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In his last four years in the Senate, Tower headed the Senate Armed Services Committee, considered among the more significant of all congressional committee chairmanships. Though a strongly conservative in his first few years in office, he moved steadily leftward until he left the Senate. In 1983, he voted against the [[Martin Luther King]] holiday bill though many other Republicans in both houses of Congress supported the holiday, which President Reagan signed into law.
In his last four years in the Senate, Tower headed the Senate Armed Services Committee, considered among the more significant of all congressional committee chairmanships. Though a strongly conservative in his first few years in office, he moved steadily leftward until he left the Senate. In 1983, he voted against the [[Martin Luther King]] holiday bill though many other Republicans in both houses of Congress supported the holiday, which President Reagan signed into law.
After he left the Senate, Tower was chief negotiator of the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks with the former [[Soviet Union]] and led the Tower Commission, which issued a report highly critical of the Reagan administration's relations with the [[Contras]] and [[Iran]]. In 1989, incoming President [[George H. W. Bush]] chose Tower as his nominee for [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]], but his nomination was rejected by the Senate after charges of drinking and womanizing surfaced. The opposition of [[Georgia]] Senator Sam Nunn solidified the Democratic majority against the nomination, and Tower was defeated, 53-47. After this stinging rebuke, Tower chaired the Bush Intelligence Advisory Board.
After he left the Senate, Tower was chief negotiator of the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks with the former [[Soviet Union]] and led the Tower Commission, which issued a report highly critical of the Reagan administration's relations with the [[Contras]] and [[Iran]]. In 1989, incoming President [[George H. W. Bush]] chose Tower as his nominee for [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]], but his nomination was rejected by the Senate after charges of drinking and womanizing surfaced. The opposition of [[Georgia]] Senator Sam Nunn solidified the Democratic majority against the nomination, and Tower was defeated, 53–47. After this stinging rebuke, Tower chaired the Bush Intelligence Advisory Board.
==Surprise death==
==Surprise death==