FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
September 23, 1999
BUCHANAN CALLS MCCAINS CHARGE
'BASELESS, FALSE, CONTEMPTIBLE'
MCLEAN, VA -- Today, Republican Presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan released the following statement:
Like John McCain, I have family that served in combat in World War II: four of my mother's younger brothers and Shelley's dad, who won a Bronze Star under kamikaze attack on the Carrier Cabot. My own uncle, Regis Crum was at Kasserine Pass, in Sicily under Patton and at Anzio where he received a Silver Star and wounds from which he never fully recovered.
"For John McCain to suggest that I thought that the great cause for which my four uncles and Shelley's dad and millions of veterans fought and bled was ignoble is baseless, false, and contemptible. John McCain, a friend, owes my wife Shelley and me an apology.
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