Patrick McSweeney was Head of the Office of Legislative Affairs of the U.S. Department of Justice during the Nixon Administration, directed the reorganization of Virginia state government in the 1970s, and served as chairman of he Republican Party of Virginia. He has given many addresses on behalf of the Southern tradition, including the annual address at Arlington Cemetery, the Lee-Jackson ceremony at the Capitol of Virginia, and the address dedicating the monument to the last Capitol of the Confederacy at Danville, Virginia. He and his wife live on a farm a couple of miles from Lee's last bivouac at his brother's farm in Powhatan, Virginia.
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