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Work for the Reagan White House

"The only one really defending the trip," he said, "was Pat Buchanan, saying, 'We can't give the perception of the president being subjected to Jewish pressure."

Off the campaign trail

1996 Republican Presidential Primaries

2000 Reform Party Presidential Run

Presidential Primaries

Presidential Election

MSNBC Commentator

The American Conservative Magazine

Republican Politics Today

Roman Catholicism

"The Church is in crisis today not because it failed to adjust its teaching and practices to the sexual revolution, but because it tried both to be true to its teachings and to keep in step with an immoral age, which is an impossibility. The way for the Church to restore its lost moral authority is to retrace its steps." He later praised the pope's successor, Benedict XVI, as uncompromising on Catholic doctrines, including divorce, contraception and women's ordination. On the other hand, he said Pope John Paul II was wrong on the death penalty, saying "it is the Holy Father and the bishops who are outside the Catholic mainstream, and at odds with Scripture, tradition and natural law."
   Buchanan said of Mel Gibson's film Passion of the Christ,

"Because of the over-the-top attacks on Gibson, millions who see 'The Passion' will also come to see the slur of 'anti-Semite!' for what it has all too often become, an attempt to smear, silence, intimidate, ostracize and blacklist."

   Responding to charges Pope Pius XII remained silent during the Holocaust, Buchanan called the claim, "a blood libel that's Hitlerite in dimension." while the victims of Nazism (and the 1940s New York Times) praised him. He says Pius XII reigned during "a time of explosive growth in the Church" and supports proposals to have him declared a saint. Fronts include environmentalism, feminism, abortion, gay rights, freedom of religion, women in combat, display of the Confederate Flag, recognition of Christmas and taxpayer-funded art. He also said that the controversy given this idea of culture wars was itself evidence of polarization.
   When Buchanan ran for president in 1996, he promised to fight for the conservative side of the culture war, saying, "I will use the bully pulpit of the Presidency of the United States, to the full extent of my power and ability, to defend American traditions and the values of faith, family, and country, from any and all directions. And, together, we'll chase the purveyors of sex and violence back beneath the rocks whence they came". In a 2004 column, he wrote, "Who is in your face here? Who started this? Who is on the offensive? Who is pushing the envelope? The answer is obvious. A radical Left aided by a cultural elite that detests Christianity and finds Christian moral tenets reactionary and repressive is hell-bent on pushing its amoral values and imposing its ideology on our nation. The unwisdom of what the Hollywood and the Left are about should be transparent to all".

Abortion and Euthanasia

Buchanan believes life begins at conception and says of abortion, “I don’t care about the circumstances of a child’s conception... You want to execute somebody in the case of rape, execute the rapist and let the unborn child live.” He calls RU-486 a 'human pesticide'. While certain there's no correlation between a lack of gun control and violence in society, he says this is very much so for the legal availability of abortions, comparing legalization to the downfall of Weimar Germany. As a result, he opposes Planned Parenthood, UNFPA and fetal-tissue research. Buchanan wants Congress to hold hearings on when life begins and confer "personhood" on the unborn. He believes modern technology can be used to prove life begins at conception and, "To reach hearts, we must first teach. Some hearts that are closed and cold will open. We will reach them. It has worked before."
   Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore, as part of his book Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American, mailed several hundred dollar checks to various 1996 presidential candidates, written under the guise of fictional support groups with names and agendas antithetical to the particular candidate's ideology, "just to see if politicians would take money from anybody." Buchanan was the first to cash his check, which was from the fictional group "Abortionists for Buchanan." This is featured in Moore's film The Big One. Buchanan believes the right to die doesn't exist, and compares Euthanasia to the culture of the pre-Christian Roman Empire, calling euthanasia a "crime against humanity." He claims Florida murdered comatose woman Terri Schiavo by starving her to death. He argues such practices will physically destroy Western civilization. "In coming decades," he predicts, "involuntary euthanasia will be commonplace in Europe, and Generation X battles to stay alive into old age will be treated with the same cold contempt as they treated the silent screams of the unborn. Millions will be put to sleep like aged and incontinent household pets. Since the 1960s, the radical young have pleaded for a world free of the strictures of the old Christian morality. They are close to getting what they've demanded... and my sense is that they won't like what they get".

Homosexuality and AIDS

"Someone's values are going to prevail. Why not ours? Whose country is it, anyway? Whose moral code says we may interfere with a man's right to be a practicing bigot, but must respect and protect his right to be a practicing sodomite?"

Feminism

Guns and Crime

The Second Amendment guarantees the individual right to own, possess, and use personal firearms, and as President I'll ensure that this right isn't compromised. People convicted of violent crime should forfeit their right to own firearms, but sportsmen, hunters, & law-abiding Americans should be allowed to use guns for pleasure or personal or family safety. Private ownership of guns gives citizens of this free republic the means to protect life, liberty and property -- and I'll fully & faithfully protect that right.

Racism

Platform

• 10-year moratorium on all legal immigration at a level between 150,000 and 250,000 per year
• A 2000-mile double-line security fence between the United States and Mexico
• A federally legislated end to all social welfare benefits for illegal aliens, except for emergency medical services
• A crackdown on major businesses that chronically hire illegal aliens and the elimination of deductibility for all wages paid to illegals
• A federal law to "restate the true meaning of the 14th Amendment" and denial of automatic citizenship to "anchor babies" born to illegal aliens
• A policy allowing immigrants to bring in only wives and non-adult children
• An end to dual citizenship in United States
• A deportation program beginning with all aliens convicted of felonies and every gang member who isn't a citizen of the United States

Racial Issues

Civil rights, crime, and immigration

America didn't listen [toBooker T. Washington's concerns]. Millions of jobs in burgeoning industries went to immigrants who poured into the United States between 1890 and 1920. These men and women enriched our country. But they also moved ahead of and shouldered aside black men and women whose families had been here for generations and even centuries. Not until immigration had been dramatically cut in the Coolidge era, and World War II created an all-consuming demand for industrial workers, were black Americans brought by the hundreds of thousands north to the manufacturing cities of America. And when they were, a Black middle class was created upon which the civil rights movement was built. When immigration stopped, Black America advanced, as Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and A. Philip Randolph said it would.[p.231]

American Civil War

Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Isaid that in] a memo in 1969 whether we should recognize the day or go down and see Mrs. King, and I suggested we not see Mrs. King. I said, ‘Martin Luther King was one of the most divisive men. Some see him as the messiah of the nation, others think he’s a dreadful person. He is a divisive figure.’ Look, I knew Martin Luther King. I'm the only candidate who was at the march on Washington. I was in the Lincoln Memorial. I was in Mississippi covering the civil rights demonstrations... Like every great movement, the civil rights movement had things that were attractive and things that were not. And for my history, friends, we make no apologies.

Environmental protection

Environmentalism, property rights and trade

Buchanan says while he wants endangered species to survive, regulations protecting habitats are unconstitutional takings from private landowners. During his 2000 presidential campaign, he explained:

We have a Biblically-based obligation to be good stewards of the land as “keepers of the commons.” However, the modern environmental movement has been co-opted by globalists who use international treaties to regulate our industries, and violate property rights by converting private holdings into public “habitats”. No one is more qualified to conserve land than the people who live on it. The government shouldn't trample states' rights by turning local land into public property.

In The Great Betrayal, Buchanan argues that free trade contributes to environmental destruction. He blames multinational corporations, saying they don't have the same vested interest in respecting nature as "economic patriots". He also opposes the Kyoto Protocol.

Animal welfare

PETA gave Buchanan the 2005 "Strongest Backbone" Proggy Award after his American Conservative magazine ran cover stories criticizing "factory farms and slaughterhouses." The group said Buchanan made a "gutsy decision" to cover animal rights topics. The articles were "Fear Factories" and "Dominion" by Matthew Scully, a former George W. Bush speechwriter.
   Buchanan says that being a lifelong "cat fan" is what sparked his interest in the issue of animal cruelty. "I've always been disgusted by that," he remarked, "even though I'm not a vegetarian".

Israel and accusations of anti-Semitism

Norman Podhoretz called him "soft on Hitler" and said he'd a "habit of championing the cause of almost anyone accused of participating actively in Hitler's genocidal campaign against the Jews." John Podhoretz, Norman's son, wrote: "You want to know what anti-Semitism is? When Pat Buchanan calls Israel's military action 'un-Christian', that's anti-Semitism".
   Buchanan denies the charges and refutes them at length. In a 1999 response to the elder Podhoretz, he said, "true anti-Semitism -- a hatred of Jews for who they're or what they believe -- is a disease of the heart. Unrepented of, it corrupts the soul. There is no such hatred in my heart for any group or any individual". He refers to Roosevelt as "a base appeaser of Stalin" and that his administration was "shot through with Communist spies and traitors." "In World War II," he writes, "patriots argued the wisdom of FDR's 'Europe First' policy that left our men on Corregidor to the mercy of the butchers of Bataan". He says, "Responsibility for the lack of American preparedness at the time of Pearl Harbor rests wholly with FDR. He had been in power nine years and had controlled both Houses of Congress for all nine of those years. Blaming our lack of preparedness on the isolationists (or even on the Communists) is the shilling of court historians".
   During the 2000 campaign, he elaborated on his interpretations of the roots of WWII:

"It was Wilsonism, liberal interventionism, not 'isolationism,' that created the moral-political swamp in which fascism, Hitlerism, and Stalinism were spawned. Unable to deal with the truth - that their own heroes produced the disasters that may yet ring down the curtain on Western Civilization - the blind children of Wilson now scapegoat Pius XII and America First. Do those attacking me realize they're defending the policies that produced World War II and virtual annihilation of the Jewish population of Europe? While the West is busy erecting Holocaust museums, it has failed to study the history that produced it.

In a 1977 column, Buchanan said despite Hitler's anti-Jewish and genocidal tendencies, he was "an individual of great courage...Hitler's success wasn't based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path."
   In A Republic, Not an Empire, he refers to Auschwitz and Katyn as places "where SS and NKVD killers roamed free and labored long into the night."
   In his book State of Emergency, Buchanan blames Hitler and the Holocaust for contemporary "white guilt" and political correctness. He quotes several Jewish voices in support of the melting pot concept as opposed to multiculturalism, and gives examples of anti-Jewish sentiment on the part of some Mexican immigrants.
   In defending himself against charges of Nazi sympathies, Buchanan calls Hitler a "monster" guilty of "ugly actions and discriminatory laws". Buchanan says America fought on the right side of the conflict -- and after Hitler declared war on the United States, had no choice but to fight.

"Great courage" controversy

In a 1977 Globe-Democrat column discussing John Toland's biography of Adolf Hitler, Buchanan wrote:

Though Hitler was indeed racist and anti-Semitic to the core, a man who without compunction could commit murder and genocide, he was also an individual of great courage, a soldier's soldier in the Great War, a political organizer of the first rank, a leader steeped in the history of Europe, who possessed oratorical powers that could awe even those who despised him...Hitler's success wasn't based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.

Slate's Jacob Weisberg takes credit for finding this quote as one evidence of Buchanan's alleged bigotry. Buchanan supporters say the paragraph is easily taken out of context. Buchanan also said in 2002:

There was nothing immoral, or unwise, about the isolationists’ position of 1940-41. Because of the courageous efforts of Lindbergh and America First, the United States stayed out of the war until Hitler threw the full force of his war machine against Stalin. Thus, the Soviet Union, not America’s young, bore the brunt of defeating Nazi Germany. When asked for his source, Buchanan said, "somebody sent it to me". Critic Jamie McCarthy says this claim may have come from the German American Information and Education Association's newsletter, a publication he accused of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. He also argues that "unlike the locomotive engineer in Buchanan's example, who was concerned with saving the lives of trapped people, the Nazis had no qualms about opening the engine's throttle and restricting the air intake". The Washington Post reported in 1989, before the controversy, that, "An Amtrak train had been stalled in a tunnel for half an hour, and smoke from the diesel engine had filled the first car, where there were 97 fifth-grade pupils and 27 adult chaperones. [EMTCynthia] Brown boarded the train, guided the passengers -- most of whom suffered from smoke inhalation -- from the car and assisted those who needed immediate attention."

U.S.-Israel Policy

Although he regularly criticizes U.S. policy in the Middle East, Buchanan says he favors "a strong, independent state of Israel." In 1991 he wrote Congress has become "a Parliament of Whores incapable of standing up for U.S. national interests if AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) is on the other end of the line." He accuses Israel of spying on the U.S. in many instances other than the well-publicized case of Jonathan Pollard, about whom he wrote, "Israel suborned Jonathan Pollard to loot our secrets and refuses to return the documents, which would establish whether or not they were sold to Moscow. When Clinton tried to broker an agreement at Wye Plantation between Israel and Arafat, Bibi Netanyahu attempted to extort, as his price for signing, release of Pollard, so he could take this treasonous snake back to Israel as a national hero". calling him "the statesman who brought peace after a half century of fighting for Israel's place in the sun". On it, Buchanan said that "there are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East -- the Israeli defense ministry and its 'amen corner' in the United States." by writing in one column, '"The civilized world must win this fight,' the editors thunder. But, if it comes to war, it won't be the 'civilized world' humping up that bloody road to Baghdad; it'll be American kids with names like McAllister, Murphy, Gonzales and Leroy Brown." Buchanan doesn't see anything anti-Semitic about this statement, and he responded, "If it's the lack of Jewish names among those soldiers, why is my list not also anti-Italian, anti-Greek, and anti-Polish?" He compared the 2002 Battle of Jenin to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and describes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the battle of intractable foes. He says a Palestinian state is the only hope for peace -- and would give the Palestinians "a huge stake" in "preventing acts of terror against Israel – for example, national survival". He also said that "Israeli repression" made the Palestinians radical -- and describes U.S. policy as "waging war on innocents to break their political leaders" and fueling anti-American hatreds.

Terrorism and 9/11

Buchanan argues Islamic terror groups target America, "for what we do, not who we are." He is critical of the aggressive post September 11 War on Terrorism which he claims ignores the root causes of terror in favor of short-term military victories. He advocated the use of torture to get information from terrorists.

Iraq

From the earliest days, consistent with his opposition to the Gulf War of 1990-1991, Buchanan is an outspoken critic of the 2003 Iraq War. He argues it's largely fought to defend Israeli and American oil interests and is a useless war based on deception and imperialism.

Lebanon

During Israel's conflict with Lebanon in July 2006, he accused President Bush of "subcontracting U.S. policy out to Tel Aviv, thus making Israel the custodian of our reputation and interests in the Middle East." Further, he said when Bush was asked if he'd urge Israel to restrain airstrikes, he "sounded less like the leader of the Free World than some bellicose city councilman from Brooklyn Heights." He concluded there's no proof to substantiate Bush's claim Syria was behind Hezbollah's capture of the Israeli soldiers, and added those "whispering in his ear" are "The same people who told him Iraq was maybe months away from an atom bomb, that an invasion would be a 'cakewalk,' that he'd be Churchill, that U.S. troops would be greeted with candy and flowers, that democracy would break out across the region, that Palestinians and Israelis would then sit down and make peace? How much must America pay for the education of this man?"

Neoconservatism

Buchanan vocally opposes those neoconservatives whom he calls "undocumented aliens from the Left, carrying with them the viruses of statism and globalism". He describes their first generation as people who began as "Trotskyist, socialists or Social Democrat", then became "JFK-LBJ Democrats", but broke with the Left during the Vietnam War and "came into their own" during Reagan's administration. He said he welcomed the Neocons during the early 1970s, but that it has become an inquisition, "hurling anathemas at any who decline to embrace their revised dogmas". Buchanan compares "Neocons" to squatters who take over a once-beloved home (the Republican Party) and convert it into a crack house. one that embodies rational, democratic principles about freedom, equality and virtue that are applicable everywhere. He says "every true nation is the creation of a unique people", sharing a common heritage, culture and language. Further, "Americans are a people apart from all others, with far more in common than political beliefs." He also says that America's modern-day sexual immorality and "imperial decadence" are not worth emulating: In his opinion, "A society that accepts the killing of a third of its babies as women's 'emancipation,' that considers homosexual marriage to be social progress, that hands out contraceptives to 13-year-old girls at junior high ought to be seeking out a confessional – better yet, an exorcist – rather than striding into a pulpit like Elmer Gantry to lecture mankind on the superiority of 'American values.'"
   In March 2003, Buchanan wrote an American Conservative cover story arguing that neoconservatives want "to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America's interest." He claimed that Lawrence Kaplan, David Brooks, Max Boot, Robert Kagan and others used anti-Semitism charges to intimidate Iraq War critics. Buchanan wrote that the American national interest is at stake and "warmongering threatens our country, even as it finds a reliable echo in Ariel Sharon." He argued that a group of "polemicists and public officials" was "colluding with Israel" to start wars, wreck the Oslo Accords, damage U.S. relations with Arab states, alienate Western and Islamic allies, and threaten the peace won by winning the Cold War.

In popular culture

In the popular television show Will and Grace, Grace sets Will up on a date with a man Will doesn't like. Will responds in disgust "I would rather go out with an Ebola-riddled gibbon monkey than this guy. Hell, I'd rather go out with Pat Buchanan than this guy."

Hunter S. Thompson considered Buchanan a friend. Buchanan was among dozens who offered a statement in Rolling Stone after the journalist's suicide in 2005. About Buchanan, Thompson once wrote, "We disagree so violently on almost everything that it's a real pleasure to drink with him."

Ali G interviewed Buchanan on Da Ali G Show in the "Sandwich War" interview, where the commentator played along, in a good-natured manner, in calling WMDs "BLTs." Buchanan went on to say that he'd dramatically change America, and that's why he "would never become president."

Buchanan is a guest star on the second episode of the Al Franken NBC sitcom LateLine, which aired on March 24, 1998.

Buchanan is referred to as a past President of the United States in Robert J. Sawyer's 2005 novel Mindscan, which takes place in 2045 and features an ultra-conservative United States of America and an ever-more-liberal Canada.

The 1992 Bush re-relection campaign ran a TV ad in Michigan that mocked Buchanan's economic nationalism. In it, a voiceover read, "Pat Buchanan tells us 'America First.' But while our auto industry suffers, Pat Buchanan chose to buy a foreign car, a Mercedes-Benz. Pat Buchanan called his American cars 'lemons.'" At the time Buchanan said he bought it in 1989 "for the missus" and that unloading it would be an empty gesture. He later sold the car back to its previous owner. In 2002, he said he drove a Lincoln Navigator and a Cadillac STS.

Garry Wills mentioned Buchanan in his 1968 book Nixon Agonistes. "As usual he's a black overcoat on," he wrote. "with the collar wrapped up around his lumpy raw face -- a 40-year-old torpedo, hands on the iron in his pockets? No, he's 29, a writer, one of Nixon's fresh batch of intellectuals." Buchanan memorized the description.

In the 2002 movie Big Trouble, Arthur Herk, played by Stanley Tucci, is described as "one of the few Floridians not confused when he voted for Pat Buchanan".

In the animated series Futurama, there have been many references ridiculing the Reform Party. In the episode "Future Stock", Planet Express is offered for sale to Momcorp, a giant conglomerate. During the vote of Momcorp shareholders to ratify the sale, one of Mom's slow-witted sons accidentally votes for Pat Buchanan.

Electoral history

United States presidential election, 1992 (Republican primaries)

George H. W. Bush (inc.) - 9,199,463 (72.84%)

Pat Buchanan - 2,899,488 (22.96%)

Unpledged delegates - 287,383 (2.28%)

David Duke - 119,115 (0.94%)

Ross Perot - 56,136 (0.44%)

Pat Paulsen - 10,984 (0.09%)

Maurice Horton - 9,637 (0.08%)

Harold Stassen - 8,099 (0.06%) United States presidential election, 1996 (Republican primaries):

Bob Dole - 9,024,742 (58.82%)

Pat Buchanan - 3,184,943 (20.76%)

Steve Forbes - 1,751,187 (11.41%)

Lamar Alexander - 495,590 (3.23%)

Alan Keyes - 471,716 (3.08%)

Dick Lugar - 127,111 (0.83%)

Unpledged delegates - 123,278 (0.80%)

Phil Gramm - 71,456 (0.47%)

Bob Dornan - 42,140 (0.28%)

Morry Taylor - 21,180 (0.14%) Won in Alaska, New Hampshire and Louisiana 1996 Republican National Convention

Bob Dole - 1928

Pat Buchanan - 47

Steve Forbes - 2

Alan Keyes - 1

Robert Bork - 1 United States presidential election, 2000 (Reform Party primaries)

Donald Trump - 2,878 (33.39%)

Pat Buchanan - 2,213 (25.68%)

Uncommitted - 1,164 (13.51%)

No preference - 617 (7.16%)

Charles E. Collins - 535 (6.21%)

John B. Anderson - 468 (5.43%)

Robert Bowman - 292 (3.39%)

John Hagelin - 220 (2.55%)

George Weber - 217 (2.52%) 2000 Reform Party National Convention

Pat Buchanan - 453 (98.69%)

Abstaining - 6 (1.31%) United States presidential election, 2000

George W. Bush/Dick Cheney (R) - 50,460,110 (47.9) and 271 electoral votes (30 states carried)

Al Gore/Joe Lieberman (D) - 51,003,926 (48.4%) and 266 electoral votes (20 states and D.C. carried)

Abstaining - 1 electoral vote (faithless elector from D.C.)

Ralph Nader/Winona LaDuke (Green) - 2,883,105 (2.7%)

Pat Buchanan/Ezola B. Foster (Reform) - 449,225 (0.4%)

Harry Browne/Art Olivier (Libertarian) - 384,516 (0.4%)

Howard Phillips/Curtis Frazier (Constitution) - 98,022 (0.1%)

John Hagelin/Nat Goldhaber (Natural Law) - 83,702 (0.1%)

Books and articles

Books

Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart (November 27, 2007) ISBN 0-312-37696-0

State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America (August 22, 2006) ISBN 0-312-36003-7

Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency (2004) ISBN 0-312-34115-6

The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization (2002) ISBN 0-312-28548-5

A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny (1999) ISBN 0-89526-272-X

The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy (1998) ISBN 0-316-11518-5

Right from the Beginning (1988) ISBN 0-316-11408-1

Conservative Votes, Liberal Victories: Why the Right Has Failed (1975) ISBN 0-8129-0582-2

The New Majority: President Nixon at Mid-Passage (1973)

Major speeches

1992 Republican National Convention keynote, August 17, 1992

1996 campaign announcement, March 20, 1995

1996 campaign speech, Georgia primary stump speech February 29, 1996

2000 campaign announcement, March 2, 1999

2000 Reform Party nomination acceptance, August 12, 2000

The Cultural War for the Soul of America, September 14, 1992

Death of The West, Commonwealth Club speech January 14, 2002

Free Trade, Chicago Council on Foreign Relations speech November 18, 1998

A Time for Truth about China, Commonwealth Club speech April 5, 1999

To Reunite a Nation, Richard Nixon Library speech on immigration January 18, 2000

Selected articles

PJB: A Brief For Whitey, column March 21, 2008

The Dark side of Diversity column May 1, 2007

The Aggressors in the Culture Wars, column March 8, 2004.

The Death of Manufacturing, American Conservative August 11, 2003.

The Death of the West, book excerpt on MSNBC.com, Oct 30, 2003.

Ghostbusting the Smoot-Hawley Ogre, column October 20, 1993

'Ivan The Terrible' - More Doubts, column March 17, 1990

A Lesson in Tyranny Too Soon Forgotten, column August 25, 1977

The Old Right and the Future of Conservatism, by Patrick J. Buchanan. Foreword to the second edition of Justin Raimondo's 1993 book, Reclaiming the American Right

The Sad Suicide of Admiral Nimitz, column January 18, 2002

Response to Norman Podhoretz, letter to The Wall Street Journal November 5, 1999

Time for Economic Nationalism, column June 12, 1995

True Fascists of the New Europe, column April 30, 2002

What Do We Offer the World?, column May 19, 2004

Whose War?, American Conservative March 24, 2003

Where are the Christians?, column July 18, 2006 The American Cause archives several years of Buchanan's newspaper columns. VDARE archives many articles written by Buchanan.

Interviews

Ten Questions for Pat Buchanan by Jeff Chu, Time, Aug. 20, 2006

Is This the Face of the Twenty-First Century?, by Bill Kauffman, The American Enterprise, July/August 1998.

Pat Buchanan Defends Controversial Immigration Comments Fox News partial transcript, Hannity & Colmes," August 22, 2006

Republicans: Whitman, Buchanan and Terror, "Open Source" public radio show. (audio)

Pat Buchanan discusses his book State of Emergency on Book TV, August 24, 2006 (Video)Further Information

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