Monday, May 20, 2013

Pat Buchanan and Watergate


     Pat Buchanan was one of the first staffers to join the group of Nixon’s speech writers. He arrived shortly after Nixon settled into the firm's offices at twenty bond street. Buchanan joined Rose Woods in the small office adjoining Nixon’s and started to do all of the nascent campaign’s routine political writing- letters, speeches articles and memos to possible political allies. He was to become one-third of the presidential speech writing team. One of Pat Buchanan’s  jobs was to prepare president Nixon by telling him what to say for his daily news summary called news and comment. After Watergate one memo written by Buchanan was that “we ought to go down to the kennels and turn all the dogs loose on ecology Ed” He also said after that “The president is the only one who should stand clear while everybody else gets chewed up”. Showing his dedication to President Nixon. In November 1972, in a speech to the New England Society of Newspaper Editors Pat Buchanan attacked the Washington Post and CBS news for overplaying Watergate after what he termed an independent investigation in the white house corroborated the findings of the FBI that “no one in the white house was in any way involved in the Watergate affair.” 

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