"The country went through quite a traumatic experience in that 36-day recount period and the new president needed the affirmation of legitimacy, " Gore tells NPR's Bob Edwards in a Morning Edition interview.
In an extraordinarily thoughtful cover article in this week's edition of the New Republic, Bill Clinton and Al Gore's favorite magazine has eviscerated the theory that passes for a security policy in the Clinton-Gore Administration: the notion that "globalization" is making the world safe for American interests in the absence of a credible U.S. capability to defend them.