Reform Party candidate for president

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Pat Buchanan has been a senior adviser to three presidents and twice been a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. From 1966 through 1974 he was a confidant and assistant to Richard Nixon. Pat Buchanan challenged George Bush for the Republican nomination in 1992 and almost upset the president in the New Hampshire primary.

In 1996 he won the New Hampshire primary and went on to finish second to Senator Dole with 3 million votes. From 1985-1987, Mr. Buchanan was the White House director of communications for Ronald Reagan. Pat Buchanan was born in Washington and was educated at Jesuit schools. He received his master's degree in journalism from Columbia in 1962. At 23, he became the youngest editorial writer on a major newspaper in America.