Word: coelho
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...speech more effective and the rally at the airport near Scranton, Pa., so big and noisy it reminded Gore of the glory days of the 1992 campaign. But now his shiny new message was about to be knocked off the front page by a familiar sort of mess. Tony Coelho, Gore's embattled campaign chairman, had just told the Vice President he was resigning. It was exactly the kind of news Gore didn't need stepping all over his big week...
...been a big week for Al Gore. He lost one campaign manager, the combative Tony Coelho, and replaced him with the smoother Bill Daley. Adopting the slogan "Progress and Prosperity," he also changed the focus of his campaign to better remind people of the near-eight bountiful years he has presided in the White House with Bill Clinton. At the end of this busy week, Gore sat down with with TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty, lounging on a wicker chair on the wraparound porch of the VP's official residence in Washington. Birds chirping. Dog Daisy at his feet...
...just before 11 o'clock when I got through to, when Tony [Coelho] and I talked. He had called me while I was at an event, and then I got back to the hotel and I got the message and we talked for some time, and I called Tipper who was campaigning in Florida and we talked. [Brother-in-law] Frank Hunger was traveling with me and I talked to him before he turned in for the night and then I called Bill. I woke...
...There were a lot of reports when Tony Coelho came aboard that you had considered Daley back then. Had you offered him the job before...
...didn't offer him the job. But it was one of those conversations where I might well have offered him the job if the conversation would have taken a different direction. But I did not offer him the job, and he recommended Tony Coelho...