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What is the ultimate prize in the current campaign finance investigations? Answer: Al Gore's head. More than anything else, Fred Thompson & Co. would dearly love to catch the Veep red-handed in some hard-money misdeed. But no matter how hard they sniff, the trail always seems to run cold at Gore's door...
...Gore when they reconvene today. Trouble is, the Vice President doesn't seem to know the answer. Two allegations of fund-raising faux pas emerged Wednesday, and in both cases Gore claimed to be utterly unaware of what he was doing. First of all, says the Veep, he didn't know an April 1996 event at a California Buddhist temple had been a fund-raiser. Secondly, some of that $695,000 he raised in those controversial White House phone calls were not "soft money," as Gore believed ? $120,000 went to "hard money" accounts at the DNC, making the calls...
...building an academic career and turning her home into a think tank, where she ran a sort of salon for Democratic foreign policy makers. She taught international relations at Georgetown, where students voted her the most popular professor four years in a row. In 1984 she pitched in as Veep candidate Geraldine Ferraro's foreign policy adviser. "She was the perfect teacher," says Ferraro. "We'd discuss arms control, missile throw weight, geopolitics, you name it. I'd make a tape of the briefings and listen to them again when I was in the bathtub at night...
...borrow Nelson Rockefeller's words, no politician with an ego--which means all politicians--has ever wanted to be "vice president of anything." But being Veep is still the surest road to the top, which is why Gore-Kemp will be worth watching even if Clinton-Dole never rises beyond a boring done deal...
...Ross Perot did not already have an uphill battle, he chose a bearded vice-presidential nominee. It's been nearly 90 years since America has had a bewhiskered or stubbly-faced Vice President. Indiana Senator Charles Fairbanks served four years as Teddy Roosevelt's Veep. When he attempted to reclaim the office as Charles Evans Hughes' running mate, the two men lost the 1916 election by a whisker...