," "birthers," Tea Party activists and town-hall dissenters. Comes now, the "Oath Keepers." And who might they be? Writes Alan Maimon in the Las Vegas... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/10/20/alienated__radicalized f9fe43be-3887-471d-ac18-1d0d34dc16b3 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Before President Obama even landed at Andrews Air Force Base, returning from his mission to Copenhagen to win the 2016 Olympic Games, Chicago had been voted off the island. Many shared the lamentation of Indiana... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/10/16/the_second_battle_of_copenhagen 9f4731b2-22eb-49ec-be87-1e89dba8a6e1 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT All my life, said Voltaire, I have had but one prayer: "O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous. And God granted it." In awarding the Nobel Prize for Peace to Barack Obama, the Nobel committee has just made itself... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/10/13/the_affirmative_action_nobel 26e1f727-bdbc-4461-8716-8f8779949ee1 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT September's unemployment figures were not only disappointing -- they were grim. For the 21st straight month, Americans lost jobs. Fifteen million are out of work -- 5 million for more than six months. But as The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/10/10/hire_americans_first! a033ba2b-1980-41bd-8a75-201ef77474db Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT The Pentagon's pre-emptive strike came with the leak of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's confidential review of the Afghan war to Bob Woodward of The Washington Post. McChrystal's painting of the military... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/10/06/the_generals_war de83036a-c40d-47e1-839a-4a896f199f08 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Impending today are two of the most critical decisions Barack Obama will ever make, which may determine the fate of his presidency, as well as the future of the United States in the Near and Middle East. The first... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/10/03/bitter_fruits_of_mideast_wars 08159ce0-be5e-4d93-9394-5f3c94ba338a Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT That Iran is building a secret underground facility near the holy city of Qom, under custody of the Revolutionary Guard -- too small to be a production center for nuclear fuel, but just right for the enrichment of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/09/29/is_iran_nearing_a_bomb 6a3efe83-c9f7-44f0-91ba-8905d6207259 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT While America was consumed this summer with quarrels over town-hall radicals, "death panels," the "public option" and racism's role in the plunging polls of Barack, what happens to health care is not going to change... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/09/25/to_lose_a_war a172195f-eba2-48b2-874c-a380d1a25c2f Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT In August, the Georgian navy seized a Turkish tanker carrying fuel to Abkhazia, Georgia's former province whose declaration of independence a year ago is recognized by Russia but not the West. The Turkish captain... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/09/22/black_sea_wars c0f98583-0681-400e-b70f-7777bc5be9ea Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT God save me from my friends -- I can take care of my enemies. So President Obama must be muttering today. Ten days ago, the president played his ace of trumps. He went before a joint session of Congress to lay... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/09/18/race_and_stupidity 7bad0ed6-c897-4924-8d3d-b7c10c6e3bef Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT