Word: picked
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...every foreign policy heavyweight in the Administration, including Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, is hammering on those issues with the delegations of Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Failure is a very real possibility, and Ross, who will have to pick up the pieces, is keenly aware of it. But the U.S.'s top Middle East negotiator continues to search--in the words of his former boss Warren Christopher--for "glimmers of light...where most people can't see them...
...heavy political brains in Washington have gone all runny. Everyone wants to know whom George Bush is going to pick to be his vice president but no one actually knows anything. In a town where that isn't much of a restraint, the lack of information has only increased the confecting of opinions. The smallest pieces of information have been whispered in urgent phone calls, tossed off with an arched eyebrow at Spring Valley dinners and sent with SPECIAL BOLD LETTERING to e-mail addresses across the city. The cycle of information is constantly churning and the tone has devolved...
...Davis called Cheney and said Bush should really pick McCain...
...Davis, the Virginia congressman who heads the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, called Dick Cheney, who is heading up Bush's vice presidential hunt, and tried to make the case for McCain. Cheney - who some have whispered might be the top pick on Bush's list - reportedly was not sufficiently moved by the pitch. Then Davis collaborated with more than 60 other House Republicans in a letter to the Bush campaign asking that McCain be reconsidered. Sent by fax late Thursday night, there is no indication that it landed on fertile ground or elicited much of a response...
...this point, Bush had been able to rely on McCain's previous statement that he didn't want to be asked to serve as vice president. When probed, Bush could simply say that he "took McCain at his word." Well, now McCain's word was shifting. Whomever Bush finally picks, he'll be asked why he didn't pick McCain and if he doesn't pick him, there will be questions about why Bush didn't have the guts to pick his former rival...