Word: understood
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...University of Texas in the fall. He wrote his uncle this beautiful e-mail that he felt he just had to go to law school, and he would miss the campaign. We wondered how George, who was so driven, would feel. George W. wrote P. back that he understood. He was doing the right thing. He had done everything he could in the campaign. That was a beautiful thing from the family's standpoint...
...Nonetheless, Gore called Bush around 2:30 to concede. "You're a good man," Bush told him. He said he understood how hard this was, and gave his best wishes to Tipper and the children...
...Quoth the Times: "He seemed serene... Maybe Mr. Bush was after an aura of simple earnestness. Maybe he understood that there was only so much a candidate could do at this late stage. Or maybe he had sacrificed some of his energy to the hundreds of thousands of miles that it took to get to this point. His hair was grayer than when he started. But his message, an answer to the challenge of campaigning against an incumbent administration during peace and prosperity, was mostly unchanged...
...Gore Sr. would say, and he believed in rearranging it as necessary. He was elected to Congress before Al was born and reached the Senate by the time Al was 4, which guaranteed that the dinner table could turn into a policy briefing to make sure young Albert fully understood all the implications of Rachel Carson's environmental crusade. His mother talked about "wedging Al in" if a particularly useful dinner guest was in town...
...rest of DiMaggio is rendered so vividly you almost want to look away. During his nonpareil career, DiMaggio learned to squeeze every drop of privilege out of his fame. Every nightclub operator in New York City understood that if DiMaggio came into his joint, it was good for business--which was why no one minded depositing the required couple of hundred into DiMaggio's account at the Bowery Savings Bank in exchange for the visit...