Buzz Patterson
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Robert "Buzz" Patterson (born October 5, 1955) is an American political author, speaker, and retired United States Air Force pilot.[1]
Patterson was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Virginia Tech and a master's degree in business administration from Webster University.[citation needed]
Patterson served 20 years as a pilot on active duty in the United States Air Force. He saw tours of duty in 69 countries to include combat operations in Grenada, Rwanda, the Persian Gulf, and Bosnia. From 1996 to 1998, Colonel Patterson was the Senior Military Aide to President Bill Clinton. During that time he was responsible for the President's Emergency Satchel.[2][3]
Patterson's 2003 book Dereliction of Duty,, described by the Wall Street Journal as an "anti-Clinton book", sold over 150,000 copies and was on the New York Times bestseller list from April through July 2003.[4][5][6] Human Events described the book as an eyewitness account of President Clinton's "contempt for the military, his indifference to important issues except insofar as they served his own political or personal purposes, and his reduction of the Office of the Presidency to a playground for his own ambition and thirst for sordid perks." All of which, in Patterson's opinion, led to "our armed forces and intelligence services falling into such a demoralized, unprepared state that a disaster was just waiting to happen-which it finally did on Sept. 11, 2001."[3]
Published works[edit]
- Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America's National Security (Regnery Publishing, 2003)[7][8]
- Reckless Disregard: How Liberal Democrats Undermine Our Military, Endanger Our Soldiers, and Jeopardize Our National Security (Regnery Publishing, 2004)
- War Crimes: The Left's Campaign to Destroy the Military and Lose the War on Terror (Crown Forum, 2007)
- Conduct Unbecoming: How Barack Obama is Destroying The Military and Endangering Our Security (Regnery Publishing, 2010)
Awards and honors[edit]
- Defense Superior Service Medal, for accomplishments while at the White House[citation needed]
- Air Medal, for flying fifteen combat support missions into Sarajevo[citation needed]
References[edit]
- ↑ ""Buzz" Patterson to Entertain UCSB Republicans Tonight". Santa Barbara Independent. December 3, 2008. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
- ↑ Whittell, Giles (October 22, 2010). "Bill Clinton did lose nuclear strike codes". The Australian. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Rubin, Jeff (2 June 2003). "Required reading for conservatives". Human Events. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
- ↑ Weeks, Linton (24 March 2004). "Clintons Make Books 'Buzz'; Keen Interest in the U.S. May Clinch Sales for Coming Memoir". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
- ↑ "Best Sellers". New York Times. 6 April 2003. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
- ↑ "Best Sellers: July 27, 2003". New York Times. 27 July 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
- ↑ Schemmer, Benjamin (21 April 2003). "Not in Command Bill Clinton's military aide tells all. (book review)". Weekly Standard. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
- ↑ Siebold, Guy (1 January 2006). "Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America's National Security (book review)". Armed Forces & Society. 32 (2). Retrieved 18 October 2017.
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