I remember being very peeved when Al Gore was running for the Presidency and on the campaign trail he addressed the crowd from a platform of some kind and what was in the immediate background?? Big as life...Air Force One, in all her splender!
I said to my Husband...that's not right! He's using the accoutrements of the Office of the Presidency to make himself look like he is already the President!
Read Pobert Patterson's Dereliction Of Duty.
As an Air Force aide to the White House he met much hostility by the Clinton Administration, and cited how whenever he would get on the elevator with VP Algore, he'd say, "Good morning Mr. Vice President." Gore would just look at him with disgust, and then turn away. This happened repeatedly.
Gore really is a bastard, in every sense of the word!