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...practiced last Monday night for his debate the next day with Ross Perot, the normally restrained Al Gore began to argue aggressively and gesture wildly with his hands. "I hate to say this to you," said the Vice President's old friend Tom Downey, "but you're a little too animated...
...four days to prepare for the face-off. The President's aides immediately professed anxiety about the Veep's prospects. But Gore set out to beat the carefully lowered expectations. He spent Saturday alone reading a giant, black briefing book prepared by aides. On Sunday he reviewed videotapes of Perot's recent TV appearances and directed research into Perot's many claims, discussing lines of counterattack with aides. On Monday, a team of nearly a dozen advisers fired questions at Gore for two hours over a chicken dinner at the Naval Observatory residence and then held a mock debate...
...Clinton in the 1992 debate with Dan Quayle, Gore took control of tactics and strategy. He told his team he wanted to perform in the debate like the newspaper reporter he once was, raising questions and hammering his opponent with facts. He came up with the idea of presenting Perot with a framed picture of Hawley and Smoot, the architects of the 1930 economy-crippling tariff. "Our principal mission," said Gore's chief of staff Jack Quinn, "was to demonstrate that the stuff Perot has been putting out about NAFTA was garbage." Gore spent most of Tuesday reading alone. Meanwhile...
...Ross Perot may have lost his big debate with Al Gore last week, but the blustery billionaire did make one telling point: recent college graduates have been having a tougher time finding a good job since 1992 than at any other time in the past 20 years. Irritated by Gore's upbeat description of the benefits of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Perot blurted out, "If this is all true, why is it that everywhere I go in a hotel, I've got a college graduate coming up to the room bringing food, carrying bags...
...debate that has now assumed mythic proportions, dwarf-slayer Al Gore routed Perot, diminishing his opponent's credibility by exposing the terrible hollowness at his core. While this may have negative repercussions for the 1996 election (Perot supporters tend to be disenchanted Republicans), Gore's performance enhanced his stature in Washington immeasurably...