“Mr. Butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the Oval Office of the President?”

There was a time not long ago when I favored this man to be the GOP nominee for president of the United States.

Hogewash brings us this brief obituary of Fred Thompson: Fred Thompson has died of a recurrence of lymphoma. He was 73.

He was quite a character. I remember him from when he was a law school student at Vanderbilt while I was an undergraduate.

He delivered many memorable lines in his varied careers, but the most import was probably, “Mr. Butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the Oval Office of the President?”