Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...declaring the hand counts legal. (Bush's lawyers have taken that to federal appeals court in Atlanta, and it probably won't stop there.) And Bush had the curt statement of Harris, who is turning into his personal Janet Reno, to lean on. Harris held a 9:30 p.m. press conference to declare that she had duly considered the three counties' appeals to have their manual counts included in the official tally, and had found them decidedly wanting. The certification would be finished Saturday as scheduled. Gore's lawyers were on the case immediately...
...Gore has made his move. In a hastily arranged - and hastily delivered - 6:45 p.m. press conference from his residence, the vice president grabbed every bit of high ground he could from the Republicans, offering not only an endgame but a peace summit, and all in time to get a live feed on all three network newscasts and lead every newspaper in the country come morning...
...There's sure to be a paragraph in those newspaper stories about Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris' own press conference two hours later, in which she held the line on hand recounts: No county had sufficiently justified its reason for a manual recount, and therefore the certification process will end Saturday as scheduled. No deal...
...Hannibal of p.r. coups like this one, is cackling with delight. Because Al Gore will get his day as America's bigger man, the first to personally make any meaningful proposal in front of the nation. Bush is nowhere to be seen; he scheduled and then canceled a press availability Wednesday morning. Now Bush will be hard-pressed to stand up and turn both proposals down without sounding like he's trying to silence Florida voters by stopping recounts "already begun...
...These days, while the foreign press fixates on her "impeccable" manicures and her penchant for "power suits," domestic reports focus primarily on Harris's newfound political power - and her longstanding connections to the Bush family...