In 1973, Republican Sen. Howard Baker, right, chose Thompson, a former assistant U.S. attorney who had been Baker's campaign manager, to be the minority counsel to the Senate committee investigating the Watergate scandal. Nixon reportedly declared Thompson "dumb as hell ... but he's friendly." In 1975, Thompson wrote "At That Point In Time: The Inside Story of the Senate Watergate Committee."
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