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September 2, 2007
NEWSWEEK Cover: Lazy Like A Fox
Photo: In the September 10 issue of Newsweek (on newsstand Monday, September 3): "Lazy Like a Fox." Newsweek profiles Fred Thompson, looking at whether he's got the fire to do what it takes to win a presidential campaign. (Photo Credit: NEWSWEEK)
NEW YORK, Sept. 2 -- As Fred Thompson prepares to formally begin his campaign for the White House this week, after months of "testing the waters," the conventional wisdom in Washington is that Thompson doesn't want it badly enough, isn't willing to work hard enough -- put bluntly, that he is lazy. Thompson knows what people say about him -- and it bugs him, Newsweek reports in the current issue. "Fred was grumping to me about that the other day," Howard Baker, the former Tennessee senator and Reagan White House chief of staff who was one of Thompson's political mentors, tells Newsweek. "I told him, 'They've got to criticize you for something, and that's not a bad one, because you can disprove it'."
In the September 10 Newsweek cover, "Lazy Like a Fox" (on newsstands Monday, September 3), White House Correspondent Holly Bailey examines Thompson's career as a politician, lawyer and lobbyist and the impact it will have on his presidential campaign. "He needs to show he has the appetite for a presidential campaign, and he hasn't shown that yet," says a top White House official who did not want to be named sticking a knife in the back of a fellow Republican. "It's the hardest work in the world. I'm not sure he wants to work that hard." |GlobalGiants.com|
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