With support from the University of Richmond

History News Network puts current events into historical perspective. Subscribe to our newsletter for new perspectives on the ways history continues to resonate in the present. Explore our archive of thousands of original op-eds and curated stories from around the web. Join us to learn more about the past, now.

Pat Buchanan scored for claiming white people built this country

[HNN Editor: Rick Perlstein ("Nixonland") directed our attention to a Buchanan Nixon White House memo turned up by Trevor Griffey. In the memo Buchanan says that the Nixon administration should favor Catholics in appointments to high office, including the Supreme Court. In this video Rachel Maddow refers to the memo in the course of a long critique of Buchanan's recent claim that white people built the United States.]

Read entire article at MSNBC