Scandal File: Gore More Years

VICE President Al Gore seemed positively manic in imploring a University of Illinois crowd “to join me in supporting him and standing by his side” during a strange joint appearance with President Clinton on January 25, just after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. But don’t be fooled. In battling Kenneth Starr and his G-men, Gore’s instinct is to stand behind Clinton—way behind.

In the days following that appearance, the Vice President’s aides let it be known that he was sticking closely to previously arranged schedules, concentrating on the legislative agenda of expanded Medicare and new child-care tax credits, and treating the Lewinsky matter as settled, at least for the time being, by the President’s assertion that he had never had a sexual relationship with “that woman.”

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VICE President Al Gore seemed positively manic in imploring a University of Illinois crowd “to join me in supporting him and standing by his side” during a strange joint appearance with President Clinton on January 25, just after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. But don’t be fooled. In battling Kenneth Starr and his G-men, Gore’s instinct is to stand behind Clinton—way behind.

In the days following that appearance, the Vice President’s aides let it be known that he was sticking closely to previously arranged schedules, concentrating on the legislative agenda of expanded Medicare and new child-care tax credits, and treating the Lewinsky matter as settled, at least for the time being, by the President’s assertion that he had never had a sexual relationship with “that woman.”