brian: you mentioned bill safire earlier and i want to show folks bill safire just talking about writingnd the new york times hiring him to be a columnist and i want you to put him in context with your brand of conservatism. pat: okay. [video clip] safire: he is like a layer cake and the top layer is patriot and beneath that there is mild paranoia and beneath that there is -- very good to people who work with him and thoughtful and not at all abusive. and underneath that, a hard liner. brian: he was a wordsmith and wrote speeches and then did his column in the new york times, where were the two of you on the political spectrum? pat: well, bill safire was regarded when he came aboard as a -- but he had been with nixon in 1960 and nixon was -- bill was one of the people -- four or five people when i went to new york, he said, you have got to go see vic klasky, you have got to go see bill safire come down here, see sandy quinn and all of these waldron people who were really loyalists who were considered people that he talked to and they ought to come to know me. my read on safire was that h

buchanan: bill safire was --arded, when he came aboard he had been with an accident in 1960. bill was one of the people when i went to new york, he said yet to see bill safire, see sandy quan. people who are loyalists considered people he talked to and they came to know me. my read on safire, he was in new york liberal republican. he was a wordsmith and a writer. he was on the other side for me in the arguments. i was very close to being a solid goldwater conservative. ray price and safire were regarded as liberal republicans. bill safire was hired at the end of nixon's first turn partly due to the agnew speech because liberal newspapers were biased and overwhelming. -- decidedk times they needed a conservative. nixon wrote a note, 7:00 human events. we all had a great laugh. bill went on to an a pulitzer prize. on economics, bill was the one who worked on the speech were worried and price controls brian: this is that nixon plus you want in 1983. >> he was -- a very strong woman. she never did leave him turned her back on him and you and the controversial thing he was in fault

pat mechanic, bill safire who won a pulitzer prize, ray price who came to the nixon staff from the new york herald tribune and he had written interestingly enough they editorial that endorsed lyndon johnson over barry goldwater and you had to journeyman speechwriters, bill gavin and we, the most remarkable speechwriting staff ever, i mean, then stein and i were in all of them as we were lowly speechwriters. pat became a remarkable career with nixon or as he effectually called him the old man. in 1965, when mr. nixon writer, researcher, researcher, traveling campaign aide and along with his current book, which i know you have all purchased, you hurt after by his other book, the greatest comeback which chronicled this remarkable time that patch worked with president nixon from 1965 until 1968 when he worked one-on-one with richard nixon closely during this comeback period where richard nixon went from political dead to return to become president of the united states. really remarkable book. in the white house pat was not only a conservative conscious, but a premier political strategist f