Clinton picked Gore to be vice president in part because of his international expertise.
Bush then tied Gore to the Clinton administration's failed 1993 universal health access plan.
Last year the couple traveled with Al Gore to research climate change in the Antarctic.
Trade unionists plan to use their leverage over Mr Gore to try to block the deal.
That experience, supporters say, taught the younger Gore to care about ordinary people.
Bill Clinton has commanded Vice-President Al Gore to cut the country's red tape.
The challenge has been so strong that it has forced Mr Gore to change the character of his campaign.
If these three worthies stumble, look for Al Gore to jump in.
Early on, Clinton tapped Gore to conduct a comprehensive survey of the entire federal government, with an eye toward eliminating waste and cutting costs.
Ask Al Gore to participate in a global warming debate, or even field a few challenging questions, and watch him launch into a profanity-filled tirade.
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Clinton has asked Vice President Al Gore to use his July 23-24 meetings in Moscow to prepare the agenda for the summit, the White House said.
The second point is that all of the polling suggests that Americans will consider either Bush or Gore to be a legitimate president, if he ultimately wins.
Many Democrats blame Nader's Green Party candidacy in 2000 for siphoning enough votes away from Al Gore to swing key states, including Florida, into President George W. Bush's column.
And next week he will meet Mr Gore to speed up the transition process, made all the more important because half of the normal period for it has already been used up by the post-election wranglings.
"Beowulf, " the original action-adventure yarn -- it's the oldest epic narrative verse written in the English language, dating back to the eighth century -- has been spiked with enough risque business and healthy splatterings of gore to make it unsuitable for kids (the rating is PG-13).
But McCain and Bradley have been forced to take on the front-runners, knowing that the only way now to stop Bush and Gore is to draw comparisons with them.
Americans only need to recall the Bush-Gore election to get a sense of how election wrong-doing eventually ends.
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Americans will shortly have an opportunity to decide whether they wish to endorse the Clinton-Gore approach to national security spelled out in the Talbott Communique.
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If Al Gore decides to run, I think Al Gore would be the frontrunner.
In the months leading up to the premiere of his new network, Al Gore evangelized to large audiences of young people, as recounted in this promotional video for Current TV.
Even more troublesome to the incoming Bush Administration may be the Clinton-Gore effort to tie its successor's hands with respect to space policy.
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" Jesse Nichols, a librarian on the Senate Finance Committee and the first black appointed to a clerical position in the Senate, recalled that "Senator Gore used to come in and out of the clear blue sky he would say, 'Jesse, bring me a Coca-Cola.
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It is instead one about what it means to be a liberal in today's media environment....Gore refused to sell his channel to conservative Glenn Beck saying that he didn't wish to see his vanity project fall into the hands of those who disagreed with his politics.
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On the face of it, this might seem to undermine one of the main advantages that a Bush presidency offered, which was that it would be less destabilising than a Gore presidency, largely because Republicans were more bitterly opposed to a Gore victory and more inclined to perceive it as illegitimate had it happened.
Gore, however, continued to take aim at some of Bradley's votes in the Senate, which Gore says ran counter to farmers' interests.
This was hardly the first time Gore tried to motivate Congress to respond to global warming.
The law that Mr Gore seems to have infringed is more than a century old.
The second reason to expect a decisive Gore goes back to his moment with the tea mug.
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