On January 20th, Patrick Joseph Francis Buchanan announced that he will be ending his weekly column. As one of the most important newspaper columnists in American history, we’d like to pay tribute to his career.

Buchanan left the cozy confines of The St. Louis Globe-Democrat in 1965 to help Richard Nixon begin his big comeback following a large defeat by Pat Brown in the 1962 California gubernatorial race.

Pat’s future wife, Shelley, goes back even further with Nixon, serving as his secretary in 1959. In small planes, Pat and Shelley traveled with Nixon during the 1960 presidential campaign, enabling the candidate to fulfill his foolish and never-repeated promise to campaign in each of the 50 states.

Pat served with distinction in the Nixon White House for the entire time Nixon was president and was part of one of the most famous speech writing teams in White House history.

At the end of the Nixon presidency, Buchanan faced the Watergate Committee with no lawyer and only his brother Hank, an accountant, at his side. Buchanan’s sharp mind and sharp wit frustrated the Committee’s Democrats, who never laid a glove on him.

Pat went on to work with Ronald Reagan. In 1980, he and George Will helped Reagan prepare for the all-important debate with Jimmy Carter in Cleveland—a debate that shifted the public view of Reagan and paved the way for his landslide victory. Pat felt it was his duty, as an American, to do all he could to make sure the anti-Communist Reagan won.

As the ‘90s progressed, Buchanan’s departure from conservative orthodoxy on mass immigration, free trade, and foreign policy became the major focus of his writing. They also fueled his presidential campaigns in 1992, 1996, and 2000.

There is so much more to say about Buchanan’s career. Read more by Tom Piatak on VDARE.com by clicking here.

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