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So much for Fred Thompson's presidential bid!?
It seems rather than being Nixon's nemesis he was secretly feeding the White House information during the Watergate investigation.
He probably should be charged with treason, but will get away with it because he's an actor.
It IS on the tapes, ditto-head. That's why the story is news.
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."
The treason comment was a joke, BTW, as if to say that actors get away with everything (which they do, except maybe for Wesley Snipes!!).
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. They eventually cinched Nixon's downfall in the scandal resulting from the break-in at Democratic headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington and the subsequent White House cover-up.
Scott Armstrong, a Democratic investigator for the committee who was part of the Butterfield questioning, said he was outraged by Thompson's tip-off.
"When the prosecutor discovers the smoking the gun, he's going to be shocked to find that the deputy prosecutor called the defendant and said, 'You'd better get rid of that gun,'" Armstrong said in an interview.
9 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Let's see. Nixon knew he would be impeached so he resigned. Yeah...that's getting away with murder.
- ALASPADALv 61 decade ago
Before you accuse him of being a traitor, look up the definition of it. He wasn't a traitor and I can assure you Republicans and Democrats from Congress who were friendly to the White House were all telling Nixon things about the proceedings, that is DC a leek filled cesspool at times. Many of them though were saying these things to get Nixon to resign rather than putting the country through an impeachment. I don't think in the end this will hurt Thompson's appeal to those who want him to be President and will be a minor blip on the radar in a general election.
- Pete WLv 51 decade ago
lesroy,
Treason? Where does that come from? I don't see where a charge of treason enters into this conversation at all. No one said that he was Nixon's nemesis - he was the minority counsel for the committee. His interests were those of any party counsel - telling the absolute truth while doing the best that he could, within the law, to lessen the fallout from any scandalous revelations. No one with whom he served as counsel or US senator has ever said anything negative about his ethics or morals. Now, that's a real change from most of the rest of them. BTW, I am an independent and have no 'dog in this fight'.
- Mark ALv 61 decade ago
Hmm, let's see... The guy who first 'leaked" all this information was....Fred Thompson! Boy what a scoop. He admits that he didn't have the authority to do it. If there had been anything to pin on him, it would have happened then.
This is such a non-story, just like the fact that he gave advise to a Pro-choice group about 14 years ago.
Is that all ya got?
Big whoop.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Uh oh the liberals are scared. This proves it! You know they are getting reeeaaaally scared when they throw out big words they don't know the meaning to. Treason? HAHAHAHAHAH. Let me guess, you are 19 or 20, going into sophmore or junior year at a direction state university....ie University of (North,South, East, West) State.
At least limit your vocabulary to words you know the meaning to.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
don't forget he also took money to lobby for Jean Baptiste Aristides (Mr. flaming neck tie, from Haiti) and interestingly enough, a pro-choice group
- Anonymous4 years ago
i concept you individuals have been all against "celeb" of course had it no longer been for her celeb status as a attractiveness queen Palin does no longer have stumbled into her mayor or Gov job !!
- Dina WLv 61 decade ago
If Fred had done or said something it would of been on the tapes,
Implied? implied on tapes? what does that mean exactly?
That the leftie who wrote this article and gave money to the Democratic party is trying to skew the facts.
