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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (57839)	11/3/2000 9:58:52 AM
From: U Up U Down	Respond to of 769667

US: Gore Was Avid Pot Smoker Previously, Mr Gore had said his cannabis consumption was "infrequent and rare". But Mr Turque's book also quotes another Gore friend, Andy Schlesinger - like Mr Warnecke and the vice-president, a former reporter on the Nashville Tennessean - as saying he smoked with him "at least a dozen times". This was in the months after Mr Gore returned from the Vietnam war in 1971. "These were low times," says Mr Schelsinger, who remains a friend. "Al was upset and disgusted by Vietnam and what it was doing to America." Mr Turque writes: "Warnecke and two other friends from Gore's Nashville days say Gore was an enthusiastic recreational user, smoking sometimes as often as three or four times a week; after hours at Warnecke's house, on weekends at the Gore farm or canoeing on the Caney Fork River." Mr Warnecke, who had drink and drug problems that wrecked his first marriage, says Mr Gore tried in 1987, while running for vice-president, to stop his friend from revealing the cannabis use. In November 1987, after Mr Gore had gone public about infrequent use, Mr Warnecke received a call from a reporter on his former newspaper. But he did not follow his old friend's request, says the book mapinc.org

To: PartyTime who wrote (57839)	11/3/2000 10:01:48 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Ambassador says it's better to be a good American than a good Dem: Raymond Flynn, the Democratic former Boston mayor who served as the Clinton administration's first ambassador to the Vatican, has endorsed Republican George W. Bush for president. "I decided that it is better to be a good American and a good Catholic than a good Democrat," Mr. Flynn said at a press conference Tuesday in Pittsburgh.