Word: gore
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CAPTION: Going, Going, Gore...
...step toward addressing the deficit issue in his 1993 budget agreement, the Lead of Leave organization firmly believes that the deficit will continue to be an important issue. The parochial interests which tore away much of the fabric of Clinton's plan within his own party and Vice-President Gore's needed tiebreaker vote point to the problems inherent in future deficit reduction...
...talk about Clinton quite a lot in your this book and in more recent columns. What about Al Gore? Is his being Vice-President going to hurt his profile or help...
...think people are starting to notice, he's a lot funnier than you might think when you look at him. I've noticed that with children of politicians (you know Gore's daddy was a senator), they're just so long in the public eye and started so young that they tend to have a real public face. And Gore has, of course, the public face of an utterly humorless young Baptist minister...
When Clinton took the podium minutes later, he was understandably alarmed to see a seven-month-old speech on the TelePrompTer's display screens. Clinton told the news to Gore, who didn't believe it at first. "You're not reading it," said Clinton. "Read it." Gore did, and then said, "I believe that's the February speech." Gore summoned Stephanopoulos, who scrambled to fix the mistake, eventually downloading the correct version from Dreyer's laptop. But for seven minutes, Clinton vamped with just notes. "I just kind of thought," Clinton told an aide later, " 'Well, God, you're testing...