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🗓️ 9 May 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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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.
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0:30.3 | Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. Pat Buchanan returns to the show today. Today is the day of release |
0:35.5 | of Pat's brand new book, Nixon's White House Wars, |
0:39.4 | the battles that made and broke a president and divided America forever. No doubt you already |
0:45.7 | know, Pat Buchanan, who served in both the Nixon and Reagan White Houses, who's been all over |
0:51.5 | television as an original host of CNN's Crossfire and as a long-time |
0:56.5 | panelist of the McLaughlin Group from the 1980s until it ended not too long ago. |
1:02.8 | Pat is the author of many books, including numerous New York Times bestsellers, and of course |
1:07.8 | he ran for the Republican presidential nomination twice. And in 1996, |
1:12.4 | he won the New Hampshire primary, along with several other primaries. Pat, welcome back to the show. |
1:18.7 | Delighted to talk with you again, Tom. All right. I've just introduced your book to the folks, |
1:23.8 | and now I want to get into the weeds here. You know, I do the show five days a week. |
1:27.7 | I have a lot of books. Can't read them all. I have to use the press materials. But yours, |
1:32.6 | and I blame you for this. I've been up night after night, far too late, groggy the next day, |
1:39.2 | because I couldn't stop reading this thing. I cannot imagine how exhilarating Pat Buchanan's life must have been from the mid-60s up through the early 70s, but also extremely exhausting. |
1:52.0 | Can you start by describing what your role and relationship with Nixon was like once you, and of course you'd worked with him before |
2:01.5 | he was elected president, but once you entered the White House, what were you doing for him? |
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