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Pat Buchanan
Full name: Patrick Joseph Buchanan
Party: Reform
Birthdate: Nov. 2, 1938
Age on Inauguration Day 2001: 62
Birthplace: Washington, D.C.
Hometown: Washington, D.C.
Family: Wife Shelley Ann, no children
Current job: Candidate for president
Career: Print and broadcast journalist, editorial writer, syndicated columnist
Wednesday, November 8, 2000
 Nader, Buchanan see third party growth
Reform Party loses matching funds
Tuesday, November 7, 2000
Buchanan vote may end Reform Party
Monday, November 6, 2000
Buchanan hunts last minute votes
Buchanan questions third-party idea
Friday, November 3, 2000
Buchanan seeks support in N.Y.
Thursday, November 2, 2000
Third party candidates on the rise
Wednesday, November 1, 2000
Ads drain Buchanan's campaign funds
Buchanan won't back off campaigning
Views of Nader and Buchanan
To look at an archive of previous campaign news, go to the archive calendar.
Abortion: Opposed in all cases. Believes unborn child is a creature of God.
Agriculture: Would do what we have to do to save America"s family farms, even if it means helping out at the federal level.
Budget surplus: Give half back to the people in the form of across-the-board tax cuts, and use the rest to pay down the debt.
Campaign finance reform: Eliminate corporate contributions and soft money, and congressional pensions, and require members of Congress to raise 50 percent of their campaign contributions in their home state or district.
Defense: Must rebuild defense. Need to rebuild the morale and might of the armed forces of the United States as Ronald Reagan did.
Education: Abolish Department of Education and return its function and funding to state and local control; promote charter and magnet schools; favors constitutional amendment allowing voluntary prayer.
Environment: The country has an obligation to be good stewards of God"s benevolence to the United States.
Gun control: Preserve Second Amendment rights. The specifics should be left to the states. Washington should not decide for everyone else.
Health care: First, all federal programs like Medicare should be fully funded before any add-ons. Second, America should get the good manufacturing jobs back because they carry good health insurance for their workers.
Presidential behavior: Private lives of public men should be private unless it affects performance in office.
Social Security: Should be preserved for everyone who's paid into it. For younger folks, part of their Social Security contribution should go into private accounts to grow separately from their retirement.
Taxes: The tax burden is at an all-time record claim on the resources of the American people. The tax burden should be lifted.
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Military: Army ROTC, Georgetown University; disqualified from active duty by sports injury
Education: Georgetown University, B.A. 1961, English and philosophy; Columbia University, M.S. 1962, journalism
Religion: Roman Catholic
Web site: buchananreform.com
E-mail address: pat@
buchananreform.com
Campaign office: Buchanan 2000, P.O. Box 2000, Dunn Loring, VA 22027. (800) GO PAT GO
Something few people know about me: "I'm a cat fancier." He has a 14-year-old-tabby, which was pictured, along with the candidate, in a January issue of Newsweek magazine.
Heroes: Joe DiMaggio, Douglas MacArthur: "They represented real character and greatness in their callings, and they did it with style and class and dignity."
Best political memory: Winning the New Hampshire primary in 1996
Favorite sports team: Washington Redskins
Favorite food: Fried chicken
Favorite drink: Starbucks coffee
Favorite car: Lincoln Navigator
Favorite book: Other than the Bible, the plays of William Shakespeare
Favorite TV show: "Kojak" and "Dallas"
Favorite magazine: "Chronicles," a magazine of traditional conservative culture
How would your wife describe you: "You"d have to ask her!"
Often repeated quote: "America first."
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