Pat Buchanan, Populist Republican: Bay Watch

WASHINGTON, D.C.

IN the early 1970s Angela (‘Bay’) Buchanan was working on a masters degree in math at McGill University in Montreal. The numerous American professors and graduate students, she suspected, were there partly because of the Vietnam draft. “So Pat does this article out of the Nixon White House on draft-dodgers,” she recalls. “I just said, ‘That’s it! I’m going to get Fs!’ I wrote him back: ‘Could you calm down a little bit?’ “