However, lobbying has been a steady side gig for Thompson ever since the end of the Watergate hearings that brought him to Washington in 1973 as minority counsel for the investigative committee co ...

On May 17, 1973, a special committee convened by the U.S. Senate began its televised hearings into the Watergate scandal. The front page of the Deseret News on May 17, 1973.

Senator Howard Baker, vice chairman of the Senate Watergate Investigating Committee, questions witness James McCord during hearing in Washington, on May 18, 1973. Because of his intellectual ...

Some of the members of the Senate Watergate committee in 1974, on the day the committee released its final report. From left: Fred D. Thompson, the minority counsel; Mr. Weicker; Sam J. Ervin Jr ...

Republican staffer Alexander Butterfield revealed during Watergate hearings that he had overseen the installation of a recording system that taped President Richard Nixon's White House conversations.

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, a bungled crime at a D.C. hotel on June 17, 1972, that two years later led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon ...

Just as it was more compelling to have Republican lawyer (and later senator) Fred Thompson ask the question that broke open the Watergate hearings, Jan. 6 and the Big Lie that led to it are ...

In this Aug. 3, 1973, file photo, the Senate Watergate Committee hearings continue on Capitol Hill in Washington, with from left, Sen. Lowell Weicker, Jr; Sen. Edward Gurney, Fred Thompson, Sen ...

He was listening to the hearings on WTOP the day in Oct. 1973 when White House aide Alexander Butterfield acknowledged, in response to a question from Republican Sen. Fred Thompson, that there ...

Up to now, the 1973 Senate Watergate hearings have been rightly invoked as the gold standard for congressional investigations. But despite the historical prominence those hearings have gained as ...

Fred Thompson, the minority counsel during the Watergate Senate hearings, was key to lending the proceedings an air of bipartisanship. AP Photo ...