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Diary Excerpt: Going with Gephardt
Feb. 18, 2003
Washington, D.C.
You wouldn't know it if you watched Fox News, but today Congressman Dick
Gephardt announced that he is running for president. Fox carried the ceremony live for a
few minutes, but then interrupted the broadcast for a "Fox News Alert" about a dog
trapped on ice in New Jersey. "Rescue crews are paddling out to get him," the anchor
announced, and the drama of the rescue was far too newsworthy to cut away from to
listen to one man talk about trading in his 27 years in Congress for his last shot at the
White House.
After the announcement in his hometown, Gephardt got on a plane and flew off to
Iowa, the only state he won when he ran for president in 1988. There is where he will be
spending a majority of his time campaigning in the next year. On the charter flight,
Gephardt came back and gave the reporters some face time, because if there is one
thing we learned in the 2000 presidential campaign, if you run for president, you have to
give good plane.
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Born: January 31, 1941
Job: House Democratic Leader (1994-2002)
Official Site: dickgephardt.house.go
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Primary campaign food highlight: Pies, Pies, Pies
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Key celebrity endorsements: Michael Bolton, Tony Bennett
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Campaign lowpoint: Asked by woman in airport in St. Louis (his hometown) to settle a bet about whether he was a CNN weatherman or Dan Quayle
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Dinner, 37th Anniversary: Corndog
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Dropped out of race: January 20, 2004
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