He received a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1962, writing his thesis on the expanding trade between Canada and Cuba.
Buchanan joined the St. Louis Globe-Democrat at age 23. During the first year of the United States embargo against Cuba in 1961, Canada—Cuba trade tripled. The Globe-Democrat published a rewrite of Buchanan’s Columbia master’s project under the eight-column banner “Canada sells to Red Cuba — And Prospers” eight weeks after Buchanan started at the paper. According to Buchanan’s memoir Right from the Beginning, this article was a career milestone. However, Buchanan later said the embargo strengthened the communist regime and he turned against it.[9] Buchanan was promoted to assistant editorial page editor in 1964 and supported Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign. However, the Globe-Democrat did not endorse Goldwater and Buchanan speculated there was a clandestine agreement between the paper and President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Neither side can see there is a noose on both ends.