Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...hunker down and, surrounded by his famous family, watch the returns. Now, finally, attention would be paid. It was clear very early that the race was close, but when Florida was called for Gore shortly before 8 p.m., despondency fell over the Bush clan. With tears in his eyes, brother Jeb, Florida's Governor, apologized to George W. for letting him down. Other battleground states--Michigan, Pennsylvania--were put into the Gore column as well, and the outlook went from gray to black. But there was something curious here: Bush's people were getting numbers from Florida that showed their...
...Gerald Ford a quarter-century ago, and he's served four Republican administrations going back to Nixon. And he's got the pedigree. He dealt with low military morale in the wake of Vietnam, has held posts up and down the military and economic policy chains, and sees eye to eye with Bush on a missile defense. He even signed a letter in November criticizing Vice President Al Gore for agreeing in 1995 to Russia's sale of military equipment to Iran...
...surplus that seemed to go as far as the eye could see suddenly made tax cuts a stump speech staple again. "It's your money," Bush used to say - and soon the targeted vs. across-the-board debate reared its head as a partisan issue. But in the fight for the swing voters who had slowly learned to love fiscal discipline, tax cuts were not high on their presidential to-do list. Perhaps the best that could be said of Bush's $1.3-trillion-dollar baby is that it didn't cost him the election...
Daschle is keeping an eye on Breaux, who is trying to forge a bipartisan voting bloc called the Senate Centrist Coalition, one of many moderate groups now springing up like mushrooms after a Florida rain. Breaux could pose a threat to Daschle's Democratic unity and to his status as the ultimate go-to Democrat in the Senate--a role Daschle has no intention of relinquishing. "Unless President-elect Bush can develop a working relationship with Tom, he's not going to get a lot out of the Democrats," says New Mexico Democratic Senator Jeff Bingaman. That's the message...
...Vice President's 2004 prospects, Eskew recalls, Gore cut them off: "Until we get to a midterm election, none of this stuff is set, so to speculate about it is really not something I want to spend time on." But in his concession speech, Gore clearly had an eye ahead, vowing to "never stop" the fight he began in his campaign. Of course, it may be that his party will not forgive him, four years from now, for having snatched defeat from the jaws of peace and prosperity. But it may also be that having won everything except the only...