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Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper, far right, and running mate Sen. Joseph Lieberman, and his wife Hadassah, far left, listen to a conversation between their mothers, Marcia Lieberman, third from left, and Pauline Gore, third from right, during a stop at Pauline Gore's home Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2000, in Carthage, Tenn. (AP Photo)

August 11, 2000 

WASHINGTON (AP) - Days before Vice President Al Gore arrives at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, his boss will be in the city basking in the warm and wealthy embrace of Hollywood notables and loyal Democrats.

There will be schmoozing. There will be backslapping. There will be nostalgia about Bill Clinton's stewardship of the party for eight years.

Monday will be Clinton's moment. His address to the convention will follow a weekend of parties, speeches, hobnobbing with friends, thank you chats with political contributors and a Hollywood fund-raising event to help first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in her New York Senate campaign.

Then on Tuesday, Clinton leaves town and lets Gore emerge from his shadow.

"He understands that this is the vice president's time and it's the vice president's week," White House press secretary Joe Lockhart said Wednesday.

"He's gratified that he's going to be able to get to spend some time in Los Angeles over the weekend, to go around and thank people for all the extraordinary things that they've done for him over the last eight years and even further back with many."

The schedule is still being worked out.

Tentatively, he's to attend a dinner Friday night for the convention host committee, made up of the 30 to 40 people who underwrote the convention.

Tipper Gore, right, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Al Gore, and Hadassah Lieberman, left, wife of Gore's running mate Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., cheer for their husbands at a town hall meeting at Carthage Elementary School in Gore's hometown of Carthage, Tenn., Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2000. The stop is the first in their campaign tour leading up to the Democratic convention in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)

On Saturday night, he'll be at his wife's side at a concert and fund-raising event for the Hillary 2000 campaign. On Sunday, Clinton is to attend a Democratic National Committee brunch, go to a lunch with singer Barbra Streisand as host and meet friends at an evening reception.

Monday will be even busier. Clinton is to attend luncheons, address the convention and go to Paramount Studios for dinner and a reception with California Gov. Gray Davis as host. After that, he'll go to a White House staff party.

When he leaves the convention Tuesday, Clinton will cross paths with Gore in Michigan at an event designed as a symbolic passing of the party's leadership to the vice president. Gore arrives in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Lockhart said Clinton won't go underground after the convention but will keep a lower profile, realizing the nation's attention will soon shift to the election and away from the White House.

Lockhart joked "we're going to put him on a diet" so he'll be "smaller, thinner, less noticeable."