Long-Time Senator and Watergate Investigator Howard Baker Dies at 88

Long-Time Senator and Watergate Investigator Howard Baker Dies at 88     Former U.S. Republican senator Howard Baker, who became a household name during the 1973 Watergate hearings, has died at 88 following a stroke. Baker was admired by politicians from both parties as a plain-speaking moderate. He was elected to the Senate from Tennessee in 1966 and remained relatively obscure until he was appointed vice chairman of the hearings investigating the Watergate scandal...

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