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Every time one of the candidates opens his mouth about why we need to stop or restart recounts for this or that reason, they are really saying, "Let's do it this way because I really want to be president." When Vice President Al Gore '69 called Texas Gov. George...
But the headline still says "Gore Loses in Supreme Court, Recount Hearing" and that's more grist for the concession mill. (It even sparked a brief "Bush rally" on Wall Street.) A "very gratified" James Baker came out at 3 p.m. to explain how the high court had reinforced the...
Later, at one of his pool-camera press briefings, Bush said he was "pleased" at the decision and that Americans should be "comforted" at the high court's involvement. He said that several times, and even showed some willingness to tiptoe verbally through the legal implications for his side and...
But Christopher might want to stop using "when" (on CBS) when hypothesizing about a Gore concession.
George W. Bush planned no victory party and Al Gore planned no concession; both merely packed the Tallahassee streets with protesters and waited. And when the 5 p.m. deadline had been history for two-and-a-half hours, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris walked into the camera-filled Florida...