Fred Thompson wants nation's top job
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Fred Thompson didn't enter the 2008 presidential race Tuesday, but he talked like he was getting close to jumping in.
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Hollywood actor Fred Thompson has tentatively decided to run for president, according to a long-time friend and political adviser, and has quit his role on the TV crime series "Law & Order."
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Hollywood actor Fred Thompson has  tentatively decided to run for president, according to a  long-time friend and political adviser, and has quit his role  on the TV crime series &quot;Law & Order.&quot;
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Defending his campaign work schedule, Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson said Monday his strategy is working and "I'm going to do it the way I want to do it."
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DES MOINES, Sept. 6 -- Fred D. Thompson took his bid for the White House to the campaign trail Thursday, vowing to compete aggressively for the support of Iowans and pitching steady, experienced and conservative leadership.
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MANCHESTER, N.H. -- The venue was vintage Fred D. Thompson: a gun shop. Perfect for the down-home, Washington-outsider candidate who campaigned across Tennessee in the 1990s with a red pickup truck, rolled-up shirt sleeves and a straight-talking attitude.
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa  - Fred Thompson's new role as a presidential candidate means separating fact from fiction for those Americans accustomed to seeing him in dramatic TV and movie roles.
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Fred D. Thompson is positioning himself as the ideological and stylistic heir of Ronald Reagan.
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MADISON, Wis. - Tommy Thompson gave a long-awaited answer Friday to his plans for life after the Bush administration. Thompson, who served as Wisconsin&#39;s governor for 14 years before heading to Washington, DC
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa  - For Republican Fred Thompson, the former actor turned reluctant politician, the first few months of his floundering bid to be U.S. president were just a warm-up act. Now it is showtime.
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Fred Thompson, a likely Republican presidential candidate, on Tuesday defended his work as a Washington lobbyist, telling The Associated Press that lobbying is an important part of life because "government's got their hands in everything."
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Hollywood actor and former senator  Fred Thompson declared his long expected candidacy for U.S.  president on Wednesday, formally entering the 2008 White House  race with a TV interview as his Republican rivals gathered for  a debate.
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Republican Fred Thompson, an actor  and former U.S. senator who has taken an early step toward a  2008 presidential bid, will deliver a foreign policy speech in  London and meet with former British Prime Minister Margaret  Thatcher this week.
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Bloomberg - Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Former Senator Fred Thompson, after months of flirting with a possible presidential run, will enter the 2008 Republican nomination contest next week with a Sept. 6 Internet announcement and five-day campaign tour through Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, his organization said today.
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Republican Fred Thompson says he will make his long-awaited entry into the 2008 presidential race next week.
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ON THE BUS IN IOWA, Sept. 7 -- On his second full day of official campaigning, Fred Thompson spoke at length about his health and his opinions about Iraq, Social Security, homosexuality and abortion, both in an interview with reporters and at events around the state.
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In one breath, Fred Thompson insists he has not yet decided whether to run for president. In the next, he sounds like a man on the cusp of a full-fledged White House bid.