Word: ruling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...midst. On the second night he was there, Adams wrote his wife Abigail, who was back in Quincy, Mass.: "I pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof." Nearly 150 years later, Franklin Roosevelt had those words carved into the mantel in the State Dining Room; Jacqueline Kennedy had it redone during her redecoration...
...foot down about all the leaks. He also invited back the old Gore hands that Coelho had banished--such as Ron Klain and Monica Dixon--and sent them to Nashville. He put another old Gore hand, Greg Simon, on the plane as the designated grownup. But Daley's rule was this: You have to give up your day jobs, all your other entanglements, for the duration. Simon came on unpaid--and brought his own cell phone to save even that expense...
...course, both attitudes neatly dovetail with the final rule in politics, whether it be in Washington or Tallahassee: You can always count on each party to do what is in its own best interest...
...want to be clear - neither Governor Bush, nor the Florida secretary of state, nor I, will be the arbiter of this election," Gore said. "This election is a matter that must be decided by the will of the people as expressed under the rule of law, law which has meaning as determined in Florida now by the Florida Supreme Court." Throw in the usual undeniable boilerplate - "The American people want to make certain that every vote counts and that every vote is counted fairly and accurately" - and it practically sells itself...
...Bush team was coasting. Bush surrogate-in-chief James Baker, needing no more words than Gore would later, got to lean on the arm of Judge Terry Lewis and declare that "the rule of law has prevailed." Karen Hughes emerged later to discuss Thanksgiving plans and demur to expectant reporters that any plans for a Bush celebration this weekend were "premature" - but only because Harris hadn't called...