Word: legality
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Friday, Democrats who had begun to line up behind the Gore cortege actually heard a heartbeat when the Florida Supreme Court sent the counters back to work. Now it looked as if Gore's intricate legal case might be reducible to four words: "I got more votes." Party headquarters was suddenly flooded with calls from Democrats, entire congressional staffs, offering to jet down to Florida to help oversee the recount. "I was back in business," said campaign manager Donna Brazile. That night was the "first time I slept without a Zantac" since the election...
Even though several university officials said they unequivocally support Duggan's opinion, the legal battle is not likely to end soon...
...election night, as Gore retracted his concession, many of his Nashville campaign staff upended their lives and rushed to all points in Florida to help in the recount effort. Over the ensuing five weeks pique set in over the fact that Gore stayed in touch with his legal team but not the larger staff. "I blame both the Gores for this," says one beleaguered Florida staffer. "He was talking to [David] Boies and [Ron] Klain [the legal team chiefs] but there was never a call to rally the troops or to thank them...
...minute speech, delivered shortly after 10 p.m. in the hall of the Texas House of Representatives, Bush prominently sounded the theme of reconciliation, calling it his duty to heal the country after an historically tumultuous five-week post-election legal battle...
Gore, 52, had reportedly been so embroiled in the past five weeks of legal wrangling that he had never spoken--out loud, at least--about where his life might turn in case of defeat. Aboard Air Force Two in September, the one-time newspaper reporter mused about possibly being "a writer of some kind...