Thompson Closer to Official - Taps Former Campaign Manager

Fred Thompson on Wednesday tapped the man he credits with saving his 1994 Senate campaign to take over his likely presidential bid. Bill Lacy, a former strategist for Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole and Republican National Committee, will run day-to-day operations of Thompson's committee to ''test the waters'' for a presidential run. ''He turned around my campaign for Senate in 1994 and, as I move toward a decision on whether to run for president, I am confident he will take our operations to the next level,'' Thompson,. . . said in a statement. ''I'm here for the long haul,'' Lacy said in an interview from the committee's headquarters in a Virginia suburb. He said he has taken a leave of absence from his current post as the director of the Dole Institute of Politics at the Univ. of Kansas . . . Thompson is expected to officially enter the race Labor Day week, and is showing strongly in national polls and surveys in several early primary states . . . [Read More]

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