so they hired bill sapphire and saltburger. they said they needed a condition serve active -- conservative on the page. it was on the summary that bill had been fired. he wrote a note. sapphire a conservative? him.ody tell [laughter] we all had a great laugh. but bill went on to win a pulitzer prize. bill was the one that worked on the speech, the famous speech where wage and price controls -- going off the gold standard. it was a great opportunity and a great moment. brian: here's a moment that you also write about. this is at nixon's funeral in 1993. it's only about 20 seconds. >> he felt a tremendous sense of loss because he depended on pat. she was a very strong woman. she never did leave him or turn her back on him in any of the controversial things he was involved with him. he leaned on her and depended on her. brian: you worked closely with her in 1966. mr. buchanan: she was a great lady. brian: what did she do -- the two of you were working together. mr. buchanan: she would call herself mrs. ryan. she was in the same off

pat buchanan, bill sapphire 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 the editorial that endorsed lyndon johnson over barry goldwater and you head two journeymen speech writers, bill and -- the most remarkable speech-writing staff. ben and i were in awe of them as their talents because we were locally speech writers. pat began his remarkable career with nixon or, as as he called him the old man in 1965, when he became mr. nixon roz writer, researcher, briefer, traveling campaign aide, and along with his current book, which i knowow have all purchased, you really have to buy his other book think greatest comeback, where chronicled this remarkable period that pat worked with president nixon from 1965 to 1968, when he worked so one-on-one with richard nixon closely during this comeback period where richard nixon rose from the political dead to become -- return to become president of the united states. it's really remarkable book. the white house

bill to declare president trump mentally unfit for office. our next guest says this may be unethical and is at least very irresponsible. dr. nicole sapphire-health care professionals giving diagnoses for someone they haven't examined, and even if they are -- which i have seen commentary in the media of health care professionals throwing around medical diagnoses about our president -- you can't do that and you shouldn't do that. i mean, the goldwater rule, which we were -- pete: interesting, yeah. >> you'd think they would have learned their lesson. pete: so talk about that. in 1964, something similar happened to barry goldwater. what happened? >> because they thought he had extreme political views. a group of psychiatrists got together -- exactly. extremism on both sides. i think people start throwing around mental illness diagnoses. but what happened was, essentially a magazine polled a group of psychiatrists who called him mentally unfit. he didn't get the presidency, but he was able to sue that magazine, and he won that lawsuit for libel. this rule is unethical. you cannot make commentary on living public figures that you have not exam