Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suddenly carted out some of his kids for an appearance on a Larry King show in which he praised the maternal attributes of his usually invisible wife. Gore, in his speech recalling his sister's death from lung cancer, neglected to mention that he continued to raise and sell tobacco on his Tennessee farm for several years after she died...
Morris: We decided, on my urging, that we would lead into the convention with a lot of bill signings and directives--health care, welfare, tobacco regulations. The Republicans made a serious blunder in timing by sending bills to the White House just after their convention, allowing us to use them to slice away at their momentum. Before the opening gavel fell, we had regained 6 of the points we had lost...
...apologize for the political power we have with the Democrats," says A.F.T. media director Janet Bass, "just like N.R.A. and the tobacco industry don't apologize for the political power they have with the Republicans." The Clinton campaign isn't apologizing either. A senior official says the White House always "welcomes" the opportunity to discuss the President's record on education, including his expansion of Head Start, the creation of direct student loans and a new literacy program he unveiled last week. Instead of talking about unions, the President talks about a much more popular subject: the teachers themselves. "None...
...modified what had seemed, the week before, his principled positions on affirmative action and the children of illegal immigrants. At last week's convention, Al Gore's excruciatingly extended description of his own sister's death from lung cancer in 1984 was at preposterous variance with his hymn to tobacco farming while seeking votes in North Carolina in 1988. Late last week in the Washington Post, Gore explained that an "emotional numbness" after his sister's death "prevented me from integrating into all aspects of my life the implications of what that tragedy truly meant." This defense, best presented...
...fair for Vice President Gore to link his concern about tobacco with his sister's death of lung cancer. But the problem with so relentless a tug at the heartstrings is that it precludes real argument. "I have suffered so much," the speaker is really saying, "that if you contest me, you deny the power of my feelings...