Fred Thompson
Jul. 7th, 2005 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
libertangoFrom an e-mail I just sent:
Dave:
I think the sniggering at Fred Thompson being a TV actor is unfair. This is a man who served in the US Senate for eight years, has been a lawyer for 38 years, was Sen. Howard Baker's Chief of Staff, and was minority counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee.
Last I checked, being an actor doesn't revoke one's citizenship, or steal away one's sense of civic duty. I can even think of an actor who served two terms as President.
For that matter, in our very age-biased popular culture, I like the fact that, like Danny Aiello, or John Mahoney, or Dennis Farina (a former Greyhound bus driver, a former medical journal editor, and a former Chicago cop, respectively) Thompson found something he clearly enjoys later in life, and went for it. His first acting part was when he was 43, when he'd already been a lawyer for 18 years.
I say, power to him.
Dave:
I think the sniggering at Fred Thompson being a TV actor is unfair. This is a man who served in the US Senate for eight years, has been a lawyer for 38 years, was Sen. Howard Baker's Chief of Staff, and was minority counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee.
Last I checked, being an actor doesn't revoke one's citizenship, or steal away one's sense of civic duty. I can even think of an actor who served two terms as President.
For that matter, in our very age-biased popular culture, I like the fact that, like Danny Aiello, or John Mahoney, or Dennis Farina (a former Greyhound bus driver, a former medical journal editor, and a former Chicago cop, respectively) Thompson found something he clearly enjoys later in life, and went for it. His first acting part was when he was 43, when he'd already been a lawyer for 18 years.
I say, power to him.
