"As a conservative, I'm really more suited to Radio America, which is run by a conservative group," Liddy told NewsMax.com.

Noting that his new network is home to fellow conservative Michael Reagan, Liddy added, "They're a first rate outfit and I'm really pleased to be working with them."

Radio America president Jim Roberts described Liddy as "a talk radio pioneer who has been a proven commodity in the industry for 13 years," as well as one of the most colorful figures in modern political history.

"He's been a wartime Army officer; FBI Special Agent and Bureau Supervisor; a lawyer who has been both a prosecutor and defense counsel; high Treasury official; White House Staff Assistant to the President; New York Times best selling author; lecturer; motion picture and television actor; aviator; military and sport parachutist; Harley Davidson motorcycle owner and rider, adventurer" - not to mention a key player in the Watergate scandal.

The top rated talker was also involved in the Clinton administration's Whitewater scandal, having led investigators to the witness who discovered the body of gunshot suicide victim Vince Foster, who insisted Foster was unarmed at the time he found him.

Roberts said he was confident that most of the 150 stations where Liddy is currently heard would join Radio America’s 450 existing affiliates.

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