AL GORE Archive

George W. Bush: Fish Tales

Closed Published by mr.president October 1st, 2008 in AL GORE, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENT'S CHILDREN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, RICHARD NIXON, POLITICAL HUMOR, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, GEORGE W. BUSH

Busting Loose 
Big Thinker Stanley Fish gives us the road-map to a George W. Bush recovery: return to splendor by being himself after leaving office.

“…the fact is that he’s likable. I don’t mean on the superficial level of being someone you’d want to have a beer with. It’s deeper than that. He comes across as […]

Nico Never Wavers

Closed Published by mr.president June 28th, 2008 in AL GORE, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL WANNABEES, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, RICHARD NIXON, JOHN F. KENNEDY, US PRESIDENTS, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, GEORGE W. BUSH

Scalia Speaks
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia claims to be an “Originalist” in court decisions, but he likes his history predictable, if wrong.
Defending his 2000 Florida recount cutoff, Scalia goes with a classic, offering the legend of a noble Richard Nixon putting country above self, declining to challenge the disputed 1960 election.

“Richard […]

Gore V. Clinton

Closed Published by mr.president October 15th, 2007 in UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, AMERICAN HISTORY, AL GORE, PRESIDENTIAL WANNABEES, HILLARY CLINTON, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, FIRST LADIES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, BILL CLINTON, US PRESIDENTS, NEVER WERE'S, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, POLITICAL HUMOR

Vanity Fair’s “White House Civil War” account of Gore-Clinton spats and slights recalls those heady days when nothing seemed impossible, the President spoke in coherent sentences, and the White House was mired in minutia. When school uniforms walked like men, and V-chips promised to end filth as we knew it.
The piece excerpts from […]