Word: gore
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Marius, who helped Vice President Al Gore '69 write at least two speeches in the past, had accepted a $70,000-per-year offer to do the job full time...
Marius, 62 got a year-long leave of absence approved by Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, rented out his Belmont house and even started packing. Everything was in place for the bow-tie-wearing former Expository Writing director to be Gore's new chief speech writer...
Then, on July 9, Marius received a message in an early morning telephone call from Gore's communications director Lorraine Voles...
None of these assaults seem to be having much effect on the Democrats' Fund Raiser in Chief, Bill Clinton. Although his approval rating has gone no higher than around 45%, the Clinton-Gore '96 campaign last week reported receipts of more than $9 million in contributions, much of it from small donors. Still, Senate leader Bob Dole's campaign has also raised $9 million in the past three months. And even Clinton's success is one more sign that he and his party in Congress are sailing in different directions...
President Clinton is also intent on winning Florida, which he lost by 2 percentage points in 1992. He is wooing voters there with his policy of blocking Cuban refugees, his anticrime rhetoric and his softer-than-the-Republicans stand on Medicare cutbacks. Vice President Gore kicked off the whole Clinton re-election campaign with two fund raisers in the state last month, and he, his boss and Hillary Clinton expect to make at least four trips there over the next five months. Any excuse will do: two weeks ago Clinton showed up to meet his new nephew and play some...