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Saturday Morning News

Gore Begins to Focus on Life in Private Sector

Aired January 20, 2001 - 7:53 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Al Gore, the guy who didn't win, he goes home today. He's not going back to Tennessee, in fact, the state that voted against its native son. Instead, he and Tipper will go back to their modest brick home which is across the Potomac in Arlington.

BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: There they plan to write books and speeches for the time being, anyway, the immediate future.

Gore left his imprint on Washington and the nation certainly, perhaps more so than any other vice president. Few people think we've head the last from Al Gore.

For more on him and his future here's Patty Davis.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

AL GORE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: For the sake of our unity as a people and strength of our democracy, I offer my concession.

PATTY DAVIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Last month Al Gore headed into the history books, only the fourth presidential candidate to win the popular vote and lose the election, but also a politician who changed the vice presidency.

BILL TURQUE, "NEWSWEEK": He definitely ratcheted up the influence of the vice president I think. In the past vice presidents were sort of farmed out to second-tier, sort of less important kinds of duties like going to funerals, attending fund raisers.

DAVIS: Not Al Gore. As vice president, Gore took the lead on environmental issues for the Clinton administration. He also led the federal government's efforts to down-size, resulting in a 17 percent reduction in the workforce.

ELAINE KAMARCK, FORMER GORE POLICY ADVISER: Al Gore really brought to the federal bureaucracy the management revolution that had been happening in the private sector for much of the '80s and the '90, and that hadn't been happening in government until Al Gore came along.

DAVIS: Gore played a key role in welfare reform urging his boss to sign a massive Republican-sponsored overhaul of the welfare system. But, there were missteps along the way. TURQUE: Making phone calls from his West Wing office, going to the fund-raising at the Buddhist temple in Los Angeles.

DAVIS: In the end, the winner of the popular vote lost the electoral scuffle in Florida and his bid for the Presidency.

GORE: It's time for me to go.

DAVIS: His gracious concession speech heightened speculation about his chances in 2004.

STUART ROTHENBERG, "ROTHENBERG POLITICAL REPORT": He has to maintain a significant visibility and I think he may want to - my want to talk about a couple of issue areas, stake out a claim there where he becomes the expert, he becomes the spokesman for the party.

DAVIS: Democrats say just how easy it will be to stake his claim depends not only on how well George W. Bush does as President, but on how visible Bill Clinton remains.

PETER HART, DEMOCRATIC POLLSTER: Al Gore is sort of the man-in- the-middle. He has to be able to get enough of the spotlight that doesn't go to Bill Clinton, and at the same time he has to be the alternative to George W. Bush.

DAVIS (on camera): For now, Gore isn't talking about his future. Instead, he's focusing on his new life as private citizen Al Gore moving back into his Arlington, Virginia home, taking time to plot his next move.

Patty Davis, CNN, Washington.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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