Word: gore
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...working on ways to court Molten's largest potential customer in Mexico--the state-owned oil company, Pemex. To prove it could do the work, Molten set out to perform a "feasibility" plan. And to engage Mexico's top environmental officials, it asked U.S. Ambassador Jim Jones, an old Gore ally in Congress, to hold a luncheon at his Mexico City residence. One corporate E-mail to Knight thanked him for "helping us" with Jones and a U.S. agency that granted Molten $280,000 to help finance its study. Jones says he can't recall a lunch but does remember...
...than the typical incentive to make his pitch. Along with a $7,000 monthly fee, Knight was given options to buy at least 40,000 shares of Molten, firm documents show. In an April 1996 letter awarding Knight more stock options as he was leaving to run the Clinton-Gore re-election bid, company president William Haney showed just how valuable he thought Knight would be to the company: "Our objective is to keep you...with us right up until you are Secretary of State...
...NAFTA and its environmental sidebars in 1993, the firm saw a big market in Mexico for its toxic waste-eating machine. It also saw a big marketing opportunity in the Vice President's visit to Mexico in December of that year. Two days before the trip, Knight wrote Gore's counsel Jack Quinn suggesting that Gore put in a good word for the company with President Carlos Salinas regarding a cleanup job that was the "type of project where U.S. technology can promote NAFTA goals," according to a copy of the letter obtained by TIME. Quinn, now a lawyer...
Among Washington journalists who have covered him--and especially among those who covered him as a Congressman and Senator, before he slipped into the cocoon of the vice presidency--the line on Al Gore is nearly unanimous. In private the Vice President can be an inordinately charming fellow: informal, enthusiastic, self-deprecating, with the kind of knowing wit that many baby boomers admire. But switch on a TV camera or get him in front of a crowd, and a mysterious alchemy transforms him into solid oak. This is the Al Gore the public has come to know--something akin...
...Gore surely knows this. He went to Harvard, after all. From childhood, his life has been consumed by politics. The son of a Senator, he was born and raised in D.C. and grew up appearing in his father's campaign commercials. ("Son," Dad said in one, "always love your country.") He learned early the benefits of pretense. Perhaps not surprisingly, then, Gore's response to any problems of personal image making has been to pile further layers of artifice atop his already artificial public persona. At every appearance nowadays he uncorks a couple of self-deprecating gags about his wooden...