Inside, his wife, Jeri, and 3-year-old daughter, Hayden, hug Thompson. The family settles on the dais and is consumed in a lightning storm of flash photography. The six-foot-five, cigar-smoking Thompson's calling card is his cozy, avuncular folksiness, and he seems nothing if not at home here among his people. Jeri is a formidable woman -- a former Senate staffer and spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee who is said to be the true force behind her husband's decision to run and a key operative in his campaign. She also happens to be blonde, gorgeous, and two dozen years younger than her husband. ...
Read the rest of the New York profile of Tennessee's next presidential candidate, Fred Thompson.
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