Word: gore
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...problems with the law. But in the overall responses of the President and his circle, which have ranged from the placid to the evasive, there is a whiff of hubris, the air of a campaign that sees every question mark as just another speed bump. Vice President Al Gore claims to have been entirely unaware that an April luncheon he attended at a Buddhist temple in California was an illegal fund raiser. With a face as straight as only his can be, Gore said in a radio interview last week that he thought the function, organized by Huang...
...McCurry was flip in the Huang affair and Gore implacable, the D.N.C. was intricately unhelpful. Last week a federal district judge in Washington, Royce Lamberth, approved a subpoena calling for Huang to appear in court in connection with a lawsuit filed by a conservative group, Judicial Watch, Inc., which suspects that the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown used foreign trade missions to collect money for the Democrats. Attorneys for the group want to question Huang about his old job as a trade official in the Commerce Department, which he left in December. Huang's attorney, who called the suit...
...liberal backers but might hurt Democratic congressional candidates as well. And he certainly was eager not to give Dole any chance to cry that the President had violated his 1992 pledge to "end welfare as we know it." But at the climactic meeting in the White House, Vice President Gore observed that the political arguments cut both ways and were too difficult to gauge, so Clinton should "go with your gut." The clinching argument seems to have been that a badly broken welfare system had to be fixed and that the chance to do so might not come again...
...rainy morning of July 31, Clinton could not put off his decision any longer: a conference committee of the House and Senate had shaped a bill that was about to pass and land on the President's desk within hours. So he summoned 12 or so decision makers--including Gore, five Cabinet Secretaries and five advisers--to a self-consciously historic meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House. Some thought the meeting was a bit of "Kabuki theater" staged by a President who had pretty well made up his mind; others are convinced Clinton was really undecided...
After 2 1/2 hours, the meeting broke up with no formal decision. Clinton, Gore and chief of staff Leon Panetta went into the Oval Office; a bit later Reed and John Hilley, the President's top lobbyist to Congress, were summoned. Clinton asked a few more questions. Then he said, "Let's do it," and, rising from his chair, declared, "I want to sign it." Gore patted his shoulder and said, "I know that was tough...