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Article: Gore Hits Bush on Social Security; Vice President Uses Governor's Comments To Question Fitness
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- The Washington Post
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- November 4, 2000
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Vice President Gore sought to seize the initiative on the issue of
Social Security today, using a misstatement by his Republican
opponent to suggest that if Texas Gov. George W. Bush does not
understand how the popular federal retirement program works he is not
qualified to be president.
At rallies in Kansas City, Mo., Ames, Iowa, and here in his home
state, Gore sought to turn up the heat on Bush on an issue that has
been a bedrock of Democratic campaigns since the Social Security
system was created in the 1930s under President Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
Bush provided the opening that his Democratic opponent moved
aggressively to exploit today during a campaign speech Thursday in
St. Charles, ...