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Report: Fred Thompson's Wife Urges Candidacy
elephantbiz.com ^ | March 23, 2007 | Bill Hobbs

Posted on 03/27/2007 8:39:35 AM PDT by Names Ash Housewares

A Fred Thompson presidential run is looking more and more likely, says DC columnist and political insider Robert D. Novak:

Close friends of Fred Thompson say his wife Jeri is urging him to take the plunge later this year and run for the Republican presidential nomination.

The former senator from Tennessee and current actor on "Law & Order," in private conversation, makes it clear that he is seriously interested in launching a candidacy that has attracted extraordinary attention over the last two weeks. However, he does not plan to announce his candidacy in the immediate future.

The major rap against Thompson is that he was not a hard worker during his eight years in the Senate. His friends respond that this is an easily correctable error and that the same complaint was made about Ronald Reagan before he ran for president.

Thompson's wife is Jeri Kehn, was a political media consultant at the Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, and McPherson law firm in Washington, D.C., when they married in 2002. She also previously worked for the Senate Republican Conference and the Republican National Committee.


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KEYWORDS: elections; fredthompson; jerikehn
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To: RockinRight
She's cute too.

'Cute' is for girls, babies, kittens and puppies.

She's beautiful and looks to be in great shape.

And....she probably never wears pantsuits. LOL!

21 posted on 03/27/2007 9:02:04 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: Names Ash Housewares

I think we need to find a better picture. He looks about 80 and she looks 18. I know that she is only 30 years younger, but this picture does not show that.


22 posted on 03/27/2007 9:02:21 AM PDT by napscoordinator (.)
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To: Names Ash Housewares

Looks like he's gonna' run.....who'd want to say "no" to her?


23 posted on 03/27/2007 9:04:05 AM PDT by capt. norm (Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.)
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To: rhombus

From Wikipedia:

On June 29, 2002, Thompson married Jeri Kehn, an attorney and a political media consultant at the Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, and McPherson law firm in Washington, D.C. She once worked for the Senate Republican Conference and the Republican National Committee. In October 2003, they had a daughter, Hayden Victoria Thompson. He also has three grown children from a previous marriage, one of whom is deceased (Elizabeth "Betsy" Thompson Panici on February 1, 2002) , and five grandchildren.

And according to the Internet Movie Database, he was married to Sarah Elizabeth Lindsey from 1959-1985 (I read elsewhere that they got a divorce).

IMDb also says that he's 6'6", whoch would make him our tallest President (Lincoln was 6'4"). http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000669/bio


24 posted on 03/27/2007 9:06:39 AM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (http://auh2orepublican.blogspot.com/)
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To: Names Ash Housewares

That's his 2nd wife. He was married for 17 years to the first missus. It was an amicable breakup.


25 posted on 03/27/2007 9:08:04 AM PDT by Pistolshot (Thompson '08)
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To: Names Ash Housewares

How old is she?


26 posted on 03/27/2007 9:12:06 AM PDT by Melinda
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To: AuH2ORepublican

So Romney remains one of the few candidates to have only one wife. ;-)


27 posted on 03/27/2007 9:13:00 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: rhombus

Isn't it funny that the only potential nominee who hasn't had multiple marriages is the Mormon?


28 posted on 03/27/2007 9:15:54 AM PDT by OldPossum
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To: OldPossum
Isn't it funny that the only potential nominee who hasn't had multiple marriages is the Mormon?

And the one who is accused of changing his mind.

29 posted on 03/27/2007 9:20:31 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: OldPossum

'Isn't it funny that the only potential nominee who hasn't had multiple marriages is the Mormon?'


Yes, and Mrs Romney appears to have the class to be the First Lady of these great United States.


30 posted on 03/27/2007 9:22:01 AM PDT by 4integrity
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To: Pistolshot
That's his 2nd wife. He was married for 17 years to the first missus. It was an amicable breakup.

First marriage ended in divorce...like Ronald Reagan's first marriage.

31 posted on 03/27/2007 9:25:15 AM PDT by syriacus (Truman as president: Korean War; 30,000 US deaths; full wartime censorship; military draft)
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To: Names Ash Housewares

Listen to your wife, Fred! :)


32 posted on 03/27/2007 9:27:59 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham
i get a kick out of those saying that Fred is a ninny if he is looking to his wife to tell him what to do, when Rudy looks to have his hands full with the missus...
33 posted on 03/27/2007 9:33:13 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: rhombus

Second wife - another way he is like Reagan.


34 posted on 03/27/2007 9:36:36 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35
Second wife - another way he is like Reagan.

Hah. Maybe having a second wife can now euphemistically be described as Reaganesque. ;-)

35 posted on 03/27/2007 9:39:15 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: RockinRight
She's about 36 in that picture.

I was thinkin' 38C, at least.

36 posted on 03/27/2007 9:41:27 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: xsmommy

There is nothing more helpful to a man than a good wife. He'll make better decisions with her counsel and live longer to boot! :)


37 posted on 03/27/2007 9:42:40 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: unkus

She's a lot younger. She's the trophy wife. First wife too old!


38 posted on 03/27/2007 9:47:33 AM PDT by OldFriend ( TOM DeLAY FAN)
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To: napscoordinator

"I know that she is only 30 years younger, but this picture does not show that."

So when he was 40 she was 10?


ick.


39 posted on 03/27/2007 9:49:25 AM PDT by beansox (Burn A Fire In Our Hearts For The Battle At Hand)
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To: OldPossum

"Isn't it funny that the only potential nominee who hasn't had multiple marriages is the Mormon?"



Lets not forget, Nancy Reagan was not Ronald's Reagan's first wife.


40 posted on 03/27/2007 9:51:15 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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