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Bill Bradley, on A1 Gore: “I think he has to explain more thoroughly than he has what was happening at the Buddhist temple … I mean, if he didn’t know it was a fundraiser, then he was spectacularly naïve. If he did know it was a fundraiser, then he really did something wrong.” . . . Gore performs with 100 members of Gay Men’s Chorus at Lincoln Center in New York. . . . Gore campaign tells reporters summit with Al Sharpton won’t happen and that visit to daughter’s New York apartment is a family matter, but later admits Gore met with Sharpton at Karenna Gore Schiffs residence. . . . Gore, in 1976 Nashville Banner article: “I don’t believe a woman’s freedom to live her own life, in all cases, outweighs the fetus’s right to life.” . . . James Carville says Gore should pick former Treasury secretary Robert Rubin as running mate. . . . Bradley, on Meet the Press: “I have to take off on March 7.” . . . Michael Jordan endorses Bradley.

Detroit News asks John McCain, “What’s the first thing you would do as president?” Replies McCain: “Call in John Kerry, Bob Kerrey, Joe Biden, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger, Dick Lugar, Chuck Hagel, and several others and say we’ve got to get foreign policy, national-security issues back on track.” That’s four Democrats and three Republicans. . . . Marvin Bush, brother of George W. Bush, in U.S. News & World Report, before breaking off comments to reporters: “That great sucking sound you hear is the sound of the media’s lips coming off John McCain’s …” South Carolina state representative Todd Rutherford advises fellow Democrats: “Support the weaker candidate in the Republican primary because he can’t beat your opponent in the general election.” . . . Alan Keyes threatens to bolt GOP if McCain wins nomination. . . . Rep. John Kasich (R., Ohio): “Do I think any of them could be as good a president as me? No. But I couldn’t raise the money.” . . . Donald Trump says he won’t run for president in 2000, leaving Pat Buchanan frontrunner for Reform-party nomination and fueling speculation about a third Ross Perot candidacy. . . . House Republicans worry McCain would campaign against them in fall, not with them.

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Bill Bradley, on A1 Gore: “I think he has to explain more thoroughly than he has what was happening at the Buddhist temple … I mean, if he didn’t know it was a fundraiser, then he was spectacularly naïve. If he did know it was a fundraiser, then he really did something wrong.” . . . Gore performs with 100 members of Gay Men’s Chorus at Lincoln Center in New York. . . . Gore campaign tells reporters summit with Al Sharpton won’t happen and that visit to daughter’s New York apartment is a family matter, but later admits Gore met with Sharpton at Karenna Gore Schiffs residence. . . . Gore, in 1976 Nashville Banner article: “I don’t believe a woman’s freedom to live her own life, in all cases, outweighs the fetus’s right to life.” . . . James Carville says Gore should pick former Treasury secretary Robert Rubin as running mate. . . . Bradley, on Meet the Press: “I have to take off on March 7.” . . . Michael Jordan endorses Bradley.

Detroit News asks John McCain, “What’s the first thing you would do as president?” Replies McCain: “Call in John Kerry, Bob Kerrey, Joe Biden, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger, Dick Lugar, Chuck Hagel, and several others and say we’ve got to get foreign policy, national-security issues back on track.” That’s four Democrats and three Republicans. . . . Marvin Bush, brother of George W. Bush, in U.S. News & World Report, before breaking off comments to reporters: “That great sucking sound you hear is the sound of the media’s lips coming off John McCain’s …” South Carolina state representative Todd Rutherford advises fellow Democrats: “Support the weaker candidate in the Republican primary because he can’t beat your opponent in the general election.” . . . Alan Keyes threatens to bolt GOP if McCain wins nomination. . . . Rep. John Kasich (R., Ohio): “Do I think any of them could be as good a president as me? No. But I couldn’t raise the money.” . . . Donald Trump says he won’t run for president in 2000, leaving Pat Buchanan frontrunner for Reform-party nomination and fueling speculation about a third Ross Perot candidacy. . . . House Republicans worry McCain would campaign against them in fall, not with them.