Word: gephardts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gephardt's endorsement, coming nearly a year before the actual primary, gives Gore a powerful ally within the Democratic Party. Gephardt is popular with labor interests and other traditional Democratic constituencies...
...They have clashed occasionally. Both ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988, after Gore had moved to the Senate, and Gephardt was an opponent of the North American Free Trade Agreement Clinton signed...
...speech at the ARCO Forum in December 1997, Gephardt attacked the Democratic leadership--and the Clinton administration--for trying to "market a political strategy masquerading as policy...
...Gephardt downplayed their differences yesterday, instead praising Gore as a principled family...
...wonderful human being, and we'd all be proud to have him as president of the United States," Gephardt said of his occasional rival. Gephardt called the vice president "a leader who has a vision for where our country needs...