Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rich to pick from, and if you believe the Gore folks, all were off target. While each man played some part in getting the Vice President to bring Coelho aboard, Gore aides say the pivotal role belonged to the one person no one suspected--Gore's wife Tipper. Several campaign aides described Tipper as the godmother of the shuffle, the biggest fan of the deal. One added that Tipper, far more than the half-dozen bickering guys in Gore's inner circle, "knew there had to be some help in here. Somebody was needed to knock some heads...
...stump, Tipper has been pretty much everywhere, talking about Littleton on Larry King Live, acknowledging to USA Today and the Wall Street Journal that she has suffered from depression, traveling around the country to push mental-health reform. If it didn't have the look and feel of a campaign rollout, it certainly had the desired effect. Her depression admission--and the simple fact that she talks like a mom and not like a pol--added a human dimension to a campaign that often doesn't seem to have...
...Coelho aboard. Coelho, after all, is a ferocious partisan, who took no prisoners in the Reagan years and resigned from Congress in 1989 rather than face questions about how he came to purchase on favorable terms a $100,000 junk bond from a Democratic donor. Gore is stalked by campaign-finance ghosts of his own, and so it will look a bit better if Coelho turns out to be Tipper's idea...
That will be a challenge, because until now, Gore seems to have been concentrating on practically everything else. Just when Bill Bradley, his only rival for the Democratic nomination, began gaining on him in the polls, the Veep became obsessed with bugs in his online-campaign Web page, www.AlGore2000.com It took advisers a while to get him to move on to something else. But even then, he insisted on a controlling interest in a half-dozen other parts of the campaign operation, and the overall effect approached what several described as gridlock. Coelho is supposed to fix that...
...will we know if he does? That's where Clinton comes in. After carping so loudly about the Gore campaign that it became a story itself, Clinton called the New York Times last week to admit his fears had passed. "I have told him to go out and have a good time," Clinton said, as if anyone needed to be reminded that the Vice President has trouble relaxing in public...