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. (Credit: Facebook)
A former Clinton administration staffer 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.
Buzz Patterson, the former Air Force Aide to Bill Clinton who carried the ‘nuclear football’ wherever the president went, took to X to reveal intimate details of the former First Couple.
He said he primarily lived in the White House and was ‘always in close proximity to both Bill and Hill’, which made him quickly learn that the mood of the day ‘depended solely on the presence or absence of Hillary.’
‘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.
HILLARY CLINTON
As some of you know, I was the Air Force Military Aide for Bill Clinton, lived in the White House, traveled everywhere they traveled, and carried the “nuclear football.” As such, I was always in close proximity to both Bill and Hill.
Among the military who…
— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) May 17, 2025
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.’
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.’