Word: graciously
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Bush's favor, beginning with a stunning double win on Monday, his allies built their hopes not only of victory but of clarity, that he could start naming a team and setting a tone. The Governor's mansion was decked with holly, and in public Bush sounded increasingly gracious. He felt Gore's pain, he said; he unveiled a transition slogan--"Bringing America Together"; his team took care to drop names of Democrats he might name to a Cabinet, what programs had the best chance of passage through bipartisan seas...
...address, Bush said Gore's second concession was a "gracious call," saying he understood "how difficult this moment must...
...think that the gracious thing is to accept even if one disagrees with the decision of the Supreme Court," Laurence Tribe '62, Tyler professor of Constitutional law and Gore lawyer told NBC News...
...match his philosophy and aspirations. When he fell in love with Yoko One - who was truly his soul mate and muse - he treated his first wife rather shabbily. The divorce settlement, while broadly in line with the conventions of the day, was not the act of a generous or gracious man. His laudable devotion to his second son, Sean, was partly in reaction to the guilt of his neglect of his first son, Julian. Though he was just starting to make amends with Julian, his murder took place before the reparations were that far along. Julian to this day bears...
What should the loser do? First, be elaborately gracious--for 15 or 20 minutes, anyway. Call for national unity. Congratulate the jerk who beat you. Walk away jauntily, as if you'd won. In a sense, you did. No talk about stolen elections. No "I was robbed!" Don't look back. Americans are sick of the subject anyway, and have drawn their own conclusions...