You get to know most presidential candidates as they do common things--fly commercial, eat the complimentary breakfast buffet, ride in the elevator--in pursuit of an uncommon goal. But Gore is the Vice President and thus was blocked by armed guards and accessible by invitation only. When you did get to him, he could be a conundrum. Once, as I interviewed him in a hotel about his eldest daughter Karenna, Gore started by offering me a soda. I'm glad I took it--it was the only refreshing thing in that dry, unrevealing, tense half-hour, which was odd since the questions were unbarbed and...
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