Tuesday that meant a stop at the cybersmut conference; Wednesday he led a phalanx of Hollywood types into the Roosevelt room to urge the entertainment industry to stop making smoking look so cool.
On Saturday Gore will be in the Everglades talking about the environment, and then it's off to Kyoto for some well-publicized arm-twisting at the global warming conference. "Gore will be in Kyoto only eight hours," says Tumulty, "which is a long way for a short drink of water."
But as President Clinton well knows, the stage's the thing: when you're already in the White House, enough drinks of water like that can get your lease renewed.