Pat Buchanan

ABOUT PAT BUCHANAN

Conservative political commentator and author who ran for the U.S. Presidency on the Reform Party ticket in 2000. He also hosted CNN's crossfire and was adviser to Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford , and Ronald Reagan .

He was excluded from being drafted because of his arthritis.

He stood by President Richard Nixon through the final days of the Watergate Scandal and some mistakenly suspected that he was the infamous whistleblower Deep Throat.

Singer Marilyn Manson is his fourth cousin twice removed.

He was the senior adviser to Richard Nixon .