Word: gore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gore is standing tall this week in his role as chief bureaucracy buster. Only three months ago, however, he was falling back on the self-deprecating humor that has seen many a Vice President through the insecurities of office. Early on the Saturday morning when David Gergen came on board, Gore was sitting in front of a computer trying to write a press release that would explain exactly what Gergen would be doing. The Vice President began to type: "We are delighted to have David Gergen joining us as Counsellor to the President. In addition to taking on the responsibilities...
Each Vice President copes in his own way with playing second fiddle in an orchestra where first fiddle not only is the conductor but owns the concert hall. Gore employs humor (last month he gave Clinton a cardboard cutout of himself to take on vacation) and his innate best-student-in-the-class properties to make the most of his No. 2 role. As a result, Gore is rising above the usual stature of the office. Even Bill Kristol, Dan Quayle's former chief of staff, thinks Gore has "done pretty well. Maybe Democratic Vice Presidents get more clout, maybe...
...Gore seemed relaxed in his role last week as he sat in his office, sipping tea while he assessed for TIME reporters his first eight months in office. His biggest surprise, he said, is the "unrelenting intensity of decision making. A typical CEO of a FORTUNE 500 company will have two to three gut-wrenching decisions a week to make. The President and Vice President will have six to eight such decisions every day," he said. "But there is no time in between for a sigh of relief...
...would expect by dint of interest, Gore has been influential on environmental and technology issues. But he was also put in charge of the National Performance Review, often called "reinventing government," or "ReGo" for short. Any project with that many names was bound to be viewed initially as the domestic equivalent of being sent to a funeral in Thailand, but it has emerged as a strong leg in Clinton's economic tripod, along with health-care reform and the North American Free Trade Agreement. ReGo gained importance when Clinton cited its money-saving potential to members of Congress who were...
...Gore's roving mandate, however, that differentiates him from past Vice Presidents. While Clinton may exaggerate in calling Gore "a full partner," the President often looks to him first and to greatest effect. (Initially, the press anointed the First Lady as a kind of co-President, but her involvement in health-care reform has kept her more narrowly focused than Gore.) Clinton often ends a meeting by turning to Gore and asking him what he thinks, giving him the opportunity to deliver the closing argument. Then they often walk out of the room together, heads nearly touching, giving Gore that...