From his wife:
Close friends of Fred Thompson say his wife Jeri is urging him to take the plunge later this year and run for the Republican presidential nomination.
The former senator from Tennessee and current actor on “Law & Order,” in private conversation, makes it clear that he is seriously interested in launching a candidacy that has attracted extraordinary attention over the last two weeks. However, he does not plan to announce his candidacy in the immediate future
Such statements notwithstanding, I expect Thompson will announce something sooner rather than later.
She seems a very nice lady, but Google Image Search has been referring folks looking for pictures of Jeri to an old photo of schoolteacher gone bad Debra LaFave!
http://feedlot.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-fred-thompsons-wife-is-not-debra.html