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...paint for a fresh President and his family, come Jan. 20, 2001. On that afternoon, as the Inauguration parade winds down Pennsylvania Avenue, 120 men and women will move the Clintons out and the new First Family in, lock stock and canary if there is one. And the old mansion will be aglow in the winter light and ready to write a new chapter, with its 132 rooms cleaned and polished, its tennis court, jogging track, putting green, basketball hoop, swimming pool, theater, bowling alley and weight room fit for exercise. And in its offices, the fate of the world...
...sense of Lincoln still permeates the mansion. There are more paintings and busts of Lincoln than of any other President and more bits of legend about his life in the White House, including the lone ghost preserved in myth. No President has yet claimed to have seen it, but consummate showman Ronald Reagan said two of his guests sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom saw the misty figure on two separate nights. On being discovered, the ghost turned and walked into the darkness...
When Bush himself appeared outside the Governor's mansion, he said that "America has a long tradition of uniting once elections are over." He held out an olive branch to Gore's supporters: "I want to assure them that should the election go the way that we think it will, that I will work hard to earn their confidence...
...left the restaurant. And instead of staying at the Four Seasons suite to savor the moment with friends and staff, George decided he just wanted to go home. He summoned the motorcade to take him and Laura and Mom and Dad back to the Governor's mansion to watch and wait and wonder. Jeb would later turn up there too. If George really came unglued at the prospect of losing, he would allow only his family...
...decried the unreliability of hand counts for days and sued to stop them, they didn't have much choice but to pass on the statewide count. Which made Bush's job (once he hustled up from Crawford and got on the air at 10:15 from the governor's mansion) pretty simple: Find a graceful way to hold the line...