Word: handed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Bush decided to try his hand at politics once again, challenging the Democratic incumbent Ann Richards for the Texas governorship...
Since then he has tried to leave his top-flight academic grooming at Andover, Yale and Harvard merely on his resume, and tried his hand at Texan enterprises from oil to baseball...
...There was his first major hollow political offer, back in November, for a statewide hand recount, and the constant and often eloquent calls to "count all the votes." He must hope we will remember those for their principle rather than their application, because neither was a request his lawyers ever bothered to make before a court. (By Monday's oral arguments, the mantra and its disconnect had even become a joke to Justice Souter. And to Boies...
...after a cacophonous United States Supreme Court eked out an epitaph for Gore, that Florida law gave Gore neither the time nor the infrastructure for a statewide hand count that met the constitutional requirements of a statewide presidential election, some of his lawyers still saw daylight. The 12th was a false deadline, and since the Rehnquist Five had in the name of judicial propriety returned the case for retooling, there was still a chance for a Hail Mary back in Tallahassee...
...Bullock. These were familiar notes from before Nov. 7 - the uniter, not the divider. And Wednesday night, in his final victory speech of the five weeks that came afterward, Bush struck the pose of the hopeful innocent, ready to heal the nation and its capital with a gentle hand for every shoulder...