Howard H. Baker, Jr. (born 1925) served four terms in the United States Senate, including four years as minority leader and four years as majority leader. He was appointed the White House Chief of Sta...
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A few things you might not know about Fred Thompson:___INTERESTING NOTE: Thompson had just turned 17 in 1959 when he married his pregnant girlfriend, Sarah Lindsey, and lived in public housing for ...
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Gallup polling over the past three decades shows Republican front-runners usually win their party's nomination, but Democrats do not. Some elections:1972-DemocratsFebruary 1971: Edmund Muskie, 26 p...
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Four former Senate majority leaders are heading a new group aimed at putting aside partisan politics and offering solutions to the nation's biggest issues.The Bipartisan Policy Center, to be announ...
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Rita Geier, whose 1968 lawsuit helped desegregate Tennessee's public colleges and universities, is going to work for the University of Tennessee.The university announced Tuesday that Geier will be ...
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If one man's trash is another man's treasure, then one politician's old papers are potentially another politician's _ or journalist's _ gold mine.Which explains why Republican Fred Thompson previou...
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Republican Fred Thompson, who likes to cast himself in the role of Washington outsider, has a long history as a political insider who earned more than $1 million lobbying the federal government.As ...
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We are are now over halfway through the third Bush presidency, the second of two for George W. Bush, which followed two for Bill Clinton, which followed one for George H.W. Bush. Whether...
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Iraq: In one of the most foolish foreign policy speeches ever heard on the Senate floor, Richard Lugar has effectively advocated surrender in Iraq. But a grandstanding Republican senator won't budg...
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Politics: The long-awaited "whistle-blower" in the U.S. attorneys affair gave Senate Democrats an unpleasant surprise: The whole issue of political influence in choosing prosecutors is "largely art...
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Howard Henry Baker, Jr.
Republican Fred Thompson
