Conservative icon Pat Buchanan has been recommended by Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
Schmitt wrote Saturday in a letter to President Donald Trump that Buchanan, 86, who served as White House communications director in the Reagan administration and was a three-time presidential candidate, has been “a courageous intellectual and political trailblazer” for more than a half-century.
“While he never held political office, Mr. Buchanan has had a profound influence on America,” Schmitt wrote. “His three presidential campaigns, though ridiculed and attacked by the establishment, proved that millions of Americans hungered for the very ideas and policies that you championed in your historic road to victory two decades later.
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