Spotlight: Remembering Fred 

In a packed hotel ballroom in San Antonio, excited chatter hushed to near silence as Fred Thompson took the stage to address hundreds of reverse mortgage professionals who had traveled to attend NRMLA’s annual meeting. Tall, confident and polished, the former senator assumed his place at the podium with ease. Smiling warmly to the audience, he opened with a joke about his commercials before launching into politics and reverse mortgages. People were crammed into the room, filling every seat and lining the walls two deep to hear Thompson speak. They listened with rapt attention, smiling, nodding, chuckling as he spoke.