Thompson defends wife's campaign role
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Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson on Friday defended his wife's role in his campaign, saying she has only been doing what he had asked her to do.
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Teresa Heinz Kerry got a bad rap during the presidential campaign, her husband said Monday.
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TAMPA Ã¢ÂÂ Fred Thompson is traveling across Florida this week hoping for a do-over on two issues that he flubbed last month on his first campaign trip as a Republican presidential candidate. On protecting the Everglades and on the headline-making 2005 case of a brain-dead Florida woman, Thompson seemed to know little and care less during his first swing.
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US first lady Laura Bush on Thursday dismissed as unimportant a comment by the wife of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry that Mrs.
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Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson told New Hampshire voters Monday that efforts in some states to recognize same-sex marriage are a "judge-made controversy."
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Fred Thompson, who is weighing a Republican presidential bid as a social conservative, "has no recollection" of performing lobbying work in 1991 for a family planning group that was seeking to relax an abortion counseling rule, a spokesman said Friday.
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Former US senator Fred Thompson, a Hollywood actor who has made a career of portraying US presidents and powerful Washington politicos, said Sunday he was considering a real-life presidential bid in 2008.
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Presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Wednesday his wife was not taking a swipe at Hillary Rodham Clinton when she said, "If you can't run your own house, you can't run the White House."
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She spent much of her Republican National Convention speech defending her husband's war on terrorism, and has taken on a major role in her husband's re-election campaign. Yet, many women delegates said they still think of Laura Bush as a wife and mother &#151; not a politician.
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LONDON -- The threat posed by Iran can be contained only if the use of force is kept on the table, potential GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson said yesterday. Thompson, an actor and former senator in London to address a conservative policy group , said the United States and allies must ensure that rogue nations cannot "carry out their evil ...
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Actor-politician Fred Thompson is making an eleventh-hour push to convince Iowa voters he is the only real conservative in the presidential race, contrasting his ideas and record on immigration and abortion with those of his leading rivals.
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CONCORD, N.H., Sept. 2 -- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton opened a campaign swing here Sunday by parrying criticism from her rivals, arguing that she alone has the experience and can provide the leadership to produce the changes in foreign and domestic policy all the cand...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton, defending her husband's increasingly vocal role in her presidential effort, sidestepped questions about whether Bill Clinton's suggestion that Barack Obama had put a "hit job" on him was language befitting a former president.
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Former Senator Fred D. Thompson hopes that his role as an investigator of government wrongdoing will propel him to the presidency.
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RICHMOND, June 2 -- Actor and former senator Fred D. Thompson of Tennessee rallied a crowd of several hundred Republicans here last night, offering a bluntly conservative appeal in his first major appearance since taking a formal step last week to run for president.
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A top adviser to Mitt Romney criticized rival Fred Thompson on Friday for his campaign finance reform efforts, triggering an exchange between the two Republican presidential contenders as they seek conservative support.
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Presidential candidate Fred Thompson said Thursday he's a Republican who has never strayed from his conservative beliefs, a jab at Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney designed to highlight differences with his chief rivals.