Tom Pauken

Tom appeared on Eagle Forum Live with Phyllis Schlafly on July 10th. Listen to the show at the link below. Interview: Tom Pauken — Bringing America Home.

Tom appeared July 7, 2010 on Crosstalk America to discuss the current economic meltdown and how it could have been prevented. Listen below or download Crosstalk with Tom Pauken.

Tom Pauken discusses his latest book, Bringing America Home, with Accuracy in Media chairman Don Irvine. Listen below or download here.

Tom discussed Bringing America Home with Keith Larson on Charlotte’s News-Talk 1110 WBT Monday, June 28, 2010. Listen below or download here.

Tom Pauken dropped by the RightOnline booth at the Republican Party of Texas 2010 convention and spoke with Bill Murchison on Bringing America Home:

The Heritage Foundation invites you to a Book Event:

Bringing America Home: How America Lost Her Way and How We Can Find Our Way Back
featuring Tom Pauken

How did America go from having the strongest economy in the world to facing our most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression? How did the Bush Administration squander the political capital that Goldwater-Reagan conservatives took more than three decades to build? What became of an American culture that once was guided by the principles of Christianity? In Bringing America Home, Tom Pauken not only explains how we lost our way, but also shows how our founding principles can help us find our way back.

A native Texan, veteran of the Nixon and Reagan Administrations, and former State Chairman of the Texas Republican Party, Tom Pauken is the author of The Thirty Years War: The Politics of the Sixties Generation. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a law degree from Southern Methodist University. Currently, he serves as Chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 12:00 noon

Hosted by:
John Edward Hilboldt
Director, Lectures and Seminars, The Heritage Foundation

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Tom Pauken appeared on Culture Shocks with Barry Lynn June 8, 2010. Listen below or download here.

Msgr. Tom Snyderwine’s long running show on Erie, PA’s WJET, hosted Tom Pauken on May 23, 2010. Download or listen below

Scott Braddock’s popular Dallas news show “Beyond the Headlines” featured Bringing America Home on May 26, 2010. Download here or listen below:

Pauken’s Paleo Moment

By W. James Antle, III on 5.24.10 @ 6:05AM

Bringing America Home: How America Lost Her Way and How We Can Find Our Way Back
By Tom Pauken
(Chronicles Press, 204 pages, $29.95)

There was a brief period in the 1990s when it looked like the right was going to have a paleo moment. Pat Buchanan barely lost to Bob Dole in Iowa and beat him in New Hampshire. Republican members of Congress were railing against “nation-building” abroad and filing lawsuits to keep Bill Clinton from going to war in the Balkans. And Tom Pauken was the chairman of the Texas Republican Party.

In the following decade, both the Republicans and the conservative movement traveled in a very different direction. There were many reasons for this, of course — Clinton’s presidency came to an end and, with the 9/11 terrorist attacks, so did the post-Cold War “peace dividend.” But Pauken’s rivals in the Texas GOP, George W. Bush and Karl Rove, played a very significant role. Compassionate conservatism replaced government-slashing; soothing rhetoric about faith-based initiatives replaced Buchananesque speeches about the culture war; the “humble foreign policy” of candidate Bush gave way to the president’s Bush Doctrine.

Around the same time Rove published his memoir, Tom Pauken — a Goldwater-era conservative activist who served in the Nixon and Reagan administrations — released his book Bringing America Home, painting a very un-Rovian picture of what the Republican Party and the conservative movement should look like. Pauken might have titled it The Conscience of a Paleoconservative.

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