So says Bob Woodward. Via The Hill:
Describing an event where he was paired up next to the monotone-talking ex-vice president, Woodward said, “Now, sitting next to Gore is taxing.”
After some laughs from the crowd, Woodward continued, “In fact, it’s unpleasant.”
Woodward offered up another tidbit from the conversation with his dinner companion. The investigative reporter asked the politician, more than five years after leaving office, how much the public knows about what went on during the Clinton administration. Gore replied, “One percent.”
Woodward admitted that revelation made him feel a bit icky, saying, “I kind of died inside and have to confess to having an unclean thought.”
He then dug a little deeper, asking Gore, if the former VP were to write a memoir, how much Americans would know then. Gore retorted, “Two percent.”
A spokeswoman for Gore had no comment.
So, what really went on during the Clinton administration?
Whatever happened, I'm assuming there was no controlling legal authority.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHere's an example of that other "98%" people don't know about Al Gore: the spokeswoman mentioned in the article is Kalee Kreider.
It is entertaining to note how Ms Kreider started working at the enviro-activist group Ozone Action in 1993 and transferred to Greenpeace in 1996, and was seen just a year later in a 1997 IPCC Regional Impacts of Climate Change Special Report, in its Annex H USA section for "Authors, Contributors, and Expert Reviewers" (link here: External Link
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Al Gore says this about her in his "Our Choice" book, page 411, "[she] has been of invaluable assistance in all of my climate work". Considering she joined his current staff in 2006, and his "climate work" goes back to 1988, it might be worthwhile for Bob Woodward to ask him exactly what was meant there.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhat really went on during the Clinton administration?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePretty much the same things as during the Berlusconi administration...