Word: concessioner
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Whether it's serenity or detachment, or a combination of both, Bush's ability to tune things out is real. But it is not the whole story. On election night, when Al Gore called a second time to withdraw his concession, Bush was famously "snippy" on the phone, his preternatural...
Yet Gore was in fuller command than he had ever been, drawing his circle in the dining room of the Naval Observatory tighter around him. By the end, former Secretary of State Warren Christopher and campaign chairman Bill Daley seemed to weary of the war for which they had been...
Tipper had never been able to hide her ambivalence during the campaign, and as her husband gave his concession on Wednesday, hers seemed the only genuine smile in the family. But while the fight was on, aides say, she too was among the hawks, delving into the strategic details as...
Nor, at least while the fight was on, was he willing to look toward the future. At one point, when Eskew and Gore's brother-in-law Frank Hunger started musing about the Vice President's 2004 prospects, Eskew recalls, Gore cut them off: "Until we get to a midterm...
Steve Case and Jerry Levin are so confident in the future of AOL Time Warner that they just aren't going to let powerful competitors, wary consumers or, especially, the Federal Government stop them. That's why for more than six months they directed their top executives to endure hundreds...