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When O’Mary did return to Harvard, he kept on privileging his professional life over being a college kid. That year and the following summer, he did advance trip planning for the Gore campaign and then continued putting together New Hampshire events in his senior year...
...graduated as scheduled, while O’Mary moved off-campus to live with his girlfriend, now his wife, Jessica R. Taylor ’99. When he’d bought an engagement ring for Taylor in Houston and brought it to Florida for a Tipper trip, Mrs. Gore was in on it and told stories about the Vice President proposing to her on one the bridges over the Charles...
...days after Commencement, O’Mary was on the Gore for President payroll as an advance man, plunging headlong into campaign hysteria. He led a team to draw thousands of people to Tipper Gore’s streetcar ride through New Orleans, DJed the Vice President’s floating parties down the Mississippi River, and spent hours on his cell phone procuring ingredients for a campaign treat: s’mores in ziplock bags labeled “Think s’more, vote for Gore.” He even debated the finer points of Spanish grammar...
After the last 72-hour stretch in Tampa with Tipper, O’Mary hopped on a plane to Boston, took a cab to Quincy House, voted and then got right back in a cab to catch his plane to Nashville. Even if a vote for Gore in Massachusetts didn’t necessarily “count,” he says, “I was not going to go through a year and a half of campaigning and not vote...
...converged on Nashville’s Loews Vanderbilt Plaza Hotel. O’Mary tore himself away from the room of CNN watchers to pick up more field staff from the airport. Some came off their plane cheering because the pilot had told them Florida had been called for Gore. O’Mary had to tell them it had been taken back...