Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and Harry Thomason: Just a Couple of Hicks With 40 Million Viewers

Producers LINDA BLOODWORTH-THOMASON and HARRY THOMASON, who lent the campaign a Hollywood touch at crucial moments, now mastermind the Inauguration

HARRY THOMASON KNEW THAT LIFE had changed forever when he fell off a motor bike he was riding with his nephew on the driveway on New Year's weekend. Just minutes after 911 was dialed, the sheriff, highway patrol, fire department and rescue unit streaked to his new house near Santa Barbara. As his head was being immobilized on the stretcher one of the paramedics said, "Do you think you could get these Clinton T shirts signed for me?" Thomason replied, "If I live."

Back in his office in Washington, where he chairs the Inauguration Committee with his wife, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, he...

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