Fred Thompson has this persona of being some tough guy from his role on L.A. Law, but the tough guy does not carry thru to his real personaltiy.
Yeah, it takes a real wimp to be married with a kid while still in high school, work his way through law school, be such a good DA that they do a movie about it and hire him to play himself, and from there discover and do pretty well in an acting career, but to be lawyer enough at heart to run for and win Senator ...
Nah. Not a tough guy at all.