Editing Pat Buchanan (section)

==Early life and education==
Buchanan was born in [[Washington, D.C.]], on November 2, 1938, to William Baldwin Buchanan (August 13, 1905, in [[Virginia]] – January 19, 1988 in Washington, D.C.), a partner in an accounting firm], and his wife Catherine Elizabeth (Crum) Buchanan (December 23, 1911, in [[Charleroi, Pennsylvania]] – September 18, 1995, in [[Oakton, Virginia]]), a nurse and homemaker.<ref name=wargs>{{cite web|url=http://www.wargs.com/political/buchanan.html |title=The Ancestry of Pat Buchanan |publisher=Wargs|first1=William Addams|last1=Reitwiesner|first2=Nolan Kent|last2=Moran|first3=Julie Helen|last3=Otto |access-date=June 13, 2010}}</ref><ref name="ThomsonGale-Bio">{{cite web|url=http://www.notablebiographies.com/Br-Ca/Buchanan-Pat.html|work=Notable Biographies|title=Pat Buchanan Biography |access-date=November 1, 2006 |publisher=Thomson Gale}}</ref> 

Buchanan had six brothers (Brian, Henry, James, John, Thomas, and William Jr.) and two sisters (Kathleen Theresa and [[Angela Marie Buchanan|Angela Marie]] (nicknamed Bay). Bay served as [[Treasurer of the United States|U.S. Treasurer]] during the [[Presidency of Ronald Reagan|Reagan administration]]. Buchanan's father was of [[Irish American|Irish]], [[English American|English]], and [[Scottish American|Scottish]] ancestry, and his mother was of [[German American|German]] descent.<ref name=wargs /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buchanan.html|title=Index to Politicians:Buchanan|website=[[The Political Graveyard]]|access-date=August 8, 2013}}</ref> He had a great-grandfather who fought in the [[American Civil War]] in the [[Confederate States Army]], which earned Buchanan membership in the [[Sons of Confederate Veterans]].<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.theamericancause.org/pathatedixie.htm|contribution=Why Do the Neocons Hate Dixie So?|title=The American Cause|publisher=Patrick 'Pat' Joseph Buchanan|first=Patrick 'Pat' Joseph|last=Buchanan|date=November 26, 2003|access-date=June 13, 2010|archive-date=March 25, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325052748/http://www.theamericancause.org/pathatedixie.htm}}</ref> He admires [[Robert E. Lee]], [[Douglas MacArthur]], and [[Joseph McCarthy]].<ref name=WaPo-Ironfist>{{cite news|last=Allen|first=Henry|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/02/17/the-iron-fist-of-pat-buchanan/832ad9b5-783d-425c-a792-b5fc5bc8e70a/|title=The Iron Fist of Pat Buchanan|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=February 17, 1992}}</ref>

Buchanan described his [[Southern United States|Southern]] ancestry, writing:<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-12-03 |title=The American Conservative -- Why Do They Hate Dixie? uurl=http://www.amconmag.com/article/2003/dec/01/00007/ | url=http://www.amconmag.com/article/2003/dec/01/00007/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203050308/http://www.amconmag.com/article/2003/dec/01/00007/ |archive-date=December 3, 2010 }}</ref>

{{blockquote | text = I have family roots in the South, in Mississippi. When the Civil War came, Cyrus Baldwin enlisted and did not survive Vicksburg. William Buchanan of Okolona, who would marry Baldwin's daughter, fought at Atlanta and was captured by General Sherman. William Baldwin Buchanan was the name given to my father and by him to my late brother.

As a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, I have been to their gatherings. I spoke at the 2001 SCV convention in Lafayette, LA. The Military Order of the Stars and Bars presented me with a battle flag and a wooden canteen like the ones my ancestors carried.<ref>{{cite news|last=Buchanan|first=Patrick 'Pat' Joseph|title=Why Do They Hate Dixie?|url=http://www.amconmag.com/article/2003/dec/01/00007/|access-date=December 28, 2011|newspaper=The American Conservative|date=December 1, 2003}}</ref> |source=}}

Buchanan was born into a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] family and attended [[Catholic schools]], including the [[Jesuit]]-run [[Gonzaga College High School]] in Washington, D.C. He then attended [[Georgetown University]], where participated in the [[Reserve Officers' Training Corps]] (ROTC) program, but did not it. In 1960, he graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts|bachelors degree]] in English. He subsequently received his draft notice, but the District of Columbia Draft Board exempted Buchanan from military service because of [[reactive arthritis]], classifying him as [[Class 1-A|4-F]]. He then attended the [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism|Graduate School of Journalism]] at [[Columbia University]], where he wrote his thesis on the expanding trade between [[Canada]] and [[Cuba]] and was awarded a master's degree in journalism in 1962.<ref name="telegraph">{{cite news|last1=Lichfield|first1=John|title=America's artful draft dodgers: John Lichfield in Washington on the loyal servants who did not serve in Vietnam|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas-artful-draft-dodgers-john-lichfield-in-washington-on-the-loyal-servants-who-did-not-serve-1551104.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas-artful-draft-dodgers-john-lichfield-in-washington-on-the-loyal-servants-who-did-not-serve-1551104.html |archive-date=May 25, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=March 6, 2017|newspaper=The Independent|location=London|date=September 12, 1992}}</ref>