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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
host, you're once again ignoring the real world results in an attempt to skewer a Republican.
So basically the White House THOUGHT that Thompson was going to help them. In reality he did nothing of the sort.
Seriously, you're trying to defame the guy because of what someone else thought he would do. You've even gone so far as to highlight the evidence to the contrary in the NPR story with Armstrong's quote about how the taping system wouldn't have been found and revealed WITHOUT THOMPSON'S HELP. Sounds to me like he pretty much did his job and did it with efficiency.
All this said, I have no intention of voting for Thompson, and the one opportunity that I had to vote for him in 1992, I didn't vote for him then either. My sole point of respond is to "poke the bear" to see what else you'll come up with in your singleminded pursuit of ridding the world of Republicans. I'm convinced that there has never been a single individual, real or fictional, that you would deride and belittle if you saw them as a Republican. I'm hoping for more entertainment.
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What are you talking about? Are we reading the same reporting? Two sources, four months apart.....same "take" on what happened in 1973. Thompson and Baker intended to help the Nixon white house, while intentionally appearing to be part of the committee's investigation of Nixon. Thompson is not described GIVING "an old memo of Thompson's, intended to be seen only by the committee's Republicans", .....to Democratic investigator in the meeting, Scott Armstrong". If there is any doubt, it is removed by this, from Armstrong;
""I thought Thompson would be filling out his resume looking for new work.""
Why did Armstrong think that? Because Thompson carelessly and inadvertently gave access to his "old memo" to democrat appointed investigator, Armstrong.
The additional support for the way I presented Thompson in my last post is this, from the July AP reporting:
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...while Thompson worked cooperatively with the White House and accepted coaching from Nixon's lawyer, J. Fred Buzhardt, the tapes and transcripts show.....
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.... I've supported everything I've posted on this thread, and on every other, yet your intent seems to be to "paint" me as posting as if I do not have my details in order......just rabidly partisan "for the hell of it". That is a smear tactic, IMO. I provide enough to offer ample opportunity for rebuttal, but your response is to shoot the messenger.
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...19179&ft=1&f=2
...The Democratic investigator in the meeting, Scott Armstrong, had obtained an old memo of Thompson's, intended to be seen only by the committee's Republicans. In the document, Thompson had summarized a set of attack points — delivered from the White House — and included long quotations from Nixon.
During that meeting of committee investigators, Armstrong laid the memo in front of Butterfield and asked about the long quotes. Was there a stenographer in the Oval Office? Did Nixon dictate something?
Butterfield said no and no.
With the question still hanging there after three hours, Armstrong turned it over to his Republican counterpart, Don Sanders.
"If it weren't for Thompson having created the document and collaborated with the White House on that, the taping system would not have been found," Armstrong says. He says he has always been amazed that Thompson got such a boost from the disclosure of the tapes. "I thought Thompson would be filling out his resume looking for new work."....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19675541/
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, <h2>the tapes and transcripts show.</h2>
"We've got a pretty good rapport with Fred Thompson," Buzhardt told Nixon in an Oval Office meeting on June 6, 1973. The meeting included a discussion of former White House counsel John Dean's upcoming testimony before the committee......
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