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...friends graduated as scheduled, while O’Mary moved off-campus to live with his girlfriend, now his wife, Jessica R. Taylor ’99. When he’d bought an engagement ring for Taylor in Houston and brought it to Florida for a Tipper trip, Mrs. Gore was in on it and told stories about the Vice President proposing to her on one the bridges over the Charles...
...days after Commencement, O’Mary was on the Gore for President payroll as an advance man, plunging headlong into campaign hysteria. He led a team to draw thousands of people to Tipper Gore’s streetcar ride through New Orleans, DJed the Vice President’s floating parties down the Mississippi River, and spent hours on his cell phone procuring ingredients for a campaign treat: s’mores in ziplock bags labeled “Think s’more, vote for Gore.” He even debated the finer points of Spanish grammar...
...good job of carrying Mrs. Gore’s purse,” laughs Vanessa Flindt LaVallee, who was Tipper Gore’s trip director at the time...
...unwholesome intentions before receiving Government support. Alfred Sikes, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, leans on radio disk jockeys to clean up their acts. No less than the FBI sends a warning letter to a rap group. Susan Baker (wife of the Secretary of State) and Tipper Gore (wife of the Tennessee Senator) lobby for proscriptive labeling of certain albums ... Stranded in the middle are the majority of Americans. They wonder at the effluence of raw language and worry about its impact on old-fashioned notions of civilized discourse. Is there room for subtlety and gentility...
...anthem of our new life came on an arresting new album from Eminem. Tossing expletives at Dick Cheney and Tipper Gore, Eminem was, as he put it, “dumping it on White America,” building a new narrative—aggressively American, abused, angry and alarming. He warned young Americans to think about a draft, joked about Dick Cheney’s cardiac health, and lashed out at the “Divided States of Embarrassment” for abandoning free speech. The national rhetoric of redemption began to ring hollow as this spokesperson...