Pat Buchanan

Senior advisor to three Presidents and two-time candidate for the Republican presidential nomination

Born in Washington, D.C., Mr. Buchanan began his career in journalism. From 1966 through 1974, he was an assistant to Richard Nixon. On leaving the Ford White House in 1974, he became a syndicated columnist and founding member of three of the most enduring – if not endearing – talk shows in television history: NBC’s The McLaughlin Group, CNN’s Capital Gang, and Crossfire.

From 1985 to 1987, he was White House Director of Communications for Ronald Reagan. In 1992, Mr. Buchanan challenged George Bush for the Republican nomination and almost upset the President in the New Hampshire primary. In 1996, he won the New Hampshire primary and finished second to Sen. Robert Dole with three million Republican votes.

In his White House years, Mr. Buchanan wrote foreign policy speeches, and attended four summits, including Mr. Nixon’s historic opening to China in 1972, and Ronald Reagan’s Reykjavik summit in 1986 with Mikhail Gorbachev.

Mr. Buchanan has written ten books, including six consecutive New York Times best sellers: A Republic, Not an Empire; The Death of the West; Where the Right Went Wrong, State of Emergency, Day of Reckoning and Churchill, Hitler and The Unnecessary War.

Mr. Buchanan is currently a columnist, political analyst for MSNBC, chairman of The American Cause foundation and an editor of The American Conservative.