Word: gephardts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They followed up their January 1998 dinner with private lunches in the Vice President's office. The meetings were kept so far below radar that one day last summer, Clinton's chief of staff Erskine Bowles sent out an urgent page to the President's senior advisers: Why is Gephardt at the White House? Where their staffs once fed the rivalry, the principals have begun to rely upon--and even trust--some of the same allies, notably Democratic uber-fund raiser Terry McAuliffe and current White House chief of staff John Podesta. It helped their new rapport that both...
Gore has found the silver lining in Bill Clinton's scandal. Gephardt was the most threatening of half a dozen Democrats preparing to run against him, but the field has evaporated. Only Bill Bradley has announced; Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, another long shot, may join him. Other contenders--Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, Bob Kerrey of Nebraska--bowed out before getting in. Though each offers different reasons for not running, all fell victim to the same untamable force...
Call it the Monica effect. For a year, the Lewinsky imbroglio has frozen the Democratic Party in place, making it impossible for any would-be candidate to position himself for the presidential campaign. "You can't pursue your long-term goals," says a Gephardt associate, "when you're smack in the middle of a 24-hour-a-day effort to keep the President and the party from going down the toilet." Never was Gephardt needed so badly as on Clinton's worst day, when the House debated the articles of impeachment and the Democratic leader implored his colleagues to "step...
...hard to miss the significance of Gore's constant declarations on the stump: "No one wants Dick Gephardt to be Speaker more than I do." And no one--with the possible exception of Gephardt--had logged more miles, raised more money or delivered more speeches than Gore. Though Gore was never particularly popular with his colleagues when he served on Capitol Hill, he now enjoys a substantial reservoir of goodwill and gratitude. And for the first time, when Clinton saluted Gore's "visionary leadership" during last month's State of the Union speech, Democrats actually cheered...
...Gore and Gephardt, of course, are not the only people with an interest in their mutual success. Bill and Hillary Clinton believe Gore's election is crucial to validating Clinton's presidency, especially if they also get the House back--thus undoing the humiliating G.O.P. sweep of 1994. Clinton, an adviser says, "wants to be Gore's campaign manager, and he may have to fight Hillary...