Word: gore
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With these words, Gore introduced the world to Bold Al--the side of Gore that Gore himself likes best, the one that sheds the chains of craven political calculation (sheds them so noisily, in fact, that every voter can hear them clanking) and becomes a gutsy leader. He wrote the passage shortly before he was tapped to be Clinton's running mate, and although the job of Vice President is not normally associated with heroic behavior (think George Bush and Walter Mondale), Gore really has been bold. Clinton "was looking for a buddy movie, a political version of Butch Cassidy...
...lunches remain the only inviolable part of either Clinton's or Gore's schedule because Bold Al turned out to be a saving influence on Clinton's first term. During the North American Free Trade Agreement battles of 1993, he insisted on debating Ross Perot against the wishes of White House staff--and outsimplified the Texan at his own game. Together with Morris, Bold Al helped turn around the rudderless Clinton presidency after the midterm-election debacle of 1994, urging Clinton to embrace the balanced budget in June 1995 when most other White House advisers were against it; arguing...
...more recently Bold Al has phoned in sick. Last fall, as union-backed House Democrats were working to kill a bill that would have given the President "fast track" authority to negotiate trade agreements without congressional approval, Gore tried to talk Clinton into making his case before a joint session of Congress and spoke out in favor of the bill when preaching to the converted, the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. But he had nothing to say on the subject when addressing the national convention of the A.F.L.-C.I.O, which opposed the bill. "Clinton went in there and gave...
White House sources have been whispering that the President and First Lady are concerned that Gore, forced to protect his left flank from a populist attack by House minority leader Dick Gephardt in the 2000 primaries, will not stand up for New Democratic achievements--the balanced budget, welfare reform, economic growth--that the Clintons see as their legacy. This seems unfair, since Gore consistently argued in favor of those positions inside the White House--sometimes before the Clintons were aboard. Clinton has fretted about Gore's ability to hold firm--not because he questions Gore's beliefs but because...
...outpouring of support he received after his son's accident, Gore said, helped him begin to seal that division. But even as he talks about his emotional voyage today, it is in the language of an observer, watching himself being watched in the role of the Soul-Searching Man. "That's part of the art of life. You bring the essence of who you are to whatever task you are performing," he told Time last week in his cabin aboard Air Force Two. Paper snowflakes dangled above his head, and a string of Christmas lights blinked on and off. "Everybody...