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...folks thought he was robbed. Four years later, Old Hickory won the White House in a landslide. That may help explain why Gore has chosen, as his first big public moment after eight months in the post-election wilderness, to deliver the keynote address at next month's Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in Iowa--the same high-profile party event at which Gore, in 2000, played oratorical one-on-one with Bill Bradley, and won. "You don't go to Iowa for the bratwurst," says a former adviser who thinks Al is getting itchy about 2004. "It's a sign...
Today the Lieutenant Governor sits in a Maryland statehouse office once occupied by Thomas Jefferson, in a chair her father used as U.S. Attorney General. If she wins next year's Governor's race, as expected, it seems only a matter of time before she ends up on a national ticket...
...strategy was firmly in place when the president played street football on the Fourth of July, visited vacationers at the Jefferson Memorial and visited a hospital to check in on patients on the front lines of the HMO struggle. Sure, there were a few glitches: Bush looked goofy when he mugged for the cameras with the Philadelphia Phillies mascot, and it turned out that the hospital patient Bush spoke to didn?t have any hard luck stories to tell about his HMO. But even though the gaffes, the message was loud and clear: Bush is a warm, huggable president...
After a bunch of choir stuff, principal Fred Dreier gave a speech. I heard phrases like "lived through Hiroshima," "suffered a stroke" and "Jesus Christ, Buddha and Thomas Jefferson," the last of which, sadly, was not the setup to a joke. I am not sure what his speech was about since I was busy crossing out paragraphs from my speech. Then the ESPN guy talked about a "mentally challenged" kid in his high school who had taught him something about something. Again I was busy crossing...
Last Thursday night, more than a month after the intern named Chandra Levy vanished from Washington, California Representative Gary Condit traveled to the Jefferson Hotel (yep, Dick Morris slept there) to meet with Levy's parents and their attorney, Billy Martin (yep, he represented Monica Lewinsky's mother). The meeting lasted about 20 minutes and did not include Dr. Robert Levy. Dazed during an earlier meeting with the D.C. Police and a tour of its "Synchronized Operations Command Center," where tips are processed, the doctor couldn't face the Congressman who had called his daughter a "good friend," then...