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July 20, 2000
KANSAS CITY, Missouri. (AP) - How much Al Gore is too much? Apparently, 13 minutes' worth - when it's 9:15 p.m. and he's standing between you and the lobster salad. The encyclopedically well-versed presidential candidate was 13 minutes into his speech to two dozen Democratic National Committee contributors seated Tuesday night around a single table set with plates of lobster salad - to be followed, at dlrs 5,000 per plate, by a prime rib dinner. Gore had covered the economic lessons of the 1980s and gone on about how historians will record the late 1990s ("They'll marvel" at what the Clinton-Gore administration accomplished, he said.) when an older man across the table called out too loudly: "Mr. Vice President, we're with you all the way." Momentarily flummoxed, Gore said, "Great, thank you. I rest my case." As his dinner companions laughed, Gore sat down and made the best of his unceremonious finale: "I made a sale. Let's eat!" |
