Fred Thompson visits UT, donates senate papers
By RANDY KENNER,
kenner@knews.com
October 8, 2005
Former Tennessee senator and current television actor Fred Thompson opened a recent speech at the University of Tennessee with a joke about age and ego.
Thompson said he had been walking around campus thinking that it seemed like only yesterday when he was a college student before he was suddenly reminded its been a few years.
"A beautiful young woman came running up to me and said, Can I have your autograph? " Thompson, 63, said.
"Smiling, of course I proudly signed my name and then she said, My grandmother just loves you.' ""I guess thats better than getting mistaken for Coach Phil Fulmer, which happens all the -time," Thompson said, adding to the laughter.