July 27, 1975: Church Committee chaired by Frank Church commences, to investigate foreign and domestic intelligence-gathering activities.

This is not the state that elected Frank Church to the Senate, not any more.

Some plots revealed in 1975 by a Senate committee led by Frank Church could have come from a Peter Sellers movie.

Idaho, one of the strongest Republican states in the nation, has not had a Democratic Senator since Frank Church, who was voted out in 1980.

The publication of this book was one of the events that led to the establishment of the Church Committee by Frank Church.

In 1976, a Senate committee headed by Frank Church learned that this practice had gotten out of hand.

Two other committee chairman, Charles H. Percy and Frank Church, also lost re-election bids in recent years.

The pundits predicted that Frank Church would be tapped to provide balance as an experienced senator with strong liberal credentials.

The committee was headed by Frank Church and became known as the Church Committee.

"Frank Church Goes to the Senate: The Idaho Election of 1956."