{"id":48753,"date":"2014-06-26T14:41:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T19:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=48753"},"modified":"2014-06-26T14:41:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T19:41:26","slug":"former-sen-howard-baker-passes-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=48753","title":{"rendered":"Former Sen. Howard Baker Passes, 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bakerhoward2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48757\" alt=\"bakerhoward2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bakerhoward2.jpg\" width=\"74\" height=\"93\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; Former Sen. Howard Baker is being remembered for his ability to reach across the aisle and to broker compromise. As former Senate colleague Bob Dole puts it, Baker &#8220;got things done by working with both parties when it was the right thing to do.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Baker died Thursday at his home in Tennessee. According to an email distributed at the law firm where he was senior counsel, Baker died of complications from a stroke he suffered several days ago. He was 88.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He served for 18 years as a moderate Republican senator &#8212; but became nationally known during the Senate&#8217;s Watergate hearings in 1973, when he asked, &#8220;What did the president know and when did he know it?&#8221; It&#8217;s a question that has been dusted off for potential White House scandals, big and small, ever since.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee describes Baker as &#8220;the ultimate statesman,&#8221; and someone &#8220;who had the unique ability to bring out the very best in those around him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; Former Sen. Howard Baker is being remembered for his ability to reach across the aisle and to broker compromise. As former Senate colleague Bob Dole puts it, Baker &#8220;got things done by working with both parties when it was the right thing to do.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Baker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48760,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48753\/revisions\/48760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}