Word: making
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Each side played the usual psych-war games in these talks: Gore's team said he wanted lapel mikes for the first debate (that was designed to fool Bush into thinking Gore was going to walk around); Bush wanted swivel chairs for the second debate (to make him look as tall as the Vice President). And for the third debate, the two sides spent a lot of time discussing rules of movement and space in ways that would have made an air-traffic controller proud, including arguments about privacy areas, zones of separation and what constituted interference. "The Bush people...
...cost him the election," Delaware Senator Joseph Biden ranted, saying that enough of Nader's nearly 100,000 votes in Florida would have gone Gore's way to make him President. "Whatever mistakes Gore made, we wouldn't even be talking about it if Nader hadn't run... God spare me the purists." Deb Callahan, president of the League of Conservation Voters, said the Nader biography has to be rewritten. "This changes his legacy as a person." What really rankled them, critics said when they paused to catch their breath, was Nader's glib insistence throughout his campaign that there...
...major charges leveled against Nader voters is that we pretended--in some perverse kind of optical malingering--that we couldn't see the difference between the major candidates. Well, I'm capable of making fine visual distinctions. But a lot of people who probably never wandered near the Nader camp kept muttering, "Bush, Gore? Gush, Bore?" right up to election eve. This was, after all, the year the parties did their utmost to resemble one another. Recall that in August, after a Republican Convention full of "compassion" and black gospel choirs, the pundits gave Bush high marks for making...
...Gore, the only possible path to legislative success will be right down the center aisle. "The next President should call 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans to the White House and say, 'You're gonna be my base,'" says Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, a Democrat. "He has to make a decision--work the middle or get nothing done." In separate interviews with TIME, more than two dozen legislators from both parties insisted they are ready to work not just with the President but with one another, using such strikingly similar language that both sides seemed to be reading from...
Sounds good. But probe the surface, and acid bubbles up. A top Democratic leadership aide on Bush: "The onus is on him to end the partisanship. He's been saying for months and months, 'I'm gonna make things better in Washington. I'm going to unify.' Fine. That's great. But he's got some proving to do." A Republican member of Congress on Gore: "He wants to fight everyone and everything." New eras of warm cooperation have a way of dissolving into cold, familiar warfare, and even good intentions and fond hopes can't always prevent...