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Though the boy survived, his long and difficult recovery laid bare stresses in their marriage. "For Al, there was tremendous guilt that he should have been watching ((his son)) more closely," says a friend. "With Tipper, it was anger. It's very tough on a marriage to go through this stuff." The Gores entered a counseling program designed to help families endure a medical crisis. Tipper insists that "there was no trouble in the marriage, ((but)) when you face an extremely traumatic situation that drops like a bomb, the smart thing to do is deal with the trauma...
...Gores emerged with a different kind of partnership, putting more emphasis on teamwork. In April 1987, when she learned that her husband was making plans for his unsuccessful White House bid of the following year, Tipper reportedly hit the roof: he hadn't let her in on the news. Gore's decision to accept Clinton's offer of the vice-presidential slot was arrived at differently, after much family deliberation. "Everyone liked the idea that the campaign would last three and a quarter months," she says precisely, if a bit optimistically. This time, a lengthy bid for the presidency, which...
People around Tipper say her son's brush with death left her changed. "She seems beaten down," says a friend. "Quiet and not as assertive as she normally was." She had already been burned by some of the reaction to her campaign against obscene rock lyrics. While she always insisted that government censorship was never her goal, she found herself the target of a counterattack led by the A.C.L.U. Frank Zappa called her a "cultural terrorist." Hollywood liberals -- who were also big Democratic contributors -- piled on, which led her husband's advisers to encourage him to distance himself from...
...Grateful Dead albums as evidence of a normal '60s youth. (Like her husband, she admits to having tried marijuana.) For good measure, she would remind reporters that she used to play the drums in high school (she still has her old drums set up in the basement). Maybe Tipper is more like Hillary than she at first appears. And maybe Hillary is getting more like Tipper. Last week, after Gore agreed to join the Democratic ticket, the Clintons celebrated -- with Hillary's homebaked oatmeal cookies...
...Tipper Gore: The stay-at-home rock-music critic...