“How
can you, given the passion that you feel about this issue and the
enormity of the dimensions that we’re dealing with here, turn down the
idea that you could be in the administration as a Vice President or as
an energy czar or as both?...There is no power like 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue for setting the agenda, for drawing attention to it, for moving
the country, and for moving Congress. Mr. Vice President, no one knows
that better than you do.”
— NBC’s Tom Brokaw to Al Gore, July 20, 2008 Meet the Press.
Brokaw Encourages Al Gore to Run For President
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