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...sure as hell did not have any conversations with anyone saying this is a fund-raising event," we are invited to imagine a fiery Al Gore, barely containing the seething beast within, ready to throttle these pesky lawyers that impugn his honor. Could this be the alpha male veep we've been hearing so much about...
...resignation Thursday of Gore campaign manager Tony Coelho comes after weeks of speculation about his continuation in the job, for which he was selected last year when the veep's campaign was floundering. While he is credited with bringing discipline to the operation, he has also been a lightning rod for criticism. Gore has asked Commerce Secretary William Daley to replace...
...head to counter those impressions. He helped Bill Clinton turn back a shortsighted Republican move to pull U.S. troops from Kosovo. It would "tie the President's hand," he intoned presidentially. And because Bush is not labor's candidate, he could afford to be more enthusiastic than the Democratic Veep in lobbying Capitol Hill to pass Clinton's China-trade bill...
Vice Presidents are a sensitive issue in the Greater Bush Household, where J. Danforth Quayle is still remembered as a kind of slow-acting fatal disease. The family model for the perfect Veep has always been the elder Bush, who for eight years was Ronald Reagan's loyal, silent wingman. But Dubya can't pick his father as a running mate, so he is eyeing someone Dad nearly chose in 1988, before settling on Quayle. (One might say the elder Bush tapped the wrong Danforth.) Danforth of Missouri is a moderate Republican with ties to the party's conservative wing...
...thought you'd gotten to know Al Gore during his nearly eight years in the White House, beware: He wants you to get to know him all over again. Warned off his attack-a-day strategy by Democrats fretting over the veep's poll numbers, Gore went to Milwaukee on Tuesday to talk environment and gave a speech that was long on Mom and Dad's farm back in Tennessee and short on mention of one George W. Bush. The sticks and stones he left to surrogates, like League of Conservation Voters president Deb Callahan, who bashed Bush as being...