Former Sen. Howard Baker of Tennessee, whose Washington career included stints as majority leader and White House chief of staff for Ronald Reagan, has died at age 88 from complications of a stroke, his law firm and Senate Republicans said Thursday.
As vice-chair of the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973, Baker famously focused the inquiry on the phrase: What did the president know, and when did he know it? He was Senate majority leader for the Republicans from 1981 to 1985 and later served as U.S. ambassador to Japan from 2001 to 2005.
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