Word: evening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...natural aversion to second-guessing. A President Gore would be a decided contrast to the candidate who reinvents his campaign as often as he changes his wardrobe. "Once he locks in, he'll lock in and be much tougher to move, whereas Bill Clinton used to continue to cogitate even after he made a decision," says former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta...
...many ways, of course, making the decision is the easy part. Even the best idea or policy proposal is worthless if the President can't sell it--to the Congress and the public. This is what Bush's supporters believe is their man's greatest strength, an affable, intimate manner that sent even Democrats in Texas into a swoon. And it's where Gore's allies have their deepest qualms, particularly amid a campaign where he has been unable to close what should have been the easiest of deals, persuading contented voters to stick with the team that presided over...
...just that in Washington. But Texas Democrats are a conservative bunch, a different breed from their counterparts on Capitol Hill. After he was elected in 1994, Bush forged a close relationship with the late Lieutenant Governor Bob Bullock, a crusty Democrat with enormous power in Austin. But even a close Bush ally in Washington conceded last week that Richard Gephardt, the House Democratic leader, "is no Bob Bullock. [Bush] will reach out to Democrats, but they aren't going to reach back just because he's a nice...
...tail end of a second term, most Presidents are old or otherwise spent. Clinton thinks he's neither. Sadder for facing the wages of his sin and wiser for having faced down four Congresses, seven budgets and one impeachment, Clinton commands, even from his detractors, a grudging respect. In the past few weeks, the Vice President's reluctance to use this rich resource has risen to a public drama. But Hillary's embrace of her husband down the stretch may put her in the record books: the first First Lady to abdicate the White House to win a Senate seat...
...relationship has never recovered from impeachment. Peter Baker reports in his book The Breach how former deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes approached several Democratic Party leaders about urging the President to resign. Gore's resistance to such feelers may have saved the country from an even greater trauma, but it deprived him of sailing into the election as an incumbent. And it left him susceptible to attack, as if Monica had delivered that pizza...