Word: evening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...their own calculations to make, and the math was not friendly to Gore. While G.O.P. lawmakers were united behind Bush, knowing that their own fortunes depended on having a Republican President to help get anything done, many Democrats privately thought they would be better off if Gore lost. Even some liberal Democrats thought Bush might in some ways be easier to work with in the White House, since he would have a powerful incentive to reach out to them and make peace. Although some congressional Democratic strategists are ambivalent about Gore's legal crusade, for fear of a backlash...
Joel Klein, former Assistant Attorney General for antitrust, hired Boies to litigate the government's case against Microsoft--despite the fact that he doesn't use a computer, not even for e-mail--because he believed Boies to be the best litigator in the country. Boies famously reduced Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, in a 20-hour deposition, to a hemming and hawing puddle, quibbling over the meaning of "concern" and "compete." How was Boies able to recall in court the exact wording of messages sent from one Microsoft executive to another? How did he keep every section of Florida...
...Defense Secretary for the father of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney has already spent a lot more time in the Oval Office than the man he would like to serve as Vice President. If the younger Bush eventually enters the White House, Cheney promises to be an even more influential Vice President than, well, Al Gore. As head of the informal transition team, Cheney has been making regular trips to Bush's ranch outside Austin, Texas, to start shaping a potential Cabinet. In the excitement about the vote in Florida, he and James Baker are George W.'s chief strategists...
...running mate, two of his doctors issued letters giving him a clean bill of health. But it was a bill without particulars. Cheney has repeatedly refused to allow reporters to interview him or his doctors about his health, to name the numerous medications he admits to taking or even to say where on his heart his bypasses are located...
...public figures who were less than candid about their medical history, especially when they have something to hide. In 1919 Woodrow Wilson suffered the massive stroke that left him partly paralyzed. But Wilson's doctors and his wife Edith hid the seriousness of his condition so well that even Congress was in the dark. The Senate was reduced to dispatching a "smelling committee" to the White House in a failed attempt to sniff out his real condition. John Kennedy flatly denied that he had Addison's disease, an often fatal immune-system disorder that he struggled with all his life...