Word: 43rd
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...some boilerplate. The man who will become the 43rd president of the United States on Jan. 20 seemed to want to build a bridge not only between the parties, but between his campaign and tonight - and over the "long and trying period" in between. His concession to the problems with the Florida election was two mentions of race relations - no talk of electoral reform. No talk of ballots uncounted, or time...
...borders," and the good folks in Florida are going to have a wave of border problems in the coming years. Not that Fidel is planning to send more desperate Cubans across the porous international border into Key West. He's too busy chuckling as Florida recovers from picking the 43rd president since our revolution--and the 10th since his--while threatening to send his own election monitors into Miami. No, the border problem in Key West and other low-lying places in Florida will be due to melting ice caps and rising oceans...
...presidency isn't broken, at least not yet. Bill Clinton's impeachment proved how sturdy the office still is. But as Al Gore and George W. Bush squabble and tug and await the outcome in Florida, the office of the 43rd President is being diminished. Even before the Gore campaign threatened to settle this election in court and the Bush team went after an injunction against hand-counting votes, it was obvious that the winner would face profound questions of illegitimacy and have a weak grip on presidential power--which is, after all, merely on loan from the voters...
...rest of the world was dizzy. Foreign leaders had been sending Bush their congratulatory telegrams, and then had to call and retract them. The networks had unfurled their fancy presidential script, "George W. Bush, 43rd President," only to roll it back up again. The New York Times had to stop the presses. The Gore mob back at the hotel were as happy as they had been distraught about an hour before. Daley was telling reporters what had happened. "When you're done, come into the bar!" Carter Eskew, Gore's old newspaper friend and now his message adviser, hollered...
...rest of the world was dizzy. Foreign leaders had been sending Bush their congratulatory telegrams, and then had to call and retract them. The networks had unfurled their fancy presidential script, "George W. Bush, 43rd President," only to roll it back up again. The New York Times had to stop the presses. The Gore mob back at the hotel were as happy as they had been distraught about an hour before. Daley was telling reporters what happened. "When you're done, come into the bar!" Carter Eskew, Gore's old newspaper friend and now his message adviser, hollered...