pat buchanan spoke was exactly the kind of vote was exactly democrats nowadays. think that if you grasp that, if you understand the historical importance of buchanan, then you better understand where the tea party comes from and where the politics of today come from. if you read literature at the moment, history books tend to stop that the reagan revolution. that is not true. it is in the 1990s the south seriously turns republican at a congressional level. buchanan is all about that. if you want to understand the tea party, you have to understand the roots that were laid down in the 1990s. as a result of these travels, conclusions, in retrospect, i realize why it was i was drawn to write about pat buchanan. the answer is that many of the issues that have motivated him are global and international. i grew up in a family that is very much that middle american demographic. it just happened to be in the southeast of england. we are what people call c-2. it is a skilled worker, a man who lay cable in the ground. all the dramatic changes of the last 30 years, they affe

then comes pat buchanan and then next in line sitting on the sofa is the chief of staff of the white house, bob haldeman. carefully taking notes as he always did. then comes bill gavin. he's followed by jim keogh. he was the first director of the white house staff. he passed away about five years ago. earlier executive editor of "time" magazine and head of the usia. ray price took jim keogh's place as director. finally to the right, closest to president nixon, you'll recognize william sapphire who died less than two years ago. whom we all this afternoon are thinking of with special affection. now having introduced them through their photos, let me welcome them in person and invite our white house speech writing panel to the stage. very quickly, ray price, the chief speech writer for much of nixon's tenure. joined the new york staff in 1967. he had served earlier at editorial page editor at the new york herald tribune and later as president of economic club of new york. his memoir is called "with nixon." highly recommended. pat buchanan, a journalist democrat before he became the firs

on ronald reagan >> now, you look at the life and times of pat buchanan. uthor timothy stanley writes about mr. buchanan's childhood in washington d.c., his work in the nixon and reagan administrations in his own presidential campaigns. this is a little more than an hour. >> thank you very much for coming. i suspect you're not here to see me, though. and i'm cool with that. a big heart of my marketing strategy was to chew something i would do would do something really controversial. all i have to say is that msnbc boss is making. [laughter] the first question people ask me about this book is what i wrote it because i'm english and i'm not american. so why would i be drawn? and the answer to that, the third is fairly simple. passionately in love with america as a very exciting dynamic country where it still got a resolution when not for 300 years. it's got a few problems lately, but it still strong. the way i always i always phrase it as britain is like my crusty old wife in america is my young mistress. and although i see much of my mistress as i possibly c

first declared by someone pat buchanan worked for, president richard m.ixon, who resigned from offers later. has the war on drugs been swept under the rug and it is a failure? >> yes. what is happening in mexico, mexico is at war of these cartels, latin america, all of these areas have really been huge amounts of criminality because of the demand in the united states for drugs. we're criminalized an awful lot of people in this country. but you have horrendous alternatives. you legalize drugs and have a significant parts of society be destroyed, you fight the war on it, and you create all these criminals. you got -- as i wrote, milton solution, malice solution. milton freeman says legalize them and forget is. he says kill everybody, the drug dealers and drug users, he solved it. but we're not going to do either one. i think we'll limp along, but eventually my guess is people who say legalize are going to win. >> i put in there the nation resigns, smirking on my part. but what is the reconsideration going on of war today? >> i think watergate, what the peop

it was ray price, pat buchanan and bill safire. and jim khiel was the boss, the head of the speech writing team. ray was one of the three principal speech writers, very gifted writer, a lovely lilt to his writing. jim khiel moved out or retired from government and ray moved up to the number one job and he was looking for an administrative assistant. i went in to have this interview. because we both had gone to yale, we struck up this conversation and went on for a while and we had a very, very engaged conversation. he said i'm really interested in you possibly. i have some other candidates. one of them was married to richard nixon's daughter, tricia cox -- tricia nixon cox, a candidate for that job. i thought i have a zero chance, a great chance to go to the white house. this is a lark. it was very fun. i told him i said you ought to know i voted for humphrey. i'm actually a great admirer of richard nixon's foreign policy. i'm more liberal that this domestic policy. but i'm interested in talking to you. i know you're going to hire

pat buchanan was there. there was nothing -- we never discussed anything illegal. we discussed once calling fire engines and having them to go to a shriver picnic or something, some democratic get together. it was sort of fun and games kind of stuff. none of the dirty tricks associated with the '72 campaign came through that at all. that was all sort of hidden away. it was compartmentalized. there was a lot within the white house which was compartmentalized. you didn't see it in the beginning, what structures were there, circles within circles. it was a complex, byzantine place. he began introducing me to the -- i think not just the spiritual side of richard nixon but his idealism and he helped me understand that nixon was a -- something cruel had happened to him somewhere along the way. he -- i don't know where this deformity of character came from or where these demons, as i call them, came from within him. but something -- one never knows. bryce harlow was another friend that used to say to me, he said publicly something terrible happened to richard nixon when h

>> hearing pat buchanan worrying about us being less of an empire around the world! [overlapping speakers] >> in 1991, instead of -- >> don't you understand? >> but obama is -- hopefully libya will be the end of it. hopefully he will be selective. i do worry thinks foreign policy already the same with bush's, where we won't take this neutrality but the world's policeman thing. as long as you don't have a nuclear weapon. if you do, we leave it to yourself. >> when he is responsible for is enhancing the world's global trading system. so we have gatt, we have the world trade organization. this global trade system is keeping others going and renewing ourselves. you agree with that? that's a huge achievement. >> we are in a global economy, and economically i think -- both parties -- >> and he handles that well. >> he handled it well. you don't hear complaints even from obama's worst critics about his foreign policy. because they -- >> john -- >> even he doesn't -- [overlapping speakers] >> half of your industry in the last 20 years was loss, exported because of free trade

. >> was pat buchanan one of those who responded that way? >> i was trying to remember whether pat had left, when he left. i didn't think pat was there toward the bitter end. somehow i thought he had moved on. he remained loyal to nixon. i'm sure pat, you know, pat came up from a -- i'm a big pat buchanan admirer and i've always enjoyed his company. and, you know, because he went to gonzaga and a good catholic background, great family. more conservative than i am but so what? but i don't know where he was on that. i do think pat -- pat was a real skeptic about my coming in there at first because is this guy qualified? and he was probably right. but he became a good colleague. i enjoyed working with pat. but i do want to say this. as this was going on and i was also in a phone contact with bob woodward. in fact, john dean later thought i was deep throat, which i wasn't, but bob woodward and i had gone to college together. we didn't know each other in college but had gotten to know each other in washington after we both got there, and he and woo

. >> what are the pluses that senator rubio would bring to the ticket pat buchanan? >> he is young, he is hispanic, he can from florida, he is conservative. i don't know he will get it. i think he has created a problem for himself. he has moved with the neo conservatives. he not only said pughen was a week leader he said we should get involved in syria and militarily we'll have to attack iran. he's with joe lieberman and mccane and lindsey graham and that crowd. when you saw them together, it looked like he was too young and i think too callow to be the vice president of the united states. i think romney will go with someone that is perceived as heavier and older and the primary consideration. can he be president of the united states on a notice moments. >> does the bomb make him look even younger? you understand the question? >> the bomb? >> the big bomb. >> you mine the hydrogen bomb? >> yeah. does it make him look younger? >> when i saw him there alongside romney and you see him speak, you say is this fellow ready to be commander and chief and control the nuclear

pat buchanan? >> that's the reason, john. let's assume he won pennsylvania, it would have no meaning at all since it's his home state. and if he lost pennsylvania, it boob a humiliation and defeat and people would say, that guy can't win his home state, and that would damage him in the future. i think he's not mr. conservative, but he is mr. social conservative, and what he ought to do now get himself a prime time speech at that convention, do what governor romney asks him to do. he's the only one of these four folks who has a chance in 2016 as a republicans lose in 2012, and i think he ought to expand his own sort of personal base, if you will, to set himself up for another run, and be available for whatever governor romney or president romney asks him to do. >> i think the role that santorum conducted in the race guarantees he is not going to be the short list for vice president or in a romney candidate cabinet. there's a lot of brought on both sides, and i think what santorum did, he is getting out now because he ran out o

[applause] which brings me to pat buchanan who also was fired from a mess and the city-- from msnbc forriting a book. the brown people are coming. we are losing our culture. we are losing our feature of this nation. it is fear. he figured he is going to put up a fence and that is going to work. that has to contribute to the mindset. this man of authority, he is on television, saying things like that. tavis: on the question of war, we talk about in the book, a full treatment on the notion that war -- that war is the enemy of the poor. when you think about all of the services and all the opportunities we can afford. we have a chart that lays down what could have been done and what could be done. to the extent that we are now done with the war. if we lay out suggestions on what we think ought to happen. to your second point, about the fact that there is fear in this country. we talked about that. there is a peer of fort -- there is a fear of poor people. you are not going to appreciate any people. the poor people and of being on their own. the worst thing you can do is to render him or her

i watched her help her brother pat buchanan running for president, and i expect her to bring the samet of good luck to mitt romney. >> i helped ronald reagan years before that. >> look, bay, i don't know where you have been. for one thing, the one thing where president obama and michelle obama and jill biden have been out in front of are jobs for our young men and women coming up with jobs for our military. he has made jobs for veterans his number one priority. and they have got hundreds of thousands of veterans have been hired by u.s. corporations thanks to his initiative. >> i guess i overlooked it with the 23 million americans who are unemployed or the 53% of college students who now have no jobs or unemployed or under employed as well -- >> maybe you also missed the fact that the last month of george bush and first month of barack obama, we lost 750,000 jobs. one month. since then there have been 24 straight months with over a hundred thousand new jobs. >> all right. we could sit here and listen to you all night. but there was a recent poll which shows that married women favor rom

jesse jackson in 1988, pat buchanan in the republicans twice in the '90s.nd santorum may try to make a point. ron paul is trying to make a point. it may not be about winning. >> what point? i mean really, some people were saying maybe he is setting himself up to run in 2016. but if you stay in after all of these, you know party poobahs are telling you to get out, you are not making a good case for yourself being a team player for 2016. >> but he has these true-believer followers. he is define ant all the way through even 'til today, his speeches, not giving an inch. so i think he wants this message out there. the party is not happy with romney and they want to be able to weigh in all the way down the line. >> the president is only too happy for this to be prolonged, i know, exhausting resources and to highlight really the schism in the race. but even if santorum drops, you are not going to see romney or if you do all hell will break loose. you are not going to see him all of the sudden jumping to the middle again. >> he is go to try. >> he is going to try.

pat buchanan. >> after 2050, after mid century. >> after the demographics change, and i think religiousfication, is not -- >> when? >> after 2050. i'll go for 2080. i won't be around to be accountable. >> by 2080, everybody will be named carney or mohammed. so i don't think -- has to happen before the growing catholic bubble takes over the population. >> 2074. how much election year but sometime around there. but one thing, a church attendance is going up among the more educated folks. this is interesting demographic. >> the answer is 90 years from now, turn of the century. we'll be right back with predictions! >>> prediction? >> there will be no war with iran, before november, before january as a matter of fact, because obama and the u.s. military don't want it. >> eleanor? >> president obama will take the opening suggest by george clooney and press the chinese to put pressure on the government in khartoum to stop shelling in the south and get that oil flowing. >> thank you, george clooney. >> the pressure from inside syria and from corners in the u.s. for the u.s. to involve on behalf

pat buchanan, go to see you. >> good to see you, sean. >> this ladies us to the text poll question, was the president out of line with his supreme court comments? you can text us at 36288. we will have the results coming up later this hour. and coming up tonight an exclusive sit down with the father of trayvon martin's shooter, george zimmerman. he will tell us what his son says happened that night. don't miss this exclusive interview. when we come back we continue to vet the president, we will talk about his comments and the supreme court justice was michelle malcolm and herman cain, all coming up tonight. cor, ford is having some sort of big tire event. i just want to confirm a few things with fiona. how would you describe the event? it's big. no,i mean in terms of savings how would you sum it up? big in your own words, with respect to selection, what would you say? big okay, let's talk rebates mike, they're big they're big get $100 rebate, plus the low price tire guarantee during the big tire event. so, in other words, we can agree that ford's tire event is a good size? big big why y

pat buchanan did. >> i was watching. the clip from hannity that made me sad. it's like really?er left-right issue and you have to defend this guy for killing an unarm teen? >> they are trying to say that. there are conservatives outraged about this. on cnn, i was talking about the guy from the urban league. it's not racially pollarizing. there are thousands and millions outraged about this. it's along racial lines. no. it is not. there are millions of white people disgusted at this and are getting involved in it. if the naacp and urban league will play it tup. it's not a black and white thing. it's a justice thing. >> earlier they used the opportunity to smear the entire civil rights movement. what? all right. jean in minneapolis on trayvon. hi, jean. >> morning, stephanie. >> good morning. >> i think one of the things liberals have been magnificent about is really using social media to hold people accountable. >> yeah. >> i believe there is going to be justice for trayvon because this. i want to just remind people to make sure that they respond to things like colorchange.org h

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. >> how come everyone thinks santorum is a cultural, like pat buchanan. >> he is. >> i think santorum got off track in michigan. if he stuck with the theme you are talking about, rerentlessly, and focused on the economy, if he won michigan we wouldn't be sitting here right now. >> congratulations. did you a good job, hogan. a good job tonight at telling us the truth. which if your guy runs in 2016 because he expects romney to lose in november. frank will be back on at 7:00 with another edition of the show that might have your words. you might watch. >> i will. >> your candidate will watch. this is so much fun. we are both protecting the same thing. newt gingrich is probably coupling back too. >>> anyway, pushing against fairness. fairness is a great democratic argument. he is arguing wealthy should pay their fair share and aren't doing it. but is raising taxes on the wealthy a political winner? when we come back, fairness versus way out capitalism. this is "hardball." hello! who's she? downy unstopables. here to shake up your fresh. toss these little scent boosters in before you wash.

and we go back to father pat buchanan, monsignor pat buchanan, and this is the way you should look at athlete, hillary clinton a great political athlete. in 2012 the conservatives were the clunkers that didn't run before. ate a big mac and smoked a cigarette. and mitt romney, he wasn't flashy, but the moderate had year had the best 0 operation, was best in the debates and was the best political athlete which, again, is not saying a whole lot. if you have a conservative that was a good political athlete, that conservative would win today and frame the issues the way he or she wanted to frame the issues and the liberals would still be calling them crazy and right wing and dangerous and, my god, why couldn't they have been like, you know, ronald reagan was when we were calling him a fascist, the fascist gun in the west. because the things -- >> i think the things governor huntsman were talking about, were all when he was governor of california. raising taxes, liberal abortion law, all of that was clearly in the record. to joe's point, he was able to project an image. you knew his princip

there are times when it would have been better had a nominee not given in, for example, pat buchanan,speech, his prime time speech at george h.w. bush's renominating convention in 1992 ended up hurting burn the it was a harsh bush and it put bush in a bad late, so, sometimes you want an understanding of what is going to be said, not just whether there is a speech. >>neil: you are able to come back and remember dates and individuals because i was going to talk about the fillmore convention. >>guest: i remember that well. that was pretty exceeding of course he wasn't, he was never elected president he only succeeded but he ran as a free soil candidate. >>neil: who can forget the free soil thing. professor, you are the best, thank you very much. this is not high enough because now the white house is spending now the white house is spending half billion to heighten this. fully customize it for your trading process -- from thought to trade, on every screen. and all in real time. which makes it just like having your own trading floor, right at your fingertips. [ rodger ] at scottrade, seven

whether jesse jackson in '84 or '88 or john mccain in 2000, or whoever else, gary hart in '84, pat buchanan, '92. what they want is the validation at the convention. they want that moment where they can make a speech with their supporters can cheer and make noise makers and so forth. and i think that it is in romney's interest to accommodate. >> does very more than that, a little more than that? >> i think so, as a spokesman, listen we will have a guy from harvard law school running against a guy from harvard law school so we can use the up to cambridge and save time so rick santorum represents and spoke for a groups that's not like that. >> not even harvard yale. >> right, no it used to be we would have harvard yale, that was diversity, in the old days. so but now we have a guy from western pennsylvania whose grandfather famously coal minor, and who won over a lot of downscale voters. specifically by talking about how i'm going help you. and especially by talking about how social values interacted with economic values. how divorce and family breakdown really hurt the country's economic pro