[TIME MAGAZINE] Al Gore
'Notebook: Reputation Long Gone
Verbatim
"All these people that have been
working hard on this for seven years
now...can affect my reputation. They
can do nothing, for good or ill, to
affect my character."
Bill Clinton, describing his accusers at a
Washington press conference "We're
returning to the economy of the '50s
and '60s--a remarkable, remarkable
combination of strong growth without inflation."
Jeffrey A. Frankel, of the Council of Economic Advisers, quoted in the
New York Times
The Scoop Politics: The G.O.P. Plots to Hang The 2000
Problem on Al
(TIME, May 11) -- It's still the economy, stupid. Now that things are going
well, AL GORE is determined to make sure he gets some of the
credit--whether the opportunity arises in announcing seemingly every
favorable economic statistic that comes out or in his speeches, starting with
one this week at the Detroit Economic Club. But Gore may not always
want to be inseparable from the economy. If the Millennium Bug sparks a
recession, as various economists predict, Republicans aim to remind voters
that the high-tech Veep who popularized the term "information
superhighway" will have had eight years in which to tackle the problem.
"The Year 2000 problem and the Year 2000 campaign are going to be the
same thing," says Jim Lucier of Americans for Tax Reform, a group that
has close ties to the G.O.P. The Republican National Committee appears to
be intrigued at the prospect. Ed Yourdon, an expert on the Millennium Bug,
has been invited to speak at a strategy-planning session.
--By Declan McCullagh and Karen Tumulty/Washington
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