Word: gore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TIME: And Gore...
Morris: He had been scheduled for Thursday, which is traditional. I came up with the idea of his speaking on Wednesday, so the day would be dominated by a major speaker and one headline. But Gore was very, very reluctant. He was suspicious he was being separated from the President. I raised hell about it and talked to the President constantly about it. Gore acquiesced. I felt if the Vice President could be himself, his emotional and caring self, then the stiffness and formality that have shackled him politically would be gone. When he gave that statement about his sister...
After dinner I went to the convention and left Dick in the hotel. After the Gore speech, I called him. I wanted to make sure he was O.K. He was very upset, and he was also moved to tears by the Gore speech, since his mother had died of cancer. He said he wanted to protect me as much as he could...
...simple matter of logistics, though, complicated an American response. After the Chicago convention, Clinton, Vice President Gore and their wives set off on a bus trip through the Midwest and into the South to kick off the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign. Communications between the White House and the bus were spotty at best. The bus could communicate with the White House, but the White House sometimes had trouble getting messages to the bus. At Paducah, Kentucky, the bus departure was delayed for more than an hour while National Security Adviser Anthony Lake briefed Clinton on developments by phone...
...rally in Chicago last week for the nation's two teachers' unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, the scene appeared straight out of one of those old melodramas with vocal audience participation. The guest speaker, Vice President Al Gore, had only to mention the villains--Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich, "the Ginsu gang," who "tried to chop, slice and dice all those things that are important to us"--and hisses filled the air. The heroes, too, were just as easy to identify. "We love all our teachers," Gore told the pumped-up, cheering crowd...