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Fred Thompson.

Former U.S. Republican Senator from Tennessee, Fred Thompson, appears on Fox News channel's Hannity and Colmes TV show in Washington June 5, 2007. 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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