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[Fred] Thompson wed his ambition
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Sep 06, 2007 04:11pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Los Angeles Times |
| News Date | Thursday, September 6, 2007 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In the summer of 1959, everyone could see that Sarah Elizabeth Lindsey was going places. Beautiful and brainy, she had edited the yearbook, joined the science club and graduated near the top of her class. In the fall, she'd be off to college.
Her boyfriend, Freddie Thompson, was another story.
A year behind Lindsey in school, he was a 6-foot-5 stick of undeveloped potential, awkward and lacking in drive. He seemed to devote himself only to pickup basketball games played at the Concrete Court, a slab set down for a building not yet constructed.
Sometime that summer, Lindsey told Thompson she was pregnant. He responded, friends say, by asking her to marry him.
Today, with a kickoff tour through early-voting Iowa, Thompson formally offers himself as a candidate for president, the highest ambition in American politics. But the onetime Senate from Tennessee did not grow up with such ambition. He married into it. |
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