Word: gore
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Bill Clinton had proposed the debate on something of a dare, leaving Gore only four days to prepare for the face-off. The President's aides immediately professed anxiety about the Veep's prospects. But Gore set out to beat the carefully lowered expectations. He spent Saturday alone reading a giant, black briefing book prepared by aides. On Sunday he reviewed videotapes of Perot's recent TV appearances and directed research into Perot's many claims, discussing lines of counterattack with aides. On Monday, a team of nearly a dozen advisers fired questions at Gore for two hours over...
Perhaps haunted by his weak defense of Clinton in the 1992 debate with Dan Quayle, Gore took control of tactics and strategy. He told his team he wanted to perform in the debate like the newspaper reporter he once was, raising questions and hammering his opponent with facts. He came up with the idea of presenting Perot with a framed picture of Hawley and Smoot, the architects of the 1930 economy-crippling tariff. "Our principal mission," said Gore's chief of staff Jack Quinn, "was to demonstrate that the stuff Perot has been putting out about NAFTA was garbage." Gore...
Ross Perot may have lost his big debate with Al Gore last week, but the blustery billionaire did make one telling point: recent college graduates have been having a tougher time finding a good job since 1992 than at any other time in the past 20 years. Irritated by Gore's upbeat description of the benefits of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Perot blurted out, "If this is all true, why is it that everywhere I go in a hotel, I've got a college graduate coming up to the room bringing food, carrying bags...
...Ross Perot; a dog wearing a "Barkin for Harkin" sandwich board got an arf (former Harkin aides were present). The eeriest reverse deja-vu moment came when the camera caught Begala outside a hotel doing his drop-dead Perot imitation to abc's Mark Halperin's decent Al Gore, a preview of the matchup the night before on Larry King Live. The deepest groan sounded when, on-screen, campaign chairman (now U.S. Trade Representative) Mickey Kantor, in his power tie and suspenders, enters a room full of jeans and T shirts with election-day returns and apologizes to the camera...