Word: gore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...College students, quite frankly, were the difference in electing Bill Clinton and Al Gore '69," Wade said...
...just a family?) Still, much of the new moralism crosses party lines. Democracy's Discontent, the recent pro-virtue book by liberal scholar Michael Sandel, got a column-long tribute from conservative George Will. The "communitarians," such as Amitai Etzioni, draw praise from the left (Clinton and Al Gore) and the right (Jack Kemp and Bennett). And Bennett's attack on tabloid TV came at the suggestion of a Democrat, Senator Joseph Lieberman...
...course Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to center stage with a coolly effective defense of her own child advocacy, as the image of daughter Chelsea loomed large on the screen behind her. (Message to the Other Couple: We know about delivery rooms and tonsil operations.) Vice President Al Gore did his part in the family reunion, using the story of his sister's death from lung cancer to point out the ravages of teenage smoking...
That evening in Chicago, Morris and his wife calmly gave a dinner party at their suite for 25 guests who had worked with him on the President's campaign. Morris revealed no hint of the troubles that were eating away at him. At the convention center, where Al Gore would soon be giving his speech, McCurry got a call from senior adviser Stephanopoulos. McCurry asked him how he should fit the Morris news into the next day's briefing for reporters. Stephanopoulos had it figured. "This," he said, "is the only story you're going to deal with tomorrow...
...suite on the Sheraton's 31st floor, Clinton watched Gore's convention speech and the nomination roll call on television. In the room were his old friends Vernon Jordan and former White House deputy chief of staff Erskine Bowles. Clinton asked Bowles to check in with Morris and get to the bottom of his story. The political calculus was cold and clear: if the story checked out, Morris had to go. Having Bowles act as intermediary made more than one kind of sense. Since he was no longer in government service, he would not be under any obligation to pass...