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...Nothing like that has happened since the 1950s. The five two-term administrations before this one were all followed by an election in which the big man's Veep sought the presidency on his own-a kind of third term as well as an implicit referendum on the previous...
Everyone looked perfectly serene in the private cabin of the Boeing 757 ferrying the Democratic nominee and his newly named running mate to their first campaign rally together on July 7. The Veep hunt had proceeded just the way Kerry wanted it: smoothly, surefootedly and secretly, right up to the moment when John Edwards' selection was announced. A beaming Kerry was popping in and out of the cabin. Edwards was catching a nap, his ever present Diet Coke on the tray of the armrest next to him; his wife Elizabeth was reading. But across the aisle, campaign manager Mary Beth...
...Kerry was warning that if you catch the flu, it's because George W. Bush screwed up your shot. Vice President Dick Cheney talked about the greater likelihood of a mushroom cloud over a U.S. city if Kerry is elected, inspiring the Boston Herald headline VOTE KERRY, GET NUKED, VEEP WARNS. Cheney's rival, John Edwards--who had suggested that among the stakes in this race was whether the lame would walk again--offered an alternative nightmare: "He can't even manage the flu-vaccine crisis," Edwards said of Bush. "How can we expect this President to deal with anthrax...
...mediocre attempt on my part to dissuade Ashley from ordering Cristal, she told the waiter her selection. While the sparklers in the Cristal cork were going off, Arnaud gave me the first sign that he may not have been driving a Ferrari when he arrived at “veep.” “I am a personal friend avec Jean-Claude Van Damme,” he said in broken English...
...mediocre attempt on my part to dissuade Ashley from ordering Cristal, she told the waiter her selection. While the sparklers in the Cristal cork were going off, Arnaud gave me the first sign that he may not have been driving a Ferrari when he arrived at “veep.” “I am a personal friend avec Jean-Claude Van Damme,” he said in broken English...