Al Gore

And for most of those eight years, Bill Clinton and I were damn near like brothers.

I assured him at the very beginning that I would be completely loyal and that he would never have to worry about me

you know, leaking information that would be damaging to him or whatever, you know, people accuse each other of.

And I kept my word.

He knew I did.

He kept his.

And now I was quite moved recently, Tim, when Mike Pence sought me out.

It was at one of the two meetings.

memorial services for Joe Lieberman.

And this has been a little bit ago, but he asked if he could speak with me afterwards.

And I said, well, of course.

And when we talked, tears came to his eyes as he was speaking.

He was so emotional.

But in a way that really caused me to bond with him, he told me how when he was elected

as a freshman member of the House of Representatives in the 2000 election.

Three days later, he went to the joint session at which I had the duty of counting the votes to make George W. Bush the next president.

You know, it's one of the occasions where I use that quote I referred to earlier, generally do the right thing after exhausting every alternative.

But in his experience, he said that that had a very profound impact on him.

And I had actually earlier received an email from a freshman Democrat who had been sitting next to him at the time.

And he told me that it was very heavy on his mind when he was faced with