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...Tipper Gore has been lugging around a textbook on depression, which is oddly out of place in the hands of such a cheerful woman, the one person who seems to be able to unstuff the shirt of Vice President Al Gore. He gets so relaxed around her that at one of the marathon health-care task force meetings recently, he rubbed her aching neck. The neck notwithstanding, the Vice President says Tipper is "having a blast" in her job as mental-health adviser to the President's health-care task force, a slight exaggeration of the pleasure of spending late...
...Tipper's voice is controversial because, if heeded, it will add billions of dollars to the health-care bill. Before the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, she said, "The same outrage expressed when we are confronted by race or sex discrimination must be voiced to expose the difference between how physical and mental illnesses traditionally have been viewed." She can be outraged, but part of her appeal is that she can be serious without being somber. As she sits in a wing chair sipping Mountain Valley spring water in her high-ceilinged office filled with evidence...
...middle of the afternoon last Wednesday and in a rare break from meetings on Bosnia, the White House first team met in the Roosevelt Room to get the Administration back "on message." There were the President and Hillary, Vice President Al Gore and Tipper and the senior staff, plus Democratic National Committee chairman David Wilhelm and campaign consultants < Paul Begala and James Carville. The day before, the President had surprised reporters by admitting in the Oval Office that he could use a little "tighter coordination" and "a little better focus...
...less of her that is known, the less there is for the press to pick apart. She is jealous of her husband's privacy as well, complaining that he can't go watch Chelsea's softball games because he would be dogged by the press. "They leave Al and Tipper alone. I mean, Al and Tipper go to all their kids' games. And I think Bill deserves to have some of that same space and have some normal family life...
...WHITE HOUSE STAFF FILED INTO THE EAST Room last Friday at 5 p.m. for what had been regarded internally as a badly needed "pep rally." Chief of staff Mack McLarty opened with some keep-your-chin-up remarks. Then came some encouraging words from Tipper Gore and a circumspect comment from Hillary Rodham Clinton. "It's just the first week," she said. Al Gore spoke next, making a joke about his dancing ability. The mood grew lighthearted, reminding several in the audience of what one called "the whole campaign bus-tour thing...