An alert, well-read blogger sends the following on today’s Thompson piece in The New York Times:

[Y]ou mention Sen. Weicker’s opinion of him. I don’t know if you’ve gotten a chance to look at Thompson’s Watergate memoir, At That Point in Time, but, in this memoir, Thompson talks about some conflicts between him and Weicker; he blamed Weicker’s office for a number of leaks to the press, and, at one point, they got into a shouting match over the phone (from page 55 of At That Point in Time): Weicker exploded; he said he would send Shure where and when he pleased and that I would not interfere. When I described several incidents in which confidential material had “found its way” out of his office, he said this was not true. If he didn’t know what was going on in his office, I replied, he was the only person on Capitol Hill who didn’t. The conversation continued going downhill, and before long I was standing at my desk engaged in an all-out shouting match.I know Washington’s a place where tempers can run high, but perhaps this story also reflects some underlying conflicts between Weicker and Thompson.

More here.

While we’re at it, a bit of NR history for those unfamiliar with former Sen. Lowell Weicker (R-Conn.). From the National Review issue of Sept. 2, 1988:

Q. Why do you call your organization Buckleys for Lieberman?
A. Within my own family there are a good many Buckleys, grounded in Connecticut. An informal estimate suggests that there are in the neighborhood of 11,000 Buckleys in the state. Buckleys for Lieberman intends to devote its primary attention to mobilizing their support for the attorney general.
Q. What do you purpose to do about Buckleys who advise you they are for Weicker, not for Lieberman?
A. That matter will be referred to the Committee on Genealogy. It is entirely possible that there are in Connecticut, person who call themselves “Buckley” whose birth certificates would not bear out any such presumption…
…The future of self-government depends on retiring such as Weicker from the Senate. Correction, there is no such thing as “such as Weicker.” He is unique.
Q. How do you propose to establish that?
A. That is the responsibility of the Horse’s Ass Committee.
Q. The what?
A. The Horse’s Ass Committee.
Q. What are its purposes?
A. To document that Lowell Weicker is the Number One Horse’s Ass in the Senate….

The rest, of course, is history. Joe Lieberman came from behind to retire Weicker, by far the most vicious (and to conservatives, the most hated) of all liberal Republicans in the Senate.