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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>THE RELIABLE SOURCE
By Lloyd Grove
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday , November 9, 2000 ; Page C01
NEW YORK, Nov. 8 –– At Hillary's Fete, a Bundle Of Emotions
Al Gore loyalists are enraged at Ralph Nader, whose third-party campaign may have denied Gore the presidency. Around
2:30 a.m. today in Bill and Hillary Clinton's hotel suite--where Miramax mogul Harvey Weinstein and Talk magazine mistress
Tina Brown gathered with 50-odd beer-drinking movie folk and hangers-on (including yours truly)--it was apparent that the
Clintons are no exception.
After President Clinton ticked off the states, including Florida, where Nader was hurting Gore, Brown's husband, Harry
Evans, exclaimed: "I want to kill Nader!"
"That's not a bad idea!" Sen.-elect Clinton replied with a big grin--immediately followed by a collective cry of "That's off the
record!"
But when life or death may hang in the balance, we don't believe there's any such thing. So should Nader beef up his security?
Maybe, but there's certainly no reason to doubt that Clinton--if not Evans--was joking.
The mood among this morning's faithful--including Uma Thurman and Ben Affleck--ranged from giddy elation (over Hillary
Clinton's drubbing of Rick Lazio) to basic dread (over Gore's possible loss to George W. Bush). Because of all the
uncertainty, the first couple and daughter Chelsea decided not to drop by the glitzy Election Night bash at Elaine's, hosted by
Weinstein, Brown and financial media baron Michael Bloomberg, but instead invited a delegation to the 34th floor of the
Grand Hyatt Hotel.
"I grew up believing that Ralph Nader was a great leader, a folk hero," Weinstein told us bitterly as the Clintons worked the
room and a television blared. "No more!"
On the bright side, the president told his guests how proud he was of his wife, who leaned into him, nuzzling his neck as he
stroked her green-pantsuited back. Hillary Clinton, for her part, thanked Affleck for campaigning with her in the final week.
"He really brought out a huge crowd at Cornell," she said.
"Too bad none of them were old enough to vote," the leading man replied.
Thurman, meanwhile, breathlessly told the president how the first televised debate between Gore and Bush "made me really
miss you," which got Clinton to complaining about the campaign coverage. "The press was pro-Bush," he insisted. "They set
an impossibly high standard, an absurdly high standard, for Gore," he went on. "It was disgusting," he concluded, glancing
furtively in our direction.
For a while he stood around watching TV, as the networks projected the results of various statewide contests. When the late
Mel Carnahan was declared the winner of the Senate race in Missouri, the president shouted "Yessss!" and pressed his palm
to the screen.
A moment later, the first lady mused about her Senate plans: "We have to figure out what we do now."
"You sound like Robert Redford in 'The Candidate,' " her husband teased.
Then the president excused himself--"Gotta get back to work," he said--and departed with his wife.
"Has he really left?" Thurman asked us moodily. Yes, and he won't be back, we replied.
"Oh, shut up!" the actress admonished.
It was that kind of night.
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