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Maybe not, but perhaps that's because he's always had Peter Knight. One of Gore's longtime advisers and his principal fund raiser, Knight tends to the darker side of Gore's world. It was Knight, the Clinton-Gore campaign manager in 1996, who prepared many of the "call sheets" that Gore worked from when dialing for dollars. Now, after Attorney General Janet Reno has begun a preliminary review of those calls under the independent-counsel law, government sources tell TIME that Justice is also probing Knight's multilayered connections to a Massachusetts manufacturer that won $33 million...
...revival of a different kind: Billy Graham's prodigal son continues his return to the fold as former hell-raiser Franklin Graham increases his involvement with the family business when he starts a three-day crusade in South Dakota...
...Gore aides last week clumsily amended the official version yet again, saying Gore understood it to involve "donor maintenance," presumably the care and feeding of fat cats. Yet the aides also produced internal memos showing that many on the Vice President's staff believed it to be a fund raiser...
...Democrat credited with being one of the savviest politicians in Texas has donated $2,500 to GOVERNOR GEORGE BUSH'S re-election campaign. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR BOB BULLOCK wrote a check to the Bush campaign at an Aug. 21 fund raiser at Austin's Four Seasons Hotel. "It wasn't a Democrat-Republican thing," says longtime Bullock spokesman Tony Proffitt. "He feels Bush has been good for Texas...
...real blow for Thompson is how many Americans concur with Fowler by implicitly trusting Al Gore. According to a USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll, 64 percent believe Gore is "an honest person." Which, given what we know about that fund-raiser and those phone calls, means we probably aren't crediting him with that much intelligence...