Fred Thompson likes to depict himself as a hero of the Watergate hearings who, working as a counsel for the Republicans in Congress, brought down President Nixon even though he was a loyal Republican.
The facts don’t fit that story. The facts indicate that Fred Thompson was working behind the scenes the whole time to help Richard Nixon evade the law and hide information from the Watergate Hearings.
Confronted with the truth behind his self-created myth, Fred Thompson has admitted that he leaked information to the Nixon White House indicating that the Senate Watergate Committee knew about Nixon’s system of audio recordings of meetings in the Oval Office. Thompson also admits that his leaks were completely unauthorized.
“”I wanted to be sure that the White House was fully aware of what was to be disclosed so that it could take appropriate action,” Fred Thompson says. We all know what “appropriate action” Richard Nixon took. When the Nixon White House audio tapes were finally obtained by Congress, a long part of the audio tapes was erased.
Fred Thompson helped President Nixon cover up his crimes. He was no hero of the Watergate hearings. Fred Thompson was part of the problem.
(Source: Boston Globe, July 4, 2007)
