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Bill Clinton has often joked about his obsession with history. He once told a black-tie dinner in Washington about his "Posterity War Room" at the White House, where, in defense of his place in presidential history, he would strategize about going "negative on James Buchanan and Warren Harding." But...
At 8:15, Gore was surfing the time zones, calling tiny radio stations in rural New Mexico, urging people to vote. Lieberman was working Arizona and Minnesota. Gore's geeks were hunched over their computers hunting for paths to the magic 270 electoral votes in states in which the polls...
It was also a great week to be here at TIME. We had stayed up through election night with plans to close this special issue on Wednesday afternoon. But when we saw how others were rushing to judgment with appalling projections and incorrect headlines, we decided to revert to our...
Also in this issue, Eric Pooley and our Washington bureau report on how the next President will try to govern, and Richard Lacayo looks at the legal intricacies in Florida. Eminent historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. compares this election to weird ones in the past, and Jeff Greenfield and Kevin Phillips...
After a week in which folks were buffeted by inaccurate bulletins and torrents of shouted opinions, we worked hard to fulfill what we see as our role here at TIME: getting behind the scenes to tell the real story, capturing the human emotions and historic resonances, turning random facts into...