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...Bush is also expected to announce the appointment of Virginia governor James Gilmore to head up the RNC. Gilmore, a good soldier, a great fund-raiser and a tax-cutting conservative to boot, is meant to further assuage GOP righties who have found Bush's appointments a little unsettling thus far: The party machinery is in reliable hands. (Gilmore will stay as governor but step down as chairman of the Republican Governors' Association, which means vice-chairman Tom Ridge may finally get a promotion after...
...podium to accept his nomination as commerce secretary. A friend of the President-elect for nearly a quarter century, Evans is credited with reinvigorating Bush's religious faith during a difficult period in both men's lives. The oil executive has also been Bush's chief fund-raiser since 1978, and is a staunch advocate of "free markets and free enterprise." He is expected to focus primarily on domestic economic policy issues...
...only 10 minutes for a "hike in the woods." Clinton bounded off through the sequoias, fascinated by the 300-ft. skyscrapers that spring from a seed smaller than a rice grain. He returned, behind schedule, to make his designation speech before zipping off by helicopter to a fund raiser in southern California...
...Remember, he not just ambitious, he's the party fund-raiser. And he figures that if Antonin Scalia is the one to drive the stake through Al Gore's heart, the martyr bucks will roll in like never before. And the Republican party might have another polarizing face it would rather do without...
Gore was aware that a lot of people on his team were not fully committed to his cause, still working for other clients and interests. But as one of his top advisers admitted, "Gore wasn't fully invested in his campaign either." Finally, one night after a fund raiser in Maryland, Gore motioned Coelho to his car and asked him to ride back to the Veep's residence. "I've made up my mind," Gore said. "Let's roll it. Let's go to Nashville...