VANITY FAIR: Clinton vs. Gore. “Bill’s personal agendas created complications for Gore that grew worse over time and led to a nasty range war between the Clinton White House and the Gore campaign. The tensions centered on the Lewinsky scandal and Bill’s past womanizing, which Gore and his advisers believed had alienated independent voters—especially the soccer moms, who stood for traditional values. . . . Gore’s defeat helped set the stage for Hillary’s own presidential campaign. As irony would have it, he had to preside over her swearing-in at the Capitol, and then, four days later, he gamely re-enacted her oath-of-office ceremony in front of what The Washington Post described as nearly 3,000 ‘swinging, swaying, celebrity-studded’ Hillary supporters in Madison Square Garden. “