"Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort. Jeri and I will always be grateful for the encouragement and friendship of so many wonderful people."
Thompson's ill-fated candidacy was spurred on by party conservatives unimpressed with the other candidates and desperate for the second coming of Ronald Wilson Reagan. But Thompson never quite measured up to the beloved Gipper. In truth, Thompson is a former senator whose record is undistinguished and inconsequential. Aside from the fact that he plays the authoritative and commanding District Attorney Arthur Branch in the television series Law and Order , he was anything but that on the campaign trail. His performance seemed to confirm notions about him being intellectually challenged and lazy.
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