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"My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority," Al Gore intoned in the only major news conference of his vice presidency to air on live television.just that lincoln posts as if he breathlessly just discovered the hatch act
By the time he entered the cramped White House press room on March 3, 1997, the vice president was in trouble. No longer known as Mister Clean, Gore had been dubbed the "solicitor-in-chief" by DNC staffers. One Democratic donor said the vice president's pursuit of cash amounted to a "shakedown." Sen. Robert G. Torricelli, a New Jersey Democrat close to the White House, called Gore's actions "undefendable."