Fred Thompson’s new senior advisor in New Hampshire is Charlie Arlinghaus, who is president of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy in Concord.

That’s Josiah Bartlett (two ts), the signer of the Declaration of Independence, not Josiah Bartlet (one t), the fictional president played by Martin Sheen on The West Wing.

UPDATE: I reached out to a few folks up in New Hampshire, and they all speak exceptionally highly of Arlinghaus; rivals say this is a good pickup for him. Having said that, one noted, “Of course, Thompson could hire the ghost of Daniel Webster to lead his New Hampshire campaign and it wouldn’t matter if Thompson himself doesn’t bother to show up.”