Nixon's White House Wars by Patrick J. Buchanan

Author:Patrick J. Buchanan
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2017-05-08T16:00:00+00:00

On January 20, 1971, at midpoint in his first term, Nixon wrote a memo to Haldeman showing his frustration, anger, and indignation at what I had written in “Neither Fish Nor Fowl.” Perhaps we made a mistake in not bringing in a name conservative like Robert Nisbet to fill the Moynihan spot, said Nixon, “somebody with credentials.” He instructed Haldeman to bring together “Buchanan, [Lyn] Nofziger, Timmons, Dent,” so that the “conservative group on the White House staff doesn’t feel that they are out in rightfield—or clear over the fence.” He instructed Haldeman to draft a memo to me emphasizing the initiatives he had taken and policies adopted—his opposition to “forced integration of housing,” his vetoes of spending bills, his nominees to the courts, his fight for Haynsworth and Carswell, his support for Agnew, and his backing of Bob Dole for party chair, which Senator Hugh Scott had fought to the bitter end.

“In the field of foreign policy,” Nixon said, “it is absolutely ridiculous for Buchanan’s group to raise any question whatsoever.” He went on to list the invasion of Cambodia, his fight for the Safeguard Anti-Ballistic Missile System, the failed Son Tay raid into North Vietnam to retrieve our POWs, his opposition to defense cuts, his diplomacy in winning a suspension in the building of a planned Soviet submarine base in Cuba. My mention of Kent State and Jackson State had really set the President off:

Where any American President cannot be concerned about the death of people (in the case of Jackson, completely innocent people), then that man just isn’t fit to be President. Of course, the difficulty with the conservatives is that they have a totally hard-hearted attitude where human problems and any compassion is concerned. Just as their counterparts on the liberal left have a totally hard-hearted attitude insofar as people as individuals are concerned despite their protestations that they like people in the mass.

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