Word: gore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...left his troops with no bargaining chips. ("We look like idiots," fumed one.) He dealt the President the card he needed to appear decisive and resolute. ("The very idea that they could think they could just blow the President over shows the depth of their miscalculation," said Vice President Gore.) And the Speaker gave Bob Dole's campaign for the G.O.P. presidential nomination a boost by fueling the impression that it might be time to put an adult in charge to end the gridlock...
...Gingrich's missteps of last week were not the first in his battle of wills with the White House. During a Nov. 1 visit to the Oval Office to discuss the budget with Clinton and Gore, the Speaker sniped that White House spokesman Mike McCurry had suggested that Gingrich and his troops wanted senior citizens to "die." Lurching forward in his seat, Gore reminded Gingrich of his 1994 allegation that Democratic Party values had played a role in Susan Smith's drowning of her two young sons. "Newt," Gore scolded, "I don't remember you apologizing to us for saying...
Singer said that he could not recall an event with greater security than Arafat's visit--not even for Vice President Al Gore '69 or other visiting dignitaries like former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev...
...skip because of his budget battles with Congress, now turns to some thorny political problems. "The next big issue is China and Taiwan," says Chiang. "Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen warned today that they would use force if necessary to unify China. The Chinese will meet with vice-president Gore, who went to Japan in Clinton's place. But the Taiwan question remains the big roadblock to improving U.S.-China relations...
...about the blackguard patriarch, the philandering but beloved President and his glamorous wife, their handsome son risen from the ashes of an aimless, if active, life to become a magazine editor. We know of their loves, their losses, their lapses and their favorite dressmakers. Flip through new memoirs by Gore Vidal and Benjamin Bradlee, and there they are again, appearing in vignettes that will be eagerly processed by a curious public...