Word: gore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...noon that day, Panetta and McCurry presented Clinton with a draft of the brief comment he would issue about the Morris departure, saying Morris "is my friend, and he is a superb political strategist." Later the President, his wife and Vice President Gore would all make condolence phone calls to Morris. But for now the President had other things on his mind. He inked in a few revisions to the statement and returned to work on his speech. Says McCurry: "He just kept going." And going. In his acceptance speech Clinton passed over the whole episode without mention. But every...
...will be pulled off the Morris program by serious liberals like Ickes and Stephanopoulos. Clinton pollster Mark Penn and media consultant Bill Knapp, who have already shouldered a great deal of the campaign's strategy and message work, will take on even more. Veteran consultant Bob Squier, a key Gore ally, will remain on board. But no matter how well they identify the political center, few expect them to have the same power as Morris to keep Clinton...
...idealized Gerber babies (after his speech, President Clinton played peekaboo with brother Roger's cherubic toddler) and children besieged by a host of modern threats, from TV violence to tainted burgers to weary mothers holding down three jobs. Between the White House's proposals on teen smoking and Al Gore's oath to protect children from lighting up, the Clinton-Gore team seemed to be running against the Dole-Gingrich-Joe Camel ticket...
...rejects middle-class platitudes. Jesse Jackson, who has spent three decades in public life acting almost as though he had no family, suddenly carted out some of his kids for an appearance on a Larry King show in which he praised the maternal attributes of his usually invisible wife. Gore, in his speech recalling his sister's death from lung cancer, neglected to mention that he continued to raise and sell tobacco on his Tennessee farm for several years after she died...
Even the unofficial anthem of the convention, the cheery Latin dance hit Macarena, cited by Gore and mimed by Hillary Rodham Clinton and thousands of delegates, held a hidden message. The song (which is performed in the kind of lockstep the party wanted from its delegates) is an ode to seduction. "Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Macarena," goes the chorus in Spanish. Translation: "Give your body joy, Macarena...