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Article: Al Eyes the Future: Gore's next act: Whatever he does, from author to scholar, he won't close the door to a new run for the job he really wants.(Nation)
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- Newsweek
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- December 25, 2000
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Few things in politics engage Al Gore like writing a major speech. His concession was no different--he fiddled and fussed over every word, and despite official insistence to the contrary, he had been giving considerable thought to his exit. Two weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court ended his recount crusade, he quietly reached out to at least one major American historian for ideas on the proper tone to strike. As he often does, Gore also drew on his own past. He borrowed from the election-night address his father delivered when Albert Senior was driven from the Senate 30 years ago last month, using the same lines of social-protest poet Edwin Markham: "Defeat may serve as ...