A former staff member from the Clinton administration has alleged that during her husband’s presidency, Hillary Clinton was deeply disliked, earning her the nickname ‘Nazi schoolmarm’ due to the fear she instilled in aides.
Buzz Patterson, an ex-Air Force Aide to President Bill Clinton responsible for the ‘nuclear football,’ shared insights about the former First Couple on X, revealing personal aspects of their lives.
Patterson explained that he mostly resided in the White House and was frequently near both Bill and Hillary, which led him to quickly realize that the atmosphere was largely influenced by whether Hillary was present or not.
‘We used to say that when Hillary was gone, it was a frat party. When she was home, it was Schindler’s List,” Patterson wrote in a scathing X post that has received over five million views.
Patterson served as Clinton’s Senior Military Aide from 1996 to 1998, and his role saw him carry the ‘Presidential Emergency Satchel’ to allow the president to launch a nuclear strike from anywhere in the world.
He said in his X post that the day-to-day work for Clinton varied dramatically based on Hillary’s whims, as he scathingly described her as ‘evil, vindictive, profane’ and ‘a b****.’
‘Among the military who served in the White House and the professional White House staff, the Clinton administration was infamously known for its lack of professionalism and courtesy, though few ever spoke about it,’ he wrote.
‘But when it came to rudeness, it was Hillary Clinton who was the most feared person in the administration. She set the tone.’
Buzz Patterson, the former Senior Military Aide to Bill Clinton from 1996 to 1998, claimed that Hillary Clinton was so detested during her husband’s time in the White House that she was known as a ‘Nazi schoolmarm’ who made aides run in fear
Patterson was responsible for holding the ‘nuclear football’ wherever Clinton went, but he said he quickly learned that the mood of the day ‘depended solely on the presence or absence of Hillary’
Patterson, an outspoken Donald Trump supporter, said he was warned from the get-go that Hillary Clinton was the most daunting figure in the White House, not her president husband.
‘When I first arrived to work in the White House, my predecessor warned me: ‘You can get away with pissing off Bill but if you make her mad, she’ll rip your heart out,” he wrote.
‘I heeded those words. I did make him mad a few times, but I never really pissed her off. I knew the ramifications.’
In a response to an X user asking what he did that ‘pissed off’ Clinton, Patterson said he once didn’t let him go to a restaurant when he was hungry because the Secret Service hadn’t swept it.
He said while these small issues could be brushed over by Bill, Patterson ‘realized there were different rules for Hillary.’
‘She instructed the senior staff, including me, that she didn’t want to be forced to encounter us,’ he said, adding that staff were seen scrambling to avoid her ‘no matter their position in the building.’
‘Many a time, I’d see mature, professional adults, working in the most important building in the world, scurrying into office doorways to escape Hillary’s line of sight,’ he wrote.
‘She was the Nazi schoolmarm and the rest of us were expected to hide as though we were kids in trouble.’
Patterson said Hillary (pictured in 1998) gave strict instructions to White House staffers not to interact with her, and described her as ‘evil, vindictive, profane’ and ‘a b****’
Patterson, an outspoken Donald Trump supporter, said he was warned from the get-go that Hillary Clinton was the most daunting figure in the White House, not her president husband
Patterson, pictured with Bill Clinton in the Oval Office, said there was little reverence for his 20 years of military service in the Clinton administration, and even said Hillary ‘attempted to ban military uniforms’ in the White House
Patterson served over 20 years in the Air Force and was deployed on tours to regions including Bosnia, Haiti, Rwanda and Somalia.
But he said reverence for military service was scant in the Clinton White House, and recalled a time ahead of the 1996 election when Hillary ‘attempted to ban military uniforms in the White House.’
‘She was trying to craft the narrative that the military was not a priority in the Clinton administration,’ he wrote.
‘As a military aide, carrying the football, and working closely with the Secret Service, I objected to that. It simply wasn’t a matter of her political agenda; it was national security.
‘If the balloon went up, the Secret Service would need to find me as quickly as possible. Seconds matter. Finding the aide in military uniform made complete sense. Besides, what commander in chief wouldn’t want to advertise his leadership and command?’
Patterson said Hillary ‘finally relented because the Secret Service weighed in’, but said the incident was a telling moment for his understanding of how the White House worked under the Clintons.
‘The Clintons are corrupt beyond words,’ he concluded the scathing X post.
