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Article: For Vice President Gore, a Term of Transition; After Success of First Four Years, Understudy Hopes to Become Heir to Oval Office
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 20, 1997
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Vice President Gore likes to joke that last November's election
landed him in an exclusive club whose members include such eminent
Americans as John C. Calhoun, Daniel D. Tompkins, Thomas R.
Marshall, John Nance Garner and even one fellow named George
Clinton.
This group comprises every Democrat to serve two terms as vice
president, but for Gore, none stands as a role model as he begins
his own second term. The reason? None of them ever made it to the
presidency.
Loyalty and Influence
Today's inaugural ceremonies at the Capitol mark the opening
of a new and important phase for the 45th vice president of the
United States, one his friends and advisers hope will culminate four
years from ...
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