Fred Under Fire
One reason for the Republican candidate competition to out Ronnie one another is that President Reagan didn’t leave as public a paper trail as Richard Nixon.
ABC’s hard hitting investigative reporter Brian Ross illustrates the point today with a straight from his Bat Phone 
report. It’s the latest version of what is becoming a beloved classic: Richard Nixon dumping on young Fred Thompson.
The old war horse saying Thompson 
“isn’t very smart…But he’s friendly” never loses it’s charm. It also isn’t terribly new.
The New York Times had all the quotes in August, and a not very comprehensive Google search finds 1997 Wall Street Journal mentions from the last big Nixon tape dump.
Ross does provide a public service by putting a tape excerpt on the ABC News site
