"WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD: BILL CLINTON'S HARLEM" passes by the Schomburg Center, the Apollo Theater and the former president's office. Meets tomorrow and Sunday at 1 p.m. on the southwest corner of Malcolm X Boulevard and 135th Street. Fee, $12. Information: (888) 377-4455.
I visited San Francisco once - when will they to name a walking tour in that town after me?
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More on the pathetic pile of sawdust that used to be AlGore, including this bizarre description of what it was like to be Al Gore on Sept. 11, 2001:
Gore's daughter Karenna was in Manhattan. The Internet experts patched him in to a remote phone connection with Tipper, who told him Karenna was okay, and then the two of them sat, thousands of miles apart, and watched the horror.
"Al, those towers are going to collapse," Tipper said.
"No, they're not," Gore told her.
The towers collapsed. And then, like so many people, Gore felt the need to call people. He called New York Gov. George Pataki, he called Mayor Rudy Giuliani, he called Sen. Hillary Clinton, he called Sen. Charles Schumer. He tried to call Bill Clinton, who was in Australia, but couldn't reach him. And then he set about trying to get back home.
"It became like 'Groundhog Day,' the movie," says Gore. "Every morning I would get up and start the routine of trying to get out."
All flights to the United States were grounded, so Gore asked his hosts, which included the Austrian government, to get him to North America. Eventually he got on a flight to Canada, where the Mounties drove him over the closed border into the United States.
In Buffalo, he and an aide rented a car, intending to drive to Washington for the service at National Cathedral. Along the way he tried to give blood, but was turned away. There was a surplus. There was nothing--not even plasma [Or, in his case, sap] --his country needed from him.
While he and the aide were driving, Bill Clinton called. He'd been flown to the United States on military transport, and was now at home in New York. Bush was sending a plane to take him to National Cathedral. Why didn't Gore drive to Chappaqua and fly down with him?
Clinton gave him directions to get to the house, so that's where Gore went, arriving in the middle of the night. Clinton had waited up. He was doing some renovating, with the result that there was a refrigerator on the front porch.
"Al arrives at about 3:30 in the morning, sees the refrigerator on the porch, and the first thing he says is, 'I see you've managed to bring a little bit of Arkansas to New York,' " Clinton recalled in a statement for this article. "And I knew that after all he'd been through, he hadn't lost his sense of humor." full story, WashPost.