“I still believe [Al Gore] has made up his mind regarding running,” Donna Brazile, Al Gore’s campaign manager in 2000, told NRO today. “But I think his endorsement will carry a great deal of weight. He’s a great American.”

Brazile said she didn’t think much of the reports that the relationship between Al Gore and Hillary Clinton were tense during Bill Clinton’s presidency.

“There’s been so much written about the so-called rivalry, the so-called animosity, so-called tensions. I think too much credence has been given to those stories, and not enough attention has been paid to the fact that Al Gore was a valuable asset to Bill Clinton, and he will be valuable asset for the next president,” she said.

When I asked if that meant that a Gore endorsement of Hillary Clinton is an open possibility, Brazile responded, “I don’t know what his plans for the endorsement are, the when and if and who… The moment is not now, clearly. Today everyone is celebrating, and we’re all proud of him. He’s a historic figure. We don’t have many presidents or vice presidents who have received the Nobel Peace Prize.”

Gore joins Theodore Roosevelt, (1906), Woodrow Wilson (1919), and Jimmy Carter (2002).