The only things I'll say are that Nixon assumed he'd be impeached, so he resigned. And Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" starts with Gore unimaginably losing to W (whose cousin managed the vote-counting in Florida, and whose brother was the governor of Florida, both of whom decided to stop counting votes when Gore was catching up, and would win, and who benefitted from a sympathetic Supreme Court that agreed the Florida votes didn't need to be counted). Gore, when asked if he was upset with this development, said it wasn't the outcome he hoped for, but he accepted it, and wanted a smooth transition. He wasn't going to fight it. Boy, have we come a long way since then.
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