Pat Buchanan Quotes
The Democratic party is really just a giant day care center for squabbling little groups.
Buchanan, Patrick J. Right from the Beginning. Little, Brown, 1988.
This passage from the Watergate tapes show how even after the Watergate scandal had started to unravel, Nixon and his staff were oblivious to what Nixon’s behavior had been and blamed critics for all the problems. It also shows the mindset that existed then in the White House that political opponents were enemies of the state and traitors. It was a throwback to monarchies were any opponent or critic of the King was by definition a traitor. This quotation is used by historians to not only show the Nixon paranoia about critics, but it shows the way Kissinger pandered to the President’s paranoia at the time. Whether Kissinger’s behavior was self-serving and hypocritical as his critics charge or a clever attempt to manage the President and Watergate crisis into a “soft landing” with Nixon’s resignation, as his supporters argue, it is hard to tell.
He was discussing the Presidential Primary Race.
The nation was facing the scourge of McCarthyism. Senator Smith was the most courageous member of the Senate in denouncing the lying demagogue of her own party who was so powerful at the time—Joseph R. McCarthy. At the same time, there were some communists trying to undermine the values or the nation as well as the fascists. Smith was one of the first to recognize the danger of both.
Patrick Joseph Buchanan is an American paleoconservative political commentator, columnist, politician and broadcaster. Buchanan was an assistant and special consultant to U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan, and was an original host on CNN's Crossfire. He sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996. He ran on the Reform Party ticket in the 2000 presidential election.
