Here is a story I read when it was still new.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1321720/Gore-blamed-Clinton-for-his-defeat-in-election.html
BILL CLINTON and Al Gore clashed in a "tense and blunt" showdown when they argued over the reasons for the former vice-president's defeat in last November's presidential election, it emerged yesterday.
Mr Gore "forcefully" blamed the former president for his loss, saying that the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal and the low esteem in which voters held Mr Clinton had proved serious obstacles to his campaign. But in the stormy White House confrontation, thought to have taken place between the end of the post-election drama on Dec 12 and Christmas Day, Mr Clinton replied equally strongly, according to friends, telling Mr Gore that he would have won if he had run on the Democrats' successful record in office.
The two, whose relationship has been very difficult since the Lewinsky affair and the impeachment that followed it, had their showdown alone inside the White House and it lasted for more than an hour. According to a Gore aide, the discussion was "cathartic", while a Clinton friend called it "tense". Another source who knows both told the Washington Post that the tone of the conversation was "very, very blunt". The newspaper said that while the former vice-president's friends called the meeting "very constructive", the Clinton side saw it as a much angrier event in which Mr Gore laid bare a simmering resentment of his former boss.
During the election campaign, tensions arose regularly between the Clinton White House and the Gore campaign, with Mr Clinton wondering openly why Mr Gore was not making more of the successes of the administration and using the president in campaigning. Mr Clinton said on one occasion that he was ready to rescue the struggling Gore effort. One senior Democrat said the tension between the two men, openly friendly at events such as the party convention in Los Angeles or at the launch of the Gore campaign, "was far worse than anyone knew".
Many Clinton supporters believe that the vice-president had a mental block about the man he was trying to succeed in the White House, making it clear he was uncomfortable with any level of involvement by the president in his campaign. Tipper Gore, the candidate's wife, was said to be particularly angry with Mr Clinton's "betrayal".
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The post-mortem examination on Mr Gore's defeat, which is seeping out piecemeal through leaks to newspapers, is in danger of splitting the Democratic party because senior officials have lined up behind one man or the other. Carter Eskew, a Gore campaign consultant, wrote a newspaper article describing Mr Clinton as "the elephant in the living room" which prevented the vice-president from making a case for his candidacy.
But a Clinton supporter - one of many angered by the article - responded yesterday that the president had nothing to do with Mr Gore's poor performance in the presidential debates with George W Bush. Mr Clinton's continued presence on the political scene, both in his own right and as the husband of Hillary, a newly elected senator, has made it more difficult for Mr Gore to open his heart about the election defeat.
There is still speculation that Mr Gore may run again in 2004, but many will have to work hard to mend his relations with Mr Clinton because the former president could still be the party's kingmaker in three years' time.
On Tuesday, Mr Gore had an understated beginning to his new career as a journalism teacher, banning the press from attending his first class at Columbia University in New York.
