Though Al Gore relishes politics almost as much as his boss does, tonight he is next door in the Old Executive Office Building, doing what he really loves: thinking about complexity theory, open systems, Goethe and the absence of scientific metaphors in modern society. He's writing a speech, and the elegant Ceremonial Office is strewn with pizza cartons and Diet Coke cans.... Clinton may lead the country into the millennium, but it is Gore who truly embodies the new century's possibilities and anxieties.
9/2/96
Bill Turque in Newsweek, September 2, 1996:
