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...that's where Gore and his lawyers finally parted company. The man who wouldn't think about quitting ceased Tuesday night to think about litigating. He went to bed having consulted only Tipper, and let what little post-SCOTUS suspense there was percolate until morning. If you wanted closure when midnight struck and the "safe harbor" Rehnquist chose was a dry bed, it was possible to think the lowest of Gore. Would he call the U.S. Supreme Court "no controlling legal authority," and make one last...
MOST LIKELY REASON GORE DOESN'T HAVE A CLEAR MAJORITY His willingness to install a 24-hour webcam, or Al cam, in the Oval Office if elected. (Tipper hinted there would be times it would have to be turned...
What happened next has Democrats still baffled. The man who was willing to fight so long and work so hard and campaign until he dropped seemed in a hurry to drop out. He had been up for 50 hours straight by this time. But Tipper was ready to hold on a while longer, and so were some other aides, including former chief of staff Jack Quinn, who was in the lobby on the phone. Lieberman too wanted to fight. Brazile got an e-mail from her assistant saying it had been called. She wrote back, "Never surrender...
Nonetheless, Gore called Bush around 2:30 a.m. to concede. "You're a good man," Bush told him. He said he understood how hard this was, and gave his best wishes to Tipper and the children...
...last town meeting at his voting place in Carthage, gave a very brief press conference cautioning his supporters that they would have to await the electoral vote despite his apparent win of the popular vote. He urged patience. He jogged and played his usual touch football with Tipper and the kids to the predictable gibe that he was acting Kennedyesque. But that's as presidential...