NEWSWEEK
ResearchNet
ELECTION 2000
News Div. Panel :“Politics and News
Research”
SLA Conference, News Div., June 12, 2000
Madeline Cohen, Dir. Newsweek Research Center
cohenm@newsweek.com
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2000
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Sources
"The Trouble With Al," by Daniel Klaidman and Karen Breslau,
Newsweek, September 22, 1997 p39
"Gore Faces More Revelations About His Fundraising Involvement,"
Wall Street Journal, September 5, 1997 pA1 Washington Wire column
"Gore is Linked to John Huang on 1989 Trip," by Glenn Simpson, Wall
Street Journal, December 13, 1996 pA16
"The Golden Gore Touch Turns to Velcro," Albert Hunt's editorial
column, Wall Street Journal, March 13, 1997 pA15
"Gore Put at Center of Demos Soliciting,", by Bob Woodward,
Washington Post News Service, in San Francisco Examiner, March 2,
1997 p A-7
Tobacco Hypocrisy
"Gore talks smoking with Sealth students", by Gloria Kruzner, West
Seattle Herald, December 24, 1997
"'Numbness' Let Gore Accept Tobacco Help," San Francisco Chronicle,
August 30, 1996
Campaign
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List of Women
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