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...move to Loeb House, a three story mansion that came complete with three maids, a cook, a housekeeper and a chauffeur, was a big one for the head of a liberal arts college in rural Wisconsin with 700 students and 53 faculty members...
...strategist Ed Gillespie called the networks to complain. "I don't know how you can call a state that's this close!" Bush media adviser Stu Stevens protested. "It's ridiculous! It's an outrage!" It was Rove's idea to summon the camera pool into the Governor's mansion so Bush could break into the newscasts and question the Florida results himself on network television. "It's going to be a long night," Bush said...
...part, Bush "was like a prizefighter pulling himself off the mat," said a source who was in frequent touch with those at the mansion. Bush kept calling Rove at the headquarters, demanding new information. "How's it look?" he would ask. "Anything new?" By 1:30 most states had tumbled one way or the other, and both men had a total of 242 electoral votes. The counts were unimaginably, unbearably close. Florida was still undecided, but by 1 a.m. the Bush camp had more than a 200,000-vote cushion. Bush staff members knew Dade and Broward counties still hadn...
...meantime, the relaxed Bush, who might well be on vacation if he thought he'd actually won, worked like a dog putting on a tableau of transition. He may not be President, but he played one on TV, using the Governor's mansion in Austin like the set of The West Wing, ushering his make-believe Cabinet through iron gates into meetings. He gave up his usual afternoon video games and naps for lunches with his maybe Vice President on a table set with linens and silver, evoking those famous weekly Clinton-Gore meals adjacent to the Oval Office...
...ones in the past, and Jeff Greenfield and Kevin Phillips analyze the logic of the Electoral College better than I did with my daughter. Our veteran Hugh Sidey, who helped organize the gathering of former Presidents last week at the bicentennial of the White House, writes about that historic mansion and interviews President Bush about his son. Among the other things in our package: a photo album of private scenes from this campaign, a reconstruction of its key moments, a forum of fascinating folks (ranging from Jesse Ventura to Doris Kearns Goodwin to Garry Trudeau) assessing what we'll someday...