Fred Thompson gained an image as a tough-minded investigative counsel for the Senate Watergate committee. Yet President Nixon and his top aides viewed the fellow Republican as a willing, if not ...

Former Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee speaks at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, in this September 2, 2008 file photo. ... The Watergate hearings, ...

Thompson was a little-known assistant US attorney in Tennessee when the Watergate investigation in Congress got underway. He had served as campaign manager for the successful 1972 reelection of ...

The Fred Thompson Watergate Myth. By ABC News. August 4, ... It was July 16, 1973, and the committee was hearing from Alexander Butterfield, a deputy assistant to President Nixon.

Republican attorney Fred Thompson, left, conferred with Sen. Howard Baker during Watergate hearings. Thompson later became a senator and then an actor on “Law & Order.” Getty Images Before he ...

Fred Thompson (left), with Republican Sen. Howard Baker, listens to proceedings during the Watergate hearings in 1973. Time Life Pictures/Getty Images hide caption ...

To a generation of Americans old enough to remember the Watergate hearings, Fred Thompson, who died Sunday at 73, was the Senate attorney whose question to a White House aide prompted the revelatio… ...

To a generation of Americans old enough to remember the Watergate hearings, Fred Thompson, who died Sunday at 73, was the Senate attorney whose question to a White House aide prompted the revelatio… ...

Fred Thompson has a new ad touting his days as the top Republican lawyer on the Senate Watergate committee’s staff: In the ad, he boasts of having “helped to expose the truth during Watergate.” ...

To a generation of Americans old enough to remember the Watergate hearings, Fred Thompson, who died Sunday at 73, was the Senate attorney whose question to a White House aide prompted the ...

Fred Thompson, the former U.S. senator from Tennessee and acclaimed film and television actor who first gained national prominence as a lawyer on the Senate committee that investigated Watergate ...

Fred Thompson gained an image as a tough-minded investigative counsel for the Senate Watergate committee. Yet President Nixon and his top aides viewed the fellow Republican as a willing, if not ...