Buzz Patterson, a former Air Force aide who carried the nuclear football for President Bill Clinton, revealed that then-First Lady Hillary Clinton was so widely disliked within the administration that staff privately referred to her as the “Nazi Schoolmarm” and often avoided her presence.
In several posts on X, Patterson recalled living primarily in the White House, close to both Bill and Hillary Clinton. He said it quickly became clear that the overall atmosphere in the executive residence was largely dictated by whether or not Hillary was around. “We used to say that when Hillary was gone, it was a frat party. When she was home, it was Schindler’s List,” Patterson said in one of his posts.
From 1996 to 1998, Patterson served as the Senior Military Aide to President Bill Clinton, a role that included responsibility for the “Presidential Emergency Satchel”—commonly known as the nuclear football—which allows the president to authorize a nuclear strike from anywhere in the world.
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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.’ 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 on X. “I heeded those words. I did make him mad a few times, but I never really pissed her off. I knew the ramifications.”
In response to a user asking what he had done to anger the former president, Patterson recounted an incident in which he refused to allow President Clinton to visit a restaurant because it had not yet been cleared by the Secret Service. Patterson said the president was hungry at the time, and the decision sparked Clinton’s frustration.
Patterson then turned his attention back to 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.”
The former aide also recalled that Hillary Clinton showed little respect or appreciation for members of the military, even attempting to ban the wearing of military uniforms in the White House. According to Patterson, the move was part of an effort to project the image that the military was not a priority for the Clinton administration.
“The Clintons are corrupt beyond words,” Patterson concluded.
