How will history remember the 21st centurys first two former Vice-Presidents?
Former Vice-President Al Gore lost the presidency to George W. Bush in a controversial election whose outcome was finally settled by the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2001 people wondered how Gore might behave toward the newly installed President, who did not have what could be called a mandate, and who took office with some saying that the election had been stolen. When it became known that Gore’s first public appearance following Bush’s inauguration was to be as a lecturer to a journalism class at Columbia University on February 10th, the media was all ears. However, not much came of it, as a gag order was placed on the students by the school. Later Gore would describe this move as having come from his desire not to stir the pot during, “a period of constitutional vulnerability.” ”The election was not what I came here to talk about. And I tried to make that clear and I think the vast majority of the students understood it, and whether they agreed with it or not, they certainly respected i
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