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The issue did not take for Gore, but the exchange attracted the interest of Jim Pinkerton, the research director for the then flailing Bush campaign.
"That's the first time I paid attention," said Pinkerton.
Founded in 1850 by Scottish immigrant Allan Pinkerton, the firm ran Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid out of the country on behalf of wealthy railroad owners, and beat the heck out of striking workers on behalf of anyone with a few bucks.
Other books, which I still believe to be good ( Word for Word , by Edward C. Pinkerton), amusing ( Wordsmanship , by Claurène duGran, a thinly disguised anagram of Laurence Urdang), and useful ( Verbatim Volumes I-VI and the Index thereto, altogether four books), have not fared so well: indeed, a substantial portion of the stock at our warehouse in Pennsylvania consists of Word for Word and the Verbatim volumes.
When Lincoln fired the famously inept McClellan, Pinkerton went, too.