Editing Pat Buchanan (section)

====Bitburg visit by President Reagan====
Buchanan supported President Reagan's plan to visit a German military cemetery at [[Bitburg controversy|Bitburg]] in 1985, where among buried [[Wehrmacht]] soldiers were the graves of 48 [[Waffen SS]] members. At the insistence of German Chancellor [[Helmut Kohl]] and over the vocal objections of [[Jewish]] groups, the trip went ahead.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/06/international/europe/06REAG.html|title=Reagan Joins Kohl in Brief Memorial at Bitburg Graves|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=May 6, 1985|access-date=January 22, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018123607/http://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/06/international/europe/06REAG.html|archive-date=October 18, 2016|last1=Weinraub|first1=Bernard}}</ref> In a 1992 interview, [[Elie Wiesel]] described attending a [[White House]] meeting of Jewish leaders about the trip: "The only one really defending the trip was Pat Buchanan, saying, 'We cannot give the perception of the President being subjected to Jewish pressure.'"<ref name="WashingtonPost-1992">{{cite news|last=Dionne|first=E. J.|author-link=E. J. Dionne|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/02/29/is-buchanan-courting-bias/4753a57f-183b-4033-be38-4e2360e6aa00/|title=Is Buchanan Courting Bias?|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=February 29, 1992|access-date=August 20, 2020}}</ref> Buchanan accused Wiesel of fabricating the story in an [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] interview in 1992: "I didn't say it and Elie Wiesel wasn't even in the meeting ... That meeting was held three weeks before the Bitburg summit was held. If I had said that, it would have been out of there within hours and on the news."<ref>As quoted by ''[[Crossfire (U.S. TV program)|Crossfire]]'' on [[CNN]] (February 24, 1992). Transcript No. 514.</ref>