1972: Nixon and Kissinger ask Pat Buchanan to attack university leaders in speech.

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I thought about this when I saw the outrageous display of Buchanan on Rachel's show tonight.

This is from the Nixon Tapes, and here is the text from the You Tube site:

April 19, 1972
White House Telephone

President Richard Nixon and his National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger talk to speechwriter Pat Buchanan about a speech he is writing for Vice President Spiro Agnew. They encourage Buchanan to attack the "spineless, soft, wooly headed" university presidents and faculty, who were attacking the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War while a North Vietnamese offensive was going on. Nixon says that student protestors can't be blamed when such people lead them. (This phone call occurred one day after Nixon's daughter Tricia had been booed and harassed at a sports event on a college campus.)

(Photo: Richard Nixon shaking hands during the 1972 election, while his wife First Lady Pat Nixon watches.)
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