<P> Journalist Scott Armstrong, a Democratic investigator for the Senate Watergate Committee, is critical of Thompson for having disclosed the committee's knowledge of the tapes to Buzhardt during an ongoing investigation, and says Thompson was "a mole for the White House" and that Thompson's actions gave the White House a chance to destroy the tapes . Thompson's 1975 book At That Point in Time, in turn, accused Armstrong of having been too close to The Washington Post's Bob Woodward and of leaking committee information to him . In response to renewed interest in this matter, in 2007 during his presidential campaign, Thompson said, "I'm glad all of this has finally caused someone to read my Watergate book, even though it's taken them over 30 years ." </P> <P> In 1977, Thompson represented Marie Ragghianti, a former Tennessee Parole Board chair, who had been fired for refusing to release felons after they had bribed aides to Democratic Governor Ray Blanton to obtain clemency . With Thompson's assistance, Ragghianti filed a wrongful termination suit against Blanton's office . During the trial, Thompson helped expose the cash - for - clemency scheme that eventually led to Blanton's removal from office . In July 1978, a jury awarded Ragghianti $38,000 ($139,165.09 in 2016 inflation rate) in back pay and ordered her reinstatement . </P> <P> Thompson earned about $1 million in total from his lobbying efforts . Except for the year 1981, his lobbying never amounted to more than one - third of his income . According to the Commercial Appeal newspaper: </P> <P> Fred Thompson earned about half a million dollars from Washington lobbying from 1975 through 1993...Lobbyist disclosure records show Thompson had six lobbying clients: Westinghouse, two cable television companies, the Tennessee Savings and Loan League, the Teamsters Union's Central States Pension Fund, and a Baltimore - based business coalition that lobbied for federal grants . </P>

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