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07/07/07, 12:38 pm
Introducing Fred Thompson -- the candidate who was supposed to rescue the GOP from choosing between a crossdresser, a mormon, and aging vet who's finally showing the ill effects of having been tortured.
It's a shame it didn't take longer for this garbage to come out on Thompson so that the Regressives would have had more time to sink money into him.
Highlights of articles that came out in the past two days:
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Fred Thompson aided Nixon on Watergate
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070707/ap_on_el_pr/thompson_watergate_1;_ylt=AsbqMfaS4UQgVHPm_TYVpSIE 1vAI
President Nixon and his top aides viewed the fellow Republican as a willing, if not too bright, ally, according to White House tapes
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Those tapes show Thompson played a behind-the-scenes role that was very different from his public image three decades ago. He comes across as a partisan willing to cooperate with the Nixon White House's effort to discredit the committee's star witness.
It was Thompson who tipped off the White House that the Senate committee knew about the tapes.
Thompson, then 30, was appointed counsel by his political mentor, Tennessee Sen. Howard Baker, the top Republican on the Senate investigative committee.
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Nixon was disappointed with the selection of Thompson, whom he called "dumb as hell." The president did not think Thompson was skilled enough to interrogate unfriendly witnesses and would be outsmarted by the committee's Democratic counsel.
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"Oh shit, that kid," Nixon said when told by his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, of Thompson's appointment on Feb. 22, 1973.
"Well, we're stuck with him," Haldeman said.
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Publicly, Baker and Thompson presented themselves as dedicated to uncovering the truth. But Baker had secret meetings and conversations with Nixon and his top aides, while Thompson worked cooperatively with the White House and accepted coaching from Nixon's lawyer, J. Fred Buzhardt, the tapes and transcripts show.
"We've got a pretty good rapport with Fred Thompson," Buzhardt told Nixon in an Oval Office meeting on June 6, 1973.
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Nixon expressed concern that Thompson was not "very smart."
"Not extremely so," Buzhardt agreed.
"But he's friendly," Nixon said.
"But he's friendly," Buzhardt agreed. "We are hoping, though, to work with Thompson and prepare him, if Dean does appear next week, to do a very thorough cross-examination."
Five days later, Buzhardt reported to Nixon that he had primed Thompson for the Dean cross-examination.
"I found Thompson most cooperative, feeling more Republican every day," Buzhardt said. "Uh, perfectly prepared to assist in really doing a cross-examination."
Later in the same conversation, Buzhardt said Thompson was "willing to go, you know, pretty much the distance now. And he said he realized his responsibility was going to have be as a Republican increasingly."
Thompson lobbied for abortion rights
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070706/ap_on_el_pr/thompson_abortion;_ylt=AsVeNWS1VbJN0yZnDFRwWT5p24c A
WASHINGTON - Fred Thompson, who is weighing a Republican presidential bid as a social conservative, "has no recollection" of performing lobbying work in 1991 for a family planning group that was seeking to relax an abortion counseling rule, a spokesman said Friday.
Guys like Thompson, Arnold S., and Reagan should have done their acting in Hollywood only rather than in government. That's what the right keeps asking actors to do, isn't it -- stay out of politics?
It's a shame it didn't take longer for this garbage to come out on Thompson so that the Regressives would have had more time to sink money into him.
Highlights of articles that came out in the past two days:
--------------------------------------------------------
Fred Thompson aided Nixon on Watergate
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070707/ap_on_el_pr/thompson_watergate_1;_ylt=AsbqMfaS4UQgVHPm_TYVpSIE 1vAI
President Nixon and his top aides viewed the fellow Republican as a willing, if not too bright, ally, according to White House tapes
...
Those tapes show Thompson played a behind-the-scenes role that was very different from his public image three decades ago. He comes across as a partisan willing to cooperate with the Nixon White House's effort to discredit the committee's star witness.
It was Thompson who tipped off the White House that the Senate committee knew about the tapes.
Thompson, then 30, was appointed counsel by his political mentor, Tennessee Sen. Howard Baker, the top Republican on the Senate investigative committee.
...
Nixon was disappointed with the selection of Thompson, whom he called "dumb as hell." The president did not think Thompson was skilled enough to interrogate unfriendly witnesses and would be outsmarted by the committee's Democratic counsel.
...
"Oh shit, that kid," Nixon said when told by his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, of Thompson's appointment on Feb. 22, 1973.
"Well, we're stuck with him," Haldeman said.
...
Publicly, Baker and Thompson presented themselves as dedicated to uncovering the truth. But Baker had secret meetings and conversations with Nixon and his top aides, while Thompson worked cooperatively with the White House and accepted coaching from Nixon's lawyer, J. Fred Buzhardt, the tapes and transcripts show.
"We've got a pretty good rapport with Fred Thompson," Buzhardt told Nixon in an Oval Office meeting on June 6, 1973.
...
Nixon expressed concern that Thompson was not "very smart."
"Not extremely so," Buzhardt agreed.
"But he's friendly," Nixon said.
"But he's friendly," Buzhardt agreed. "We are hoping, though, to work with Thompson and prepare him, if Dean does appear next week, to do a very thorough cross-examination."
Five days later, Buzhardt reported to Nixon that he had primed Thompson for the Dean cross-examination.
"I found Thompson most cooperative, feeling more Republican every day," Buzhardt said. "Uh, perfectly prepared to assist in really doing a cross-examination."
Later in the same conversation, Buzhardt said Thompson was "willing to go, you know, pretty much the distance now. And he said he realized his responsibility was going to have be as a Republican increasingly."
Thompson lobbied for abortion rights
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070706/ap_on_el_pr/thompson_abortion;_ylt=AsVeNWS1VbJN0yZnDFRwWT5p24c A
WASHINGTON - Fred Thompson, who is weighing a Republican presidential bid as a social conservative, "has no recollection" of performing lobbying work in 1991 for a family planning group that was seeking to relax an abortion counseling rule, a spokesman said Friday.
Guys like Thompson, Arnold S., and Reagan should have done their acting in Hollywood only rather than in government. That's what the right keeps asking actors to do, isn't it -- stay out of politics?