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Report: Clinton-Gore not speaking
Rift goes back before Lewinsky scandal, magazine says
NEW YORK, June 5 - President Bill Clinton and his vice
president Al Gore are now so estranged that they are no longer
on speaking terms as of the end of May, according to an
article in Vanity Fair magazine released Monday.
'Clinton drove Gore nuts,' a former Gore aide told the
magazine.
CONTRARY TO conventional wisdom that their rift was
sparked by the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the chill between
Clinton and his vice president dates to much earlier days in
their political partnership, sources in both camps said in the
latest issue of the magazine.
According to Vanity Fair contributing editor Marjorie
Williams, the popular image of the two men as good friends and
confidants who enjoyed one of the closest working
relationships ever between a president and vice president was
never more than media hype that began during their first
campaign together in 1992.
Their schism between the two men has widely been
attributed to Gore's bitterness over Clinton's affair with
Lewinsky, the impeachment that followed and Gore's view that
the scandal cost him the 2000 election.
But strains that burst into the open following Gore's
razor-thin loss to George W. Bush had existed under the
surface for a long time, Vanity Fair reported.
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"Clinton drove Gore nuts," a former Gore aide told
the magazine. "Gore's much more disciplined in terms of how he
makes decisions and the way he demands things to happen. There
's nothing more irritating as vice president than to be
waiting around for a Clinton meeting that starts 45 minutes
late."
LEWINSKY 'MATCH' ON GASOLINE
A former White House official adds, "The idea that this
relationship just went off the skids when Monica came along
... is wrong. It was all there, in a deep and profound way,
long before Monica Lewinsky ever showed up."
According to another source with ties to both camps,
the irreparable break came on June 16, 1999, the day Gore
announced his candidacy. Appearing the same day in a Diane
Sawyer interview, Gore said three times that the president's
behavior had been "inexcusable."
"From then on, the antipathy was much more public,"
that source said. "It was a match on the huge pool of gasoline
that had been accumulated."
For his part, Clinton rejected the assertion by Gore
loyalists that Clinton-era scandals ultimately derailed Gore's
White House ambitions. One Clinton confidant quoted the former
president as saying, "(Hillary) was able to figure out how to
deal with her relationship with me and win by 10 points (in
her Senate race). He should have been able to as well."
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